In message <199808221526.PAA22109_at_chaosium.com>, Dave Black <owner-
glorantha-digest_at_chaosium.com> writes
>I'm hoping that you can spare a minute to fill out the following
>questionnaire which I hope to use in order to assess the viability of an
>idea I've had. This idea is to collect together an 'encyclopedia' of all
>things Gloranthan. I plan to create this as a database (first in ClarisWorks
>and then Microsoft Works with others to follow if demand warrants). Even
>though the primary focus is on creating the database and distributing it to
>subscribers the idea will also be able to support 'hard copy' distribution.
>I would like to phase the actual database construction in over a period of 9
>months or so as follows:
>
why Claris or microsoft works, to be viable it would need to be fully
relational, with bells and whistles.
>
>- - "Basic Pack" Intro to Glorantha/Glorantha/Gods of Glorantha/Elder
>Secrets/Bestiary
>- - Player's Book: Genertela/Genertela Book/The Missing lands
>- - Prax & the Zola Fel Valley
>- - Enclosure 1/Enclosure 2
>- - King of Sartar/Apple Lane
>- - Glorious Re-ascent of Yelm/Fortunate Succession/Entokosiad/Dorastar
>- - Dieux Nomades/Dragon Pass/Tarsh Wars
>- - Questlines/Wyrm's Footprints/RQCon Compendium
>- Tales of the Reaching Moon/Codex/Trade Talk/Gloranthan Weekly
i think the owners of this material may want words with you if you do
not have their full permissions first...........
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why only 100 words............why not up to 1000 words or 10,000 words?
in theory a nice idea..............
if issaries sanctioned/commissioned it, then maybe. but be warned you
could tread on a lot of toes without permissions, if you charge people
for it, I think your user base would be very small IMO.
Of course if Issaries did commission one I am a skilled Access/SQL
programmer, and reasonable at web site design............
You have the standard problem that a database is hard toi skim through
and not good to read, and a hard copy is difficult to update properly,
you end up with multiple booklets again. I think the best way of
offering it would be as HTML and Hyperlinked for easy navigation.
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stephan milam