OK. So after some time I have decided to give Mass Effect another go. This time with Fate Accelerated. If you guys have any suggestions for the site or the rules please let me know.
Here is the link:
https://masseffectaccelerated.obsidianportal.com/
November 2012 CotM: Dresden Files RPG: The Emerald City
June 2016 CotM: Star Wars: Rise of the Infinite Empire
JUNE 2020 CotM & 2020 CotY: Mass Effect Accelerated
FEBRUARY 2022 CotM & 2022 CotY: Dresden Files Accelerated: Emerald City-Requiem
Current Campaigns: Traveller Osmium Buccaneers: Pirates of Drinax, Cyberpunk 2077 Accelerated
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Whats the difference between FATE and FATE Accelerated?
Unconquered Kingdoms, July 2016 CotM
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~Weasel0
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Fate Core uses a fairly extensive skill list for characters and is medium crunchy. Fate Accelerated uses Approaches instead and is a much simpler, more streamlined version of Fate.
November 2012 CotM: Dresden Files RPG: The Emerald City
June 2016 CotM: Star Wars: Rise of the Infinite Empire
JUNE 2020 CotM & 2020 CotY: Mass Effect Accelerated
FEBRUARY 2022 CotM & 2022 CotY: Dresden Files Accelerated: Emerald City-Requiem
Current Campaigns: Traveller Osmium Buccaneers: Pirates of Drinax, Cyberpunk 2077 Accelerated
So excited. We are about to have our first session of Mass Effect Accelerated.
November 2012 CotM: Dresden Files RPG: The Emerald City
June 2016 CotM: Star Wars: Rise of the Infinite Empire
JUNE 2020 CotM & 2020 CotY: Mass Effect Accelerated
FEBRUARY 2022 CotM & 2022 CotY: Dresden Files Accelerated: Emerald City-Requiem
Current Campaigns: Traveller Osmium Buccaneers: Pirates of Drinax, Cyberpunk 2077 Accelerated
Tell us how it goes!!
Just trying to help out.
It went well. We all had a blast, including the new guy who has only played RPGs once before. The weird thing is we only made it through fraction of what I expected. Everyone was too busy playing their characters and doing things this humble GM didn't expect. Which I guess shouldn't come as a shock to anyone now that I consider it. :)
November 2012 CotM: Dresden Files RPG: The Emerald City
June 2016 CotM: Star Wars: Rise of the Infinite Empire
JUNE 2020 CotM & 2020 CotY: Mass Effect Accelerated
FEBRUARY 2022 CotM & 2022 CotY: Dresden Files Accelerated: Emerald City-Requiem
Current Campaigns: Traveller Osmium Buccaneers: Pirates of Drinax, Cyberpunk 2077 Accelerated
OK. So I got another wild hair and completely redid the entire site. Any input would be wonderful.
November 2012 CotM: Dresden Files RPG: The Emerald City
June 2016 CotM: Star Wars: Rise of the Infinite Empire
JUNE 2020 CotM & 2020 CotY: Mass Effect Accelerated
FEBRUARY 2022 CotM & 2022 CotY: Dresden Files Accelerated: Emerald City-Requiem
Current Campaigns: Traveller Osmium Buccaneers: Pirates of Drinax, Cyberpunk 2077 Accelerated
Just off an initial glance, I think it looks nice visually. There are a couple of navigational "flow" things I think might be worth considering. As an example, when I go to the wiki home, I see this nice page-wide "Character Creation" graphic, and my first thought is that it's like a large clickable tile image to go to that page. I try to no luck, and then notice a much smaller circular image that actually is the link to the page.
If it were me, I would ditch the single smaller circular button (they work in a series, but for a one off like this, it's counter intuitive I think), make the large image clickable to go to the page, and then take the "inspired by" messaging and put it somewhere on the actual character creation page, in a note box of some variety.
Doing this would allow you to have the "inspired by" on the page where it's actually relevant, and would move the next section on the main wiki page upwards.
