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Re: The Blackapple Brugh

Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2020 8:28 pm
by Solomoriah
I need a blurb for the Downloads page. You don't provide one in the adventure (it's not required); do you have any suggestion?

Re: The Blackapple Brugh

Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2020 8:49 pm
by Solomoriah
Announcing!

KH1 The Blackapple Brugh, Release 12 -- August 29, 2020
Here is the first release to the Downloads page of Kyle Hettinger's new adventure, The Blackapple Brugh!

https://basicfantasy.org/downloads.html#kh1

Re: The Blackapple Brugh

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2020 6:18 am
by Bumblepig
Solomoriah wrote: Sat Aug 29, 2020 8:28 pm I need a blurb for the Downloads page. You don't provide one in the adventure (it's not required); do you have any suggestion?
Blackapple is a remote pig-farming village overshadowed by a large fairy mound. It provides low level PCs with a starter town and hub for mini-adventures, as well as a larger adventure in a subterranean elf lair (the “Brugh”).

Re: The Blackapple Brugh

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2020 6:21 am
by Bumblepig
Solomoriah wrote: Sat Aug 29, 2020 8:49 pm Announcing!

KH1 The Blackapple Brugh, Release 12 -- August 29, 2020
Here is the first release to the Downloads page of Kyle Hettinger's new adventure, The Blackapple Brugh!


https://basicfantasy.org/downloads.html#kh1
Many thanks to everyone who contributed to getting this out!!!

Re: The Blackapple Brugh

Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 11:02 am
by Bumblepig
Solomoriah wrote: Sat Aug 29, 2020 2:36 pm Formatting the treatment rooms, and noticed there's no description for Patient # 3's room. Also, I noticed some (but not all) of the checkboxes are formatted in Arial Black. Checkboxes print fine in Century Gothic; it'll look weird part one, part the other. I'm going to fix some and leave the rest for later, as I'm really doing big picture items in this pass.

Formatting is pretty good, actually. Layout isn't that hard, much is done already. Thanks!
Going through to fix these things for an r13... so is Century Gothic or Arial Black the preference? I went to check in the latest Adventure Template and it's Century Gothic in all examples except Wandering Monsters... Wandering Monsters are in Arial Black. Is that right?

Re: The Blackapple Brugh

Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 12:17 pm
by Solomoriah
Nothing should be in Arial Black. Chi, sounds like you need to check the template...

Re: The Blackapple Brugh

Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 12:47 pm
by chiisu81
Looks likes it's just the HP checkboxes in WanderingMonsters that's set to Arial Black for whatever reason.

Re: The Blackapple Brugh

Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 4:23 pm
by Bumblepig
So how do things get maintained once they're on the Downloads page? Not that I plan to make frequent changes to it at this point, but there are a few tweaks that I made, mostly based on things Solo pointed out when he did his last pass:
- Global: HP checkboxes are all in Century Gothic
- A2: Added room description for Patient #3.
- Encounter 6 in Blackapple, Patrolling Clerics of St. Ludann: Added missing stats.
- Global: Plural of "ibix" is "ibix" (not "ibixes").
- Misc. points of clarification for things pointed out by a reader on MeWe

None of this affected layout.

Anyway, I'll attach these changes to this post as r13. Normally I'd upload the new rev to the first topic in comments, but I have a feeling that's not how it's done once something's on the Downloads page.
Edit: attachments removed as now in Projects

Re: The Blackapple Brugh

Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 8:37 pm
by chiisu81
Correct; normally it's emailed to Solo, or these days put into the Projects Dropbox folder we use for coordinated work for items on the Downloads page (and mostly things in- or eventually to be in-print). I'll let Solo PM/contact you regarding that.

Re: The Blackapple Brugh

Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 9:46 pm
by Solomoriah
I've said this before, Bumble, you're unusual. Most authors aren't that involved after they hand off their manuscripts; we pass the document around, with either Chi or Al making changes (sometimes both) and dropping new revisions into the Projects folder, and then I pull them from there, do a layout pass through the document (and sometimes do some proofing myself) and then post the new set of documents on the website. Sometimes we have a hard time getting answers from the authors about things that need clarification. This is not an indictment of the authors... often they were lucky to have enough time to write the adventure, and our proofing cycle can be very slow, leading some of them to sort of wander off.

But as I say, you're unusual. So here's the deal... I'll add you in to the Projects folder on Dropbox. You'll need a Dropbox account, of course, and you'll need to email me at solomoriah@basicfantasy.org from the email account you registered on Dropbox with (or get that email address to me some other way). Then I add you to the folder, and you can drop updates there for us to process.

The main thing is, if you drop a new revision on us and I post it, you MUST download that version of the new revision before making more changes! Otherwise, our work will be erased when you drop in another revision. I get cross when I have to do the same work over again...