Dans le laboratoire n°2 du Pr JM

Merci

Désolé je dois annuler pour ce soir...
Je cherche un autre créneau.

Après la démo de JM j'ai acquis Realm Works, et même si je n'en suis qu'au début dans son utilisation j'en suis déjà satisfait.
Un des points qui me semblait 'bof' au premier abord c'est la Player's Edition : faire payer les joueurs pour qu'ils puissent consulter ce que le MJ leur met à disposition. Mais cela va peut-être changer : ci-dessous un extrait du forum officiel ; si les joueurs peuvent s'approprier le monde (realm) et le compléter ça peut devenir intéressant (pour de longues campagnes évidemment).
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As has been pointed out, each realm has only one owner. Players can currently only view what the GM has revealed, and it's a read-only situation for them. More importantly, you only need a PLAYER license to do this, so your players don't really need the full product. If they just purchased in the last 60 days, we can refund those purchases, then they can get the Player Edition instead.

That being said, though, the export/import logic coming in December will change things up a bit, so your players may actually want to KEEP the full product that they've already purchased. Here's why. Once you can export content, you can give that content to your players. You can perform an export of only the material you've revealed. Then your players can import that material into a realm of their own. Once they do that, they can freely edit and augment that material, adding their own notes whatnot. You can subsequently continue exporting your ever-growing realm as the campaign progresses. The players can then import those updates, and they will get all the new and revised content each time, with full edit capability!

There are two caveats to the above...

First, the players can edit the material you gave them, but they can NOT give that material back to you after editing it. Once they edit it, it's theirs alone. So this is not a viable work-around for collaborative development.

Second, the players will need to add their own stuff into SEPARATE snippets from the ones you've shared. Once they edit something, it becomes their own. Consequently, if you share a updated version of your realm with them, they will be forced to choose whether to keep their own changes or have your new updates overwrite their changes. As long as they add their own stuff into distinct snippets (on the same topics), all new material and revisions you share will be updated properly and never impact the player's changes.

And now for the caveat to the caveat...

If all you want is for your players to ADD new material, such as their own journals or whatnot, I think you MAY be able to fold those changes back into your realm. I honestly don't know if this is possible, since it's not something I thought about until just now. However, you MIGHT be able to have your player make his changes into separate topics, then have the player export those topics from his own realm. Those changes could be imported back into your realm, becoming part of the official canon. The absolute requirement of all this, though, would be that you could not subsequently edit the material you got from the players, for all the same reasons above. If you did, then your changes would become your own. If you exported those changes, the players would import them and now have TWO instances of everything you edited - their original one and your edited one. I guess this wouldn't be horrible, but it would be a limitation of the approach.

To repeat, I'm NOT sure whether this last idea is viable. It seems like it might work in concept, but there could be a wrinkle or two that I'm not thinking of right now - wrinkles that undermine the entire idea. So this is something that will need to be explored, but it's not something I can do right now. It will remain an unknown for the time being.
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Je prends !