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Sunday, October 19th, 2008

I’ve been a bit busy lately.  Over on his blog, I found out about a project that Asmor was starting for a Community Bestiary for D&D 4E.  At first, I was moderately interested, but as more information and pieces of the project began popping up, I realized that I could really help out.  So I started taking over the wiki, and making a whole ton of changes.  I set up a Template for the Monster Stat block, and I’ve begun work on a few other things as well.  It’s kind of exciting – a project that I can be a part of that isn’t overloaded with other people, and which looks like it will actually go somewhere.

Please head over to the Wiki and the Forums for the OA: Wiki; Forum

There’s lots of stuff that still needs to get worked on, adn we haven’t even really started posting monsters… we’re still in the setup and planning mode right now.  Should you want to help, pop in and say ‘hi’, and just look for what needs doing.

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19.10.2008 Dungeons & Dragons, Projects No Comments

Tutorial: Show D&D Icon Font on Page using FLIR

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

I was playing with some options for my D&D Adventure, and was getting annoyed by one of the oldest, and most annoying limitations in web technology: fonts. Specifically, I have a font that is made up soley of the 4E Icons for Attacks and stuff, and could not get it to appear at all. There’s never been a simple way to get a font to show up on your page that the visitor does not already have installed. I tried making images out of the font, but couldn’t get the size or the placement to work correctly.  It was very frustrating.  I think I ended up posting my Titanic Shark using the images I had made, but it stopped working after I moved hosts.

Then, earlier in the week, I came across an article that talked about something called FLIR.  Impressed, and a little jealous that I had not thought of that technique before, back when I was dabbling in GD for a WoW Signature application that I started, but never finished, I decided to give it a try.  Unfortunately, neither the article itself, nor the documentation for FLIR was detailed enough to allow me to circumvent a few minor pitfalls without experementing, so I thought I would share what I learned.  Hopefully it will help anyone else out there with a D&D Blog or website.

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14.10.2008 Coding, Dungeons & Dragons, Tutorials 6 Comments

‘Slightly’ Busy

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

The last few days at work have been… for lack of a better term, wearing.

In order to provide our clients with a way to make informed, intelligent decisions, I had to spend all day, every day, for the last 5 days doing nothing but printing out statements, using slightly different criteria, and compiling a list of how it works.

So I haven’t had a chance to do much else.

Now that the task is finally finished, I can think about other things (I hope).

The PbP Campaign is slowly solidifying.  I actually have a few of the characters ready to go.  Unfortunately, we seem to be back down to just 3 players, so I’m looking for 1 or 2 more.  I only know of two people who might be interested, but one of them has been even more busy than me lately, and the other does not really have any interest in 4E… so it leaves me in a bit of a spot.  Well, hopefully it can be resolved before too long.

Patch 3.0.2 hits today, and it’s being downloaded at home right now.  Hopefully, when I get home tonight, I’ll be able to go out and tame a new, awesome, exotic pet.  As well as start collecting achievements.  Sweet.

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14.10.2008 Personal No Comments

Campaigning

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

In planning for my upcoming PbP Campaign, I’ve started writing up the Adventure that I want to use for the Campaign.  It’s turning out much better than I had planned (maybe I have a knack for this ‘writing thing’ afterall ;) ).  So, I’m wondering how I can refine my adventure, once it’s finished, to be viable for other people to use?

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24.09.2008 Dungeons & Dragons No Comments

…gonna need a bigger boat…

Monday, September 15th, 2008

It’s Dire Shark Week, so I came up with a Shark that is sure to frighten you D&D players:

Basically, it’s just a regular, Medium shark with the Titanic Template applied… but it should give your players a challenge, fighting this thing in the water.  Note: this is a 4e monster, that I created using the Monster Maker from Asmor.com… I assume it’s correct, but I’m not sure, mostly because I just haven’t had a chance to really play any 4e.  Suggestions for Improvement are appreciated.

Titanic Shark Level 20 Brute
Gargantuan Natural Beast XP 2,800
Initiative +10 Senses Perception +11
HP 237; Bloodied 118
AC 32; Fortitude 40, Reflex 26, Will 27
Speed 60
mBite (Standard)
3d8+9 Crit 19-20 x2
r Trample (Standard; encounter)
3d8+21 target may use Attack of opportunity (-4) or Reflex Save for 1/2 damage(DC 36)
Alignment Unaligned Languages
Skills Swim +28
Str 39 (+24) Dex 11 (+10) Wis 12 (+11)
Con 27 (+18) Int 1 (+5) Cha 2 (+6)

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15.09.2008 Dungeons & Dragons 1 Comment

…it’s coming…

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Zounds! Teaser Logo

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Ohshi…!

07/21/08

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16.07.2008 Projects, Writing 1 Comment