By way of introduction, and as a request for feedback.

Hello. I'm a little apprehensive about posting-I've just recently been exposed to Drupal, and have little to no experience with website design. I am eager to learn, however, and everything I've discovered about Drupal leads me to believe that I could use it to do exactly what I want-that is, run a roleplaying game online. With that in mind, I've joined the games group and would welcome any advice y'all would have for me.

I have been running roleplaying games for a very long time, and have always wanted to use some sort of online mechanism to streamline certain elements of the process. Lately I've been intrigued by Scion, a d10 system heroic game set in the modern day, and I've come up with a setting and system for running a play-by-email campaign. I'd like to use Drupal to provide setting information for my players, and to organize and keep track of the game for myself.

My primary goals are to produce content that...

1. Can be accessed only by certain users as I determine them Each content type should be filterable, but I also need to be able to limit access and visibility for each individual object within the content types to specific users. So I want to be able to filter NPCs and "Instances" by their type, but also have specific NPCs and Instances visible to certain users and not others.

2. Contains images and locations, so that I can construct a tangible, coherent setting for the players to use. My thought is that if I build my world and populate it, my players will be able to make plans and have agendas as player characters without my being present and involved constantly.

3. Can be organized and viewed in a geographic fashion, using google maps or some similar online mapping mechanic. I plan to set my game in Portland, OR and use the local sites and geography to create a tangible environment. Giving my players the ability to lay out a map with all their available information arranged by geography is one of my primary goals-I want people to be able to visualize the game in terms of the places they can visit and what they can do there.

I realize that this is ambitious-moreso after wandering through Drupal and becoming aware of how powerful it is. I don't think any of this is out of the question, though, and I'm eager to nail down the basics of these goals so that I can start producing content. Any advice or feedback you more experienced Drupal users (is there a Drupal user plural? Drupaliens?) can offer, I'd welcome it. My site's rp.happypunch.com-there's not much there at the moment, but I have high hopes.