faro wrote:Right little hive of positivity about the hobby in general we are tonight...
faro wrote:Tell you what. You pick four corrections to make to their site and I'll pick four for the Acaeum's listings and we'll see how many have been amended online within the week... fair enough?d.
JohnGaunt wrote:We're all little f*cking rays of sunshine. You should know that by now. It's just that RPG Geek does not appear to have been ready for launch. If the site is just a collection of generic information and errors . . . why bother with it? Other, better options are available --- The Acaeum, brenfro's TSR Archive, and the Tome of Treasures are three sites that come to mind.
JohnGaunt wrote:We're all little f*cking rays of sunshine. You should know that by now.
JohnGaunt wrote:It's just that RPG Geek does not appear to have been ready for launch.
JohnGaunt wrote:If the site is just a collection of generic information and errors . . . why bother with it? Other, better options are available --- The Acaeum, brenfro's TSR Archive, and the Tome of Treasures are three sites that come to mind.
Badmike wrote:I see your point David. But I'd counter with "I'll find TEN corrections to the RPG Geek site for every ONE you need to make here...." and I'd have a hundred more left over. The entries are mostly incorrect, and not in the ways Acaeum entries are incorrect.....I'm talking basic stuff not esoteric differences in editions.
Badmike wrote:Some of the corrections I made just drive-by edition: Adding DCS as artist to B1; correcting James Holloway's entry in the database (it was spelled James Halloway); Adding TSR to publisher for most of the Star Frontiers stuff; adding correct page count to about a dozen items; adding map or poster information to a few listings; correcting a few Gamma World entries (that area is a MESS); Changing a writer or two for a few products. and more...and that's just flitting around the site.A gripe is that there is no consistency to the categories of D&D items....basic items are listed as 1E, 1E items listed as 2E, 2E are listed as basic, a lot of stuff is listed as 3E, etc. I got the impression a lot of contributors weren't familiar with the cutoffs between editions and just threw everything in there to cover their ass.
Badmike wrote:I will say I think this could be a really good reference site in a few years, as long as contributors stay interested and keep correcting and updating. And, the correction process seems to be quick and easy (I haven't had an editior disallow a correction yet...wonder if you could sneak someting silly in there just for giggles?)Mike B.
jasonw1239 wrote:I read the Chaosium entry and most of it is lifted directly from the Chaosium web site.
grubbiv wrote:faro,Do you know how the bgg/geekdo site is implemented? Did they use a CMS product like Drupal, or is it all homegrown PHP?
Plaag wrote:Anyone been looking over this site since August. I just checked out the Judges Guild section, but not much there.ShaneG.
mbassoc2003 wrote:That sounds like a fairly honest and succinct review to me.It reflects most people's impressions and experiences of the site.It would be hard to expand on that review, and add honest opinion and detail, without using profanity and four letter words. The site is FOS, and I can only imagine that comes from it's owners and users.