Another Immortals Handbook thread

[Upper_Krust]

Hey all!

By the way I meant to ask does anyone know the typical picture resolution used in pdfs?

Obviously 75 dpi (used on the website) is too low.

I have tried it with 180 dpi and I think that is okay, although it looked a little faded when I printed out a test page. However, that could just be a combination of my printer set on low resolution itself coupled with my limited used of strong blacks in the illustrations.

 

[Fieari]

I'm pretty sure 180 is standard.

Anyway, my thought with the dice thing was actually a power boost, not a nerf. In that, yes, on average, you're adding a +10.5 bonus every time they get an additional +20 bonus. The purpose was to give a better chance against things MORE powerful than you, and create a slightly better chance for things less powerful than you, to increase challenge.

Although it occures to me now that I had forgotten about factors such as power attack... which is a definite staple of epic play, I can see.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi all!

Okay I seem to have a really weird problem at the moment I hope someone can help.

As I mentioned before, I have the illustrations scanned in at 180 dpi - no problems there.

I decided to copy and paste them into the Pagemaker document from Paint Shop Pro 7. The first few attempts went okay. But then all of a sudden, everytime I went to paste a new image it would appear as big as the whole page. At first I thought I could simply resize these huge images, but when I tested making pdfs with the images that initially showed up larger, they all turn out like scrambled negatives.

What the heck could be causing this? Also why does it only affect certain images?

I'm very puzzled by this.

EDIT: Okay forget about this - I got it sorted. PHEW! Though I still don't understand the initial problem I think it was the copying/pasting instead of going through the normal placing image procedure that was messing things up. Glad I got that fixed I was starting to panic.

On a brighter note, I should add that the cover illustration is shaping up nicely (easily my best illustration). I hope to have the painting side of things finished by tomorrow.

 

[Anabstercorian]

The Nexus Dragon and Amidah pictures aren't visible on the front page of your site, but seeing as you haven't posted about the update yet that may not be news to you.

 

[Knight Otu]

It seems some of the preview pics vanished, the two on the front page included (the dragon was - well, weird isn't strong enough). Others include the brood lord and the quint elemental, Universial Deva and Ioun Golem, and the old Gibborim.

 

[Anabstercorian]

Fill us in on the dragon, man. Did it have infinite heads?

 

[Knight Otu]

It was, quite honestly, too weird to tell. I'm not even sure where the dragon began or ended. Much less identify what was a head.

 

[Anabstercorian]

Good, good. That sounds perfect.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey guys!

What dragon? The Nexus Dragon? I had its picture on the front page since last Friday. Unfortunately, ever since Monday morning the website has been all over the shop. I have emailed the webspace provider and I am basically at the end of my tether with them. If they don't sort this out sharpish, I'll just have to change providers.

On a brighter note, I have the cover 90% finished...and I am quite pleased with it. Sufficed to say it will definately be finished tomorrow. From which I will only need one day to finish everything off....finally.

So worst case scenario the Bestiary should be on sale on my website (provided my website is working by then!?) via paypal for Saturday. If ENWorld Publishing, RPGNow and Drivethrurpg can be sorted over the weekend then I'll do that. If not, people with credit cards will have to wait for Monday.

Anyone who purchased the unofficial Bestiary will be sent their copy of the official Bestiary as soon as it goes on sale (from anywhere). I was hoping to send those people complimentary copies from one of the online shops, that way they would automatically be notified of future updates to the document. Do you think thats a good idea or not?

Regarding the Nexus Dragon illustration, if I knew how to post images here I could post it up. The following link still shows the Nexus Dragon, for me at least - but I know sometimes I can still see pages when others are getting garbled text.

http://www.immortalshandbook.com/index.htm

 

[Knight Otu]

Re: Attaching images: While writing the post, scroll down and click Manage Attachments. Browse for the image file. Click Upload. Pray the image isn't too large. Hit Submit.