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in Maps get their aspect ratio changed March 2010

Bingo! Time is our #1 resource. By removing that full zoom out, we'd save 1 256x256 tile per map, saving about 10KB of space each, which is negligible, and the processing to make it is tiny. It's making the 64 and 256 tiles for the higher zooms that…
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in Maps get their aspect ratio changed March 2010 edited March 2010

The way the map processing works is to split the image into a bunch of 256x256 pieces, called tiles. Each zoom level has 4^(n-1) tiles, so for zooms 1-3 it's: 1, 4, 16, (and 64, 256 for 4 & 5 zooms). Fully zoomed out is always 1 tile at 256x256…
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in Maps get their aspect ratio changed March 2010

Good question. We used to offer 5 levels of zoom for the map, but found that it was simply too taxing on the map processing server. The map processing is by far the most intensive thing we do, and it's exponential on the level of zoom. So, a 5x …
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in Self Sorting Tables February 2010

Hey, just saw this... It's not a bad idea, and like you say, not too hard to implement. Heck, there may already be a jQuery plugin that does exactly this, meaning we end up writing 0 lines of code. Always a good thing :) I essentially have 2 c…
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in Changes to PCs / NPCs / Characters (can't figure out how to make a character?) January 2010

The decision was based on some of the features that we want to support moving forward. The characters have not been touched since the beginning, and they're starting to show their age. We want to make them better and make the site easier to use, and…
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in Changes to PCs / NPCs / Characters (can't figure out how to make a character?) January 2010

Yep, that's right. If your characters were PCs/NPCs before, then that hasn't changed. They were already part of the campaign, and we just "strengthened" the connection in our database. Our goal is that by doing this we'll be able to enhance the c…
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in Looking for a resource to create custom emblems for my campaing December 2009

Don't forget the guys at "AvatarArt":http://avatarart.com Nice guys and they do great work.
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in A Totally Unofficial Help & Tips FAQ December 2009

Ok, I made a small change to the settings. Can you edit your posts now? It's tough for me to test this stuff since I have admin powers and can pretty much edit anything... I could register a new account w/o admin powers, but that wouldn't allo…
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in A Totally Unofficial Help & Tips FAQ December 2009 edited December 2009

@gnunn In the migration, we decided to keep the # of posts, since that could be easily determined, but not the # of topics/discussions. If it's a big deal to people, we can recalculate it. The thing to remember is that we (the OP team) consider t…
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in The New Forum December 2009

Yeah, I agree about the discussions vs categories. I'll see if there is a setting somewhere to change that.
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in The New Forum December 2009

Test comment.
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in A Totally Unofficial Help & Tips FAQ December 2009

Hey folks, In the recent forum migration, some of these links are now dead. We'll be trying to re-link things as we find it. Sorry for the trouble, Micah
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in Close GM Only NPC backdoor October 2009

We've got a lot of updates coming for characters that should fix this problem. It may be a couple weeks, but this is high on our list. Thanks for the report!
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in Calendar Tool May 2009

Yeah, I'd really like something like this, too. We've tossed this idea around, and our only hesitation is that it's easy to do a bad calendar. Doing a good one takes a lot of work. We don't mind hard work, but it takes time from other things. …
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in What the Foxtrot! May 2009

No, you're not a tool, and it's not your fault. Things aren't as easy as we'd like. We're trying to improve things, but it's tough to make the system both easy and powerful. 1. The links turn light blue to show that the target page exists. If …
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in FIXED - Can't Read Page Link Lookups February 2009

Sorry about that. Should be fixed now.
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in ADDED - Epic RPG February 2009

And it's been added! Enjoy!
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in Requests for new game systems February 2009

I have nearly caved to all requests to all systems. It has turned out to be much harder than I anticipated to make the system vs setting vs flavor vs sub-system distinction that seemed all to clear to me when all I played was D&D 3.5, 4e, Champ…
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in Requests for new game systems February 2009

Ok, I've been gone for a while, but I'll try to add some of these tonight. I'm trying to go through some old posts here on the forum and make sure I'm up to date on stuff. Before it got too late and I had to go to bed, I added the following: …
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in ADDED - Collapsing Adventure Logs February 2009

I have edited the original post to hopefully make it clear that this feature does in fact exist. Thanks to bevinflannery to posting the code to do it.
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in PCs have a PC editable space on all pages February 2009

Yeah, sorry if that wasn't clear. Permissions are very relaxed in order to encourage participation. So, in most cases, players have as much control as the GM (ability to create, edit, delete and so forth), but just can't see the "GM only" stuff.
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in 4e stat blocks for obsidian portal January 2009

Sshh! We're working with Yax right now to make integration with OP a little easier. Here's a hint, try taking the URL of one of your monster cards made on Yax's DM tools and putting it in a blog post or character description. Not the HTML, mind y…
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in Whoa! What happened? Everything is different!! January 2009

Yep, keep the feedback coming. We're really excited about the next year, and we want input.
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in Whoa! What happened? Everything is different!! January 2009

Unless you're brand new, you've probably noticed that the site is significantly changed. Ryan has been working for a couple months now to bring the design up to his very rigorous standards. I know that a lot of people are resistant to change, but …
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in Mark All Read December 2008

The forum gets very little attention (as you've probably seen). We didn't write it and instead just used one that integrated with the user accounts from the main site. We're not trying to be a destination forum, and instead try to focus the vast…
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in Page Within a Page December 2008

Nope, doesn't exist as of yet. Not a bad idea, but it could be a real beast to implement. There are some clever ways to do it (using something like an IFRAME), but it's usually more trouble than it's worth. So, this will have to go on the "far,…
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in [FIXED] Error from Amazon when trying to subscribe December 2008

Yikes! This had to happen when I'm in crunch time at work and can't get to it! I fixed it this morning (6am on a Saturday...), and it should work fine. Everyone who had problems should be expecting an apology email soon, along with a special of…
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in "Viewed by" count December 2008

bq. Although, would it be possible not not count the GM of the setting or something, because you could be like, cool a bunch of view, but really its just you updating the wiki. This is pretty much the main reason we haven't messed with this yet. …
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in Requests for new game systems December 2008

Ok, I've added a whole slew of systems. I'm hoping to see some campaigns in these crazy systems. You guys aren't just yanking my chain to see who can come up with the most esoteric, crazy systems, right? Anyways, there are a few I didn't add: …
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in spoilerblock? November 2008

It should roll out sometime either tonight or this week. We try to do updates on Sunday nights (USA time) to minimize disruption.

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