Picture improving...
I stayed up until 11:15 last night. But for once, I actually feel good about it. Why? Because I finally updated my RuneQuest site for the first time in many months.
Part of it was relatively routine stuff. But the RuneQuest scene has been heating up lately. Chaosium has published some monographs (essentially printed PDFs) which are apparently the RQ3 rules with the name "RuneQuest" taken out. Word is that these are placeholders (they're actually all sold out right now), and that they plan to release a deluxe edition - an "Advanced" Basic Role-Playing - which will include the RQ3 rule system with additional rules taken from other BRP games, such as Ringworld. If this is true, they'll be turning RQ into a true multi-genre system, which is something I recommended many years ago.
Will they go further, and make it open license or something like it? I don't know. d20 may have that market locked up. But we'll see.
If Chaosium succeeds in making RQ a viable commercial entity again (even under a different name), of course my site will support it.
Another reason I worked on my site: I've been getting emails from people with RQ sites, some sending me materials to post. Nice to know that the site still gets some attention.
The one thing that sucked about the updating was that I was still unable to FTP. And I didn't even have the latest files on my system. So I had to:
Tedious.
Ironically, this morning I got a message from the FuitadNET help desk suggesting a fix for the FTP problem - which worked! Go figure.
Anyway, it felt good to work on something again.
Part of it was relatively routine stuff. But the RuneQuest scene has been heating up lately. Chaosium has published some monographs (essentially printed PDFs) which are apparently the RQ3 rules with the name "RuneQuest" taken out. Word is that these are placeholders (they're actually all sold out right now), and that they plan to release a deluxe edition - an "Advanced" Basic Role-Playing - which will include the RQ3 rule system with additional rules taken from other BRP games, such as Ringworld. If this is true, they'll be turning RQ into a true multi-genre system, which is something I recommended many years ago.
Will they go further, and make it open license or something like it? I don't know. d20 may have that market locked up. But we'll see.
If Chaosium succeeds in making RQ a viable commercial entity again (even under a different name), of course my site will support it.
Another reason I worked on my site: I've been getting emails from people with RQ sites, some sending me materials to post. Nice to know that the site still gets some attention.
The one thing that sucked about the updating was that I was still unable to FTP. And I didn't even have the latest files on my system. So I had to:
- open the site in my browser
- view and save the source HTML for each page I wanted to edit
- edit each file
- use the File Manager utility of CPanel to put them back up - which meant uploading them one at a time to a temporary folder, then moving them into the public html folder.
Tedious.
Ironically, this morning I got a message from the FuitadNET help desk suggesting a fix for the FTP problem - which worked! Go figure.
Anyway, it felt good to work on something again.