Reviews: Missing products?

[The It's Man]

Krug, Morrus said

Now, first things first - NEVER USE APOSTOPHES. I know it sounds silly, but the system doesn't like them. Just miss them out - "doesnt" instead of "doesn't". You'll find the worst bit is if you copy/paste info from somewhere. What I do is paste it into Notepad first and do a find/replace to remove all the apostrophes, because you're always bound to miss one.

I see a lot of apostrophes in the text, maybe that had something to do with it.

 

[Furn_Darkside]

Salutations,

I will not have a chance to go through everything until later today, but I was able to update some of the www addies.

Things look ok so far.

FD

 

[Furn_Darkside]

Krug, Morrus said

I see a lot of apostrophes in the text, maybe that had something to do with it.

Hmm, yeah, it looks like the apost from there's might be causing a problem. It looks like the program uses the apostrophes to determine where the messages begin and end.

Just a guess.

FD

 

[Krug]

Hmm, yeah, it looks like the apost from there's might be causing a problem. It looks like the program uses the apostrophes to determine where the messages begin and end.

Just a guess.

FD

Ok will try again later...
Whoever put in the stuff for Malhavoc and Mongoose.. thanks!

 

[Furn_Darkside]

I suggest you look around for a bit, and then post back here. If you have any quesitons, let me know. If in doubt, it's better to ask first in case you break something!

This may be a silly question, but when adding products- is it left to our better judgement under what product line it falls under?

I ask because I notice some of the entries have pretty well defined product lines, but others are not as clear.

For example-

Fantasy Flight Games has a new campeign book for CoC d20 coming out: Nocturnum d20

FFG's has three product lines on the review site:
*D20 System Rulebooks
*Dragonstar
*Miscellaneous (Which contains their pamphlet adventures)

I intend to write them to see if this is a stand alone product (which it looks like it is).

I hesitate to put in in the Misc line due to it being lost in with other products of that line, but it is not quite a rule book.

I swear I won't be this annoying about adding future products.
I just want to be clear on how much freedom to take on these kind of decisions- I don't want to accidently cause any angry emails from d20 companies. haha.

FD

edit: fixed some bad spelling

 

[Furn_Darkside]

Ok will try again later...

Another thing you may want to be careful with is cut&paste from word processers- I was reading the FAQ and it said that was known to cause problems as well.

FD

 

[Morrus]

This may be a silly question, but when adding products- is it left to our better judgement under what product line it falls under?

I ask because I notice some of the entries have pretty well defined product lines, but others are not as clear.

For example-

Fantasy Flight Games has a new campeign book for CoC d20 coming out: Nocturnum d20

FFG's has three product lines on the review site:
*D20 System Rulebooks
*Dragonstar
*Miscellaneous (Which contains their pamphlet adventures)

Yep, just use your best judgement. Don't create a product line unless you think there's going to be a line there; otherwise do whatever seems right. Feel free to "invent" product lines if there are clear divisions of product type, even if the company doesn't do that.

I don't want to accidently cause any angry emails from d20 companies. haha.

Just worry about the visitors - it's designed for them, not for the companies. In general- do what's necessary to make it clear, even if that means ignoring a company's system of product lines etc.

 

[Morrus]

Well I'm not having much luck. Keep getting errors when I did Frost and Fur for Monkey God Enterprises. When I tried to edit the text it barfed:


Update d20 Set [Short]='BRRRRRR! Everyone knows the arctic can be an unforgiving terrain. But there's much more to the wintry land than cold damage and snowstorms. In Frost & Fur, players and Game Masters alike will find a wealth of information about what the arctic has to offer...and how to survive it. Inside you will find new rules for environmental hazards, survival equipment, and the effects of cold on skills and spells. Discover a variety of cultures, both magical and mundane, and the prestige classes, races, creatures, and spells that are an integral part of their mythology. Frost & Fur: the cure for the common cold! ' WHERE [Abbr] LIKE 'monkfnf'

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14'

[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Syntax error (missing operator) in query expression ''BRRRRRR! Everyone knows the arctic can be an unforgiving terrain. But there's much more to the wintry land than cold damage and snowstorms. In Frost & Fur'.

/newedit.asp, line 172

Ouch.

The short field has a max character length - it's designed for a brief sentence or so to appear on each company's "summary" page.

 

[Krug]

Ok I'm overwhelmed by the Ms. There's Monkey God, Mystic Eye, Mongoose and Malhavoc... Ouch.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Are you saying that you want AEG? How about... Affinity, Ambient, Anubium, Auran, Avalanche, Bad Axe, Bards, Bastion, Chainmail, Citizen Games, Dark Nebulae, Dark Quest Trading? Oh wait, that's not too many... now if only I could get rid of AEG...