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Realm Works Feature Survey Lobbying

Single person Reveals

Still hoping this makes it in soon.

The ability to let one PC know something, instead of the whole party is a major need for me.

When each person can be tracked, it takes a load off my aging brain.

Some of our games get very political and being able to go back quickly and see what a player or even NPC in some cases knows would help.

Thanks for the hard work,
Lee
 
Forgotten Feature

I forgot to put this on my survey under the category of what I think is missing that should be high priority:

Many of my topics are screens long, and I want the ability to be able to link into a specific snippet within a topic, not just the topic itself. I'd envision this as a target within a web page.
 
Bidmaron said:
I forgot to put this on my survey under the category of what I think is missing that should be high priority:

Many of my topics are screens long, and I want the ability to be able to link into a specific snippet within a topic, not just the topic itself. I'd envision this as a target within a web page.
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You can go back in and add this to your survey answers, as long as you get it submitted before the survey closes (11:59 pm PST today).
 
I am shopping for campaign management software and just learned of RealmWorks (impressive!). I was highly interested... until seeing this incredibly disappointing thread.

If I'm understanding correctly, this is a deal-breaker which (despite all the other shinies) would clearly cast the current best alternative as the unexpected winner.

Sadly, I just missed your survey by a few moments. :(
 
lyobovnik said:
I am shopping for campaign management software and just learned of RealmWorks (impressive!). I was highly interested... until seeing this incredibly disappointing thread.

If I'm understanding correctly, this is a deal-breaker which (despite all the other shinies) would clearly cast the current best alternative as the unexpected winner.

Sadly, I just missed your survey by a few moments. :(
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Sorry to hear you missed the survey: if you're lucky, LWD might be willing to take your thoughts and feelings on board, regardless: they're a really nice bunch of folks, who want to please their customers (and make money, of course), so all feedback is helpful.

What, specifically, in that thread is a deal-breaker? Even though I champion calendars, I'm well aware of the other "big hitters" in desirable features, which are Print, Export, and Player Journals, and wholeheartedly support them all, and want to see them as soon as developmentally feasible. In fact, considering the huge job calendars might turn out to be, the ability to export topics as rtf or html might well win me over as a good first hit on expanded functionality.

So, please, expand on your comments, I'm sure it'll be worth the effort.
 
I'm pretty sure that printing/export will be completed soon (for some definitions of soon). Rights management and copyright protection are two major hurdles that must be resolved for the Marketplace and I'm betting that these are the same things holding back printing/export. Content developers need to be confident their rights are being looked after. So if printing/export isn't active when the Marketplace rolls out, LWD will have the stubs in place to move printing/export forward more easily.

I have a feeling that calendars and printing/export will both be sooner than we might expect. Keep the faith. :)
 
I'll bet DRM nerfs printing/exporting so much no one will want it once it arrives. If you read the survey it sounds as if you can't print/export anything that is IP. Unless they have a way in the data to indicate OGL material (that the user can't change unless he created the topic), seems like there are going to be some disappointed people when print/export gets done.
 
They could imbed a digital watermark into anything purchased through the marketplace. That way they could track any illegal activity to a particular person and let the lawyers go after them. I believe that is how most PDF's do it these days.
 
I agree with Viking.. A lot of the PDF items I purchase (say thru Drive thru RPG , etc) are handled this way... the initial handling from a purchase to the FIRST Owner I don't foresee a problem.

:confused:Its when those items get tweaked and immersed into other parts of a Realm and then potentially re-uploaded to the community is probably the "Tangle". Again just hypothesizing from outside the fence since we have yet to see any detailing as to how the market place will be managed.:confused:

So take comments with a grain of salt....:cool:
 
I'm not sure myself.

Again, on one hand, publishers expect you to share your book between you group at the table. So this would be the same, really. But with this, instead of sharing the material every other Saturday for a few hours, the content would be available forever to your friends 24/7. This might hurt the cause a bit.

On the other hand, I don't buy the books for the rules (well, not just the rules). I buy the books for the art, the design, the flavor text, and the story. If something like the PF core rules were in RW, and JUST the rules (like the SRD), the publisher might be okay with that. It really boils down to how the material is delivered.

If you put the entirety of a World of Darkness book into RW, complete with backstory, flavor text, stories, meta history, etc... I wouldn't read that stuff.

So say under mechanics, a source book would just say, "Presence 1 - Awe: Gives the player a +2 to his social roll in the following skills...." I think ultimately that would be exactly what I'd want to see. The flavor text is nice, but really, just give me a hyperlink in a NPC's stats to remind me what Awe does.

I guess we'll see how various publishers look at it.
 
