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Integrate Ready-Made Content Into Your World - Coming in 2016?

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The "Integrate Ready-Made Content Into Your World" link on the Features list from the Realm Works homepage leads to a page announcing a Content Market Coming in 2016.

Do I need a time machine to reach an alternate timeline?

Am I missing a link somewhere to show me what is in the Content Market?

Did it never happen?

A healthy list of ready made products that could be imported to Realm Works would be a very attractive feature, but for a pricey product (as a DM tool) a "feature" page that clearly hasn't been updated in at least two YEARS is not a good sign.
 
No the content market is not out yet. Last update we have is that they have content ready to sell but need to have the Pathfinder Content ready as part of the launch. The Pathfinder stuff has a requirement set by Paizo to use an API to log into their web services to check for ownership of a Paizo PDF before you can buy Paizo content on RW (and other 3rd party tools). There is a problem with that and LWD are awaiting an update from Paizo. But Paizo are busy working on Pathfinder 2.0 and rebuilding their website and the months they are passing peacefully by.
 
Maybe if someone is going to Paizo Con they can corner the staff and see if they can "tickle" an answer out of them as to what the hold up is. :-)
 
EightBitz said:
How so? I thought it was an even-handed, level-headed, informed reply.
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I'm thinking it might have to do with the peacefully passing by portion. The CM delay keeps getting portions of the RW community riled up about semi-monthly. Daplunk is the best thing LW has going for the RW community and project at this point and takes way too much flak, but even he's let slip a few times that the competing projects are catching up.

Personally, I've had to step away from RW and move over to a competitor that doesn't have all the CM functions I need, but does have all the mechanics in an easily searchable format from all the major game systems I run for a reasonable price and I've gained a lot of time back to devote to story rather than pre-game day data entry.
 
dungeonguru said:
Personally, I've had to step away from RW and move over to a competitor that doesn't have all the CM functions I need, but does have all the mechanics in an easily searchable format from all the major game systems I run for a reasonable price and I've gained a lot of time back to devote to story rather than pre-game day data entry.
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Pray tell, what competitor are you using? I've pretty much given up on RW except as a "reference bank" of content.
 
gloranphile said:
Pray tell, what competitor are you using? I've pretty much given up on RW except as a "reference bank" of content.
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I decided to go with a combo of Fantasy Grounds and Onenote/Word (since Onenote was installed free on the laptop) and my dropbox account.

After re-evaluating how my players view content there is no way I could force them to look at a player view or even visit a dedicated campaign website (most of my players are 40+, so old school) so sharing my own documents (not purchased PDFs, but actual campaign notes) on dropbox is enough. Each one of them gets a folder shared only to them if I need to grant one of them any additional info.

As far as the other things, FG supports custom calendars, the big two (5e and PF) and many other game systems, the monster and spell libraries are fast and easily searchable, and the core rulebooks are in a format that's easy to flip through. Since I happen to have a cheap 2nd laptop, I can display the map or any images to a dedicated client that shows on a large TV next to the game table. It has a combat/initiative tracker built in and if you use the built-in spell/dice rolling from a laptop it automagically can do all your monster combat rolls for you, or you can set it to handle manual rolling at the table.

And, it grants me the flexibility to go full VTT in the future if I need to.

The downside is that I still need a tool like Hero Lab to really create characters or NPCs with classes, and there is a little bit of manual process to create your own NPCs if you don't use stock monster stats. It also doesn't have a true player view without a 2nd client.

I do however believe that FG might fix those issues going forward.

The BIGGEST SELL is that Doug (the owner) and the community host a dedicated youtube channel that they call Fantasy Grounds Fridays that they use to keep their community engaged and informed. Something that RW could easily replicate but doesn't seem to want to.
 
dungeonguru said:
The BIGGEST SELL is that Doug (the owner) and the community host a dedicated youtube channel that they call Fantasy Grounds Fridays that they use to keep their community engaged and informed. Something that RW could easily replicate but doesn't seem to want to.
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They can barely engage here. If they filmed the 2017 or 2016 GenCon seminars they never posted either. I'm sure BJ and Rone are busy people and dealing with the net community isn't their highest priority but LWD does a terrible job building and maintaining the community of users of their products.
 
