Crawler Data

I've made the difficult decision that the current method of accessing user party and encounter data will not be coming back. My health has limited my productive 'extra hours', and the worries of maintaining a database of 3rd party data that needs to be up 24/7 is a bit too much at this point. I'll be making updates to the Crawler and site to revert to a simple copy/paste method of letting folks streamline their encounters.

I'm bummed because building the current system required many, many hours, and I'm sad to see it go. But reality bites. :)

I'll provide more details about the new method as it develops.

As always, thanks to everyone for your support.

Crawler User Party/Encounter Data Not Available

Unfortunately, because of the Wordpress database issues I had last night, I've had to shut down all DB access on my server. Outside of the news, most folks won't notice a difference, save for the plucky few who are using the user party/encounter data in the Crawler's Companion. I'm so sorry such data is currently not available, and I'm not sure when that functionality will be restored. :(

Strange Goings-On

I was unable to sleep this evening, which sucks, but it did allow me to do some timely browsing: while visiting the Sorcerer Speaks I was greeted by a flurry of strange pop-ups in iOS when I clicked on the links in the right hand column: apparently good old Wordpress was hacked. (Despite having the newest version installed...)

So I've spent the last 3 hours basically rebuilding the blog up from scratch, which seems to have taken care of the problem. I'm finally off to bed, but if you notice any continuing strangeness, let me know!

I'm just not up to this sort of crap anymore. ;)

News and Notes

Things have been quiet of late as I've struggled through a particularly bad health stretch. But things are still moving forward:

Tools

Added a Black Powder/Black Magic occupation list to the 0-level party generator. (Nathan Panke formatted the list: Stormlord Publishing always does cool stuff, and their Zine Vault Kickstarter is in it's last days!)
* http://purplesorcerer.com/create_party.php
* http://stormlordpublishing.com

Noah Marshall pointed out that the 'same as cleric' wizard spells were missing from the Sorcerer's Grimoire, and this led me to discover a few more that hadn't been included since they didn't originally make sense to include in the Crawler's Companion. (I used the data from the Crawler as the foundation for the Grimoire spell list.) So 11 new spells have been formatted, and I'll be adding them to the Grimoire in the next day or two.
* http://purplesorcerer.com/grimoire.php

I've had the latest Crawler's Companion update almost ready to go for months now, but have been too busy or ill to whip up the energy to do the app store publishing tango. Soon... soon. (I'm contemplating paring the app stores down to Apple and Google Play. Anyone still using the Nook store or Amazon App store instead of just side-loading?)

Adventures

The priority is still completing The Carnival of the Damned. David had a great time at NTRPG, and we're adding a few refinements from his playtest experiences. It's gonna be awesome.
* http://purplesorcerer.com/carnival.php

As soon as The Carnival has departed, I'll complete Against the Vortex Temple. The art and design are finished, I just need to polish off the text. I'd hoped to make more progress by this point, but it seems my creative writing is impacted by my health more than anything else. We'll get there!
* http://purplesorcerer.com/m1.php

Once these two are in the bag I'll likely have another fun announcment to make!

Thanks to everyone for your continuing kind words and support.