https://forums.obsidianportal.com/categories/general-archive/p5/feed.rss Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:19:44 +0000 General Archive Discussions on Obsidian Portal Community Forums en-CA https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2601/pathfinder-level-1-20-epic-campaign-play-by-post-full Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:40:42 +0000 Teak_Dhara 2601@/discussions I am 41 and a father with 3 kids. I used to DM in highschool and college. Played during law school (but did not DM). Had kids and missed gaming for 10 years (although I did play WoW, EQ LOTRO, and SWG). I’m back to paper and pen via play-by-post (pBp)(as it is impossible to find a local group and my wife would throw a fit that I was out of the house, again) — and looking for similarly type players. •I am working on the following type of campaign using the Pathfinder ruleset.
•Ideal party size 4-6
•Looking for one-year committment.
•Set in PathFinder’s Inner Sea Campaign Setting
•Will include parts of existing Pathfinder adventure paths (such as kingmaker) and original content
•Epic story taking characters from level 1 to 20
•20 point build, racial traits ok, any race fine, any skill fine, any class fine (except no gunslingers)— anything 3.5 or PF ok.
•No magic items to start with as you build character.
•Any standard equipment can be added for free at level 1.
•Characters start with 150 gold.
•Characters that plan on going prestige classes need to talk with GM first
•Ultimate Combat ok (but no armor/dr or wounds and vigor)
•Utlimate Magic ok
•No evil characters, chaotic good and neutral ok, but neutral good and above prefered. Players are supposed to be the heroes
•Characters will come from humble beginnings, initially clearing small dungeons as lowly adventurers. Over time bigger and more complex stories and plots involving factions and kingdoms are introduced. Characters will continue to do dungeons but with goals and objectives tying into broader plots. Ultimately, the PCs will be involved in saving the world from impending doom.
•Adventures will be dungeons, towns, caves, tombs, outdoors, wilderness, castles, forts, ocean and underwater (not likely to have planes).
•Magic and magic items are rare and awe-inspiring.
•Fantasy story telling and plot will be similar to Terry Goodkind writings in The Sword of Truth Series.
•Enemies will not always be monsters, and monsters will not always be enemies.
•Emphasis on roleplaying and story telling
•Dialogue and problem solving heavily rewarded.
•Oh, there will be combat!
•Mature players sought—ideal those who like to roleplay
•Players should use this dice roller and post links of their rolls in the adventure log.
•While the campaign is serious in nature, humor plays a part and intelligent humor desired and welcomed (like the PAX 2011 Celebrity games on youtube).
•I would prefer that players use Herolab to create and update their characters.
Herolab house rules—no guns, bonus 0-level ability, free upbringing feat, don’t require memorized spells, favored class NOT required, no coin weight and no encumbrance, use traits and flaws, max HPs at each level,

Who is the GM?:
•41 and married, three kids (trying to get my oldest into paper and pencil Traveller)
•Attorney (but NOT a rules lawyer— I like roleplaying to take lead over any rule)
•First pen and paper experience 1980 (D&D Basic)
•Second pen and paper experience 1981 (Deluxe Traveller)
•From 1980 through 1998 – DMed and player AD&D and Traveller)
•1998 through 2012 – pen and paper groups died and everyone moved to Online MMOs— so I did as well (Everquest, UltimaOnline, Starwars Galaxy (Pre-CU), WoW, Lord of the Rings Online, Star Trek Online, Rift, D&D Online, Star Wars: Old Republic)
•January 2012 through April 2012 got the itch to go back to pen and paper but could not find a local group playing anything within driving distance of my town.
•April 2012 stumbled across Obsidianportal.com and joined two campaigns as a player. The Love for interaction and imagination of roleplaying outside of a videogame returned!
•I currently play in two campaigns (a Pathfinder and Traveller) on Obsidianportal.com
•In May 2012 I started FreeTrader: Maverick campaign that is an open-ended, player directed, PbP Traveller Campaign
•June 2012 started planning “The Approaching Storm: The Beginning”, an epic story, long-term PbP Pathfinder Campaign.
If you have an interest in this type of campaign, please let me know.]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2998/good-designers-borrow Sat, 11 May 2013 13:27:37 +0000 Micah2 2998@/discussions
In the RPG-realm, the best examples I can think of are the plethora of RPG-related forums. I’m in no place to criticize, but many of the forums in our community are pretty blah. Forums in general are pretty blah. But do they have to be?

