Thread: hosting games at school
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October 3rd, 2017, 19:04 #1
hosting games at school
I have set a dungeons and dragons club at my school (I am a staff member) and have the ultimate license and so will be hosting games at lunch with kids. I am working through all the connection/firewall issues with our school board IMS department which I hope to have worked out soon. However, when I am downloading and installing the demo version on student laptops (available in our library) I am getting an error message to the effect "missing xml 5e ruleset data"...I can get the exact message and post it. But off the top of you fine people's heads, does this sound like a message others have seen before or have I installed the demo incorrectly? Any help you can offer would be most appreciated. Thanks everyone!
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October 3rd, 2017, 19:11 #2
1) If the GM and the players are all going to be on the same network then the GM shouldn't need port forwarding - give the players your internal IP address to connect.
2) When do you get the error message? When running an update? When connecting to the GM? When starting FG? And yes, please supply the exact error message.Private Messages: My inbox is forever filling up with PMs. Please don't send me PMs unless they are actually private/personal messages. General FG questions should be asked in the forums - don't be afraid, the FG community don't bite and you're giving everyone the chance to respond and learn!
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October 3rd, 2017, 19:22 #3
Thanks Trenloe
1. I have given another staff member the internal ip address and she was unable to connect. I am sure there are some network rules about connecting to other machines across our network. Our IT people are working at fixing this.
2. Here is the exact message: "Ruleset: launcher
Error: Unable to load ruleset file (base.xml)
Do you want to try reloading the data?"
Yes No
So it is giving me that error message with the option to load. If I select Yes, I get the same error message again. If I select No, it quits the launcher.
Thanks for the help
Rob
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October 3rd, 2017, 19:30 #4Private Messages: My inbox is forever filling up with PMs. Please don't send me PMs unless they are actually private/personal messages. General FG questions should be asked in the forums - don't be afraid, the FG community don't bite and you're giving everyone the chance to respond and learn!
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October 3rd, 2017, 20:29 #5
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October 4th, 2017, 03:58 #6
IT will need to update the windows firewall to allow inbound TCP 1802 connections on all networks (private/public/domain).
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October 4th, 2017, 15:15 #7
Hi Trenloe...so the files for Fantasy Grounds are buried deep in a Network Drive. I will contact our IT people to dig down and delete the .pak file and run an update UNLESS they grant me permission to do so. On another note, I installed FG Demo on an older laptop at home for my kids to use. I ran into the exact same problem. Thankfully, I had your work around and I deleted the .pak file in FG and ran the update engine. It worked perfectly! So thank you. I know it works, now the task is just to get access to the file structure so I can apply that fix.
Cheers...Rob
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October 4th, 2017, 15:25 #8
hi pappinr you will need read/write/modify access to the file location to really use the software successfully...
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October 4th, 2017, 15:44 #9
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October 4th, 2017, 15:57 #10
Hi damned...sadly I am becoming painfully aware of trying to run fantasy grounds over an employers network. I am convinced of the great educational value of rpgs and so I am trying not to be discouraged with the many hurdles I am encountering. I am meeting with our club members at lunch today and I can show them some the amazing functionality of FG. Onward and upward! Thanks.
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