Anyone checked out PDF Products from Darkfuries

[JDragon]

Hey all,

Just found Darkfuries website and found some cool looking products...

Temples and Shrines Floorplans

Castle and Keep Floorplans

Inn and Tavern Floorplans


I was wondering if anyone has these, and what they think of them?

Good, Bad, Ugly?

JDragon

 

[enrious]

You might want to head on over to the reviews section - there have been some posted for them.

 

[Kaptain_Kantrip]

I bought all three floorplan sets a couple weeks back.

Here's my two cents:

Buy Inns & Taverns and Temples & Shrines. These both rock for a $5 download each. Tons of great maps! A few of the bigger ones present printing problems, so be careful and fiddle with the size, etc. I recommend running a preview of the page to be printed before actually printing 'em. I can't get some to print out completely without getting parts cut off. Most print perfectly fine, however. It's the larger ones you need to be wary of, like Inn 020 "Inn on the Bluff," a clever, multi-story inn and towers built into a mountainside. I can't figure out how to get this darn thing to print completely.

Castles & Keeps wasn't so hot, IMO. I still can't get it to work right. Where are the keeps? All I saw were some castles, and these weren't that attractive to look at, and harder to print.

 

[Psion]

Darkfuries has no PDF files. They are all GIFs and HTML files

As someone else said, see the reviews page; in case you don't know where it is: http://www.enworld.org/d20reviews.asp

I have reviews up of the first two; someone else put up a review of the third (and I should put one up myself next week.) Overall, I think they are very useful. Unlike KK, I thought the castles were very cool, though I agree you can't one-click print then out and end up with maps that you can use minis on -- you will have to break up the GIFs and print them out in sections.

 

[hong]

It's the larger ones you need to be wary of, like Inn 020 "Inn on the Bluff," a clever, multi-story inn and towers built into a mountainside. I can't figure out how to get this darn thing to print completely.

The easiest way to print big graphic files is to open them into your favourite picture editor, reduce or crop it and print from there. If you don't have Photoshop, import it into a word processor and do the same thing, after setting the page margins to 0.

And BTW, the maps rock. All of them.

 

[drnuncheon]

OK, I downloaded the samples...

Has anybody been able to print these out at 1 square = 1" and still have them look good? I want to use them with my more than spiffy CC counters, but when I blew it up to print it at the proper scale the lines suffered from a terrible case of the jaggies.

Hints, tips? They sound like they'd be great, if only I could overcome this problem...

J

 

[Psion]

The easiest way to print big graphic files is to open them into your favourite picture editor, reduce or crop it and print from there. If you don't have Photoshop, import it into a word processor and do the same thing, after setting the page margins to 0.

There are also freeware viewers/editors that, while not Photoshop, can handle a crop operation with ease. Try irfanview.

Plus if you are on a Windows box and have office on your machine, you might have a copy of MS photo editor lurking around somewhere.

 

[Psion]

OK, I downloaded the samples...

Has anybody been able to print these out at 1 square = 1" and still have them look good? I want to use them with my more than spiffy CC counters, but when I blew it up to print it at the proper scale the lines suffered from a terrible case of the jaggies.

Hmmm... the samples might be lower res. The taverns I printed out for my game look pretty slick.

 

[drnuncheon]

Hmmm... the samples might be lower res. The taverns I printed out for my game look pretty slick.

Did you get them with 1" squares? The tavern looked great when I printed it normally, but the squares were only ~3/4" - it was when I tried to size it so I could use it with my 1" counters that it looked bad.

J