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Map Creation using Photoshop – Part 1
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I’ve been spending quite a bit of time over at CartographersGuild.com learning various techniques for creating good looking fantasy maps. I used Photoshop CS4 to make these maps, but I think the technique will work with earlier version of Photoshop as well. Cartography CartographersGuild.com...
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Building Printable Battlemaps with 3dsMax
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I’ve been using 3dsMax professionally for about 12 years now. I’m going to show you what it takes to make some basic maps that you can print and render in a few simple steps. I’m not going to go into a lot of detail on how to use the program, just the bare minimum to point you in...
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Build a Better Hero Trap
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Let me just start by saying that I hate traps. Why anyone would design content that’s express purpose is to be avoided is beyond me. If this happened in film or video games they would be exceptionally boring. So why do DnD traps eat up 1/4 to 1/2 a page of content that can all be avoided by...
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Quick Adventure Outlines
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For a short time before I left Vancouver I had the priveledge of teaching a class on pen and paper role-playing to some game design students at the vancouver film school. It is usual in my experience that you learn just as much from your students and you teach them. In this case, I learned some important...
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Review: Player’s Handbook 3
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Psionics are here in the latest Core Rule Book for Dungeons and Dragons 4th edition. Check out the details and find out why this is a must have.
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Battle Mapping Systems
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RPG battles wouldn’t be the same without miniatures. There are a lot of options for handling grid based miniature battles. This is an overview of the various methods and their related products. 1. Grid Paper A lot of people swear by Gaming Paper, but I’m not convinced. I prefer the...
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D&D 4e Campaign Setting Mashups
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Musicians have been doing it for years, taking two different and seeming incompatible artists and mashing them together to create something new, and arguably, better. During the period between 1998 and 2005 I worked on a total conversion of Earthdawn to a new rules system for personal use. Last month...
Map Creation using Photoshop – Part 1
Use Photoshop CS4 to make high quality printable world maps. The first half of this tutorial focuses on one technique for creating satellite style fantasy terrain.
Building Printable Battlemaps with 3dsMax
I’ve been using 3dsMax professionally for about 12 years now. I’m going to show you what it takes to make some basic maps that you can print and render in a few simple steps. I’m not going to go into a lot of detail on how to use the program, just the bare minimum to
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- Map Creation using Photoshop – Part 1Published June 20, 2010 at 5:47 pm
- Building Printable Battlemaps with 3dsMaxPublished May 14, 2010 at 2:39 pm
- Build a Better Hero TrapPublished May 2, 2010 at 5:32 pm
- Quick Adventure OutlinesPublished April 19, 2010 at 7:56 pm
- Review: Player’s Handbook 3Published April 2, 2010 at 5:24 pm
- Battle Mapping SystemsPublished March 19, 2010 at 10:44 am
- D&D 4e Campaign Setting MashupsPublished March 5, 2010 at 12:09 pm
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