[ddo] FW: Hello

[Joe Vaughan]

Leigh Murphy wrote:
> So Is Dalt back and ready to rock?
> We all set for Tuesday evening guys or when suits people?
> Joe has done a lovely job on www.angrydragons.com 
> <http://www.angrydragons.com> and from an RP point of view I reckon we 
> should start thinking a bit about our backgrounds and stories to tell. 
> The whole idea is this is DND afterall. If we are all set for Tuesday, 
> we should be able to get the waterworks cleared. Dalton will need the 
> first quest. mutter mutter high spot skill my ass, traps galore.
> Looking forward to it, Leigh
Ah damn you... I was gonna slip that in quietly :)

We now have: http://www.angrydragons.com set up (with lots of graphical 
help from Bren).

The idea behind it is this: Instead of your normal guild website with 
forums blah blah etc, I wanted some sort of "creative" RP outlet - for 
me at least, what you guys want to do is up to you. I hope you'll 
consider adding your unique talents to the mix. What I've created is a 
"blog" for our characters (and group), the idea being that it's the 
character, not the player, who is blogging their journals etc.

It is "open registration" at the moment and will remain so unless there 
is a need to close it. Again, the idea is that the Angry Dragons 
register as themselves (there is a Wynn and Annabelle already), and not 
only that, but they RP always in character... e.g. if you post an entry 
and someone comments, then you respond in character.

Even though Leigh's character is a cutesy little halfling in game, I 
honestly can't RP when I'm hearing "Hoorin be-yotch" over the VC... so 
this, for me, is an alternative way to RP.

If you want an account, then just register as your character... Let me 
know and I will give your character "Author" rights so thereafter you 
should be able to post new entries.

To create your account etc, there is a little "login" icon in the top 
left corner of the page... click on it :> When you are logged in you get 
a second icon called "Site Admin" this brings you into the "posting etc" 
interface for writing content etc.

There are only 2 categories at present, Journals and Biographies - Feel 
free to suggest more. If you place a post in biographies with your 
character's first name as the title, then it is automatically included 
in the list at the foot of all pages. It would be good if we could do 
this for all of our AD characters.

Also, if you place a brief self-description in the "Description" field 
of your profile, that will be shown whenever anyone hovers their mouse 
over your name in a post.

Finally, the dates, as you will notice are not "right"... I've written a 
little plugin for wordpress (the blog software) which converts the dates 
to the Ebberon calendar. Now.. you *will* get purists who will whine 
that all months in the Ebberon calendar are 28 days long, so the 29th of 
XXX is wrong, but fuck that. I'm not about to create some way of mapping 
a 336 day year to a 365+1/4 day one. Life's too short. We'll live with 
the inconsistency (at worst, we can alway change posting dates so that 
there is never any 29-31 dates showing up)

Wordpress itself is a little confusing and daunting at first but the 
only functionality you really need is just to write new posts. If you 
guys want, we can take a 1/2 hour one evening for me to show you how (if 
you're running into difficulties on your own).

Joe
aka wynn at angrydragons.com ;>