Nest of Thorns

I got a working administrative toolset developed for the Vancian Spell db and have been working on content for the last couple of days.

I uploaded about a hundred new spells from Shadowcat1313 that were interesting; he sent me many more than that and they were good, but I filtered out the ones that were functional repeats to Spells already in the database -- after some thought I've decided that I don't want to present the same effect multiple times with just a different name and ...

OK, I started working on the overhaul of the Vancian (D&D conversion) Spells content over Thanksgiving weekend. Had a few false starts that proved to be impractical, and have settled on this for now:

http://www.killershrike.com/FantasyH...pellsList.aspx

This is a rough prototype, but it functions well enough for a preview. There are a couple of features that have been lost in the translation that I have to think ...

So this weekend I took some time to do something ive had on my todo list but been putting off for a long time now...I pulled the database that contains the ~2000 Spells for the D&D Conversion / Vancian Magic System presented on my site out of Access and into SQL 2005, and normalized it.

The next step is to put together a new interface for the Spells page in .NET vs the ASP classic front end it currently has. After that I need to go thru and update a number of the spells that ...

Kind of wondering how a HERO blog would be better than just using the Discussion Boards...