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Nomadic
Well according to this
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It's 20% contained. Though it begs the question "what in the world are you doing all the way down there in california?" Come back up here with the sane people in good ole oregon.
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It's 20% contained. Though it begs the question "what in the world are you doing all the way down there in california?" Come back up here with the sane people in good ole oregon.
Snargash Moonclaw
@ Nomadic: any progress tonight on the Snow Creek Fire? We were right across the lake when it started. . .
SDragon
Brainface: Joking or serious? Because that's what I'm slowly trying to pick up, in my spare time.
Nomadic
"==== : is genuinely, truly, ultimately, indisputably, beyond all reasonable doubt equal test "
That made me laugh.
That made me laugh.
Ra-Tiel
Is it ranting time about computer programs? Can I join in, pretty please?
Ok, I hate Java. And especially NetBeans. These two are so backwards and retarded, I wonder how _anyone_ could ever get anything done with them.
Ok, I hate Java. And especially NetBeans. These two are so backwards and retarded, I wonder how _anyone_ could ever get anything done with them.
Snargash Moonclaw
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August 2008
What Is the CBG?
The Campaign Builders' Guild is your one-stop source for information and communities centered around building and creating homebrew campaign settings, adventures, and worlds for role playing games. World building and campaign building is a craft and an art, to use the words of Raelifin, and goes far beyond just simply creating locales, NPCs, and adventure locations. These things must connect to each other in some sort of fundamental way. At the Campaign Builders' Guild, we will help you achieve a mastery of this art, either through reviewing your campaign setting, critiquing your adventure, or simply basking in the wonder of your campaign world. Go to the forums and ask for help for that new kingdom you're building, and ask for advice on the new magic system you're creating. And while you're here, please ponder others' works of art. Write your own reviews on someone else's setting, and play an adventure RPG in a new campaign world. You can't go wrong.
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Mid-August Round-Up
Ishmayl on Sunday 17 August 2008 - 16:53:00
Well, it's that time once again for our semi-not-quite-so-regular round-up of popular forum posts (and maybe some other news?).
Along with Phoenix's Fantasy Book Rankings (which has already been deemed by such prestigious entities as Acrimone as "the single best list of fantasy works to be found on the net"), there is a new book ranking thread up, Nomadic's Sci-Fi Book Rankings. These two threads are gaining in popularity, and deservedly so, with discussion of the best of the best in the books that have inspired many of us to do what we do. Nomadic also started a What Turns you Off/On thread about various tropes, clichés, and gimmicks that you like or dislike in other peoples' worlds. This is a great discussion that can help us all in our world building and campaign building. And finally, in probably what is the shortest-length text of an opening thread he has ever made, Salacious Angel (or is it something else now?) has started a very nice thread on the fundamentals of magic. This is a great thread for you to get involved in, and I suggest doing so. Finally, though this is not a forum thread per-se, I believe a special "Damn boy, way to go!" needs to be handed out to Phoenix for his diligent undertaking of listing literally every known mythological entity on our planet! He has been at this project for months, and now we have a fantastic resource - possibly one of a kind - here at the CBG to help you out with your writing or campaign building. Damn boy, way to go!
In case any people haven't yet seen the announcement in the relevant thread, the winners of the 2008 Guildies Awards will be announced on Wednesday, August 20, 2008, [i]sometime during the day[/url] (yeah, I know, that's a bit vague, but it's the best I can do right now). Make sure you all tune in to see everyone get the recognition they deserve.
Finally, let's talk about the CBG 2.0. I think it was first hinted at back in an interview Turin did of me in the winter of 2006/2007 (December, January, sometime around then). Then, tiny little trinkets of information have come and gone about it over the course of the last few centuries, until the overhaul/remake began being likened to Duke Nukem Forever. Recently, I have heard from a couple people that they don't understand why we're even doing the change, and that it is essentially a waste of time. So I just wanted to make sure that people understand why this change is needed. There is one main reason, and one minor reason.
