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At least in theory Win 10 is going to remain supported indefinitely so desktop users have no reason to worry in the lifetime of any hardware available right now.
Microsoft always flails around when the industry shifts. They are never a leader. They always try to figure out where things are going and then produce a subpar version they can use their marketing power, and other market penetration, to turn into a significant presence in the emerging field. my Realm Works videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZU...4DwXXkvmBXQ9Yw |
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Tell me about it. Spent the 90's mastering C/C++ and got really good at it. Started learning Java in the late 90's. C# comes out in 2000. In 2001 I went on an interview where the HR guy wanted to know if I had 5 years experience with C#. I laughed in his face. Since then I've rarely written any code not in C#.
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Things with tags get better and better - improved search, display and export capabilities. Probably other use cases in future. I am considering to slowly change the label texts to tags now, but still need time to see if this will suit my needs.
Still, the biggest challenge now and probably in the future will be how to enter a "story" formatted adventures into the RW's model. The past is a rudder to guide us, not an anchor to hold us back. |
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From my experience entering stuff and building my own adventures works best for me if I enter all the locations as if they were empty and then create scenes for what happens in them at various points in the plot. To navigate the plot I use the storyboard if the plot isn't linear and simply use the storyline + scene topics for linear story's. my Realm Works videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZU...4DwXXkvmBXQ9Yw |
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By "story-like formatted adventures" I mean like the one attached - heavy paragraphs of text, where mechanics, flavor and information are intertwined.
There are no clear sections, paragraphs or other dedicated places in the page that separates the mechanics from story part, like in D&D/Pathfinder published adventures. The latter are super easy to fit into the Scene category type for example (i feel like RW was created with those in mind, instead of storytelling-like systems as Exalted/WoD). The past is a rudder to guide us, not an anchor to hold us back. |
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I'd find the obvious scenes in the narrative, probably the section breaks, and build the RW scenes out of the material in each.
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Indeed, a paragraph or few together compose a mini-scene inside the big narrative. I find it a bit inconvenient and "artificial" to split to to so many scenes, but it might be a solution in the end. Have to agree with myself on standard approach when completing the various sections in the Scene category and when to use Adventure Location vs Locations.
But I am getting there slowly. I just need more inspiration from the community, more lurking at the facebook groups and internet. Or the CM but this is other topic. :O The past is a rudder to guide us, not an anchor to hold us back. |
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Adventure location is what I use for entire dungeons or the like. Basically a top level container for locations and/or scenes. I use location for specific places that would be keyed locations on a map in such a place.
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