First, the top four of RPG Superstar are up. The finalists matched my votes...
See them at http://www.paizo.com/rpgsuperstar
Second. I made a lot of progress on the organization worksheet today. It ended up being five pages for the worksheet and three pages for the explanation section. Add the legal page and it's a nine page pdf. It's lots smaller (in kilobytes) than the previous sheets, which proves that fields in pdf's take up a lot of "space" in the file. Anywho, the most recent version has been sent to a few people to look at, and the wall of text explanation section will be sent to someone I trust to read and edit. Looking good for an April release, and a price of $4 USD.
That's about it this week.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
RGPSuperstar Top 8, Android Picks, Flashbacks
So I playtested Tom Phillips Eightfinger's Tomb with my brother, parents, and a friend this weekend. It was fun, I won't go into much detail here, but here's a link to my review. http://paizo.com/forums/dmtz5azv&page=2?Eightfingers-Tomb#51. I've also voted already. If you haven't, voting is open.
Also, in more work towards a functional tablet, I've been playing with the following android apps:
Pathfinder Spell Compendium and Pathfinder Feat/Talent Compendium by Sven-Erik Jonsson
Very handy free spellbook app. Good on both Cyanogen7 for nook and phones. Feat/Talent app is also handy but new and not as polished.
Pathfinder NPC Gallery by Shaking Earth
Handy little reference to the NPCs in the back of the Gamemaster's Guide, has some issues on the Cyanogennook.
Pathfinder RPG Manager
Simple, incomplete in my opinion, but a nice init tracker
Dice Caddy
Handy, dice widgets on the home screen, otherwise pretty basic.
D&D Dice by b.freq
This one's kinda nice. Does math and has a good log.
DM Assist
This one is much more complete than Pathfinder RPG manager, but looks horrid on a tablet. Hopefully that'll improve.
Found my old 3.5 sheet (and even the sheet it was based on) on the old family website. Getting ready to re-write parts of that story... Re-integrating some of those characters should save a little trouble with filling holes in some locations. It's also reminded me of two of the stories this setting was created to tell.
1. Simply because its different doesn't mean it's evil.
2. Simply because they're the leaders doesn't mean they're the good guys.
I think those stories are becoming important to tell again.
Also, in more work towards a functional tablet, I've been playing with the following android apps:
Pathfinder Spell Compendium and Pathfinder Feat/Talent Compendium by Sven-Erik Jonsson
Very handy free spellbook app. Good on both Cyanogen7 for nook and phones. Feat/Talent app is also handy but new and not as polished.
Pathfinder NPC Gallery by Shaking Earth
Handy little reference to the NPCs in the back of the Gamemaster's Guide, has some issues on the Cyanogennook.
Pathfinder RPG Manager
Simple, incomplete in my opinion, but a nice init tracker
Dice Caddy
Handy, dice widgets on the home screen, otherwise pretty basic.
D&D Dice by b.freq
This one's kinda nice. Does math and has a good log.
DM Assist
This one is much more complete than Pathfinder RPG manager, but looks horrid on a tablet. Hopefully that'll improve.
Found my old 3.5 sheet (and even the sheet it was based on) on the old family website. Getting ready to re-write parts of that story... Re-integrating some of those characters should save a little trouble with filling holes in some locations. It's also reminded me of two of the stories this setting was created to tell.
1. Simply because its different doesn't mean it's evil.
2. Simply because they're the leaders doesn't mean they're the good guys.
I think those stories are becoming important to tell again.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Making Libreoffice Behave in a Dark KDE Color Scheme
Okay... So this isn't really related to Roleplaying Games beyond the fact that I use KDE for my desktop environment on Ubuntu, and Libreoffice to do a lot of my stuff for my personal games and some of my NSN Gaming work. That said
I like KDE, I like LibreOffice. LibreOffice has a few oddities on KDE. The default icon set and drop menus have some issues with dark themes. Also the default icon's aren't all that great. Worse, on a really dark color scheme in KDE, all of LibreOffice's tool tips are black text on really dark background.
So here's what I've figured out.
First, the instructions here are for debian/ubuntu packages... if you run some other version of linux you'll have to adapt.
There's an unoffical set of icons for LibreOffice that are named after the "Faenza" Theme of icons. They look pretty good, regardless of theme color. Get them off of gnomelook's website. Follow the instructions posted.
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=143474
Yes, those instructions are messy... you download a iconset, then you install an official iconset and replace parts of it with the ones you downloaded... but it works.
Now make some color changes in Libreoffice Tools->Options->Appearance
Set your document background to white, and your font color to black. Why? That's the automatic settings!
Not really... the auto settings pull from your KDE color scheme. And sometimes its weird what you get.
Now pick your dark kde color scheme. If you loose the ability to read your menus and tooltips, change back long enough to enter Tools->Options->View. This is where you set the icons, set them back to oxygen. Change to your dark theme in KDE without closing the LibreOffice Options window, then change back to the "crystal" set (really Faenza). That's when my tooltips and dropbars and menus started being legible again!
Hope it works... tell me if it doesn't and what you had to do to make it work later!
I like KDE, I like LibreOffice. LibreOffice has a few oddities on KDE. The default icon set and drop menus have some issues with dark themes. Also the default icon's aren't all that great. Worse, on a really dark color scheme in KDE, all of LibreOffice's tool tips are black text on really dark background.
So here's what I've figured out.
First, the instructions here are for debian/ubuntu packages... if you run some other version of linux you'll have to adapt.
There's an unoffical set of icons for LibreOffice that are named after the "Faenza" Theme of icons. They look pretty good, regardless of theme color. Get them off of gnomelook's website. Follow the instructions posted.
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=143474
Yes, those instructions are messy... you download a iconset, then you install an official iconset and replace parts of it with the ones you downloaded... but it works.
Now make some color changes in Libreoffice Tools->Options->Appearance
Set your document background to white, and your font color to black. Why? That's the automatic settings!
Not really... the auto settings pull from your KDE color scheme. And sometimes its weird what you get.
Now pick your dark kde color scheme. If you loose the ability to read your menus and tooltips, change back long enough to enter Tools->Options->View. This is where you set the icons, set them back to oxygen. Change to your dark theme in KDE without closing the LibreOffice Options window, then change back to the "crystal" set (really Faenza). That's when my tooltips and dropbars and menus started being legible again!
Hope it works... tell me if it doesn't and what you had to do to make it work later!
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