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This is the new CC3 export dialog box for update 8. As well as the aforementioned antialias option, we've added the ability to launch an editor for the image you've just saved, and restrict the export to the map border. Lots of images have a mask around the outside to hide symbols which overlap the edge, and this option ensures the mask isn't included on the export. I can export a 6500x5200 resolution image on my mediocre XP system.
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Peter Olsson, who is responsible for half the CC3 and all the add-on code, has been working with me in the London nerve centre, with Ralf testing at a distance. Peter's cut the bug list in half, including some rare but persistent Vista bugs. He's also finished off the Cosmographer 3 software features. Now, with a bit of jiggery-pokery, we'll be able to import 3D star data into CC3, so that it looks like this:
He's also done some work on export, for example, we now support Zoomify, a deep zoom file format, as demonstrated on the front page of the Profantasy website. We are hoping this will encourage our users to add high resolution zoomable maps to their websites - Zoomify itself is a free Flash application.
CC3 export also has built-in anti-aliasing, which significantly improves the quality of the images.
No aliasing:
Aliasing:
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I've got five delightful new Pelgrane Press projects to announce.
Jason Morningstar, best known as creator of of the Shab-Al-Hiri Roach, is writing a Trail of Cthulhu adventure called The Black Drop. Something slowly gathers strength beneath the frozen basalt of the remote Kerguelen archipelago - a monstrous thing once worshipped and then betrayed, a terrible god from the antediluvian past. It's time has come again, and mysterious forces gather. Will they usher in its rebirth - or put an end to it forever?
Castle Bravo, a Purist Trail of Cthulhu adventure set in the Atomic Age, is being written by Bill White, who wrote the excellent Ganakagok. It is approaching playtestable form. The Investigators are sailors and scientists deployed aboard the USS Bairoko to the South Pacific as part of Joint Task Force One to participate in a series of secret thermonuclear test shots in the Bikini atoll called Operation Castle. After the first detonation, the PCs will have more than just radiation to fear...
Bill is also designing a complete stand-alone game, code name New World, it is inspired in part by Jared Diamond's work. The PC are in a colony at a crisis point and confront the combination of their cultural mores and limited resources in an alien environment.
Robin D Laws will be creating an SF iteration of GUMSHOE, as yet untitled.
Finally, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cavalorn co-creator of the Book of Unremitting Horror is writing a big book of GM'ing wisdom, provisionally called Bott's RPG Miscellany. You can see an example of his GM advice here.
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Graham Walmsley, author of The Dying of St Margaret's is interviewed here for yog-sothoth.com, talking about Trail of Cthulhu, and using the opportunity to pitch games to me.
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| 2009-09-25 10:14 |
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Thank you for all those excellent AD&D ideas
Anything which involves a moral quandary is fairly useless, because they are still a bunch of big kids playing evil characters and doing unpleasant things. To give you an idea of how unpleasant, one character was "aggressively interrogating" an NPC, who died. The character used his single Wish to bring him back to life on the basis that "he hadn't finished with him yet." The NPC later slipped on a bar of soap.
I'll put the ideas in my kit bag and throw them out as required. I'll report back with those I've used.
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I'm running a big AD&D session for the old group this weekend. They are super powerful - 25th level plus. In the past, they have made Tarrasque carpaccio, Lich luncheon meat, Slaad Lord Spam and Leviathan sushi.
Think of some nasty unpleasantness I can throw at them.
Not so fast, gbsteve!
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The latest Trail of Cthulhu releases are now available from Indie Press Revolution as PDF and PDF+Print versions. The PDF is free with the print version. Arkham is here, Rough Magicks here.
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Here are a couple of graphs for GUMSHOE sales. They are monthly cumulative sales from the first date of release, through the distribution channel (that is via Impressions). This excludes retail and mail order sales through IPR, conventions and direct mail order (in total, over 20% of total print sales). PDFs and foreign licenses are a post for another day.
The non-Trail sales are swamped by Trail, so the second one details the sales without Trail.
- The continuing sales of Trail, and the total number of copies sold. mean the market for supplements is sufficient for me to do offset print runs.
- I took a risk with Shadows Over Filmland, doing it hard cover, and I think it will take about three years to sell through the print run.
- The Screen and Resource Book, I am very happy with. I think it means people are playing the game, unless there are screen collectors out there. I couldn't have done this non-offset
- Esoterrorists continues to sell reliably - the same every month for 18 months now. It will be interesting to see how the FactBook does.
- Distributors and retailers have more confidence in the ability of a Trail supplement to sell than Mutant City Blues. The sales for MCB are a little flatter than I would have liked, but the confidence inspired by previous GUMSHOE releases meant a reasonable initial order. The MCB graph is a little flat for my liking, but it's a little early to say. I think Hard Helix, the MCB supplement will help - it was released much more quickly after MCB than we've managed with other lines.
When I run out of the second Trail print run, I'm going to have a difficult printing choice. Risk another hard back? Switch to perfect bound? Should I do a minor edition update?  
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Is there any way of someone demonstrating they are or have been a DDI subscriber in straightforward fashion, and without giving any secret info away?
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Overheard in a 4th Edition D&D game, when PCs were looking for info leading them to the next stage of the adventure. The player had dice in about to roll against an information skill.
The DM said: "Actually, you need the info to continue. Why don't we just GUMSHOE it?"
You know you are having an impact, when they start using you as a verb.
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gbsteve point me at a lovelyGUMSHOE thread on rpg.net. It's gratifying that we've reached the stage where there are some people I've never heard of being enthusiatic enough about the actual play resulting from the game to encourage others to try it. Wonderful.
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Photos of GenCon behind the cut, courtesy of Jerome.
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Rough Magicks and Arkham Detective Tales, two new releases for Trail of Cthulhu are out now from the Pelgrane Press webstore.
Rough Magicks: a magic supplement for the best-selling and award winning Trail of Cthulhu
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Arkham Detective Tales: Cyclopean skyscrapers, bizarre cults, and eerie alleyways – the city of New York stands on the threshold between the modern age and the Mythos. Four labyrinthine and spine-chilling mysteries for your Trail of Cthulhu investigators! A magic supplement for the best-selling and award winning Trail of Cthulhu, written by the master of Lovecraft Lore, Kenneth Hite.
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We are looking for playtesters for a new Purist Trail adventure,Watchers in the Sky the follow-up to the excellent Dying of St Margaret's. Email me simon@dyingearth.com if you are interested.
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Random GenCon musings.
ProFantasy and Pelgrane booth traffic at GenCon have been brisk, with no customers so far being unfamilar with our products. Rough Magicks and Arkham Detective Tales were delivered succesfully, and selling nicely.
Cash takings are solid, but there has been a decline in credit card order. The credit crunch?
I have heard a disturbing rumour that Ken Hite was in fact born in Canada. Until we see the full form of his birth certificate posted online, or the "Lazy X" brand he allegedly received at birth in Oklahoma, I think the jury is out.
I'd love to track down the Games On Demand person at GenCon who was apparently running Mutant City Blues, as by now I think I owe him a beer or something. Allegedly he was Grant somebody.
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I'll be at GenCon this week, along with Ralf, who will be running the ProFantasy stand, and Jérome, who will be on the Pelgrane stand signing and drawing for some of the time. Robin Laws and Kenneth Hite may also make an appearance.
Pelgrane will be releasing two new products at GenCon, UPS willing, Rough Magicks and Arkham Detective Tales, both for Trail of Cthulhu. Steve Dempsey will be running quick demos of all the games, as well as a four-hour Trail of Cthulhu adventure. ProFantasy will be demoing all of our products, including the Annuals and the latest subscriptions.
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