Knowing that a good chunk of Obsidian Portal’s page content will be disorganized, unbroken blocks of text, how can we design the overall layout to make this at least tolerable?

h3. The Task

If you have a favorite user-generated-content site, please comment here and leave a screenshot if you can. Link to dropbox or something since this forum doesn’t allow uploads. Tell us what you do and don’t like about your chosen site and what ideas we could borrow.

h3. Skip the Requests

Finally, and this is very important, this thread is not really a place to say, “Hey, it would be cool if…!” Let’s focus on getting inspiration and analyzing, rather than pumping out feature requests. Jumping straight into feature requests bypasses the important step of figuring out what exactly we like and why.]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3104/totally-lost-on-site-design-need-help Sun, 14 Jul 2013 13:02:00 +0000 Doc_the_grey 3104@/discussions https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3106/a-strange-experiment-in-play-by-post-runeclock Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:48:04 +0000 Sommerset 3106@/discussions https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3064/campaign-landing-page-preview Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:24:09 +0000 Micah2 3064@/discussions
Been super-busy so I haven't had a chance to follow up on all the feedback, but I wanted to get out a preview of the campaign landing page.

!https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/145070/portal-campaign.jpg!

h3. Notes on Theming

* There will be an assortment of background images to choose from. We're planning on getting quite a few more than we have now. There will be a few for free campaigns, and many more for Ascendant ones.
* For now, you can't upload your own background, but we hope to get there one day. It can still be done with CSS.
* The color scheme will be (somewhat) configurable. The plan is to allow you to choose a premade color scheme, or define your own with several colors. So, in the example, you could change the yellow to red or blue. Right now, we're imagining 3 or 4 configurable colors. If you've ever played with Twitter's theme controls, you get the idea.
* If the basic theming (background and colors) still isn't enough, you can always write your own CSS.
* So, basically there are 3 levels of theming: select premade background and color scheme, premade background and custom colors, or fully customize everything with CSS. You can also choose the basics and then write a handful of custom CSS rules to override anything you don't like.

Hopefully this strikes a good balance, allowing most people to have something that looks nice with no work, while still allowing power users the ability to customize to their heart's content.

h3. Other Notes

* We're going to reorganize somewhat to better highlight the GM.
* The content area looks small, but we're trying to size it according to best practices for line length and text readability. (read "here":http://www.simonstratford.com/ideal-line-length/ and "here":http://www.simonstratford.com/ideal-line-length/ ) Any thoughts here?
* It will be a fluid/responsive layout that resizes as your viewport does. Translation: It will look good on different sized screens and size down nicely to mobile.
* The top nav bar will be there with links to your other campaigns, account settings, and most importantly: quick search for the campaign.]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3027/adventure-and-campaign-publishing Sat, 18 May 2013 02:16:09 +0000 Quasimotocar 3027@/discussions
Phase 1
- Allow GM's to be setup with Read-Only permission. This lets me share GM-only information without worrying about any of it being changed.
- Allow these GM's to link to the Wiki and Maps for the shared campaign, but manage their own Adventure Log, Characters, Forum, and Calendar. (I can see Items going both ways...not sure how best to handle that)
- This is kind of the equivalent of having access to the Campaign book - you get to see everything, but the campaign you run with that resource would be your own.

