All's quite on the Western Front

[jkthomsen9]

Originally Posted by wurzel

A "number of weeks" can be six weeks, or maybe thirty-seven weeks. I think that was intentionally left uncertain.

Actually it feels more like thirty-seven.

I agree. For some unexplained reason that is completely my own. I expected it at or before PiazoCon, which was Memorial day weekend.

I bought RW several weeks before PiazoCon 2014, just days after the kickstarter finished. I discovered the program when I started registering what classes I wanted to take at PazioCon. I took every class for both RW and HL. I remember the excitement LWD had for this product.

I find myself in two camps. On one hand I am very disappointed in the software. I desperately need to be able to combine two of MY realms. I have entered a vast majority of the Inner Sea World Guide and many of the supplement material into one realm. I have entered Wrath of the Righteous Adventure path into another. I am running a group through the adventure path and need the two realms merged. I created the realms this way because I was told that the ability to merge was imminent and this was the way to do it.

Now I have painted myself into a corner. I am not willing to muddy up either of my two realms, nor am I willing to redo all the work to create a hybrid of the two. So I am stuck waiting, and waiting, and waiting.

On the other hand I remember the rocky start HL had. I remember taking an XML class so I could understand the program better, as I was an amateur programmer in the beginning. There were a lot of us writing custom data-sets to enter all the 3.5 and Pathfinder content. A few of us rose to the top, like chiefweasel and ShadowChemosh. Now HL content comes out with the release of the current content. Three weeks ago I wrote the first custom data set I have written in years. I needed to change a named magic item from a longsword to a Dwarven Waraxe, which is the only reason to use the editor anymore, to modify YOUR game away from RAW. I can not run my game without HL.

I have hopes that RW will get there. It is under the same leadership. I am frustrated that there are no workarounds to get the community where they need to be in the meantime. It is dame right infuriating to have literally hundreds of hours of my work locked up in a way that dose not allow me to use it in the way it was intended to be used. And so I wait.