From: ngl28@rz.uni-kiel.d400.de
Date: Fri 10 Dec 1993 - 21:06:35 EET
MOB in X-RQ-ID: 2602
Says a lot of truths about Eldarad. Still, I'd like to back Colin's impression: Eldarad was so generic that I could ignore anything I didn't like, change the rest so that it fitted into my campaign world, and now it marks the northern end of a crusade against chaos on my game world where the southern end is the Griffin Peninsula, likewise treated.
In fact I would have liked to see more generic RQ material easy to fit into my Alternate Earth/Alternate Glorantha campaign. It took me one year of intense studies (and the incentive to do so from this list) to feel vaguely fit to GM in Glorantha. I'll start to do so early next year, and I intend to run a group consisting of mixed experience players - one old Gloranthan, one or two experienced roleplayerss from previous campaigns, and one or two total newcomers to either RQ or even rpgs.
I feel that it takes a PHD in Gloranthan lore to really master the world, and a BA to GM in it.
Jonathan Eyre in X-RQ-ID: 2596
>Subject: Runequest Encyclopedia
>First off, all of the stuff should be in
>ASCII, so as as many people as possible can use it.
I admit to be ignorant of hypertext files, but I would not mind reading some gibberish between the informations if this gibberish enables my machine to quickly find references and possibly cross-references.
I heard that there exists a version of the PD editor EMACS which has some hypertext facilities. To my knowledge, this editor exists for every system on the market today (though not necessarily in that special version). I know we have some data-wizards lurking here who might be able to find and port the version I mean.
>Secondly, what
>about using a similar structure to that of the guitar tab lists on
>Nevada.edu? These have a list of directories from A to Z, with
>subdirectories for artists. Since the entries for the encyclopedia
>will be along similar lines, perhaps this might be an idea. It'll all
>be online, so you can find and print out the bits you want, and for
>those who want a whole printed copy, they can do that too.
No. Most entry are far too short to justify this immense waste of of storage capacity - I mean a lot of entries may consist of say 80 bytes. If each entry had its own file, several megabytes of storage woould be wasted if handled conventionally. Which is why I look for a method to conveniently handle either one or a bunch of sequential files.
>There could also be a NEW.THIS.WEEK directory, so that people can keep
>their printed version up to date without having to scan the
>directories for new arrivals. Whaddya think?
Working mostly offline, and having limited online access (e.g. no ftp from my private account, and no utilities on my university account), I can see the merits of this idea for those people working online, but I see no way I could actively use the remote file. The idea about the NEW.THIS.WEEK directory looks good, though.
Oops, sorry for this computer talk. Maybe we should open a mailing list for discussion and DEVELOPMENT of the encyclopedia project, where also intermediate results could be posted. Opinions?
Joerg Baumgartner
ngl28@rz.uni-kiel.d400.de
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