Phase 2
- Create a new tab or section within the Campaign that is specifically designed for "Adventures". Each Adventure could have several sub-tabs: Maps, Characters/Critters, Items, and a Wiki. (there are probably a hundred different ways to organize an adventure, so maybe the organization would be user-generated instead?)
- Adventures would not be visible to Players by default.
- Instead of segregating content between "Player" and "GM", there would be "Flavor Text" and "GM-Only".
- A simple method for making particular pages "viewable" to the Players in the Campaign, still preserving the segregation between Flavor Text and GM-Only content. In other words, as the party moves through the dungeon, I can unlock/expose/make viewable the flavor text for the rooms or events they have already encountered. My GM-Only info is still strictly GM-Only.
- Allow these Adventures to be downloaded as PDF's, including both the flavor-text and the GM-Only content.
- Setup a peer-review rating system for Adventures.

Phase 3
- start thinking about making money with it!
- I would buy Adventures for $5, maybe even $10 for something big and well-done.
- What would an 80/20 split on these transactions (in favor of the author) look like, income-wise?

There are a lot of different directions this could take, and the above are just what I've been mulling over for a while now. Would love to hear other ideas for an "Adventure" feature, or how folks are already accomplishing something similar.

Quasi.]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2997/welcome-reforge-backers Fri, 10 May 2013 19:09:30 +0000 Micah2 2997@/discussions https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3010/fundamental-html-changes-the-foundation-grid-and-responsive-design Tue, 14 May 2013 10:58:19 +0000 Micah2 3010@/discussions
*The Foundation Grid*

The framework we're looking at is "Foundation 4":http://foundation.zurb.com/grid.php. I've used Foundation on a few other projects, and I've been very pleased. The grid resizes nicely on different devices, and it provides a special mode specifically for mobile phones. So, our hope is that we can have the mobile site and the main site be the same, just intelligently resized. Contrast that with how it is now where the mobile site is vastly different. We basically have to maintain 2 separate views of the site.

*The Bad News*

The bad news is that this will be a massive change to the underlying structure of the site, breaking all the custom CSS and styling that people have painstakingly constructed. We're very sensitive to this, and it is our number one concern in the overall reforging process. We want to make this process as painless as possible, but at the same time we're trying to be bold and not be too scared to make changes. If we're not willing to break things, then we are essentially stuck and unable to move forward.

*The Way Forward*

Our plan to reduce the pain is to:

# Get the updated layouts on the beta server as quickly as possible and give access to it (first to High Ascendant backers, eventually to everyone). That way you can test out and tweak your CSS to fit in the new layout.
# Hopefully implement something like the "templating described here":http://forums.obsidianportal.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=3004. Going through and updating each and every wiki page will be painful, but less so if you're just adding includes to templates or something along those lines. It will still be painful, but perhaps not awful. No guarantees here, but we are really going to try.

If there's anything else we can do to help, please let us know. One special note, before it's asked: It's doubtful that we'll offer some kind of "run in legacy mode" to just leave your campaigns as they are now. That would require us to basically run 2 versions of the site (legacy and new), and we're just not in a position to do that. Running one is hard enough. If we find a way to do this (or something similar) that doesn't pull us away from the reforging too much, we'll definitely try.]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3080/update-to-rails-4-0 Tue, 25 Jun 2013 16:10:37 +0000 Micah2 3080@/discussions
Today they announced that "Rails 4.0 is official":http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/6/25/Rails-4-0-final/. Since we had done all the work already, switching to the official 4.0 release was a snap.

All that is to say: Obsidian Portal is on the cutting edge and the Reforging is being done with the best possible tools at our disposal.

And now back to work...]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3077/http-link-to-edit-and-adventure-journal-entry Mon, 24 Jun 2013 06:01:30 +0000 Keryth987 3077@/discussions
Thanks

Keelah Se'lai,
Keryth
"Shadows Over New York":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/shadows-over-new-york]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2595/create-epub-from-your-adventure-logs Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:40:52 +0000 Shammond42 2595@/discussions
I have built a tool that will allow you to export your Adventure Logs to an ePub for reading on most (all?) readers. You can check it out at "Lost Tools":http://tools.lostpapyr.us at "http://tools.lostpapyr.us":http://tools.lostpapyr.us. There is also a tool there to add a game world calendar to your OP wiki, and possibly other tools on the way. Enjoy!

