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Is such a thing possible/available?
I am starting to design a matchmaking application to allow players to define a local group, track who among them has played or run a scenario for credit, and 'matchmake' a legal table for planning, and cut and paste is so dreadful a way to import new scenarios compared to a webservice call and synchronization step...
I think this is a great idea. But maybe it is better placed in the PFS area? I just spend a few hours yesterday to update my spreadsheet with information of all local players. Now that we have grown and I have a second independent GM I noticed that it has become more difficult to be up to date.
Technically it should be simple as a database call.
Input: player ID numbers. Output - valid scenarios that nobody has played.
It should allow a filter for tiers and if you include / exclude modules. This might need some extra table with this information in the database.
Turning this into a web application could be more (a lot?) as just the database calls.
Issues:
Data protection is an issue. you could solve this via opt-in. Every player can give the ID of trusted GMs who are allowed to access this data.
I'd use a Google Spreadsheet. Share it among your local players or GMs. Have a row for each scenario, a column for each player, and just put an X in the cell as people play it. Then look for an empty row and play that scenario.
That said, it's not a huge database problem; a web app is not a difficult process. if there is interest, I might be able to see if I can throw something simple together.
Thod: when you say data protection, do you mean privacy concerns or graffiti concerns? If it's the former, and the only thing saved are PFS numbers (no names, no phone or email info) and scenarios played, does that address the problem, do you think?
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I'd use a Google Spreadsheet. Share it among your local players or GMs. Have a row for each scenario, a column for each player, and just put an X in the cell as people play it. Then look for an empty row and play that scenario.
This is what we do... this way you can change the color fo the box for GM credit, and X it off for play credit
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The best way to get product descriptions is probably via the RSS feeds. Exposing some sort of API for developers to access to player information has a lot of tricky privacy and authentication issues, and not something we're likely to tackle anytime soon. I have experience designing and maintaining APIs for third-party developers and am painfully aware of what that entails, and I don't think Paizo can commit resources to an effort like that right now.
This is what we do... this way you can change the color fo the box for GM credit, and X it off for play creditI'd use a Google Spreadsheet. Share it among your local players or GMs. Have a row for each scenario, a column for each player, and just put an X in the cell as people play it. Then look for an empty row and play that scenario.
I had done this for LG and it was *way* easier to use than the previous tool - in point of fact, a spreadsheet. It was useful both as a player tool for tracking what you'd played, and a organizer tool for buildout.
My vision for this is way more ambitious, as well - with opt-in per defined group, this could become a planning/signup tool similar to warhorn without the need to cut, paste, and store in the DB all of the scenario descriptions...
(Not thinking small, obviously...)
Obviously not. :)
I'm administering the ontariopathfinders.com website for our local co-ordinators (of whom I am one) and we seem to have settled in to a nice groove with a wordpress template and a few add-ons that allow evnt registration. However, we use a google doc among the GMs to list which modules we've run on what dates at the various venues.
What you propose is an interesting concept. In theory, it's not difficult, but in practice, it's time-consuming. (Also, to make it pretty is beyond my skill level.)
However, I can see how the architecture might work out in a way that makes sense. Or at least, the majority of it. If anyone reading this has any experience programming plug-ins for Wordpress, I'd love to work with someone on making this happen. Once the plug-in is in place and functional, it's a simple matter to make it available to those who would like to use it.
edit: *ahem* In hindsight, I appear to have completely missed the point of this thread, at least from the OP's point of view.
My offer, however, stands.