Page design opinions...

mroberon1972 · Jun 13, 2004

You guys want to tell me what you think of this design?

msd · Jun 13, 2004

mroberon1972 said:
You guys want to tell me what you think of this design?

I like it...I would change the colors (but that is me and just a personal thing) and the block surrounding "Paladin" in the first left-hand column is perhaps a little big taking up a bit too much real estate...

I do like it though and I feel pretty sure that these are things that I would *not* have noticed unless asked. It's a nice, clean, design which promotes readability.

Good job!

-msd

2WS-Steve · Jun 13, 2004

The design looks good here. If this is for a print friendly PDF you might want to avoid having blocks of colored background--though they don't look so large as to be too arduous for my printer.

Fate Lawson · Jun 13, 2004

Not a comment on the page design, but rather on what it looks like your working on. Is this for an adaptation of the d20Modern rules to a fantasy campaign?

mroberon1972 · Jun 13, 2004

Fate Lawson said:
Not a comment on the page design, but rather on what it looks like your working on. Is this for an adaptation of the d20Modern rules to a fantasy campaign?

Yup... And a little more...

I'm rebuilding the D&D core classes to be balanced for D20 modern, while at the same time keeping to the core ideals of the classes.

I guess you could play d20 modern D&D wih them, or you could just take them as modern versions of the class.

I'm working on the Paladin/Priest combo first. Figure the Bard/Rogue, Wizard/Sorcerer, Monk/Fighter, and Ranger/Druid...

I'm not sure if I'll do the barbarian... Seems a little silly for modern...

I figure I'll make them as small/cheap PDFs until they're all done, and then combine them into one large book later...

Justin D. Jacobson · Jun 13, 2004

Overall, I like it. I've had alot of positive comments about using color accents with the b&w base. I have to agree that the blue is a little to "electric" for my tastes. I know it's used sparingly, but it's hard on the eyes. I would go to something a little more muted. The purple looks good.

The rest of the layout looks good to me. Personally, I would stay away from the full justification, but that's a matter of personal taste.

marketingman · Jun 13, 2004

Since you are planning for print later on yu may want to jazz up the illustrions with some color has oppossed to the color splashes on the header and footer.

mroberon1972 · Jun 13, 2004

marketingman said:
Since you are planning for print later on yu may want to jazz up the illustrions with some color has oppossed to the color splashes on the header and footer.

Why? The print would be B/W anyway...

ToddSchumacher · Jun 13, 2004

Looks very Easter-y

Targeteron · Jun 13, 2004

Thats what i wanted to say mrob. Personally i prefer as few color as possible for printing. not that big a deal i can always tell my printer to print everything B/W, as long as its not too intricate and would force everything to be "black" when printed out this way. Also for printing out PDFs i HATE soft flowing text around a picture. I normally just cut out and delete artwork so i use less ink on printing it out. "round" text makes it a) look bad and b) a pain to cleanly remove the artwork. since we dont have printshops like you in the US have i have to do all the printing on my own cheap lexmark inkjet at home. Artwork itself is of course necessary to make it "look good" no question about that.

Mostly i read a PDF at my PC and print out only what i want/need at the gaming table. so generally i am no big fan of 2 column standard print layout, forces me to scroll down, up and down again while reading a page. Thus I prefer Single column flowtext.

Just my 0.2 € as a user.