The real reason, the one that matters, and the one that most of you here on the sight don't see, is security. The current content management system, e107, is (as quaintly described by brainface) a child's version of a CMS. It's the kind of CMS that people use to host their WoW clan sites, their M:tG get-together sites, etc. The coding in it is abysmal to the point that brainface and I cannot even make changes to the site, because any changes made screw something else up. The security in e107 is to be laughed at. There are all kinds of issues in regards to spambots, php/html loopholes, and malicious scripting loopholes that make this CMS one not to be worth considering on such a highly-regarded (and somewhat professional-esque) site. I hope the dissenters can understand that reason, and why it is important. If it was just about this site itself, it would be something we may could work around - however, this site is hosted on my brother's very professional and very important server, in which he does his web-hosting and site-design business, and we simply can't risk security flaws.
The minor reason is, I hate the look of this site. Some of you old-timers may remember back in the day when I tried to find an agreeable site with everyone else that I actually like, and nothing ever worked out. I am taking this opportunity, with the change happening, to work on something that I can myself be proud of and even use as a bit of a resume to the kinds of design I can handle. It will be something pleasing to look at, while still being practical and simple so as to cause no problems with other people accessing the site.
With this change, we are also able to offer some new services that we can't offer with e107 and its security issues, such as live chatting from a plug-in on the site, individual blogs and journals for all the members, a campaign setting hosting option that is being designed from the ground up specifically for our site, and a couple other things that are not yet ready enough to announce.
So, hopefully this will help you guys realize why we do what we do here on the site.
Cheers!
-Ish
Guildies Awards, other tidbits
Ishmayl on Saturday 02 August 2008 - 15:22:50
Update: 14 August 2008, 11:18 PM
The Winners and Awards of the Guildies will be posted on the News page here sometime in the afternoon of Wednesday, 20 August 2008.
Cheers!
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Well, the Guildies voting is done, and it's now time to get ready for the Awards Ceremony. Here is a link to a discussion thread I've set up to figure out how you guys would like to do the awards.
Guildies Awards Ceremony Discussion
With that being said, it's time to start talking about the site again, and some fun (and not-so-fun) issues.
First of all, CBG 2.0 progress is continuing, but it's just very, very slow. I have a couple helpers here who help me do some bug checking, etc, but since I'm not being paid for this, there is little I can do when I have to work to sustain myself. Just keep in mind that enWorld promised enWorld 2 for about 2 years before it showed up - so far, I'm only 15 months into my promise, so I have a bit further to go before I'm really, really bad.
The wiki is still booming, though it has seen some dying down as of recent weeks. It's the summer months, and many people who were always in front of a computer during the school year are now out playing in water parks, skiing, swimming, fishing, and generally having a lot more fun that those of us who work full-time jobs!
There are literally a ton of new people around the site nowadays who are actively participating in campaign discussions and other fun topics, so that's a good, healthy sign of growth that I'm always happy to see.
Nomadic went well beyond his duties as a CBGer in writing his Beginner's Guide to MIRC, giving absolutely no one here an excuse not to be using the new CBG official chat room to partake in wackiness and serious live discussion.
And finally, I'll talk a bit about Setting Showcase. SS is as dead as a year-old dead thing - I know it's not creative, but hopefully it gets the point across. There was little-to-no participation in the last Showcase, even though we Showcased someone who has always been a big part of the site. Therefore, my plans nowadays are to make an extension of my "Ishy's Pet Campaign Setting" thing I did awhile back, and basically, I'll just personally pick a setting that I believe deserves to be in the limelight, and I'll post a bit whopping article about it to stay static on the front page until I get bored and move on to another setting. It won't be about throwing out reviews and getting criticisms (though hopefully those are both a byproduct of my plan), it will just be about me telling everyone else what they should be looking at because of how awesometacular it is.
That's it for now, we may even get some more contests sometime if people will actually participate again.
Cheers!
-Ish
