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  bluea

  in Ratings November 2007

  One way would be to limit the comments to people on the GM's "Friends" list. Or add a second list "Interested observers", and let the GM boot people from that list. There's an area for venting (here), so restricting access to the ability to re…
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  bluea

  in Player Involvement November 2007

  My players are 9 & 11. They're working on some artwork, but basically this is just dad trying out a new tool.
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  bluea

  in San Diego Fire - Shout out to Ryan October 2007

  Here's hoping you, yours, and everyone else affected by the fires come through unscathed and stronger for the experience. I've been a vicious GM on occasion, but *this* fire is just outrageously over-the-top.
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  bluea

  in My "Map" page is broken. October 2007

  So...try again and we'll cross our fingers. ------- I think one of the problems was being *less* than 1024x1024. I was using a new tool to scrunch my map down to under 500k, and when I ran into trouble, I tried again at 200k. (My first map …
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  bluea

  in My "Map" page is broken. October 2007

  Our incessant archivist went to update the official map of the ??The Hills of Kron?? (#91), but managed to use one that was already Gremlin infested to everyone's horror. The archivist has been sacked, the people that hired him have been sacked, and…
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  bluea

  in Maps - Non-Google Maps? October 2007

  The google maps part is cool now - and looks like it will rock with markers, five maps, etc. But... lots of games have lots of cheesy maps running around also. They don't need markers, zooming, or panning - just a home. My practically brand new c…
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  bluea

  in Top Campaigns/Newest Campaigns October 2007

  Both of these lists on the main page include five campaigns. There's a little extra space, and it would be interesting to continue browsing both of these things farther down than just the top five. The easiest fix would be to make, say, 10 of eac…
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  bluea

  in ADDED - New Game Systems October 2007

  Just as a note: The dropdown on the character page doesn't have the same list of Game Systems as the "Narrow by System" portion of the main Campaign Page. Specifically, I don't see D&D (1), and the whole ??World of Darkness? section seems dra…
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  bluea

  in ADDED - NPC Hidden Info September 2007

  Ooh, that does sound easier. And not too much different for the GM either. One could just cut the hidden text from "GM Description", and immediately paste it into the main "Description" box. Without flipping pages, or having to delete from somewhere…
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  bluea

  in ADDED - NPC Hidden Info September 2007

  The current "GM Only" checkbox and the "GM Wiki" pages seem like there's an opportunity for some improvement - especially with NPCs. Once the PC's encounter an NPC (Flaming Fred the Wizard, say), they will always have _some_ of the information I …
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  bluea

  in Hi from Seattle September 2007

  Amusingly, it was just recently where the "To Hit" tables in the original AD&D made any sense. We'd used them blindly in the first short games. Then moved on to THAC0 as the rules changed. But looking back (after years of Rolemaster) it is ob…
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  bluea

  in Hi from Seattle September 2007

  I'm Alan Blue, a chemical engineer by trade. I've been in gaming since 1980 and the AD&D releases. From there I've moved on to ICE's Rolemaster, Shadowrun, Paranoia, Cthulhu, Shadowrun-with-ICE's-rules, several incarnations of Amber and Mage/…
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  bluea

  in Game-specific Monsters September 2007

  This also seems like a good job for the "Tag" business. If there's a simple way to put any text onto a wiki-page that isn't printed, then each and every wiki page can be 'tagged'. Make a new monster, say something Cthulhuesque? --Tags: Monster,…
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  bluea

  in Formatting Help September 2007

  Is there a way to turn textile off for a paragraph or two? Normally, I'd use PRE or CODE, but those are HTML code... which is disallowed. And which version of Textile, exactly, is being used?
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  bluea

  in Anybody using the maps? September 2007

  I understand and agree with you about the bandwidth issues. (And look forward to hearing more about Premium accounts) But I was really thinking that it might just be easier to say "Two zoom levels" and drop the first one entirely. The first one i…
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  bluea

  in Anybody using the maps? September 2007

  I got a 1024x1024 jpeg uploaded (Campaign:Hills of Kron -> Map:Cishathorpe). The 'three zoom levels' are somewhat odd IMNSHO. The first zoom level has my whole map as one-quarter of the viewable 'map area', just centered so there's an exceptio…
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  bluea

  in Map issues September 2007

  I think I broke maps for myself. Or, at least, for maps named "Hills of Kron" exactly. I'm on Mac OS X 10.4.10, running Safari 3.0.3. First, I uploaded a map whose size was egregious. (Sorry.) I was thinking about the whole zoom thing, and di…
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  bluea

  in Anybody using the maps? September 2007

  I'm new, but I was going to give the maps a whirl. I've been struggling with step one - make my maps worth presenting. :D There's also the copyright issues. Originally, (offline), my maps were official maps from Greyhawk. It's early enough in this c…