Thanks,
Steve]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3061/dungeonstone-caves-caverns-kickstarter Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:26:26 +0000 erwin 3061@/discussions
to go with the recently completed dwarvenforge dungeon kickstarter pieces

here's the link "http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/715498539/dungeonstone-3d-terrain-caves-and-caverns-set":http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/715498539/dungeonstone-3d-terrain-caves-and-caverns-set]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3026/feature-prioritization Fri, 17 May 2013 19:41:17 +0000 Calion 3026@/discussions
Apparently there are already third-party solutions that will accomplish this: "uservoice":http://www.uservoice.com was suggested in the thread referenced above.

This wouldn't even have to be implemented or sanctioned by Micah, necessarily: Does anyone know of a free or cheap voting system that we as the fan base could adopt on our own?

I've long imagined some sort of pay-per-vote system for feature requests, so that when the developer actually implements that request, he gets all the money pledged for that feature. Anyone want to help me develop such a thing, if it doesn't exist already? Maybe we'd get rich ;)]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3011/favorite-kickstarter-new-feature Tue, 14 May 2013 11:05:42 +0000 gorthmog 3011@/discussions
I'm looking forward to the "file storage locker". It was always a pain to upload images and videos to a different site, such as flikr, and then link to them in your campaign logs. It will be great to just upload all of this content directly to Obsidian Portal, and not have to worry about some image server going away and making a bunch of broken links...

Keep up the great work!

-Chris, aka gorthmog
"Denizens of the Nentir Vale":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/denizens]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3008/navigation-menu Tue, 14 May 2013 07:36:57 +0000 crimsonknave 3008@/discussions
An example of what I'd like is "here":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/crimsonknave-s-test-campaign/wikis/main-page]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3049/drifters-adventures-in-time-and-space Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:14:59 +0000 Baalshamon 3049@/discussions
The ultimate campaign goal is much more far reaching and will take us on a journey to other worlds, times, and dimensions. Using the EABA system we plan to explore the what ifs of "where would you go if you could go to any fantasy, sci fi, or historical place that you have ever read about?" If the characters survive the invasion they will travel to Car Wars, the Forgotten Realms, Barsoom, Pelucidar, Weird War One and Two, Robotech, the Perilous Lands, Tekumel, and many other places. Will you join as and follow our grand adventure? We hope you will and that you will share your thoughts along the way.

"DRIFTERS":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/drifters
by the creators of "Star Trek Late Night":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/star-trek-late-night ~Winner of Duskreign's CotM and OP CotM]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3047/rules-for-participating Sun, 02 Jun 2013 05:39:18 +0000 Micah2 3047@/discussions
h3. Soliciting Feedback - Stay on Topic

If I start a thread soliciting feedback on a particular feature or page, please *stay on topic!* Answer my questions and voice your concerns about that particular feature or page. *I stop paying attention to any post that sneaks in unrelated feature requests*. It tells me that the poster is just brainstorming and spitballing ideas. Specific feedback topics are not the place for that.


h3. Requesting Features

If you want to request a feature, that's fine, but realize that the Reforging is not an attempt to add gobs and gobs of new features. Instead, the idea is to take the core feature set we have now and refine it to be much easier to navigate and use. Please try to keep your feature requests inside that mindset. Here's an example of what I mean:

Excellent: "Scrolling all the way down to the edit button on every wiki page is really a pain. It would be nice if the button were at the top somewhere, too."

Good: "Can we have a way to create wiki page templates so we don't have to copy/paste pages over and over?"

Bad: "Can you add a virtual tabletop so I can play my campaign online?"

The first one is a navigation issue that perhaps I didn't realize, but is definitely fixable. The second is a new feature, but exists in the mindset of making the wiki (the core of the site) easier to use. The last is a massive feature way outside of anything we do right now.

