Subject: MYSTARA-L Digest - 8 Jun 2008 to 18 Jun 2008 (#2008-37) From: MYSTARA-L automatic digest system Date: 19/06/2008, 17:00 To: MYSTARA-L@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM Reply-to: Mystara RPG Discussion There are 4 messages totalling 169 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Spice Road (4) ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:53:25 -0700 From: Chris Cherrington Subject: Spice Road It's been a long time, but i have decided to re-open my Spice Road campaign= . Only problem is, I don't have any of my books! (long story, I still own= them, but they are in Florida and I am in North Carolina) The good news is because we have places like the Vaults of Pandius, I may n= ot need them. I can still use a trade map of Darokin and if there are any = others out there, send them my way, please. =20 What will be different this time, is it will all be automatic, thanks to my= new found knowledge of PHP (or actually what I am learning of PHP, I don't= know anything really). So, any help here would be nice to. Has anyone el= se here used the web to make a text based RPG? Well, when I have better in= fo, I will share (I mean I will need players after all). Yours in service, Chris _________________________________________________________________ The i=92m Talkathon starts 6/24/08.=A0 For now, give amongst yourselves. http://www.imtalkathon.com?source=3DTXT_EML_WLH_LearnMore_GiveAmongst= ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:19:26 -0400 From: John Hofmann Subject: Re: Spice Road Not sure where you're going here with PHP. What will be automatic? Are you saying that you want to program a D&D campaign in PHP? That's a pretty big task. On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Chris Cherrington wrote: > It's been a long time, but i have decided to re-open my Spice Road > campaign. Only problem is, I don't have any of my books! (long story, I > still own them, but they are in Florida and I am in North Carolina) > The good news is because we have places like the Vaults of Pandius, I may > not need them. I can still use a trade map of Darokin and if there are any > others out there, send them my way, please. > What will be different this time, is it will all be automatic, thanks to my > new found knowledge of PHP (or actually what I am learning of PHP, I don't > know anything really). So, any help here would be nice to. Has anyone else > here used the web to make a text based RPG? Well, when I have better info, > I will share (I mean I will need players after all). > Yours in service, > Chris > > _________________________________________________________________ > The i'm Talkathon starts 6/24/08. For now, give amongst yourselves. > http://www.imtalkathon.com?source=TXT_EML_WLH_LearnMore_GiveAmongst > ******************************************************************** > The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp > The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com > To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM > with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. > ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:34:23 -0700 From: Chris Cherrington Subject: Re: Spice Road > =20 > Not sure where you're going here with PHP. What will be automatic? > =20 > Are you saying that you want to program a D&D campaign in PHP? That's a > pretty big task. > =20 The original campaign was a trading game based in the known World of Mystar= a. It was my first attempt to play a PBEM based on the Darokin Merchant Cl= ass. I had set up a huge database to help me make and build merchant trans= actions. Only thing was I would get an email, plug in the numbers, and cop= y/ paste the results and email them back. It was tedious and my wife said = I was spending to much time for a game. I have seen some other text based = RPG's done in PHP and it just got me thinking... I could build my database = in PHP and then I would just sit back and watch everyone else build their m= arkets. That is the idea, I am learning as I go, and possibly I need to le= arn other things as well in the process. =20 _________________________________________________________________ The other season of giving begins 6/24/08. Check out the i=92m Talkathon. http://www.imtalkathon.com?source=3DTXT_EML_WLH_SeasonOfGiving= ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:38:26 -0400 From: John Hofmann Subject: Re: Spice Road I typically use industrial-strength web development tools, like .NET and SQL Server (since I do this kind of thing professionally), but my recommendation would be PHP with a MySQL database if you're intent on learning PHP. You're probably going to want some kind of queryable database driving everything. If that's not your style, PHP should work okay but you're going to wind up with some really ugly code trying to get it all into the pages. On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Chris Cherrington wrote: > > > > Not sure where you're going here with PHP. What will be automatic? > > > > Are you saying that you want to program a D&D campaign in PHP? That's a > > pretty big task. > > > The original campaign was a trading game based in the known World of > Mystara. It was my first attempt to play a PBEM based on the Darokin > Merchant Class. I had set up a huge database to help me make and build > merchant transactions. Only thing was I would get an email, plug in the > numbers, and copy/ paste the results and email them back. It was tedious > and my wife said I was spending to much time for a game. I have seen some > other text based RPG's done in PHP and it just got me thinking... I could > build my database in PHP and then I would just sit back and watch everyone > else build their markets. That is the idea, I am learning as I go, and > possibly I need to learn other things as well in the process. > > _________________________________________________________________ > The other season of giving begins 6/24/08. Check out the i'm Talkathon. > http://www.imtalkathon.com?source=TXT_EML_WLH_SeasonOfGiving > ******************************************************************** > The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp > The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com > To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM > with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. > ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ------------------------------ End of MYSTARA-L Digest - 8 Jun 2008 to 18 Jun 2008 (#2008-37) **************************************************************