[SPAM] Re: [freeroleplay] RPG Basilicus Community Launched

[Mark Havenner]

Thanks for the feedback as always Ricardo,

>
> Hey Mark,
>
> On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 13:47 -0700, Mark Havenner wrote:
>> After careful deliberation on the perfect implementation, I am proud
>> to say that the RPG Basilicus community is launched and I am eager to
>> get the Free RPG community involved in it.
>
> Congrats on the new site, it looks great. Please check out the story I
> created on the FRPGC site:
>
> http://www.freeroleplay.org/node/87
>

It looks great! I haven't even spun the story in the web yet and I'm  
already noticing momentum around this.

>> Here's the best part--> With RPG Basilicus we can now play these
>> games with one another. It is set up as a social networking site. You
>> can create characters by creating profiles and start gaming campaigns
>> by creating communities. Games can be played as play by post with
>> blog/comment or forum systems or in chat (this component should be
>> launched shortly). You can create as many character profiles as you
>> want and even start an OOC profile so you can run your own RP blog/
>> community.
>
> I like the idea of creating profiles for your characters. I've been
> using Maptool to play on-line so something like this would be great to
> upload characters, session logs etc.
>

The Elgg format allows users to upload files and pics, create  
presentations and make them private among a community if wanted. I  
tested and tried tons of social networks and this thing's out of the  
box features were staggering. The only thing it is really missing is  
a functioning search engine (apart from tags), but I'm working on a  
solution for that.

I'm also in the process of installing a chatroom that should allow  
live roleplay as well. I've tampered with RPG-oriented ones but the  
code is generally shoddy or if it is in PHP the flash rate is really  
annoying. The one I'm working with is pretty slick but we'll still  
have to roll dice the old fashioned way.

>> Basilicus is also changing its process a bit to make it easier to use
>> and adapt. Instead of various projects it will be all one single
>> project and worlds/places can be added as needed.
>
> I'd love to get involved in Basilicus, do you have a TODO list of  
> things
> to get started on?
>

The best way to help out in Basilicus is to do one of the following:
1. Find "needed" links and write new articles (http:// 
basilicus.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Wantedpages)
2. Go to existing articles and edit or add to them
3. Add RPG rules to articles

Although the organization isn't entirely intuitive, we are working at  
making it better. The best thing to do is start poking around at the  
articles to get a feel for how it is done and then add your own star  
system, species, organization or civilization.

http://basilicus.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Basilicus_Prime

I generally read all of the recent changes daily: http:// 
basilicus.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Recentchanges

It'll be going through a few format changes this week so don't be  
alarmed.

Thanks again for the news on freeroleplay.
Mark

>


> Kind regards...
>
> -- 
> Ricardo Gladwell
> President, Free RPG Community
> http://www.freeroleplay.org/
> president at freeroleplay.org
>
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