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Example 3: Changing Icons
As another quick example, you might change the Named Vehicle icon from a Ship to a Rocket for your Sci Fi campaign. That’s perfectly fine to do. Changing Named Vehicle to Ice Cream Flavor and using an ice cream cone icon is not advised for the same reasons we’ve discussed above.
OK, enough examples. Feel free to ask questions and we’ll do our best to address them if something we haven’t covered crops up.
Even though we’re warning you from making these changes, we aren’t disallowing them. Realm Works is intended to be very customizable and we aren’t stepping back from that, nor are we stepping back from our goal to facilitate easy sharing of content. What that means is that there’s some compromises on both sides. Someone who never wants to share or import content is going to be hassled (only slightly) by this system. However, there because we’re still allowing people to make potentially nonsensical changes, there’ also a chance that you import content from someone who’s gone off the deep end customizing the global structure and it doesn’t quite fit, necessitating some conversion work. However, we hope that with this system in place the vast majority of users will never experience these issues.
One important clarification is that setting a category or tag domain to “Not Protected” does NOT mean you’ll be disallowed from sharing or importing content. Again, we want people to be able to change names and the like without changing meaning and still have access to the cloud sharing and importing features. As we move forward, we’ll likely identify certain changes that are more problematic than others which we may need to prevent with additional safeguards.
A final note: since this messaging wasn’t in place, some of you may already have done some of the things I’ve recommended against. Fear not! As I have said several times before, your changes aren’t going to bar you from sharing or importing, though they may cause you (and those you share with) some additional headaches when doing so. We plan to come out with a feature at some point in the future which allows you to reset your structure to match the global standard, though the details are still being worked out.
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