Dungeon Tiles, Maps and things of that nature...

[rossik]

im serious about this: i dont get it. i dont understand quite right whats the "product"

 

[weem]

Oh no worries - I had a feeling I would screw up getting the point across, haha.

Examples of things you could do there...

1/ Go there and get/print a dungeon - bam, very straight forward.

2/ Say you have an idea for an adventure you want to write out for your party. Rather than putting it all down in notes, you could go to this site...

A- Hit a button that says "create adventure" (for example)
B- Choose a dungeon (from those I create)
C- Then you would be asked to choose a cover page from various options. This would be the cover (or first page) of your soon-to-be PDF file (that you could print/share with others).
D- Then you would be asked to choose a background for the pages of the adventure (parchent paper for example)
E- Then you would be asked to choose a back (last) page (usually has credits, etc)

Once done, you could then add your words to it (stil online) - descriptions of the areas of the dungeon, NPC's, etc

After that, you could save the PDF to bring with you anywhere or for printing later.


I hope that clarifies it a bit? hehe

 

[weem]

Another example of someone who could use it.

Someone who loves coming up with adventures (for any game) but they don't have the production capabilities/skills to create PDF's or the graphics for them, or layouts, etc. They could go there and do it all online and then (once done) save a PDF version of their adventure with a nice cover page (with their information, company name, logo, etc), followed by pages detailing the areas and with a credits section at the end - link to their site, info about them or their company, etc.

They could then sell/give away the adventures on a website, etc - whatever they wanted.

 

[Michael Silverbane]

That sounds (to use a phrase coined by the 4th edition designers) cool. It also sounds like it could get pretty space intensive (i.e. eat up a lot of bandwidth and disk space).

Later
silver

 

[rossik]

not understanding about bandwidth, i just must say tahat it sounds like a very good idea!

not only create, but in my case, translate too

 

[SavageRobby]

Hopefully this perspective is useful...

Honestly, I wouldn't find that terribly appealing. But then, desktop publishing has come a long way over the last five years, and I'm relatively skilled enough with Word (or Open Office or a variety of other tools) that I could do that myself. Not to mention, from POV, I'm not paying for a skill I don't possess at that point, I'm paying for a convenience that frankly isn't all the convenient compared to Word/Open Office, a few graphics and Cute PDF.

Now, cool maps/tiles are another thing entirely. Not simply just blah ones, but a level of "cool" - whether its different, appealing, artisticly amazing, whatever. There are a lot of "just okay" products available in this space these days already, and we're getting to a saturation point (or at least, I am). You either have to be preprinted/prefabbed like WotC tiles - which combine cool AND convenient - or execute the digital product concept really well.

Even with applications like Dundjinni and Campaign Cartographer, I'm not such a great hand at maps and battlemaps and such. Probably a total lack of artistic ability on my part. But THATS what I'll pay for - the artistic ability I don't have but like to have access to - and I can (and do) spend lots on it. Wow me with cool, usable maps or terrain or whatnot, and I'm a customer. Put out something I could do myself, or something that is ho-hum and I look elsewhere.

 

[weem]

I guess I should clarifiy then SavageRobby - this service would be free This is much much more a hobby than a job -- I have a full time web design/development job - this is for fun.

The only time someone would pay money would be a) an optional donation and/or b) to remove credit to the site from the PDF. For example, each page in the PDF may have the site logo faded in (small, in a corner perhaps) and the last page would credit the site as well (not in an obvious/annoying way) -- so there may be an option to remove these for a small amount (a few dollars perhaps) for those people who want to sell their adventures, etc.


---edit---

Oh, and yes SavageRobby, your perspective is great to have - thanks!

 

[rossik]

i, OTOH, can badly work with Paint and the "bloco de notas" (the .txt program).

it would be very good for guys like me

mike, i understand you are not making this for money, but it could have a free account, with lots of tools, and a registered account, with some extras (more like "you help me donating some bucks and i give you some shiny stuff , not the kinnda of "im gonna get rich and no-$$$ users have just 3 options)

 

[Arnwyn]

Does this sound appealing?

Would you ues it do you think? Why/Why Not?

I'm not sure I understand. What's the difference between that and copying and pasting into a Word document? (Other than the fact that Word is superior in every way to the rotten PDF format: faster, easier to print, load, edit, work with, etc.)

I think I'm probably missing something here.

 

[rossik]

I'm not sure I understand. What's the difference between that and copying and pasting into a Word document? (Other than the fact that Word is superior in every way to the rotten PDF format: faster, easier to print, load, edit, work with, etc.)

I think I'm probably missing something here.

i think the point is taht you can make your own books, in the same style as the "official" ones