Ok. Another good week. I finished the main map and now I?m looking to see if I need more. You see, the main map is a little cluttered. It?s ideal for a printing of about 3x3 sheets of paper, and I?m thinking I need two other sizes. One, the one that will take longer, would be more like 5x5 or 6x6. Basically, I?d shrink all the text and the symbols by half and redo them. That would leave more white space and a little room to fill in things other than the biggest cities.
The second map is one that can be put on one page. I?ve been asked to put the books out through a POD publisher and I don?t think I?m going to find a POD publisher that has a good map solution. That means the printed copy in the book will have to be formatted for one page, as seems the norm with most settings this last year or two. I?ve printed the original map on one page. *I* could use it, but I have the best eyes medical science can buy. Even then, there are a couple city names I can?t read.
So I?m thinking about keeping the symbol size the same on the one page map, but deleting the river names (there isn?t room for them), taking off all but the capital cities (or the biggest city for nations with a moving capital). Then labeling just those cities.
It?s a plan at any rate.
I?m also thinking how I will make the dungeon and interior maps look more professional. I have some ideas.
I?ve set up demos at the local convention at BYU. I?m also demoing Campaign Cartographer there. I think I?m going to make up free demo disks that include all the Echoes of Heaven previews (to date), the demo adventures and all the maps I have lying around, for this world or for others. The idea is to be able to hand them out for free and see how much business I can generate.
I just realized the artist is late on with the brand logo. Hmm. I?ll have to ping him on that.
We got exactly one battle done at the play test this week. It lasted three hours.
Twenty orcs, an open room, and a doorway. Three party members decided to charge into the room. It was, as the military would say, Charlie Foxtrot from there on out.
They won. It wasn?t a hard battle, really (54 levels of good guys against 80 levels of bad guys.) If they would have set up at the door, it would have been over in 45 minutes. They just didn?t.
Anyway. Quick survey. If you?re reading this on a board, post. If not, e-mail me.
In Rolemaster, how many of you allow characters to parry multiple foes? I?ve fought two guys at once and it doesn?t seem as hard to me as RM makes it (no to say it isn?t hard). It always seemed to me you should just split your parry bonus up among the bad guys, and that?s what every group I?ve played with has allowed. Still, what do you guys think?
Also, how many of you would be interested in POD versions, at a normal printed book price, if you could get the pdfs for 3-5 dollars? Tell me for which system too (HARP, RM or d20)
Just curious. With the Pod Versions, you might have to download and print the maps if you want big game-table versions.