https://forums.obsidianportal.com/categories/general-archive/p14/feed.rss Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:42:07 +0000 General Archive Discussions on Obsidian Portal Community Forums en-CA https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1285/dragons-at-dawn-the-first-fantasy-game-system Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:36:51 +0000 Aldarron 1285@/discussions
Welcome to Dave Arnesons Basement! It]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1242/feature-request-social-networking-summary Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:03:16 +0000 Songwind 1242@/discussions
This would be particularly useful for campaigns that are just starting, or which have undergone some sort of major change or important event.]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1217/obsidian-portal-3rd-anniversary-giveaway Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:20:17 +0000 Taloff 1217@/discussions
To celebrate our departure from the "terrible twos", this week - if you're a new member or an existing free member - we're giving you a free trial month of Ascendant Membership! Sign up this week for an Ascendant Membership to get in on our offer. You may choose to cancel your Ascendant Membership any time before your free month is up.

Also, there's cake! In the form of prizes! Check in on our Twitter (http://twitter.com/obsidianportal) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/obsidianportal?ref=nf) pages each day this week for your chance to win fabulous prizes that may or may not be delicious confections.]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1194/how-do-i-get-rid-of-the-annoying-tutorial-popups Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:08:43 +0000 Drascus 1194@/discussions https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1181/http-error Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:20:48 +0000 Shiiome 1181@/discussions https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1162/upcoming-character-and-npc-changes Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:52:34 +0000 Taloff 1162@/discussions
1) Ensure that Characters/NPCs are always connected to a campaign
2) Reduce some of the confusion around characters/NPCs caused by the current set up
3) Make it so each campaign's NPC tracker loads quicker.

Existing links to Characters and NPCs will continue to function, and new links to characters created after the change goes live (some time in the next week or so) will be structured as follows: /campaign/my-campaign/characters/my-Character]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/558/updates-to-tagging Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:40:19 +0000 Micah2 558@/discussions https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1145/can-i-use-my-own-system Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:50:35 +0000 Arrian 1145@/discussions https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1169/is-it-possible-to-have-2-gm-s-on-a-single-campaign Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:55:33 +0000 GildedChampion 1169@/discussions https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1142/storage-space-announcement Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:56:05 +0000 dmwarmock 1142@/discussions https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/1139/the-new-forum Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:55:01 +0000 Micah2 1139@/discussions
We've switched our forum from Beast, a Ruby on Rails forum (btw: the main site is in Ruby on Rails) to Vanilla, a PHP forum. There were several reasons, and I'll touch on them quickly.

(Note: I'm just finishing the migration and it's 2am...so I'm going to be *very* brief because I'm exhausted)

h3. Single Sign On

With the Beast forum it was a pain to have to sign on twice. Once for the main site and once for the forum. At least you only needed 1 account, but still, a pain.

With the Vanilla forum, we've integrated them to achieve Single Sign On (SSO). So, sign in on the main site and you're automatically signed in here.

In a slightly related note, the login form on the main site is now protected by SSL encryption, which we have wanted to do for a long time but needed to wait until the SSO issue was dealt with. Suffice to say that SSL certificates are picky about subdomains.

h3. Maintenance

Running and maintaining a separate Rails app was somewhat difficult. They work best when they're isolated on a server. Since the main site was constantly being updated and the Beast forum was basically a legacy forum, they diverged more and more. Beast was several versions behind when it came to Rails, and we didn't like supporting an old version of Rails just for the forum.

Ryan and I definitely could have kept Beast going, but we'd much rather spend time working on the main site's features than toying with an aging forum.

h3. Features

Beast was very minimal. So is Vanilla. But! Vanilla has an active developer community that is creating addons to extend the feature set. We're hoping to leverage this community to keep things up and running.

h3. Going Forward...

Hopefully this will be the last time we move. We apologize for any inconvenience, and hopefully most of the data survived the move. If anything is missing, please let us know at support@obsidianportal.com We'll do our best to help out.

Good night, adventurers!
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