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I'd frequently get sick at the beginning and end of the year, for similar reasons.
This Kickstarter advertises adventures usable with "any table-top system" by virtue of system-to-system conversion charts. I'd like to link them to our "scope of the RPG landscape" meta.
@BESW The new bugs thing is huge--working an a boarding school we see it every school break. The kids go away, they come back, and four days later half the school's got the sniffles.
@nitsua60 One thing I found late in high school was that I needed Creative Introvert Time at least once a week all year, and it helped reduce my bi-yearly meltdowns.
@BESW I didn't even scroll down before closing that one. Those are two things I love: one I've spent thousands of hours studying, developing, explicating, and sharing, all while it gives me a framework and understanding for making the world a richer and fuller place; the other I have a couple of degrees in. I'm not gonna let some crank ruin either or both of them for me =)
@BESW my primary concern is how do they plan to ship me my dragonbone armor for that stretch goal? Is there enough bone to go around? How are they getting it? What are the customs fees like?
I've been thinking about list questions on SE. For example, this question is clearly one of them. rpg.stackexchange.com/q/10834/30214 However, it is good, it's knowledge is useful -- it is just very unlikely that this list ever gets completed.
What about such a policy on list questions: 1) There may be only one answer, which becomes community wiki. 2) If you want to add something, you add to the answer.
Basically it makes list answers work like normal wiki article.
And removes the problem of infinite list of answers appearing.
There's nothing inherently wrong with your "I need a comprehensive list" question; It's just that we specifically forgo asking these types of questions because they are not a good fit for this type of Q&A site.
Stack Exchange is well-suited to asking very specific questions that represent real ...
> ...the Big List™ breaks down the whole premise of why we created these sites in the first place — to vet and deem the information contained in the post as useful. Marking a question as "community wiki" does not take away from the inherent randomness of the discussion that becomes the thread.
Putting all the answers in one post breaks voting, removing the "neatly sorted" part of the Stack's goal to be a neatly sorted collection of answers.
@Baskakov_Dmitriy I feel like the problem of an infinite list of answers is best tackled on the front-end: users with experience and privilege(s) close questions that are like to generate that sort of activity, rather than relying on answerers exercising restraint/judgment or even knowing what expectations are.
@nitsua60 He's trying to find a way to change what questions are likely to generate that sort of activity.
That is, he wants those kinds of questions to stay open but recognises that so long as they're infinitely listy they'll get closed.
Unfortunately, he's reinventing the wheel; the Stack network in part and in whole has spent a half-dozen or more years trying different permutations of system and culture to make 'em work.
@nitsua60 Fractals - when you ask for a list of changes, you get answers covering the major changes, then answers covering more specific details, and so on until every number that's changed is mentioned.
(I actually experienced this process in the comments on this answer.)
I know I could ask those things in English.Se but... I'm in the middle of translating a RPG product, I ain't no time for clarification-through-comments.
@DForck42 Shalvenay was running a D&D 3.5 short dungeon for me. I inherited a RPG convention that I managed for a while and that I currently just help coming true by moving tables and cleaning floors
This year I'm running two little known games by Jason Morningstar - a committee game and a slight hack of Archipelago II
@LegendaryDude I don't think that .cbr files can do that since according to Wikipedia all they actually are is an archive (like rar or zip) with image files inside (like jpg or png)
It does list some benefits as 'Comic book archive viewers typically offer various dedicated functions to read the content, like one page forward/backwards, go to first/last page, zoom or print. Some applications support additional tag information in the form of embedded XML files in the archive or use of the ZIP comment to store additional information.'
A PDF is exactly as vector as the file it's wrapping.
While a CBR can't be vector, because it's a fancy zip file for raster images. But that means it's a lot more tinkerable by the end-user.
A PDF can potentially be a lot better, or be exactly the same as a CBR, but whatever it is, I'm stuck with it. With a CBR there's a lower ceiling for awesome bells and whistles but I can fiddle with the content if I'm dissatisfied.
I'm fond of OpenOffice and its forks (currently LibreOffice seems to be the most active version that's not been subsumed by some group that doesn't get its goals).