Didn't anyone else read the survey? It stated that you would not be able to export copyrighted material, in so many words (unfortunately, the survey is no longer available that I can find)
 
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Didn't anyone else read the survey? It stated that you would not be able to export copyrighted material, in so many words (unfortunately, the survey is no longer available that I can find)
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I think you were thinking of the description for the "Simple export and import via XML" feature. The description said the following (bolding is my own):
An entire realm or only its structure can be exported to XML for use within other applications. Conversely, the exported content could be imported to create a new realm. This would NOT allow merging content from one realm into another, nor would it allow selecting which content to export or import. In addition, no published content brought into a realm can be exported. Its primary use would be to clone a realm, clone the structure of a realm when starting a new realm, and using the data in other applications.​

We also talked about how we would handle PDF content in the "Print to PDF" feature description (bolding is my own):
Convert the entire contents of the realm to a suitable representation and then save it as a PDF file. If desired, the generated PDF file can be subsequently printed. Any PDF would NOT include published content that is brought into a realm. Inclusion of published content would entail a significant further step to appropriately watermark all pages and implement other security protocols required by publishers.​

I hope that clears things up a bit for some of you.
 
Liz, I may be rocking out here, but first let me thank you for chiming in. Your contributions do us all a great service.

Is what I said wrong? Does it not boil down to the result that you can't export copyrighted material. Maybe it would be clearer if you can tell us what you can do with copyrighted material other than display it on your screen or your players' screens. (Of course we could all just wait and see how it works, but that would be no fun....)

My expectation would be that if I purchased material, I could print/export it with the same ability that I can print or export my own material that I generate. Just like if I purchased the book itself or a PDF I can copy or print for my own use and there isn't someone trying to keep me from abusing the copyright by e-mailing pdfs to people. It's just like no one (currently) expects a copying machine to detect that you are attempting to copy copyrighted material and prevent you from doing that (since there are viable and legal reasons to do that).

As I said, I could be rocking out and misunderstanding, but it sounds as if you are limiting our lawful use of purchased copyright material simply because some will (undoubtedly) misuse the capability for illegal purposes.

Copying machines don't put watermarks on copyrighted materials, so why should you?

If I'm not rocking out, what you are saying would mean that I cannot produce a printed handout for my players using RW, which I am permitted to lawfully do if I weren't using your program.
 
I missed the survery ... is there a place to see the results ?

I have been looking at different GM tools over the past few months . I like what realm works have and I am an avid user of Hero Labs but I would not expect my players to pay for a players edition just to see the material I create. Printing and Exporting to a PDF are important.
 
Bidmaron said:
My expectation would be that if I purchased material, I could print/export it with the same ability that I can print or export my own material that I generate. ...
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Unfortunately you're purchasing a license to the material and the license comes with restrictions. Ideally they'd have permissions like other platforms so the creators could choose to let you do things with their material. It looks like we won't have that luxury, at least not in the first incarnation.

ethernetguru said:
I missed the survery ... is there a place to see the results?
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No; they're not planning to share the results.
 
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Bidmaron said:
My expectation would be that if I purchased material, I could print/export it with the same ability that I can print or export my own material that I generate. Just like if I purchased the book itself or a PDF I can copy or print for my own use and there isn't someone trying to keep me from abusing the copyright by e-mailing pdfs to people. It's just like no one (currently) expects a copying machine to detect that you are attempting to copy copyrighted material and prevent you from doing that (since there are viable and legal reasons to do that).
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As others have pointed out, watermarking and/or document security is something that is common in many RPG PDFs nowadays. For example, when you purchase a PDF from Paizo it includes your name and email address on each page, and it also includes a digital watermark and further security.

If we decided to support printing to PDF and allowed published material in those PDFs, the approach we take to watermarking and further security requirements would depend on what is required by the publishers.

Additionally, it's important to remember that in order to provide the material from publishers, we first need to sign an agreement of some sort with those publishers. To do this, it's in our best interest (and the users' best interest since you all want the material) to maintain a good relationship. A part of maintaining a positive relationship with publishers is by doing what we can to protect their intellectual property.
 
Thanks Liz,

Just to clarify, my take is, no exporting of copyrighted material purchased through the marketplace and no printing to PDF of material purchased through the marketplace until LWD is capable of watermarking the PDF. I'm assuming most publishers use a similar (or industry standard) form of watermarking the PDF.

I'm also assuming that if the unscrupulous scan in a physical book for the purposes of distribution through Realm Works, that would necessitate LWD taking punitive measures against the user upon notification of said infringement. Will such an infringer get warnings with the offending material removed, before account suspension?
 
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