A question on co-dming.

[pathweaver]

I am currently running an online game with a second DM and it looks like we could really use Realm Works to organize our scattered notes.

I was wondering if Realm Works has an easy way to incorporate a second editor to a given world, or at the very least, the ability to give a single player the DM's view.

 

[EightBitz]

Nope.

 

[pyremius]

When they get per-character reveal worked out, it would be possible to accomplish the latter by revealing everything to the selected character.

A global share, or even topic-level share option would be very helpful in this situation.

 

[pathweaver]

Oh alright. I guess I have a couple of options. I noticed that I was allowed to have it installed on multiple machines. While only one person can be logged in at a time, is it against my user agreement to have him log in to my account to make changes?

Alternatively, I can screen share using some other software I suppose.

 

[EightBitz]

While only one person can be logged in at a time, is it against my user agreement to have him log in to my account to make changes?

Yes. I know, because I've already asked this question. I even put it in the context of buying multiple accounts in case the concern was licensing per user. But the licensing terms still stipulate one person per account.

 

[rob]

There's also a major technical issue with having someone else edit content using your account...

When you are editing your content, it's no different than editing a document. If you and your friend both make changes to a document at the same time, one of you will end up losing all your changes, because you can't then merge those changes. Realm Works behaves the same way. If you and your friend make changes offline and then try to sync, one of you will lose your data.

That's why we only allow one login at a time, even for the same user, since this same issue would apply if you made changes on your desktop, then you made different changes on your laptop, and then you tried to sync them both together with the server.

 

[Ghost Matter]

One of you could do the document editing when running the game while the other runs from a previous version of the Realm. You could use Backup and Restore Database to share the Realms.

 

[Viking2054]

I'm not an expert on databases, but from what I remember, having multiple people edit the same entry is very tricky.

Also backing up and restoring a database, although possible, may not be practical. What if the initial creator creates a backup and passes it to the second GM, but the second GM is slow in making his additions or changes and getting the file back to the original GM? Then, what if the original GM gets frustrated and starts making additions, corrections, and other changes to the version of the database he has? It could quickly lead to problems.

The only practical way, in my opinion to have two GM's working a single campaign would be to have one do all the data entry while the other brings over notes or sits down next to the guy that has the master copy of the database.

Now, somewhere down the road once we are able to push our work up to the repository and make it available for others to look at, we can hope for a feedback and suggestion capability. This function should allow people to contribute notes and other feedback on parts or the whole of a project. The original creator of the content could then look at the proposed feedback, notes and suggestions and decide if they are worth adding to his or her work.

 

[Ladyofdragons]

Now, somewhere down the road once we are able to push our work up to the repository and make it available for others to look at, we can hope for a feedback and suggestion capability. This function should allow people to contribute notes and other feedback on parts or the whole of a project. The original creator of the content could then look at the proposed feedback, notes and suggestions and decide if they are worth adding to his or her work.

This is an interesting idea! Someone should make this a feature request.