I've been using MS Office ever since my employer gave us home installations with our Office 365 subscription, and Libre if I'm on a Linux desktop for whatever reason
@BESW It will blow dust right in your face if you so much as sigh in its direction. The nozzles will be guided by infrared lasers to point straight at your nose.
@BESW The screen will be made of flexible OLED. You will be able to dog-ear a corner. Whenever you return to the page the device will re-dog-ear itself, but not quite as you left it, and probably with an extra fold at the very tip of the corner that you didn't want there.
@BESW The largest benefit of CBR is actually realised in CBR/CBZ-aware readers' features, which will only be used for CBR/Z files. Things like showing facing pages automatically while intelligently detecting single-file spreads and not showing them paired with the next image, or being able to reverse the page reading order.
@BESW I suspect there's a slight preference for CBR by those in-the-know, but PDF is more broadly known/accessible. If you have the option of doing both without significant overhead, that might be well appreciated.
@LegendaryDude I don't think CBR/Z can embed text meta to the images like PDF can, but I haven't delved into the technical details of the format much. I don't recall seeing a CBR reader that provides a search feature.
@SevenSidedDie I noticed a swath of comments were deleted from this answer; if there's something I should know I hope you or mxy--I assume it's one of you that did it--won't be shy about letting me know.
And for what it's worth, the free desktop version of OneNote can take text from pretty much any image and make it searchable. I've been taking pictures of D&D text and inserting them into OneNote notebooks to make them searchable/copy & pastable.
That's OneNote 2016 (not 2013), and it has to be the desktop version (the Windows store version has a different feature set for some reason). You do get the searchability on the OneNote web app, though, so I guess that works if you use the Windows store version.
And it supports embedding PDFs and will index those/make the text searchable/selectable .
@LegendaryDude I use onenote a lot, but never for prep. Can I ask what about it you find helpful? (I'm not against it, just haven't (yet) used it for prep.)
@nitsua60 I have a Surface Pro 4 which I use to run my games and keep track of a lot of stuff. I'll use the built in camera, take a picture of a page from the adventure I'm running (Curse of Strahd currently) , then make the image searchable and copy paragraphs where they need to go. Not for like, room descriptions or what's going to happen next but for large lore sections or bulleted lists ("NPCs in this town know the following...") it's much easier than bookmarking the relevant pages.
@nitsua60 I just went and reviewed those (I didn't remove them); it looks to have been caught in some unrelated firefighting + it looking like it hadn't gained traction with the OP. If you have hope that the advice on reformulating the question might get through, that was probably fine (just not apparently going anywhere). Re-commenting it under the question should be fine (& maybe more effective).
@SevenSidedDie It's not a huge deal. As I was writing four (!) full-length comments I was aware anything that needed that many words wasn't really fit for that medium. Just want you to know if I have a grumpy day and start generating flags you shouldn't hesitate to smack the back of my hand =)
IIRC the comments were very wordy site-education, which probably would have been better achieved through a few well-searched meta-links.
It's just that I saw one of the users say they're being singled out, and worried that I might be the bully =(
@nitsua60 Oh, I get your concern now. :) You generated no flags there! There's a user who has generated a spike in moderation that looks to have led us to those comments during cleanup operations.
@nitsua60 Hah, no worries! But I suppose in a way it is organized. For example, in CoS I have an NPC section, and under that I have various faction pages, and then under each faction page I have subpages for specific NPCs, or if an NPC doesn't belong to a faction it just gets its own main page. I don't make a lot of use of this stuff during play (play is too fluid to be constantly checking things on a computer) but it's useful to write it down so I can recall it when it comes up in game.
@nitsua60 comments, by nature, aren't intended to be permanent. they're supposed to be used for prodding for more information in a question or answer, or for clarifying, etc. however, we're social creatures and like to say things. comments just need to be cleaned up once in a while to avoid a lot of unnecessary on-screen text for questions and answers
@DForck42 I'd use InDesign, which I use at my workplace, but I won't pay for a license for my home projects. So I'm stuck with freeware and... it's not always optimal.
@nitsua60 By far my most used feature is the inking feature (using the Surface Pro Pen). I took a hi-res map of Barovia and I've been able to chart party movement by drawing on it with the pen, taking notes on locations, etc.
