Okay, side note:
Last Thursday, a friend at work directed me to
this site. I wish I'd known about it before

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Anyway, I'm considering moving off Tripod because of the troubles it has given me, and moving to RPOL. This would provide the following major advantages:
1. Have the rules and round-by-round action all on the same site. The maps would still remain on mine and Number47's websites. We would still talk smack here or there, whichever y'all seem to prefer

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2. Have character sheets online, but still visible only to the player and to me. Character sheets can be editted on the fly, and multiple versions kept.
3. Players could make their own rolls (with "GM-eyes only" check box checked) for their planned actions. The dice roller is very nice, very flexible.
4. A private message on the RPOL system acts as a thread for the GM and player only. No e-mails required, and it archives just like the threads do. Action e-mails and private e-mails back would be replaced with PM-threads.
The major downside would be that I can't figure out how to access dice rolls that happened in the distant past. Currently, I have a record of every roll ever - I'd like to keep that record, and I'm not sure RPOL can do it (although I could probably cut and paste, but that looks like a high maintenance activity, so I'm disinclined to like it).
-seasong