*Important!* Requests that fit within the mindset of refining what we already have will be taken very seriously. The further you stray from that, the more likely your request will be ignored.]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3046/post-haste Sat, 01 Jun 2013 02:48:28 +0000 twiggyleaf 3046@/discussions Firstly, although I knew of Jack Vance the writer I had never made the connection with his name and “Vancian Magic” so thanks helping me to realise that.

With regard to your asking WHY I listen and return, I am not sure. I have been listening to HASTE since the beginning and love it. It is also the ONLY podcast I listen to regularly. I guess it is because I am quite involved in OBSIDIAN PORTAL generally, building my own site, popping in to the forums, and flitting through some of the other campaigns. I usually find something interesting in the podcast. I suppose I am just generally intrigued as to what else is OUT THERE, and there are generally quite a wide range of topics and guests on HASTE.

I have been directed to many new links, sites, events, etc. that I might otherwise never had discovered for myself, and with the guest speakers presented, it is also good to hear these people’s views on the gaming community as a whole. I think the length of the podcast is perfect, by the way.

I feel differently to Gerry and Micah on the multiple campaigns question. Whereas they both recommend alternate weeks, I would do it in chunks of a few weeks at a time. I find this helps to build up the story, characters and context. In essence, you get time to GET INTO the character and flavour of the game. Sure enough, when the GM needs a break, move on to the next campaign and play that for a while before moving back to the other game, or a new one. And it is always good to alternate campaigns where possible – our group just prefers to extend and continue each game over a few sessions.

As for ideas about getting more feedback, perhaps you could do something like make a STICKY THREAD on the forums. Maybe call it POST HASTE! It might get more response than in the comments section below the podcast. By the way, I could not enter my comments today because a page came up saying: “Throttled…..too many access attempts!”

Happy Birthday!

twiggyleaf
"Shimring - The Faces of Divinity":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/shimring
"Campaign of the Month - August 2012":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/shimring-augusts-cotm/
Campaign in Planning: "Mysteria":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/mysteria - set in Wolfgang Baur’s MIDGARD.]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3036/working-quick-search-bar-demo Wed, 22 May 2013 15:08:53 +0000 Micah2 3036@/discussions
"Watch the video":https://vimeo.com/66772087

A few things to keep in mind:

* It's currently unstyled. I'm not sure yet exactly how I envision it fully styled. I want to present the information nicely, but compactly, so we can show a large result set. I'll have to get Drew in on this when he's got a free moment.
* It's attached to the current layout, but will move to the sticky bar that you see at the top of the campaign dashboard pages. I want it to be always there, just a click (or perhaps hotkey) away.
* When I select the page to go to, the page loads very slow. That's because it's my development environment which isn't optimized like the production environment. Just ignore that.

Let me know what you think!]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3042/natural-editing-tables Thu, 30 May 2013 00:29:16 +0000 JayJay 3042@/discussions
Thanks for all the hard work so far. I can't wait for the new look, even if I cant Tabulate like this ;).]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3018/so-hi-i-guess Thu, 16 May 2013 10:08:39 +0000 Duskreign 3018@/discussions
The past few years of chaos in my life are finally, mercifully subsiding. I have the job I have been fighting tooth and nail to get, now (like, as of an hour ago). The future, for the first time in years, is starting to look bright again.

I have let all my campaign wikis fall into disarray. My wikis are like the dilapidated ruins of a once promising city. The friendships I have made through this site, through this very forum, have been carelessly stored on long-forgotten shelves in the back of my mind. But rest assured, you've never been far from my thoughts, guys. I miss you daily.

My life is on the mend. My torments wane. My desire to return concurrently waxes, though the road is daunting before me. All those months and months I worked on Wyrmshadow, to see it in such a state...

It makes me want to start all over again... but most importantly... it makes me want to start again.

