Doc Savage's Blog - Tannhäuser Tuesday - M.U.R.08 Tokens

And I thought the betas we're good.

One thing though I find my self anking why is there a command objective in the bathroom?

never mind, it's obviously so you can use the secret toilet radio to call in an air-strike.

Plageman wrote:OMG ! It's huge ! Almost 100 Mb for the file, I guess w'ell need to split it up for upload & printing :p

I'll look into why it is so big. I'll try a .jpg instead of a .tif

Doc Savage wrote:

Plageman wrote:OMG ! It's huge ! Almost 100 Mb for the file, I guess w'ell need to split it up for upload & printing :p

I'll look into why it is so big. I'll try a .jpg instead of a .tif

You may want to reduce the dpi size of the image (I do not know what the current dpi you are using is). I prefer to work with 600 dpi. However, for printing purposes the highest you really ever need is 300 dpi. To reduce file size I tend to upload images at 200 dpi, for distribution on the web.

I have made an 11 MB jpg, but either the server at work won't let me upload the file, or MediaFire is having problems. Either way the file is not up yet.

Arghhh...

In resize it says my pixels are only 125 per inch - maybe because I had blow up the original map graphic?

The map is 38inches x 29 inches

Preferences are set to 300 dpi

Malechi when you upload a zip file, you keep the quality at 300 dpi, don't you ?

I just uploaded a different map file. I couldn't get MediaFire to work so the link on the blog now goes to FileFactory. I loaded a 12MB jpg.

Edit - Wednesday - Media Fire working so I am now linked back there.

Plageman wrote:Malechi when you upload a zip file, you keep the quality at 300 dpi, don't you ?

I try to keep the highest quality I can, but allow for file size. Therefore, I upload files at 200 dpi. I can adjust 200 dpi image to have a higher graphic quality than I can a 300 dpi image at the same file size ... Although 300 dpi is a much greater pixel depth, for those printing on home printers, there is very little difference in the final print between 200 and 300 dpi images (as I learned from my offer to print the Token Cards at Kinkos - no one wanted this option - most people - not me - print at home or work)

I added a Tannhäuser Thursday article today discuss other games that have maps that might be used or adapted to Tannhäuser.

That is a very nice and well made map Doc.

It looks like a lot of fun. How big is it when all printed? standard Tann map size?

You have encouraged me to get my map finished.....

As soon as I am finished helping my old map remodel the down stairs bathroom.

The new version of Doktor Moeller is up.

Excellent!!!

Doc Savage wrote:The new version of Doktor Moeller is up.

I like the new version of Moeller. Much more streamlined AND balanced. However the Staff of Storm power is now less "powerful" than the Animate Corpse ritual. A "simple" solution would be to switch them, the other would be to pump up the Staff. You could offer that the Staff permits the character to ignore all
Smoke Grenade penalties due to the winds that continuously blow around it.

As a Close Combat weapon, I'd rather use the Luger P-08 for the non-Combat packs. This would keep it in line with Eva's packs.

Plageman -

Nice suggestion about the Luger...

Regarding your great suggestion to increase the power of the Staff of Storms, did you mean something like this being added -

While Moeller is on a path, that path is unaffected by smoke.

- or did you intend only Moeller himself to be unaffected?

I intended it to affect Moeller only. I was envisioning it as a side effect of the staff; small gust of winds playing around him.

plageman's Ikarus Faith is up on the blog for Tannhäuser Tuesday and gets a U-Chronic Token of the Month from littlewars!

Also updating the Staff of Storms

As always littlewars work on the token is outstanding. It's pure magic

I have finally finished v.1 on Krisztov Moeller's 2-page character sheet - print this on 11x17 paper.

And it is still Tuesday here...

Next... The tokens...

Outstanding!!!

You've really outdone yourself.

Very minor aesthetic quibbles: Scale down the books "All Seeing Eye of Terror" and "Animate Corpse" to match the scale of "Spontaneous Resurrection", they look strangely large.

Bright cherry red background on the restriction boxes could be more crimson colored to match the rulebook.

Overall, very good!

I will be importing an official sheet PDF to color match the Text Box backgrounds. Oh, and I missed replacing the Mauser with the Luger..

Anybody see any other problems?

If you want I can host the "base" file you used for the 2-page spread.

Plageman wrote:If you want I can host the "base" file you used for the 2-page spread.

I combined 2 one page files to get that one. littlewars provided those 2 pages to me. They don't match the rulebook character sheets so I'm not sure where they came from. I also created a background of my own, and I may use that.

Once I get the bugs worked out of Moeller's page and have the complete set (Character Card, 2-page reference sheet, and tokens) I would like that hosted at Black Sheep Squadron.

Doc Savage wrote:littlewars provided those 2 pages to me. They don't match the rulebook character sheets so I'm not sure where they came from.

These pages are the left & right pages from the rules section of the book. But you are right the layout of the character section is different.

The Doktor Moeller Tokens are up along with the revised 2-page Moeller sheet.

Tokens look great!

Now that they are done I can finally playtest Moeller. I've had all the Hermetics figs for a while but the tokens are pretty much necessary for play.

Will we see more revised Hermetics and tokens sometime soon?

Now that I have templates I will try to do one Hermetics character a week, but some of the tokens are tricky.

Lady Furstenstein is next.