- Kallak
Thank you so much for the input Kallak. I like your ideas as well although I am not sure about the implementation of them. I do wonder that if I mad the Character Creation banner clickable if it would cause even more confusion. None of the other banners on the Main Page lead to a corresponding web page. Nor do any of the banners used as a page header. They are simply banners introducing a new heading. Perhaps I need to come up with a special button just for this instance? I will think on it some and see if I can come up with something.
Oh and I do have the "inspired by" section on the actual Character Creation page as well, at the bottom. I just added it to the Main Page in addition. As you say the buttons work in a series but look a bit odd as a single instance. I added the attribution to help with that visual issue.
November 2012 CotM: Dresden Files RPG: The Emerald City
June 2016 CotM: Star Wars: Rise of the Infinite Empire
JUNE 2020 CotM & 2020 CotY: Mass Effect Accelerated
FEBRUARY 2022 CotM & 2022 CotY: Dresden Files Accelerated: Emerald City-Requiem
Current Campaigns: Traveller Osmium Buccaneers: Pirates of Drinax, Cyberpunk 2077 Accelerated
Danggg.....That is a beautiful site. I think I need to have you help me steal your character page since that thing is amazing.
-Jaymes
Campaign of the Month Febuary 2013
Thanks, Jaymes. That Character Page is mostly due to the efforts of Kallak and Bortas. They helped me work it out on the forums here:
https://forums.obsidianportal.com/discussion/4970/character-page#latest
I used the same code on my DFA site too:
https://fate-accelerated-the-emerald-city.obsidianportal.com/characters
November 2012 CotM: Dresden Files RPG: The Emerald City
June 2016 CotM: Star Wars: Rise of the Infinite Empire
JUNE 2020 CotM & 2020 CotY: Mass Effect Accelerated
FEBRUARY 2022 CotM & 2022 CotY: Dresden Files Accelerated: Emerald City-Requiem
Current Campaigns: Traveller Osmium Buccaneers: Pirates of Drinax, Cyberpunk 2077 Accelerated
@HumAnnoyd, if you still have the original images with the layers, it might be worth trying the header graphics without the wording to see how that looks. It would definitely help with the link confusion, and one could argue that since the page or section title appears immediately above the graphic, that it's getting rid of a redundancy.
- Kallak
Oh I ALWAYS keep my originals with the layers. It is practically driven into my soul to keep them. :D
That is a good point about the redundancy with the text. I will think about that.
November 2012 CotM: Dresden Files RPG: The Emerald City
June 2016 CotM: Star Wars: Rise of the Infinite Empire
JUNE 2020 CotM & 2020 CotY: Mass Effect Accelerated
FEBRUARY 2022 CotM & 2022 CotY: Dresden Files Accelerated: Emerald City-Requiem
Current Campaigns: Traveller Osmium Buccaneers: Pirates of Drinax, Cyberpunk 2077 Accelerated
So I have made that top banner on the main page a link. I left the button below it alone. It seemed like a good compromise between the two points. I haven't decided what to do about the banners and the titles. Is there a way to get rid of the titles provided to each page? That would solve that redundancy issue.
November 2012 CotM: Dresden Files RPG: The Emerald City
June 2016 CotM: Star Wars: Rise of the Infinite Empire
JUNE 2020 CotM & 2020 CotY: Mass Effect Accelerated
FEBRUARY 2022 CotM & 2022 CotY: Dresden Files Accelerated: Emerald City-Requiem
Current Campaigns: Traveller Osmium Buccaneers: Pirates of Drinax, Cyberpunk 2077 Accelerated
You should be able to target it for styling (ie display:none) with h2.wiki-page-name.title
- Kallak
Aha. Thanks Kallak. That works perfectly.
November 2012 CotM: Dresden Files RPG: The Emerald City
June 2016 CotM: Star Wars: Rise of the Infinite Empire
JUNE 2020 CotM & 2020 CotY: Mass Effect Accelerated
FEBRUARY 2022 CotM & 2022 CotY: Dresden Files Accelerated: Emerald City-Requiem
Current Campaigns: Traveller Osmium Buccaneers: Pirates of Drinax, Cyberpunk 2077 Accelerated