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Realm Works Web View timeframe?

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sedmeister

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Hi, I have looked over the forums briefly and am unable to find a thread that speaks to this question.

Basically, I need some concrete details on Web View for Realm Works.

I am kicking off two campaigns as GM this month, one for a physical group and one for a virtual group.

Murphy's Law dictates so of course the remote group are all MAC users. The local group use Windows but none of them a) have laptops and b) all use a combination of Android and iOS tablets.

We were planning on using Realm Works in between game times to keep up to date on world lore and journal entries. So at the moment, whilst Realm Works is awesome for me as GM (I have purchased the full version), it is next to useless for the players.

Seeing as we are about to kick off for the year, I have an honest question, when will Web View be ready? With a honest answer, I can decide to spring for a few months or a years subscription to City of Brass instead.

Yours sincerely looking for an honest answer so I can plan my year!
 
The most honest answer you will get is the time-frame is unknown.
LW are fully focused on the content market. I would wager a guess that we won't hear anything about other big additional features until that is implemented.

My feedback... for what it's worth. My player's didn't use Obsidian Portal even when I did populate it for my players. And for that reason the tool choice I have made is a selfish one. RW smashes the competition for functionality with the exception of web access.
 
Thanks. I guess the other thought I had is that City of Brass (and OP) gives me the flexibility to update on any platform rather than being tied to my PC.

Do you know why LW went for content market first over web access?
 
I would assume...

Everyone benefits from the ability to purchase and import content.
Not everyone benefits from web-access and not all groups care to use it.

LW makes more $$ off the content market which can be used to drive further improvements.
 
sedmeister said:
Do you know why LW went for content market first over web access?
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Definitely NOT official, and relying on leaky memory....

A) Web access was never a major thing in RW, especially as it is not envisioned as VTT replacement. The main idea was at the table use (Player view) and Player-Mode.

B) User survey...

C) Revenue stream

D) Content market was part of the KS, web view was not
 
Does City of Brass support XML import?

Someone's already figured out how to import from Obsidian Portal > Realm Works.
If they supported XML import you could technically use Realm Works and just do uploads into CoB.

Of course, this is advanced stuff and just playing with ideas. No idea if its actually possible.

Having used City of Brass, Obsidian Portal, Scabard, OneNote and Epic Words I will never go back.
 
daplunk said:
Having used City of Brass, Obsidian Portal, Scabard, OneNote and Epic Words I will never go back.
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Yeah, but there's plenty of stuff that Epic Words had that I wish I still had. Assigning exp and items/inventory, player blogs, etc.

How does that song go, "the waiting is the hardest part?"
 
Ah see I use Hero Lab for most of that. I did like their XP tracker though I use Google Sheets for that now as a backup XP Journal to cross reference Hero Lab against.

We use a private facebook group for the player blogs. They type up summaries and I paste it into RW and then make that snippet available for them to view.

So workarounds have been found.

The process of getting email verified was broken on Epic Words and enough to turn my back on it.
 
the_redbeard said:
Yeah, but there's plenty of stuff that Epic Words had that I wish I still had. Assigning exp and items/inventory, player blogs, etc.

How does that song go, "the waiting is the hardest part?"
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You're thinking of the wrong song.

I'm a man with a one track mind,
So much to do in one life time (people do you hear me)
Not a man for compromise and where's and why's and living lies
So I'm living it all, yes I'm living it all,
And I'm giving it all, and I'm giving it all,
It ain't much I'm asking, if you want the truth,
Here's to the future, hear the cry of youth,
I want it all, I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now,
I want it all, I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now,
 
the_redbeard said:
Yeah, but there's plenty of stuff that Epic Words had that I wish I still had. Assigning exp and items/inventory, player blogs, etc.

How does that song go, "the waiting is the hardest part?"
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There are a whole bunch of session management tools I'd love to see in RW but I'm waiting till they finish the CM push to start asking for them, I'm afraid the calendar guys might burn me in effigy if I distracted Rob.
 
City of Brass does not currently support importing, unfortunately. Though sedmeister can still utilize Eightbitz's fantastic export tool to HTML and throw that up on a blog or wiki type website in the interim :)
 
I'm not going to convince my group into using Realm Works if they have to install and only use it on a single PC each. I have five player licenses, but nobody is interested. I am a member of three different games, two of which I take and use notes of in Realm Works.

If my players were able to access these via a web page, even read only, they would have a lot more interest in looking at Realm works.

I am looking at the export program somebody is working on.

Come on, the web preview was back in July 2015, we're approaching two years now!
 
coyoteNZ said:
I'm not going to convince my group into using Realm Works if they have to install and only use it on a single PC each.
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding - the RW license doesn't work like HL. You buy the license, and you can use it on however many devices you wish.
 
Maidhc O Casain said:
Maybe I'm misunderstanding - the RW license doesn't work like HL. You buy the license, and you can use it on however many devices you wish.
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You understand perfectly well. As many PC's as you want one at a time. The only limit I remember is per PC, only one windows login on each PC.
 
Avi said:
You understand perfectly well. As many PC's as you want one at a time. The only limit I remember is per PC, only one windows login on each PC.
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Actually, on a PC each windows account is limited to a single RealmWorks license.

So multiple users on a single PC can be used to access different RealmWorks licenses.
 
Either way, selling my friends on a PC license isn't going working. I brought five player licenses for Realm Works, and would be happy to buy mor if I had use for them. But I have only managed to give out one to my players and he doesn't use it.

Most of them have devices (but not PCs) at the game. If web access was available they'd be used more.

Even myself I find that normally when I'm thinking of something cool to add, I'm normally out and about. I have access to the web on the fly but not on a PC.
 
I feel you pain. Exactly the same with my group.

The Web View was actually my number 2 reason for buying RW (after displaying maps and revaling them). I waited patiently for very long, and RW is a great DM tool without it, but I concur. It's about time they wrap up the Content market and move on.

All I want it the revealed information automatically (well after a sync) displayed on the web for the players to see. Can't be that difficult to do...

coyoteNZ said:
Either way, selling my friends on a PC license isn't going working. I brought five player licenses for Realm Works, and would be happy to buy mor if I had use for them. But I have only managed to give out one to my players and he doesn't use it.

Most of them have devices (but not PCs) at the game. If web access was available they'd be used more.
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I agree on the need for web access - it was one of the promised features that made me kickstart/buy Realmworks. The primary attraction of Realm Works for me was to be able to use it as a place to publish a lot of detail and let my players be able to see what details have been revealed. I run an ongoing, 15 year game with a rotating character base, so being able to make historical story information available to players is a huge draw for me. As it is, the time investment needed for me to be able to put things into realmworks just isn't worth it.

Crossing my fingers that they supply that feature soon. As is, Realmworks has pretty much been gathering dust on my PC while I wait for the primary promised feature I wanted.
 
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