Honeymarsh Academy (planar D&D)(closed..!)
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UniversalMonster
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Haha..
No I just made that up. Delicious bacon stuffed honeyroll.
No I just made that up. Delicious bacon stuffed honeyroll.UniversalMonster
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They are my own application, kinda. I use Paint Shop Pro to make a document with 4 transparent layers. (http://jasc.com)
The bottom layer is background color/texture
The second layer is terrain (anything destructible or movable)- like the trees or furniture.
The third layer is the grid. (this is the only thing that required any skill to make, but I can teach anyone how to do it in PSP)
The top layer is 'miniatures'. Just little button blobs with text. When I need to move them around, I just lasso the botton (or erase it) and put the miniature where it is supposed to be. It doesn't pick up the data from the other layers. If I need to move terrain or whatever, I just jump to that layer and edit there.
To make the 'terrain elevations' on the overland map, I just draw an outline and then use a 3/d 'bevel' effect. To do several elevations, you just keep making them.
The trees and shelves and so on are just custom brushes. Theyre like stampers.
The only scripty part could easily be done by hand: Basically it does this:
It saves the baseline (blank map) document off as a layered document, with the name of the battlefield scene. When I'm done editing, it converts the whole graphic to a *.gif, merges all the layers, and lowers the color density. Each consecutive save adds an iterative number. So like on round 1, the map is called 'jungleambush1.gif' and on round 2 it is 'jungleambush2.gif', and so on. And it sticks them in a custom folder for me.
I came up with this system last year in a play-by-post game. The players all gave me input such as "add letters and numbers to the grid", etc My original version you had to call it like chess "I move one up and two horizontal.."
You could easily do this in photoshop, though.
The bottom layer is background color/texture
The second layer is terrain (anything destructible or movable)- like the trees or furniture.
The third layer is the grid. (this is the only thing that required any skill to make, but I can teach anyone how to do it in PSP)
The top layer is 'miniatures'. Just little button blobs with text. When I need to move them around, I just lasso the botton (or erase it) and put the miniature where it is supposed to be. It doesn't pick up the data from the other layers. If I need to move terrain or whatever, I just jump to that layer and edit there.
To make the 'terrain elevations' on the overland map, I just draw an outline and then use a 3/d 'bevel' effect. To do several elevations, you just keep making them.
The trees and shelves and so on are just custom brushes. Theyre like stampers.
The only scripty part could easily be done by hand: Basically it does this:
It saves the baseline (blank map) document off as a layered document, with the name of the battlefield scene. When I'm done editing, it converts the whole graphic to a *.gif, merges all the layers, and lowers the color density. Each consecutive save adds an iterative number. So like on round 1, the map is called 'jungleambush1.gif' and on round 2 it is 'jungleambush2.gif', and so on. And it sticks them in a custom folder for me.
I came up with this system last year in a play-by-post game. The players all gave me input such as "add letters and numbers to the grid", etc My original version you had to call it like chess "I move one up and two horizontal.."
You could easily do this in photoshop, though.
UniversalMonster
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Don't forget to update the Rogues Gallery thread with a copy of your charsheet! (if you haven't done it yet) The link is right here.
http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=147043
Also, I found Bartlin's lance attack should be +9 instead of +8.
http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=147043
Also, I found Bartlin's lance attack should be +9 instead of +8.
Tinner
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Shameless vote-mongering
Hey all,
This post has nothing whatsoever to do with our game, but since I am a shameless self-promoter, I wanted to ask all of you to please vote for my song "We Didn't Start the Flamewar." in the EN World Song Parody thread going on right now.
The battle for first place is shaping up to be a close one, but I think I have a real shot at the prize!
So since today is the last day for voting, if you haven't voted already, please follow this link and vote for my song!
Thanks.
Hey all,
This post has nothing whatsoever to do with our game, but since I am a shameless self-promoter, I wanted to ask all of you to please vote for my song "We Didn't Start the Flamewar." in the EN World Song Parody thread going on right now.
The battle for first place is shaping up to be a close one, but I think I have a real shot at the prize!
So since today is the last day for voting, if you haven't voted already, please follow this link and vote for my song!
Thanks.
UniversalMonster
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Hey should have let me know earlier!
Envotified!
Envotified!
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