Luddite Lost

[morsla]

I've been slowly starting work on the things that have been on my "to do" list for ages. Most of them were swept aside by the uni year, but now I finally have some time on my hands...

aeliel and I have started work on our Exalted campaign. It's a long way off at the moment, but the basic structure is in place. It's a wiki project, using RPG.net's MediaWiki. At the moment, it's made up of empty pages and super-brief summaries of the pantheon. The next major stage is fleshing out the myths and legends, to give the players (taking the role of champions of the gods) something to sink their teeth into. I've also written up the basic rules for using divine favour in the game. It's essentially a source of conflict to drive story opportunities, bribing the players with bonus dice if they try to win favour - and adding a pool of dice to use against them when they invoke godly ire.

Once people start creating characters, they can add any bits of background description - allies, enemies, artifacts, locations, manses, hearthstones, etc - to the wiki. Backgrounds don't exist in isolation. They're a direct means by which the players build some of the game world, and can be woven into other players' histories as well.

I also (finally) got around to setting up my own webspace via Siteground. I spent today installing Gallery2 and the Carbon theme, and started the process of transferring my Pbase content across to it. I really need to re-take a lot of my photos... especially as I'm assembling an online folio of painting and sculpting work. Fortunately, I know a lot more about Photoshop than I did a couple of months ago. As with the Wiki, the site is still at that early stage where I'm mainly setting up folders for everything to go into.

I really like Pbase, and have been happily paying for my photo gallery there for a few years now. I've left links to the gallery on many different forums, but I think I still get plenty of traffic from random Pbase viewers... at the moment, the site (mainly landscape photos and painting) has had 105,000 page views. Running my own gallery will cost roughly double the Pbase fees, but it includes essentially limitless storage space for photos and web pages (from my perspective) and lets me fumble my way through all the projects I've been curious about. It's been about six years since I made a website, so I'm basically learning everything from scratch.

Now I just have to figure out how to make a site that vaguely resembles the gallery... I haven't even put up an index page yet, as the gallery is my only content so far... if you're interested in seeing the bare bones, you can find them at http://www.morsla.net/gallery

I'm working at Synergy for the next couple of days, so I'll hopefully put Friday into taking some more photos for the site. After that, I should get stuck in to the next batch of sculpting commission work. If I want to be out of town for virtually all of January, I'll need to get Ian's Arcanacon models finished over the next few weeks.

Comments

[kashiichan.livejournal.com]

Nice. Good luck!

Siteground looks awesome. As soon as I get the money together I think I'll be getting a site there.

[morsla.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

If you're likely to set up a site before the end of January, I can email you a gift voucher for a $20USD discount on the startup costs (for a 1 or 2 year plan).

Let me know if you want one... it makes a one year plan come to about $52 (at $5.95 per month, less the discount). I think they're valid until Jan 31.

[kashiichan.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. I was actually planning to get one by then; I'd really appreciate it. kashiichan@gmail.com

How come you have gift vouchers?

[morsla.livejournal.com]

Done :)

There's a christmas promotion running at the moment... five gift vouchers per account. Reading through the terms and conditions, they can be sent up until January 10th, and are valid until the 31st.

Merry (early) Christmas :)

[kashiichan.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! :D