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Here you'll find blog entries describing recent changes to the Wiki. This will serve to inform you of major changes, while minor changes will likely go without comment.
This is the place where I will comment on major design choices in building and rebuilding the wiki, as well as any major changes in game mechanics. I will also try to comment on any and all updates to GCS files.
Small Rules Tweaks
I just made a few small fixes to the pages linked from the Rules page.
Mostly this was to correct a few mistakes left-over from my conversion script that brought the pages into my DokuWiki installation, because at the time, I didn't have a way to right justify anything. Thanks to the Wrap Plugin, I do now.
Replaced Italics Page Notes
I've just finished replacing the notes on various pages that were in italics with Dokuwiki's wrap plugin syntax for boxes.
This puts a lot of emphasis on those old notes, many of which were quite important and also likely being ignored by almost everyone.
It also makes the wiki more colorful.
The only page that I now suspect is too colorful is the Spell Sandbox. I suppose I can probably live with this, since all those notes are important. There's just a lot of them, all in series.
I also went to the trouble of marking (hopefully) all of the GM Eyes Only pages as such with “alert” note boxes (the red boxes with a red x icon).
Along the way I fixed the order of many notes, placing them above the first header. The custom Java program I wrote to convert pages from Wikispaces syntax to Dokuwiki syntax put the page name headers above the notes, because it wasn't intelligent enough to distinguish them from the other text.
I also fixed some strange little errors introduced by the same program that had no effect on how pages displayed, but made the raw pages look sloppy.
Many Golem Changes
I've made a number of changes to golems on various pages and in various files. Most things should be the same, but there are some subtle differences.
Here's a list of some of the changes I can remember:
- Construction options are now available on the spell page
- These are things you can add to a golem to change how it works
- Chain Golem was made a construction option
- Built a lantern golem and added it as a magic item, including in the Main Library
- Added a magic item for replacement limb golems
- There are now a few different categories of golems in the tables
- Solid, Hollow, Particulate and Other
Modified Main Library Spell Format
I failed to mention earlier that I've altered the format of spells in the main library file. They no longer list their rarity and point total in their notes. In the end, I decided that neither was particularly important and replaced the notes on each entry with the number of pages the spell occupies; something that's actually useful
These are the reasons:
- The rarity is a category on the spell's equipment entry.
- The point total became irrelevant information when I introduced spells with multiple levels.
- I'm now using an external program to process the spell pages and automatically build the spell entries.
- This gave me the opportunity to screen scrape the spell's page for point total and calculate the number of pages the spell occupies.
- I never bothered to do this before because I was manually maintaining this library file and didn't want to spend that much time on each entry.
I hope that you find these changes helpful and useful.
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