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Tuesday, May 25, 2004

We did it!

Okay, I'm not sure the sheer joy of this will be understood by those of you who haven't seen the books...but...

Roleplaying books are issued in installments, usually as either resources or advanture collections/campaigns. They are sometimes indexed, sometimes not, which can present a problem when you go to look something up.

Our Cthulhu game incorporates elements from White Wolf publishing's Werewolf series for part of the magic system. There are many, many Werewolf books, most of which are owned by our gamemaster, but still, it can be a little difficult to find a particular gift or rite.

So...over the last few months I have been (as part of my weekly bribe to keep my characters alive) typing in information from the Werewolf books into a series of hyperlinked Word files for easy searching/cross-reference. We started with the basic books, and then on to all the tribe books, with certain changes to meet our game's needs. We now have finished all of these, as of last night. Hoody-hoo! That leaves only the Asian and other shapechanging tribes, and a few scattered ones through the minor books. But all gifts, talismans, rites, and deities are in the computer otherwise. By the end, it'll span dozens of books. Of course, since it's all copyrighted, we can't post it for others, but for our own use it'll really help, and it's already worth it, because we can cut and paste for each character or check off things as we get them. Yay! I ought to do a word count so those of you not familiar with the books have some idea of how much work it is.

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