Creature Catalog Issues

[Cleon]

Since the latest Enworld revision the Creature Catalog Forums have been displaced to become sub-forums of the Pathfinder & Starfinder forum from the Dungeons & Dragons forum where they belong.

Also, every thread in Monster Homebrews and Homebrews Graveyard has vanished and the Creature Catalogue Website link is broken - it still points to the old location of https://www.enworld.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?197-Creature-Catalogue-Website, not the current Creature Catalog Monster Index.

Well at least General Monster Talk is still working!

 

[Morrus]

It hasn't moved. The name of the parent forum was simply changed from Pathfinder, Older Editions, & Variants to Pathfinder & Starfinder -- quite a while ago!

 

[Cleon]

It hasn't moved. The name of the parent forum was simply changed from Pathfinder, Older Editions, & Variants to Pathfinder & Starfinder -- quite a while ago!

Well the Creature Catalog are still D&D 3/3.5 conversions, so does it really belong in a Pathfinder parent forum?

Wouldn't it make better sense as a sub-forum of the Dungeons & Dragons forum, who's self-declared role is to "Discuss all topics about D&D including D&D rules and products and history, or post your own creations for others to share".

 

[Morrus]

Sure.

We’re busy with the software upgrade, and there will be lots of changes in the next few weeks.

 

[Cleon]

Sure.

We’re busy with the software upgrade, and there will be lots of changes in the next few weeks.

Thanks.

There's no hurry. I'm sure the upgrade has a lot of higher priority things to get sorted out.

Hopefully when everything's running smoothly the threads that have gone AWOL from some of the CC's subfora will reappear. Or at least the important ones. It'd be a pain for someone at Admin to restore them manually.

 

[Cleon]

Well the good news is that the Creature Catalog Forums have their own entry in Hosted Forums now, which makes sense.

Any idea when the "updated and revised version" of the Creature Catalog files themselves will reappear? There's currently nothing in https://www.enworld.org/creaturecatalog - no Index or any of the Monsters from Aartuk to Zygraat.

I just get "Oops! We ran into some problems."

Presumably that'll happen quite often until you get the upgrade sorted out.

 

[Morrus]

That’s a link to your desktop.

 

[darjr]

Taking a look.

 

[freyar]

Another issue. Many of the Creature Catalog forum threads (General Monster Talk subforum) seem to have been displaced to other forums in the software upgrade. Maybe this happened to the threads from the other subforums before the switchover also.

If we track down some of these threads, how do you want us to notify you to move them back? Use the post report function?

 

[Cleon]

That’s a link to your desktop.

Oops!

The Aartuk was the https://www.enworld.org/creaturecatalog/Conversions/Aartuk.htm version but the other two where my local version.

Just corrected the Index and Zygraat links.

 

[Cleon]

Another issue. Many of the Creature Catalog forum threads (General Monster Talk subforum) seem to have been displaced to other forums in the software upgrade. Maybe this happened to the threads from the other subforums before the switchover also.

If we track down some of these threads, how do you want us to notify you to move them back? Use the post report function?

Yes, I'd like to know the answer to that too.

 

[Cleon]

Okay, I've checked my records and of the recent activity we are missing:

D&D 3E/3.5 - Kraken Variants

According to my Conversion To-Do List thread's note on Kraken Variants, we have to following to work on: Secondly, I spent a large chunk of Sunday comparing the various Kraken and Giant Squid entries, and we are missing four variant Krakens: In original OD&D, the Kraken is the monster in...

www.enworld.org

D&D General - Killer klowns from outer space?

How would you fine people create the killer klowns from outer space? All that I really remember from the movie is that they have a verity of shapes & technology & that the only weak point is their big red nose, which when pop instantly kills them in a shower of confetti! 1 of their weapons was a...

www.enworld.org

I'm happy leaving the Killer Klowns thread where it is but we'd like our Krakens back please.

There's also a a whole bunch of threads from before the big Enworld crash of 2016 that got displaced to the general RPG and D&D threads, but unfortunately I don't have a record of what those all were.

Freyar and I were able to remember the main conversion threads but a nearly all of the lesser General Monster Talk threads are still AWOL from 2016.

Plus the Monster Homebrews and Homebrews Graveyard Forums are empty and the Creature Catalogue Website files are missing.

 

[loky1109]

If somebody need some creature from Creature Catalogue quickly, I have download version. But I AFK until sunday.

 

[freyar]

Cleon and I also have all the posted critters if someone needs them. The big issue for us is finding the old CC threads as much as possible.

 

[darjr]

While the old site is still up you can go to

https://old.enworld.org/creaturecatalog/Conversions/Aartuk.htm

Note you’ll need to accept the security warning since the key is for www and not old

 

[Cleon]

Found some more threads that have gone AWOL - the 3.5 Converting Prehistoric Creatures and and its locked Converting prehistoric creatures predecessor.

The 3.5 thread has a creature that's mid-conversion so we'd appreciate its return to the Creature Catalog.

 

[Cleon]

I've started a Displaced Creature Catalog Threads in General Monster Talk to keep track of the threads we know have gone AWOL.

 

[freyar]

Bumping to ask a mod to please move these two active threads to the Creature Catalog General Monster Talk forum if anyone has time:
Converting Prehistoric Creatures
Kraken Variants

Thanks much! There are many others displaced, but these are ones we could use moved soon.

 

[Cleon]

Well I've just fixed the "Master Index" of the un-uploaded Creature Catalog conversions in Creatures Awaiting Upload & Current Conversions.

There were literally hundreds of broken hyperlinks in it.

 

[grayhoss]

Could we get the website posted on the new forum so we can continue to access it? Failing that does anyone have the files or entries from the old site? ( I appreciate the .zip I recieved from loky, but he mentioned they were incomplete.) Cleon and freyar, could you please post your copies? or send them my way?