My forum died b/c of bots. Not just as my site, though. They were so bad the whole 40k+ forum farm at forumsplace went down, and when it came back up it was infected with bad, bad things (porn pop-ups, for example). The company couldn't fix it's problems and ended up selling the domains they owned for dirt cheap b/c people were threatening to sue them. Anyways, I digress.
The GPDL is the engine that runs all of the scripts in the game (all spells, special abilities, dice roles, etc). And as far as I know, there are only two people in the whole world who know how to use it properly and neither one of them are active in DC anymore. (They are CocoaSpud, aka Richard Turner and PAul Stevens, both of whom still follow the progress of this project.) Fortunately, Tarlanon is figuring a lot of it out, which is good since he needs to fix a bug with it that we are currently experiencing. ST is learning as well. So am I, but I'm trying to focus mroe on the in-game side, not writing compilable scripts.
There is no easy text file method. There is compiling involved if it's ourside of the editor.
