It seems to me that the assorted indicies and other articles that need updating could better be served by a wiki format than the linear workings of a messageboard. I've taken the liberty of creating a Dungeon Magazine wiki at dungeonmagazine.pbwiki.com. A wiki is a set of web pages that allow readers to edit them. Using a wiki is as easy as using web based eMail, and it's a good way to collaborate. In this case, I hope that between 15 minutes of writing here and there by the community, we can build a comprehensive index of Dungeon magazine articles. It's also a ready way to collect the wisdom of threads like the Black Hole in a format that's easy to update in summary form.
I've taken the liberty of lifting Thanis Kartaleon's index of Campaign Workbook articles as a first demonstration of what you can do with a wiki. Note that each author's name is a link. For now, they all point to blank pages, save my own which I've filled in as an example. That, in turn, links to an adventure description for my one humble adventure published. See all the linky goodness? This whole thing, from creation to this stage of building, only took an hour so far.
Anyone can edit the wiki; all you need is the password. (psst... it's "dungeon".) If a half dozen people throw a couple hours at it, we could have all the indices and such migrated there by the end of the day, and I expect each author's ego will demand they fill in their own adventure summaries and bio. There may be admin tools to keep Pett and Vaughn from defacing each other's pages, but for now I'm trusting you all to be gentlepersonly and grown up about this. Don't make me turn this car around.
very nice
Excellent! Any chance of expanding it to include Dragon? I know Thanis has also posted a listing of the Class Acts to date and there'd be various other bits to add.
Very nice, indeed.
I've been using a pbwiki to keep track of stuff in my campaign for a while. From what I've seen, It's the best thing next to hosting it on your own and using a more complex wiki style.
If I could make a suggestion, a base template could be made, from which to make all other adventures' pages.
Some nice features I'd like to see would be to have a small thumbnail image of the cover of the magazine it was printed in (keep it small to save space and bandwidth), and have info on the types of monsters/enemies featured.
Excellent! Any chance of expanding it to include Dragon? I know Thanis has also posted a listing of the Class Acts to date and there'd be various other bits to add.
Nothing stopping it from covering Dragon as well. After all, it's a wiki and the password is posted half a page up. Add what you like!
Nothing stopping it from covering Dragon as well. After all, it's a wiki and the password is posted half a page up. Add what you like!
Excellent!!
Cool! With fan projects like this and the Dungeon Index, Paizo should start having more time on their hands to just produce adventures! :)
Things discovered while hand-entering the index portion of the wiki:
Some years were better than others. This "12 episodes a year" thing has only been going on a little while. Dungeon started off as a 6-episode a year rag. In 1997, only 3 issues were published!
They don't make 'em like they used to. It wasn't uncommon for issues of Dungeon near the end of the Edition 2 days to have 5 or more adventures in them. Issue 78 tops the list that I've entered so far, with 7 adventures.
Tito Leati is an immortal, blood sucking writer. I swear, this guy has been writing Dungeon adventures as far back as I've yet plumbed.