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Hello & Introduction
December 2007
Hey now. :P I LARP both WoD AND D&D - and it's a ton of fun. :P You callin' me horrific!? *shakes fist playfully*
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Another Introduction...
December 2007
Ask any questions you need. :) This is a very helpful and active community - and I've never had anything but good experiences with people's helpfulness. Welcome to our site! :)
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Less D&D Specific & Other Suggestions
December 2007
All of the responses are very valid points. Let me explain why I suggested what I did, from the perspective of a software engineer. I agree wholeheartedly with the idea that complexity is not for the average user - and I was never intending that…
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Texan (for now) gamer
December 2007
Welcome Gyix. :) Just realized that while I've read this forum post 3 or 4 times, I never said hello. :)
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Hello and thank you
December 2007
I've actually had pretty good luck getting (about half of) my group involved. :) I've been giving out XP - and the players are writing the adventure logs, filling out wiki articles, etc. I even have one of my players (who happens to be a graphic ar…
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Intoroducing justinthebig from Brisbane, Australia
December 2007
Nice to meet you. :) Glad to have you among us.
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Hello & Introduction
December 2007
Welcome to the site. :) Always nice to meet someone else who appreciates D&D for it's good points - setting - and can see that its mechanics leave a lot to be desired. :) I am in the same boat as you're describing with my current game. I lov…
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Less D&D Specific & Other Suggestions
December 2007
If I were to approach something like this, here is what I would try to implement: By adding a special tag - perhaps something like [[Name|Troy]] - you could allow a particular article, NPC, etc to have an "Attribute" defined - in this case, the a…
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Stat Block Templates
December 2007
Micah: A set of textile stat blocks that are preformatted would be great. :) That is actually very similar to what I was proposing. I hadn't realized until tonight that you guys are using a pregenerated textile parser - which is likely a little m…
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ADDED - "Back to NPC Tracker" Button
December 2007
Thanks Micah. :) Looking forward to this one. Sometimes the smallest changes are some of the most rewarding. :)
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ADDED - Filter Games with no Content
December 2007
Mandi: My guess would be that a lot of those "empty" games that have multiple votes are actually private games where people are sharing a single GM account, and the game's content is actually all GM-only. :) Just an insight... good suggestions…
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Stat Block Templates
December 2007
Sounds like good reason to believe that - at least those responding so far - would be impressed, but perhaps mostly disinterested in such a feature? jason: that looks like an interesting program. Too bad it's Mac only :\ Also - it seems to only …
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Textile Formatting
December 2007
Sure :) Take my spaces out - if I actually create the tag without them, it will make the image, rather than displaying the code. ! {float:right;} http://www.obsidianportal.com/uploads/images/2712/TA-Logo.jpg ! This, of course, doesn't want to …
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Stat Block Templates
December 2007
This is definitely a large undertaking, and something I would expect to arrive a good distance DOWN the priority list for quite a while... but as the community grows, I would love the ability to have customizable templates to track stat blocks with…
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ADDED - NPC Hidden Info
December 2007
Thanks Micah. :) Great feature.
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Textile Formatting
December 2007
The Textile functionality on the site has some limitations, which I've been frustrated by, too. Part of this has to do with the parser being used... but here is the rule of thumb for updates: Your Textile markup must start in the FIRST characte…
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Interludes
December 2007
What I usually shoot for is an opportunity to let my characters retreat to a main city and enjoy "the high life" for a session or two. They get to reconnect with NPCs who they care for, visit their favorite establishments, engage in tournaments or …
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Another Texan Gamer
December 2007
I've done a _lot_ of online gaming, and there are definitely some significant advantages - but there are also some serious disadvantages. *Advantages* * Separating IC / OOC information between players is really easy. You just use a private mess…
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Another Texan Gamer
December 2007
Glad to meet you. :)
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Ratings
December 2007
Lots of good comments. :) I love active developer communities. And thank you, Aidan. :) I've got my players involved now, too, so it's growing fairly quickly.
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How did you get here?
December 2007
I had decided to write my own game tracking system and publish it to the web for my players, but made the smart move of seeing if something similar was already available somewhere. After a short google search, I found OP and after comparing it to i…
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Hi, My Name Is ________
December 2007
Hello everyone. :) My name is Troy, and I'm currently living in Peoria, IL, and running a Tuesday night tabletop game, which is what you see me tracking via OP. :) I'm 26, and have been playing for 21 years, GMing for about 15 of those, but 90% o…
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Sorting Ability for Wiki Page
December 2007
lol - I didn't mean sort by picture, silly. :D What would that even be? Sorting by the byte value of the pixels? Hehe... I just meant that I'd like to associate a picture with an entry. :) Maybe I should have been more clear. Also - I'd be hap…
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Internal Server Error
December 2007
I've seen no further problems. It was very flaky last night for about 30 minutes, but I have had no trouble at all today. :)
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Campaign-Specific Items
December 2007
A great solution I have found is to create an Item entry, and associate the picture with it. This allows you to create a description and such as well. Then - on the item's display page, find the URL of the image you want - and you can use that as …
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Sorting Ability for Wiki Page
December 2007
When I use the "Page List" function, I seem to be getting back the list of Wiki Articles sorted by the order in which they were created. As my Wiki gets larger, this will make it much more annoying to find the articles that I want. My suggestion…
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Ratings
December 2007
Personally, I don't like the rating system being accessible to people outside my campaign to begin with. I had someone come in and vote me a "3" before I even had all of my NPCs added. Later that night, they downed their vote to a 2... I can only…
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Campaign-Specific Items
December 2007
Yes - that's something I hadn't thought of at first. That would solve most problems. The only downside is that it would prevent me from adding a graphic to the item? Or is there a way to associate a graphic with a wiki article somehow?
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Campaign-Specific Items
December 2007
I am running into a problem as I put my game into the system. I have a player who has offered to take the reigns and input most of our items, locations, etc into our wiki - but unfortunately, any items he creates, I (the GM) can't seem to edit! If…
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Why are features coming along so slowly?
December 2007
Micah: I appreciate very much the troubles of working on multiple sites at one time. :) That can be very challenging. I also appreciate the problems inherent in turning profit from a side-project. Two suggestions I might make would be: 1) Co…
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