paizo.com Favorited Posts by gabbogepaizo.com Favorited Posts by gabboge2014-04-14T17:49:47Z2014-04-14T17:49:47ZRe: Forums: Website Feedback: Why can't we upload our own avatars?GM Gabboge (alias of gabboge)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2n4ic?Why-cant-we-upload-our-own-avatars#272014-01-06T23:34:27Z2014-01-06T23:19:37Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Laithoron wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">GM Gabboge wrote:</div><blockquote>Hope he didn't charge you too much because that is super basic PhP, stuff you could probably find under creative commons to use.</blockquote><p>Well, it's simple to find free dice rollers that will evaluate a series of single #d# expressions plus or minus static modifiers. However, those generally have iffy cheat protection or aren't well-integrated with the underlying forum software. I found plenty of such basic plugins for the two forum platforms that had the other features I needed (Simple Machine Forums and MyBB).
<p>However, after being spoiled by Paizo, I was interested in something more robust. It needed to be: cheat-proof, handle the same syntax as Paizo's (i.e. complex dice expressions with modifiers & multiple different dice), handle formatting, allow users to copy the original dice notation and not just the results, be persistent even when editing posts, and yet allow additional rolls to be added to an existing set of rolls. I didn't find a single preexisting plugin or script that came anywhere close to even handling the basics (i.e. complex dice expression and persistence), let alone any of the other features.</p>
<p>Thankfully, I found an excellent coder on the MyBB forums who was able to exceed <a href="http://community.mybb.com/thread-139607.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">my expectations</a> at a cost that I felt I was nearly unfair to <i>him</i>. :)</p>
<div class="messageboard-quotee">GM Gabboge wrote:</div><blockquote>Though I don't subscribe to the "If you don't like it then just leave." because it's an easy change that unlocks further creativity.</blockquote><p>I'd love to see Paizo allow custom avatar uploading, even if such avatars/aliases were restricted to just the Online Campaigns area. I'd wager the threat of having your game suspended for violations would make it a self-policing issue.
<p>Even so, there are a few other reasons why a group might want to go it alone on their own site: story content, image embedding, the ability to set your own editing time-limits, the ability to easily start and run multiple threads for the same campaign... There are... </blockquote><p>Ah well I see now. That would take a bit of doing. And good for you on opening it up. Though you could always consider a Creative Common license. It seems like the best of both worlds.
<p>Man your coder did do it for cheap! Good to him. I was always more of a front-end guy myself who fell into back-end work as a career so I have an idea of the amount of hours he had to place into it.</p>
<p>I never even though of having game-wide consequences. That's pretty brilliant.</p>Laithoron wrote:GM Gabboge wrote:Hope he didn't charge you too much because that is super basic PhP, stuff you could probably find under creative commons to use.
Well, it's simple to find free dice rollers that will evaluate a series of single #d# expressions plus or minus static modifiers. However, those generally have iffy cheat protection or aren't well-integrated with the underlying forum software. I found plenty of such basic plugins for the two forum platforms that had the other...GM Gabboge (alias of gabboge)2014-01-06T23:19:37ZRe: Forums: Play-by-Post Discussion: Villains for the Greater Good! DiscussionByron Swiftwater (alias of gabboge)https://paizo.com/campaigns/VillainsForTheGreaterGood/discussion&page=4#1682013-10-14T21:53:49Z2013-10-14T21:49:40Z<p>I love challenge but we all have to decide on whether it is OK for the GM to bring it down on us.</p>
<p>For me this is a no brainer. If I completely bumble the situation I should risk character death. In fact, Byron has very little heath and should feel very much at risk for death.</p>
<p>So are we ready to ask for a challenge, knowing full well that we risk character death?</p>
<p>•Also, I know resurrection is kinda an option but I still don't like it unless it carriers huge consequences. Like people who get brought back are never really themselves again and in society they get branded as untrustworthy because of it.</p>I love challenge but we all have to decide on whether it is OK for the GM to bring it down on us.
For me this is a no brainer. If I completely bumble the situation I should risk character death. In fact, Byron has very little heath and should feel very much at risk for death.
So are we ready to ask for a challenge, knowing full well that we risk character death?
*Also, I know resurrection is kinda an option but I still don't like it unless it carriers huge consequences. Like people who get...Byron Swiftwater (alias of gabboge)2013-10-14T21:49:40Z