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  gnunn

  in Show Off March 2010

  I'll go ahead and jump on this train by posting a couple of recent developments that I am particularly proud of. The first is "a comprehensive history of the elves":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/the-westerlands/wikis/elves that one of my…
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  gnunn

  in Learning through Games March 2010

  That. is. Awesome! It's like the classic story of 85% of history's great scientists and engineers, who got their start destroying devices, pulling them apart and then putting them back together so they could see how they work... Classic!
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  gnunn

  in How to get your players more involved March 2010

  On the subject of awesome online resources, I have created a section in my wiki to feature free or super low-cost "resources and techniques":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/the-westerlands/wikis/gm-techniques for GMs. Right now it's mostl…
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  gnunn

  in How to get your players more involved March 2010

  Falchen, you make an excellent point. It is certainly much easier to calculate individual xp awards and to scale encounters for a group that is of the same level. As to their preferences, a good GM definitely listens to the vibe and preferences w…
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  gnunn

  in Guest Blogger Article: Printing Maps to a 1" scale March 2010

  Ugh... Chain, I'm jealous that you got your map uploaded before they took away the added zoom levels for Ascendant members... Apparently those who had it already got to keep it.
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  gnunn

  in Maps get their aspect ratio changed March 2010

  "I can't resist...":http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w274/willzweigart/the_more_you_know.jpg
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  gnunn

  in Maps get their aspect ratio changed March 2010

  Okay, that makes sense... but it still results in only 2 zoom levels that are of any actual use. Having a single 256 x 256 tile displayed in a frame that will fully display a 512 x 512 array consisting of four 256 x 256 tiles means the furthest zoom…
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  gnunn

  in Maps get their aspect ratio changed March 2010

  Thanks for the update Micah... I certainly do feel the Ascendant level membership is worth it even without the additional map features. One follow-up question on the map though. I just uploaded a map at the maximum suggested size of 1024 x 1024 …
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  gnunn

  in Maps get their aspect ratio changed March 2010

  Hey, I just wanted to follow up on this because it appears that the maps for ascendant members did, in-fact have 2 of their zoom levels and their maximum size removed. Was it for resource reasons? I have to be honest, I finally paid for an ascendant…
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  gnunn

  in How to get your players more involved March 2010

  Just a quick follow-up. about 1/2 an hour after I emailed my players about implementing a points system like those mentioned above, another one of my players mentioned a desire to do a history of the dwarves in my campaign world. We'll see if he act…
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  gnunn

  in Guest Blogger Article: Printing Maps to a 1" scale March 2010

  Hey, so I tried out the tutorial over at Cartographer's Guild and have a pretty good "work in-progress":http://forum.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?9495-Subcontinent-The-Westerlands-in-Gimp&highlight=arsheesh going after last night. There…
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  gnunn

  in How to get your players more involved March 2010 edited March 2010

  Arsheesh, I really like the idea of prestige points! I started thinking about something similar after I picked up a used copy of the Eberron Campaign book. Your prestige points seem very similar to Eberron's Action points variant, without the aut…
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  gnunn

  in How to get your players more involved March 2010

  I have a standing offer of 500xp for any write-up relating to our campaign. So far, only two of my seven players have taken advantage of that offer. One of them actually DMs the other campaign our group plays on alternate weeks, so he is naturally d…
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  gnunn

  in Guest Blogger Article: Printing Maps to a 1" scale March 2010

  @ Arsheesh... your world map is gorgeous! Yargh! I've been struggling with creating my own world map in Gimp and have restarted it multiple times. You're giving me the itch to do it once again! I am sooo torn with forging ahead on my latest itera…
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  gnunn

  in Guest Blogger Article: Printing Maps to a 1" scale March 2010

  I second Arsheesh's recommendation of the Cartographer's guild. I have "an account there too!":http://forum.cartographersguild.com/member.php?9645-geoff_nunn Though I rarely use it. I'm still trying to settle on a map style I like.
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  gnunn

  in Compact Stat Block March 2010

  @ ketherian: Well done! Also, do you create your own character art? I really dig the portraits!
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  gnunn

  in Class Table Code February 2010

  I love helping people make things pretty around here.
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  gnunn

  in Class Table Code February 2010

  Here, I took vstraydogstrutv's nifty table and added a bit of formatting to spice it up. table{width:500px;border:1px solid black;font-family:arial}. {background:#666;color:white}. |\6=. +*Class Name Here*+ | {background:#666;color:white}. |={w…
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  gnunn

  in Class Table Code February 2010

  When you say Class Table, are you referring to the table that defines level-dependent benefits similar to the one found in the Class chapter of the PHB? or are you talking about formatting a table using a pre-formatted CSS class? The first, I mig…
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  gnunn

  in Help with textile formatting with sidebar February 2010

  Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible at this point. There has been a lot of discussion floating around the boards about creating universal style templates, but for now each page has to be coded individually. I usually just do a copy/paste tech…
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  gnunn

  in Help with textile formatting with sidebar February 2010

  Okay, try this: INDEX *[[Main page]]* *[[Current Tasks]]* *[[Adventure Log]]* *[[House Rules]]* "%{color:blue}Map of Darwath%":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/nerath-reborn/maps/show/5931 *History* "%…
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  gnunn

  in Help with textile formatting with sidebar February 2010

  If you post your code here, I would be happy to help you troubleshoot it. Textile can be very finicky, but it usually just requires a little patience to figure out what's going on. Just copy and paste your code in this thread and make sure your c…
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  gnunn

  in New to OP, and Help!! February 2010

  "How can I turn my site background black, and set all the body text to default to white?" Unfortunately, there is no customizable CSS at the moment, so you will have to hand code this into each page enclose your entire page in tags like so: …
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  gnunn

  in How do I align an image with text? February 2010

  Also, I recommend you check out the "Unofficial Help and Tips":http://forums.obsidianportal.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=1114&page=1#Item_20 thread that ChainsawXIV put together. I've contributed a couple things to it and there are lots of othe…
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  gnunn

  in How do I align an image with text? February 2010

  CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets... It's largely a way to pre-program settings for a web page so you don't need to type in all the code every time you want to make your headings 72px, blue and underlined. You just establish a style in the heade…
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  gnunn

  in How do I align an image with text? February 2010

  |={width:60px}. "Cell content"| should work as well if you want to set the cell alignment the same way for each cell, as opposed to setting it with css attributes using Dethstryke's work-around. I have found that Textile table formatting can …
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  gnunn

  in How do I align an image with text? February 2010

  ...or what Dethstryke said... which is pretty much the same thing. Bah! long posts!
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  gnunn

  in How do I align an image with text? February 2010

  Okay, I think this should be a fairly simple fix. I would recommend enclosing each row of the lists in a textile table. Textile tables are formatted by putting " | " as dividers between each cell like so: | cell1 | cell2 | | cell3 | cell4 | I…
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  gnunn

  in How do I align an image with text? February 2010

  I may be able to help you out with this, but you're going to have to adjust the privacy settings on your page first. Right now I'm getting a "403: Not authorized to view this page" error when I follow your link. You probably either have the page set…
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  gnunn

  in A Totally Unofficial Help & Tips FAQ February 2010

  I like this draconic language "translator":http://draconic.twilightrealm.com/. Simply think up something that sounds ominous in English and type it in. (e.g. "everybody dies" = "Fronnol Loreatic")