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2 years ago ::
Mar 10, 2011 - 5:23PM
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Oct 24, 2001
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Tonight's sessions was going to be great.
I bought a 20x32 piece of acrylic (plastic) to go over my 20 x 30 poster grid and drew out the entire lab on the third floor of the Trouble in Freesboro adventure. I printed out all of the paper minis for the encounter, including laser turrets. I had updated the character sheets to surprise the players -- they had leveled up at the end of the last session. Snacks and drinks were laid out, the dry erase board for tracking initiative was ready, and everybody's place setting was prepped -- pencil, dice, character sheet, character mini, and drinking glass.
And only two of the five showed up.
I am bummed. I'll get over it, but the sting is still there right now.
Here are the PHB essentia, in my opinion: - Three Basic Rules (p 11)
- Power Types and Usage (p 54)
- Skills (p178-179)
- Feats (p 192)
- Rest and Recovery (p 263)
- All of Chapter 9 [Combat] (p 264-295)
A player needs to read the sections for building his or her character -- race, class, powers, feats, equipment, etc. But those are PC-specific. The above list is for everyone, regardless of the race or class or build or concept they are playing.
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2 years ago ::
Mar 10, 2011 - 5:48PM
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Date Joined:
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Ugh, my sympathies.
My current DM is winding down his Dark Sun Campaign to lead into my Gamma World campaign and we keep having interruptions that keep the transition from happening.
How much was the acrylic, dare I ask?
I'm planning an encounter in which the party is fighting in a factory-like setting on a grid or grate floor, and there is a series of pipes under them that ignite and shoot up jets of flame.
I'd like to be able to broadcast where this is going to happen without meticulously laying down tiles on the board and moving everybody as necessary, so having an acrylic sheet for them to stand on seems like a sound idea.
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2 years ago ::
Mar 10, 2011 - 5:51PM
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Tonight's sessions was going to be great.
I bought a 20x32 piece of acrylic (plastic) to go over my 20 x 30 poster grid and drew out the entire lab on the third floor of the Trouble in Freesboro adventure. I printed out all of the paper minis for the encounter, including laser turrets. I had updated the character sheets to surprise the players -- they had leveled up at the end of the last session. Snacks and drinks were laid out, the dry erase board for tracking initiative was ready, and everybody's place setting was prepped -- pencil, dice, character sheet, character mini, and drinking glass.
And only two of the five showed up.
I am bummed. I'll get over it, but the sting is still there right now.
I'm planning on drawing up the same map for that encounter in Freesboro. I was hoping to use a free software though. Any recommendations for a software to use? Any recommendations for the map design?
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2 years ago ::
Mar 10, 2011 - 6:43PM
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Date Joined:
Sep 15, 2005
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I was hoping to use a free software though. Any recommendations for a software to use? Any recommendations for the map design?
I use Gimp to to work with graphic files.
Kerry
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2 years ago ::
Mar 10, 2011 - 6:53PM
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I was hoping to use a free software though. Any recommendations for a software to use? Any recommendations for the map design?
I use Gimp to to work with graphic files.
Kerry
oh yeah I have an equivalent package on cygwin which I use all the time, but I was hoping for a software designed for making maps for rpgs. I know that there are a handful of higher level softwares which are specifically for this purpose.
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2 years ago ::
Mar 10, 2011 - 9:26PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 10, 2008
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Keep up the good work and don't get discouraged. Seconded on the GIMP, I've been using it for years.
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2 years ago ::
Mar 10, 2011 - 10:48PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 16, 2008
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I use Inkscape or Google Sketchup to do map and graphics work. They're pretty tight together.
As for my campaign, I had to stop due to the birth of my son and supporting my wife while she recovered. By time I was ready to start the campaign again, only 2 people wanted to play. The others were admittedly flaky, but out of 8 people only 2 left (it was usually a group of 4-5 at any given time).
It sucks, I want to run some more or even play, but nobody is motivated.
Maybe I'll talk to my D&D group and run Gamma World while the DM is out of town...
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2 years ago ::
Mar 11, 2011 - 5:03AM
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Date Joined:
Oct 24, 2001
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The acrylic was $13 at Home Depot. (Lexan is stronger, but costs about two to three times as much.) Acrylic and wet-erase markers are perfect, and my poster grid map "clings" to the underside of the acrylic due to generic static build-up.
That chamber encounter area for this adventure is huge (21x31 squares)! I guarantee I spent less on drawing out the 20x30 map (shaved off 1 square of the published map in each direction) on the acrylic than I would have on the printer ink to make it on paper. And I get to use this exact same acrylic for encounters in the future too.
I'm all for computer software when an encounter area can be projected, but printer ink is a deal breaker. I save it for re-usables like minis.
Here are the PHB essentia, in my opinion: - Three Basic Rules (p 11)
- Power Types and Usage (p 54)
- Skills (p178-179)
- Feats (p 192)
- Rest and Recovery (p 263)
- All of Chapter 9 [Combat] (p 264-295)
A player needs to read the sections for building his or her character -- race, class, powers, feats, equipment, etc. But those are PC-specific. The above list is for everyone, regardless of the race or class or build or concept they are playing.
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2 years ago ::
Mar 11, 2011 - 5:52AM
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Did you still run the adventure or did you just come up with a new one on the fly. Same thing happened to me last weekend. I had an adventure all set up, used pink foam board and gridded the entire thing, painted it, and flocked it. Made a custom mini for the bad guy. (Three actually, couldn't settle on which one I liked best) and found out similar news. I just put the board away pulled out all the maps that came with the three gamma world games. Fished out some mini's I thought would make a good encounter and went to work.
Dm's never get any love.
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2 years ago ::
Mar 11, 2011 - 8:30AM
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Date Joined:
Oct 24, 2001
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Did you still run the adventure or did you just come up with a new one on the fly.
We bagged the evening. I ended up watching American Idol, cuddled up on the couch with my wife, so all was not lost.
Here are the PHB essentia, in my opinion: - Three Basic Rules (p 11)
- Power Types and Usage (p 54)
- Skills (p178-179)
- Feats (p 192)
- Rest and Recovery (p 263)
- All of Chapter 9 [Combat] (p 264-295)
A player needs to read the sections for building his or her character -- race, class, powers, feats, equipment, etc. But those are PC-specific. The above list is for everyone, regardless of the race or class or build or concept they are playing.
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