D&D Beyond has a similar YouTube channel they use to make regular communication with customers. It is very well done and informative. More importantly, they announce features being worked on and then deliver them in the estimated time frames, or at least pretty close to them. I have shelved RW - at least for now. I have moved over to Roll20 for my needs. I play both online and in person, and I use Roll20 for both games. It is certainly lacking MANY of the features RW has in place. However, I have been very impressed with Roll20's customer service and responsiveness. After LWD dismal showing in these areas that has become important to me.
 
gloranphile said:
Thanks! I might give FG a try to run my campaign, since I'm back to using printouts from my notes at the table.
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I can understand being unhappy with the wait for new features but why would you stop using RW to go back to things like that?
 
kbs666 said:
I can understand being unhappy with the wait for new features but why would you stop using RW to go back to things like that?
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Agreed.

I am still using RW and I also use FG and HL at the table.

RW for all the content such as NPC information, plot lines, adventure summaries, or snippets of information such as unique magic items and creatures etc etc and I use FG for all the story driven content such as maps, handouts, and room descriptions, and good old reliable HL for actual encounters.
 
kbs666 said:
I can understand being unhappy with the wait for new features but why would you stop using RW to go back to things like that?
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It's not new features, it's not having even core content like the SRD for 5e, PF or any system in there without risking community content downloads from facebook or elsewhere. The alternative is cutting/pasting from PDFs (if possible), image sites and other places and spending precious time transcribing rather than creating.

So if I'm already having to cut/paste from somewhere else what use is RW to me? Why not just display images directly to the players on a second screen in a browser tab or just move the image window from Gimp or other image viewer over?

I can't say the same of my homebrew content but if I'm already committed to using (for example) FG to show the maps, images and keep track of other story content that I purchased once already - why not just spend the time putting the home content into the tool that I'm using at the table?

So, RW was OK for when I used it but it doesn't have any staying power right now. End of the day, it won't be able to catch up either. I can't afford to buy yet another copy of the Player's Handbook so that I don't have to switch between tools. RW promised to be the all-in-one campaign tool but after years without any product support I've had to invest in alternatives.
 
kbs666 said:
They can barely engage here. If they filmed the 2017 or 2016 GenCon seminars they never posted either. I'm sure BJ and Rone are busy people and dealing with the net community isn't their highest priority but LWD does a terrible job building and maintaining the community of users of their products.
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kbs666: While you are correct that we are incredibly busy, and I was especially so last year at GC, it wasn't entirely about other obligations. I wasn't granted the authority last year and LWD didn't have the equipment to do it until I purchased it last month for the upcoming con season. Rone will be filming seminars in the future and I hope to have a more interactive presence when I finish building our new web areas. New policies and procedures take time and resources, but we are working on it. : )
 
An Ennio Morricone whistling western theme audiates ethereally within your skull as a tumbleweed dances across the path of Rone Barton. This gunslinger with the weird first name swaggers up to you wearing Navajo rugs for a shirt. That's literally all he's wearing. It's disconcerting.

He forks over a business card between two fingers reading only Have 4K Camera Will Travel.

They brought me in for this. This is what I do. Do I have IMDB credits? A couple. A TV development deal? Yep. Was I ENnie-nominated for three different RPG podcasts I hosted and produced? Many times. Atomic Array, Open Design Podcast, Iron GM Podcast. Won a gold once. They never nominated my RPG Countdown podcast but that's because they were scared of how good it was and that's why they're all up there on boot hill lying down on the wrong side of the lawn. But I digress.

Can I be the documentarian this wolf pack needs?!

Distant wolves howl en masse like a wind of rising expectation. However, it's the middle of the day. This might be a case of widespread rabies. Best we get inside. Now.
 
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kbs666 said:
I can understand being unhappy with the wait for new features but why would you stop using RW to go back to things like that?
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It's unusable at the table as it runs too slowly on my laptop. It literally takes minutes to open or switch to a new tab. I can't sync my realm because of a bug that's been reported a year ago, so I can't just export/import the relevant information into a new Realm.

Basically, I use the export tool from Farling to see my notes at the table in html format. I share images and maps with native Windows tools to a large TV screen instead of using RW.

Right now, I only use RW as a repository of information and for reference at my desktop. The linking is great for me in my large world. However, once we finish our campaign and move on, I doubt I'll use RW anymore.

EDIT: I don't use HL since it doesn't support my game system.
 
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I didn't watch those streams from the other companies and I think that those P/R channels are not the best way to build up trust or feed the community with updates. Much better to have regular updates with a nice changelog. That's all I would like to see.

I really like those prison architect updates from Introversion. Check those out - even if you don't own the game. :D
And they deliver an update whenever there is a new update to the game...
 
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