[dragonhand777]

ladyofdragons, on Sep 29 2005, 12:37 PM, said:

So, next question is what the heck I call the darn thing.  I've got a couple ideas:
- D20FX (The D20 Fantasy Index)
- RPGMonster (taming the D&D compatible book pile!)
- DCCC (D&D Compatible Card Catalog)

I'm not sure if I can use "D20" in the title without paying some sort of license fee, but it may be just a permission thing.

I welcome naming ideas, if anyone can think of something nifty.

I like the D20FX.

Having d20 in the name would be a good way to say it is a guide or index for the d20 system. There are other systems out there (like the Lord of the Rings prg stuff), but I don't think they are selling as much.

[Dthclaw]

Yep. Definitely stick d20 label in there somewhere. And even if some pinhead over at WotC gets a wild hair up their [CHAIR] and decides that this is something to worry about, the fact that you're helping people get a better idea of what products to buy should give you an awful darn good argument to take to anyone above said pinhead(s) about allowing the index.

[Vaskre]

Yep, I agree with previous posts. D20FX sounds best, and they should let you use it if you want. Afterall, it's not hurting them in any way shape or form. Unless of course they want to take said idea and publish an index themself....

[ladyofdragons]

Digging up this old topic to give an update. I actually have been working on this project off and on since last year, with nearly 700 books input so far. I had been trying to make the freeware with updates, but I have instead settled on a web-based version (and will probably have a downloadable/print-based version available someday too, if I can make a PDF export).

There will be levels of membership available.
- Guests will be free to browse and search.
- Free Membership members can add ratings and reviews.
- Supporting (paid) membership at $8/year gets the bonus of creating "books I own" and "wishlist" lists.
- When the index becomes available at a later stage of the project, it will be a separate subscription at $10/year. Having both the supporting and index subscriptions means you can print out a combined index of all the books you own.

The project is coming along pretty well. There's a lot of functionality left to be added to it (ratings/reviews, wishlists and owned books list) before I can go public, and I'm still spending lots of time gathering information on books. I'm targeting the end of the year as a rollout.

What I'm basically trying to do is move the books/reviews out of DnDResources and into D20FX. This is part of the bigger picture of splitting resources out into distinct sections joined by a single search feature.

for a sneak peak at D20FX (I'd love your feedback on the so far), check out http://www.d20fx.com.

[RedSlayer]

Wow Lady, that looks great!

I will have to subscrib when the time comes

Just be ready to revamp for 4th edition