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<blockquote data-quote="pac71" data-source="post: 9413299" data-attributes="member: 89232">It was explorative drawing translating my research into the various releases into what I envisioned as an evolutionary tree.I used Excalidraw which is a vector based web app/javascript plugin with a hand drawn asthetic.I utilised the grid system to keep it basically aligned. The grid was used as an arbitrary guide as one grid per year horizontal and typically 5 spaces per version lane vertically. Drew the background scale in black and grey added the time scale at the bottom and then used double ended &quot;arrows&quot; with dot at each end for the arrowheads. Text was added and rotated manually and then duplicated and edited as that was faster than making new text for each entry and rotating correctly. The colours were mostly app defaults being close enough to what I wanted and I only added tan for d20 and a d20 dark red for Pathfinder.I have been thinking I should do something more data driven but that is a project for another day. It always amazes me how much you can achieve by just drawing a mock up .... each and every time i do it!&nbsp; You would think I would learn that lesson <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The tree did require some thought as evolutionary branches typically do not come back to life after extinction. How was I going to show this ... which is where the colours came into the visualisation for the version lanes. I thought it interesting even with WotC abandoning the earlier versions like nature, the retro clones evolved to fill that evolutionary gap.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pac71, post: 9413299, member: 89232"] It was explorative drawing translating my research into the various releases into what I envisioned as an evolutionary tree. I used Excalidraw which is a vector based web app/javascript plugin with a hand drawn asthetic. I utilised the grid system to keep it basically aligned. The grid was used as an arbitrary guide as one grid per year horizontal and typically 5 spaces per version lane vertically. Drew the background scale in black and grey added the time scale at the bottom and then used double ended "arrows" with dot at each end for the arrowheads. Text was added and rotated manually and then duplicated and edited as that was faster than making new text for each entry and rotating correctly. The colours were mostly app defaults being close enough to what I wanted and I only added tan for d20 and a d20 dark red for Pathfinder. I have been thinking I should do something more data driven but that is a project for another day. It always amazes me how much you can achieve by just drawing a mock up .... each and every time i do it! You would think I would learn that lesson :) The tree did require some thought as evolutionary branches typically do not come back to life after extinction. How was I going to show this ... which is where the colours came into the visualisation for the version lanes. I thought it interesting even with WotC abandoning the earlier versions like nature, the retro clones evolved to fill that evolutionary gap. [/QUOTE]

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