[DL] Website stuff

["Ronald Conner" <marshalron@hotmail.com>]

Here is what I think is the major part of the website woes we've had lately.

Updates are weekly.  Now I know this is an ok thing to do, perhaps I've been 
spoiled, Sjgames.com gets updated every day at midnight, not 12:01 AT 
midnight.  Everyday, sometimes twice.

Now Steve Jackson may have a bit more time to spend online, he publishes a 
magazine online, 2 in fact.  Which are sorely lacking in any real deadlands 
content.  But PEG could at least work on getting a few of the other portions 
of the webpage up.

Particularly....Submissions.

Now i'm not talking artwork/epitath/book level submissions.  I mean 
adventure nuggets, rule sets, things you could find on other sites but with 
the quality assurance you can expect from a game company.  Now I know that 
pinnicle doesn't get any money from their web site.  (asside from the store) 
and that it is really just a showcase for their products but the minimal 
ammount of things that are already there cry out to their brothers and 
sisters on my hard drive for a place in the sun.

Links to other pages are nice.
PDF copies of the character sheet are good.
The best thing I've ever gotten off the net would have to be the design 
quirks rules from the library.  Of all the things I've seen this one levels 
the playing field for mad scientists better than anything else I've tried.

So here's what I'd like to see.

Make webmaster a more full time job.  If somebody does it for free then 
Let's get some other people to volenteer to help out.  Filtering 
submissions, sorting rules and formatting for HTML is not that hard.  I've 
already been working on my lawyer rules.

(which I hope to get back some good input from our nice little playtest 
group here)  And I would like to see them in the library someday.  Alongside 
the greater manitous, the wildman rules, and anything else that is just cool 
enough to add more flavor to the game.

Ronald Conner
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