Archive for May, 2006

Always something more

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

It never fails to suprise me, I think my list of ICE RPG products is complete, then I come across something I was completely unaware of. In this case, it’s another version of the RM2 Combat screens, same product number as the one on my list but a different color. Just got it from an ebay auction (two copies in fact, from two seperate auctions). I’ll have to get it up on the list as soon as I do a comparison to the one I already have to see which was published first and what the differences between them are.
Here’s the picture from one of the auctions:

RM2 1001 Combat Screen

Which now also leaves me with extra copies of Robin Hood and the Oriental Companion. I think they are in better shape than the ones I currently have, so I’ll trade up :)

ToDo List - HARP Products

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

Need to add in a page for the HARP PlaceHolder, and the Bazaar Annual as well as listing the individual Bazaars as pdf only products.
Also need to put in the cover text for about half of the products. Also need to add the HARP products to the master spreadsheet of ICE Products (send updated copy to Monica for the ICE Site). The spreadsheet is not currently posted on this site.

Site Updates

Friday, May 26th, 2006

Updated the Articles and Indexes page. Most of the links had broken when it was moved to be a WordPress page. Those should now be fixed. Also uploaded fresh copies of the Attack Table Index and the Critical Table Index pdf’s as the copies on the server had gotten corrupted at some point.
Also fixed up the display of the two tables for the larger articles and the spacing in the text on the page.

Featured Site: Nomikos Library

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

Todays featured site is the Nomikos Library, an excellent resource for anyone that plays in the Shadow World setting

To use the library you must register at the site and be logged in and in order to register you must show proof of ownership of one of the 4 editions of the Shadow World Master Atlas. Nomikos is intended for Shadow World Gamemasters.

Nomikos Library is a not only a searchable Master Timeline for Shadow World, it is also a central repository of scholarly writings and notes from any fragment of Shadow World. You can sort by region or group and search by keyword but in the near future many more options for searching and sorting will be available.

Site Updates

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Uploaded an updated spreadsheet for ShadowWorld Characters
Also moved several pages from being static pages to being Wordpress pages, which will allow comments to be entered on them. Links to the original pages will still pull up the original pages, but following the menus will pull up the new pages.

Possible site Outage Friday Night/ Saturday Morning

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

There is a possibility that the ICE WebRing will be down late Friday night / early Saturday Morning May 19th and 20th as my ISP will be doing some maintenance on the server at that time.

New Rolemaster Screens Now Available

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Rolemaster Screens
ICE has recently released the first in a planned series of Gamemaster Screens for their products. This is the Rolemaster Screens and they are available at: The ICE Store

Headers and Menus

Friday, May 12th, 2006

I’ve updated the Headers and Menus on the static pages so that it looks consistent (almost) with the Header and Menus on the Wordpress pages, actually managed to get it to pull in the Wordpress menu on the non-Wordpress pages, although the column width shrinks a little and the spacing between lines of text gets bigger on the non-Wordpress pages. At least thats what it does in Explorer.
In Firefox, it seems to shrink everything instead

Shadow World Character Sheets

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

I’ve gone back and started doing some more work with the Shadow World Character spreadsheet and have discovered a few glitches with it. Picking certain combinations of races and backgrounds seems to give the skills calculations indigestion. I think I’ve got the majority of the problems figured out, but I’m going to hold off on posting an updated Master Sheet until I finish working with it and am pretty confident that I’ve got everything working okay.
Also, I won’t be going back and redoing the individual characters that are already posted, they should be fine the way they are.

Site Updates

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

Added my standard footer text to the WordPress pages, but it seemed to cause some odd screen display problems so I’ve pulled it out again
Added the Header and Menu text to the “Joining the ICE Webring” page (and renamed the link). A handy trick I picked up somewhere, to get a link to show at the top of the list, put a space in front of it when setting it up. It won’t actually display with the space, but it sorts it to the top of the list.