-Mike Scott
(Duskreign)]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3023/semantic-markup-accessibility-html5-css3 Fri, 17 May 2013 10:47:12 +0000 Matrissa_The_Enchant 3023@/discussions
To help with that, I also hope the plan is that the new site will be HTML5 and CSS3 compliant. :-) (By the way - I strongly recommend reviewing and following the "Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG)":http://www.whatwg.org/ development of HTML rather than the W3C one. Just my opinion as a user experience and web designer myself - "check out their FAQ":http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ to get a better understanding of their purpose, history and position about HTML)]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3034/replying-via-phone Tue, 21 May 2013 11:46:40 +0000 SkidAce 3034@/discussions
Now with my new phone (Galaxy S3) it doesn't.

I know there are a lot of variables, but is there any simple or obvious cause for this?]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3035/approaching-the-second-century-club Tue, 21 May 2013 23:42:05 +0000 GamingMegaverse 3035@/discussions "Dresden Files Dallas":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/dfd is not only a gorgeous campaign, but the logs are excellent. If that was not enough, the GM, Wolfhound, has taken lots of his personal time to create tutorials, and help out with coding questions. Please, if you have not added DFD to your favorites, please do so!!
killervp
"A God...Rebuilt":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/a-god-rebuilt
"Duskreign's First Ever COTM":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/wyrmshadow/wiki_pages/112011
"OP's COTM April 2012":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/a-god-rebuilt-aprils-cotm/]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3006/the-reforged-beta-forums-are-open Mon, 13 May 2013 20:02:49 +0000 FrankSirmarco 3006@/discussions
What are you looking for, people? Let's start some good-natured geek-chatter!]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3032/grooveshark Tue, 21 May 2013 08:45:03 +0000 SkidAce 3032@/discussions
I go to their site and cut and paste from the embed section...no love.

I even tried digging into the code at "Dark Queen" but whenever and whatever I paste into my site comes up as as all text.

/sad.]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/2991/youtube-issue Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:13:59 +0000 Keryth987 2991@/discussions
Here's my code




Terri Theme




Anyone else having similar issues? Or is there something wrong with ym code that is only showing up now?

Thanks

Keelah Se'lai,
Keryth
"Shadows Over New York":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/shadows-over-new-york]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3015/collapsable-sections-showing-hidden-divs Tue, 14 May 2013 19:20:22 +0000 berdman 3015@/discussions
This would help in managing longer wiki pages.]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3004/wiki-templates Mon, 13 May 2013 13:50:45 +0000 ZorkFox 3004@/discussions
Edit: this was meant to go on the reforging beta forum, but I seem to have erred in how to go about posting to it.]]> https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/3030/custom-widgets-using-existing-data-record-types Sat, 18 May 2013 13:16:40 +0000 JustinMason 3030@/discussions
For instance, if I wanted to drop a list of “item records” that were related to a specific game section, I could create a “Game Session #3” widget which would, when placed on the page, output a hyperlinked list of all items labeled with “Game Session 3” (or whatever tag I may have used to denote the game session). Alternatively, the same functionality could be used to display a current inventory of a character or npc.

It would prove useful for “character records” as well. If I wanted a list of all characters labeled with an association to a specific town to appear on a wiki page I created for that location, making a custom widget that selects all character with a labeled I’ve added to denote that location would provide this.

Then, if I add a NPC to a location (bearing the associated lable), they would automatically appear in the custom widget output that I’ve placed on that page.

The advantage of this? Flexibility of content within the existing data structure, and dynamic inline content that doesn’t require manual updating. The framework is already in place for this as far as data management goes, it would just be the matter of creating the record type for the widgets and including the functionality to reference and display that data into the editor.

Definable parameters could be: data type (character, item, page, etc.), key (label reference), sort order (title ascending/descending or date added ascending/descending). Formatting options could be: hyperlink, title only, title + blurb, show thumbnail, alternating field colors (2 definable colors), border + lines color, etc.

The output from the widget could then display as a dynamically generated table that can be inserted into the content of any page.

Just a thought, but I think such a feature could really make good use of the existing labeling system as well as the various data record types.]]>