[Rq-rules] Chaos Project reboot

[Peter Maranci]

I would hate for anyone to think I was spamming the list, so I'll try to be
brief: I've started the process of re-imagining my site's Chaos Project
thanks to the amazing technical skills of someone from this list; I should
have asked him if he minded being named before I started writing this, but
for now I guess I'd better not name him. Anyway, I badly need some advice
from knowledgeable RQ people. Where else to find them but here? :D

I'll probably take this off-list so as not to annoy anyone, but basically I
need feedback on ways to make the Project as useful as it can be for the
largest number of people possible. Here are the issues I'm looking at, to
start:

1. Found items. When you're looking at found items, what categories would be
most useful to you? For example, would it be helpful to be able to list only
items that could be found outdoors, or indoors? Would the ability to make a
random pick (perhaps restricted to various categories) be useful? Would it
be convenient to print large numbered lists of items, say a hundred at a
time?

2. NPCs. I've talked about doing this for years, but this reboot seems to be
the perfect time to implement it. What level of detail would be most useful
for you - full system-specific writeups, purely conceptual writeups (i.e.
"Bob the strong smith secretly likes flowers"), or some other type(s)? What
sort of selection criteria would you prefer for NPCs?

3. I'm not sure what sort of selection criteria could be applied to magic
items; perhaps "unique" vs. "common" or "rare". And perhaps it would be
useful to be able to restrict a list to a particular system. But as with
most of these other questions, I'm probably missing some good ideas.

4. The same questions apply to chaotic features, I'd guess.

5. Anything else?

My intention is to keep the Project freely viewable by anyone, but I'll
probably have to require (free) registration if you want to be able to add
your own entries - spammers are just too aggressive these days. But (just to
be clear) NO registration would be required to view or use the entries -
only to write new ones.

If you want to discuss this, please send me an email and I'll work up some
sort of group email address - unless no one objects to discussing the issue
here. But I suspect that the conversation may get a little too off-topic.

->Peter
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Peter Maranci - pmaranci at gmail.com
Pete's RuneQuest & Roleplaying! http://www.runequest.org/rq.htm
The Diary of An Invisible Man: http://bobquasit.livejournal.com/
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