Thanks! I just might take you up on that… Right now I'm trying to get the initial data load complete, and everything is stored in a giant pile of CSV files. Once I have complex weapon inventory working, I'll start focusing on presentation and formatting — and that's when having some extra hands correcting errors, adding "short summaries" of equipment effects, and so on, would be really helpful. Long term I also want to get the stuff from the Farcast and Seedware yearblogs entered in, too. The site's schema accounts for non-canon sources like conversions from other RPGs, homebrew, etc — so those things could be added without polluting the "canon" inventory…

More fun stuff happened over the holidays with the gear catalog — among other things, NPCs are now pretty clean and tidy, and include stuff like auto-calculating of gear and augmentation bonuses (as well as display of 'conditional' bonuses in the INT: 15 (20) style that the core books use. http://eldrich.host/world/npcs/assassin is a decent example.

Progress marches on! Within the next week or two I'll be rolling out the ability for it to host player-created NPCs and character sheets, along with campaign-specific grouping of links, resources, and player charsheets for GMs. An example of a traditional core EP NPC in "classic" NPC mode: http://eldrich.host/world/npcs/firewall-eraser An example of the same information displayed in the new "charsheet" mode: http://eldrich.host/world/npcs/firewall-eraser/charsheet — among other things, it breaks out morph bonuses for easier resleeve calculations during play, and lets you click-sort skills by skill type, name, linked aptitude, and skill level. On smaller screens it hides some of the less essential columns so that phones can be used for quick reference during sessions. Woo! Still a lot of visual tweaks to work on, but it's coming along nicely and the deep underlying data structures that the site uses to store stuff like skill information and gear-based bonuses are finally paying off.

Welp, this weekend's round of updates includes some nice features: The gear catalog is a little better organized — in particular, the "tree" of equipment actually makes sense now, although some of the augmentations from later sourcebooks need to be recategorized to avoid cluttering up the general "augmentations" section. There there are overview pages for a couple of the more popular categories of gear, like http://eldrich.host/gear/weapons and http://eldrich.host/gear/morphs — although the morphs page in particular feels like it doesn't include *enough* information to make the overview useful. We'll see. The Stats section, with sleights and traits and mental trauma info and skills, has been tidied up and now lends itself better to browsing. The "World" section doesn't look too much different, but the Character Sheet view that was mentioned in the previous update is now accessible from the normal NPC page — on http://eldrich.host/world/npcs/jovian-soldier for example, the link is now in the sidebar. Printer-friendly versions of the stylesheets are in place as well, hiding extraneous info so that printing off a quick copy of a character sheet results in something that's actually useful at the gaming table. What's coming next? Finally fleshing out the "Games" section, with pages for in-progress campaigns, links and downloadable resources for each campaign's players, and the ability to clone an existing NPC as the starting point for a new campaign-specific character. Mmmmmmm.

More updates! Huzzah! Most of the work over the last few weeks has gone into the groundwork for real users using the site, and adding their own homebrew content to support their campaigns or just for kicks. Features that have been added:

• New listing of known exsurgent strains at http://eldrich.host/world/strains
• Campaigns now list any homebrew materials associated with them on their landing page for easy reference
• Logged in users can choose what materials they'll see when they browse the site: Canon only, Canon + Stuff I've Created, Canon + Stuff from games I'm playing, or Literally Everything.
• Logged in users can create new charsheets by cloning an existing character, or an NPC or pregen character.
• When creating content, contributors can mark most stuff as 'GM Only'. Only logged in users with GM accounts, or the original creators of the content, can see them — and they're flagged visually to ensure that they aren't shown to players by accident. This makes it safer to enter in campaign-specific NPCs, viral strains, and so on for reference even if you don't want your players seeing them yet.
• "In-character" network chatter about factions, locations, types of gear, and so on can be posted by players to duplicate the fun "flavor conversations" in the core books. See http://eldrich.host/gear/armor/mods/ablative-patches
• Assorted data fixes have corrected problems with a few morphs and creatures.
• Creatures now show their special non-weapon attacks and unique abilities. (See http://eldrich.host/world/bestiary/alien-factor-ambassador)
• Scorchers, Psi attacks, and unarmed fallback attacks are displayed in the 'Weapons/Attacks' blocks to ensure everyone gets a change to knock heads. (See the last item in the attacks list for http://eldrich.host/world/npcs/firewall-vector)
• Printer-friendly versions of more pages have been tweaked, and less web-cruft appears when you print, making it much easier to prep for a game session by grabbing some NPCs, printing them out, and hoping for the best. Lazy GMs represent.

Hah. Nice catch! That fix is now deployed. Turns out, changing the sort direction is... easy, if easily overlooked. ;-)

Actually! They have a base speed of 2 but come standard with the increased speed plugin. Final speed calculations are done on the mind + shell + augmentations. Do you think it would make sense to display the baseline, or the final with-gear results when listing morphs?

Hmmm. Technically I'm storing and displaying the speed *modifier*, same as any other morph bonus, which is how it's shown in Transhuman. (p 142 in particular has the Eidelons). The Hot Shot and Wirehead, for example, show: Speed Modifier: +3 (includes Increased Speed) If you look at the full list of morphs and infomorphs, there aren't actually ANY that have inherent speed faster than human baseline or infomorph baseline; they just include gear like Neurachem and/or Increased Speed and display the rolled up final number as the morph/eidelon stat. …Which makes me think that I should probably make sure those are displayed when browsing the morphs/eidelons on the site, not just after you add one to an NPC or character, since it's not obvious to those who aren't familiar with it.