An Interactive Shadowrun Webpage, I'm taking suggestions and requests... Options

[DV8]

I've been part of the Shadowrun Online Community almost as long as Adam has, and for most of that time I maintained www.wiredreflexes.com (down now, due to a server migration), which some of you might still remember. I haven't updated it in a long while, mostly due to the inactivity of my own roleplaying campaign that I based the entire website on, but I've got the web-development bug again, and I would like to develop something new.

I had a large selection of characters and NPCs from my own campaign displayed for general perusal on my website, and I got tonnes of requests from people asking me if I could display their character on there, too. I always steadfastly refused and said that the website was a personal project, for my home-campaign, and that I wasn't too keen to throw other characters in the collection of characters that I used in the game. But it got me thinking, perhaps it's something that people would want, a place to upload and maintain their own character and npc portfolios. That's the reason why I'm here, to see how many, if any at all, people would be interested in that, and what shape it would or should or could take.

One of the things I'm really quite keen on, in all of this, is to make it an in character website, and not, like I've done in the past, mix in-character elements with out-of-character elements. It doesn't exactly do the overview of the website any good if on one page you're looking at flavour-material and on the next page you're discussing house-rules and game-mechanics. Seeing as how there are plenty of websites dedicated to game-mechanics, Ancient History's and Raygun's websites both diverse and brilliant examples of that, I thought I'd want one to (try) and stay fully in character.

Ideally, a member of the page could maintain his or her own collection of characters, as well as create gaming groups, designate certain other members as members of that group, and allocate their characters to different runs or stories. On top of that, each member should be able to maintain a journal of each of his or her character's experiences - sort of like a blog, if you will - and update their characters information as their games progress. Some of this information should also be designated as private, so that other players within a group aren't able to read about it, but the designated GM of the group can. (I don't know exactly how that'll take shape, I'm just going with the flow here for a moment.)

I think that this could become a nice resource for the many online games that are out there (PBEM, PB3, etc.) and perhaps even for GM's of a homegame that are unwilling to put the time into maintaining a website to support their campaigns.

Now, I might be completely delusional into thinking that there's a demand for something like this out there, in which case I'll let you guys talk me out of it, or perhaps there's a demand for something (slightly) different, in which case I'll listen to everyone's suggestions and requests and see where things lead.

So please, fire away.