Yeah, I can sympathize with that. My last run of The Future of Oz was something like a dozen years ago, which is part of what gives me pause about dusting it off and re-running it.
I will say that the file-format problem (which has bitten me badly on the ass in the past) is one reason why I like my current approach: all of my games are currently developed in my own open-source wiki-db system. It's not fancy (especially in terms of print formatting) and a bit hard to use, but it's bloody damned powerful as a game-design tool and very stable, and since I developed the platform I'm in a lot less danger of stale and unreadable data...
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Date: 2011-03-10 04:54 pm (UTC)I will say that the file-format problem (which has bitten me badly on the ass in the past) is one reason why I like my current approach: all of my games are currently developed in my own open-source wiki-db system. It's not fancy (especially in terms of print formatting) and a bit hard to use, but it's bloody damned powerful as a game-design tool and very stable, and since I developed the platform I'm in a lot less danger of stale and unreadable data...