Alex Schroeder 🐉 @kensanata@dice.camp
#osr #dnd #traveller #pbta #ladyblackbird and many more.
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Do I know anybody who'd love to talk about the various monsters in my monster manual, looking for inconsistencies, nitpicking, checking the stats, treasure, looking at the words, the space between the words, the page breaks, sharing the love? I feel like I should focus on polish, now. The last FIXME note is a picture of a giant goat that I still have to draw. I feel pretty good about this. 😀
This is #OSR, DIY, B/X material. There is no money in this.
https://alexschroeder.ch/pdfs/Halberds-and-Helmets-Ref-Guide.pdf (page 13+)
Woohoo! A coastal region! clearly my algorithm for town placements does not recognize the benefits of fishing and shipping. I'd say there should be a chance for a village turning into a town when in a coastal hex. Right now I think this only happens in lowlands with a river where forests are abundant. Then again, perhaps this is just fair as it is. Not enough wood for shipbuilding?
PresGas@freeradical.zone: I think we're good, now! https://botsin.space/@textmapper/100241502573830271
@not_another_mike Yeah, those Google Communities were pretty active.
Trying to draw a naga for my monster manual...
Hah, apparently the it stopped posting so I will have to look at the log tomorrow.
Updated the bot. It will now post a link to the map and not just an image of the map. Thus, you will be able to get the SVG.
Writing that @textmapper bot was surprisingly easy! I'm still confused by how easy it was. I was expecting some bugs. It... just worked!? Thank you @halcy for the Mastodon library and @deshipu for the teasing and everybody else for Python and CairoSVG and all the other things I can build upon.
Hm. The smaller files seem to be fine, it's just the big Spellcasters PDF that collects them all which is borked.
I think I have a working Python-based toolchain from Markdown documents to PDF! Here's the unfinished collection of spellcasters I want to do. Sadly, I just switch the PDFs to Palatino Linotype and now they look dreadful when viewed in the browser. Does anybody know why this happens? Font is embedded but the browser only uses half of it? https://alexschroeder.ch/pdfs/spellcasters/
Adding monsters to the monster manual... I am perpetually unhappy with my drawings and I wonder whether that's just how it is for everybody.
I'm so happy to have a test script that checks my monster manual for basic errors like forgetting saves, forgetting XP, making sure HD and XP match up, and so on. It only catches the simplest mistakes but I make enough of them.
The feeling when you find out that there's a D&D Meeetup group with over 100 members in your town and you have never even heard of it. https://www.meetup.com/Dungeons-Dragons-Meetup-Zurich/ #dnd #meetup #zurich
Update on the One Page Dungeon Contest 2018: http://dungeoncontest.blogspot.com/2018/06/2018-one-page-dungeon-contest-scores.html #1pdc
Adding new monsters to my monster manual means I need to draw new monsters, too. I'm tired, now. 😩
I've been reorganizing the source files of my documents and finding changes I had made which result in errors. And the reorganisation resulted in more errors. And then the links from my site no longer work. Just keeping stuff online takes time and effort. Gah!
"Unicode Fonts for Ancients Scripts" has Maya!!
How strange. I remember the Symbola font of "Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts" to be free for any purpose and now that I'm checking the site again, it says no installation on the network. How does that work? Did George Douros change his mind?
Living like a type designer. https://www.marksimonson.com/info/studio-tour