quoghmyre
7th Level Troll
The Summer Troll
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Post by quoghmyre on Feb 24, 2010 5:26:57 GMT -5
Click on the file, and a large Download button will appear.
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machfront
11th level Troll
Stalwart of the Trollbridge
"Let's go dark!"
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Post by machfront on Feb 24, 2010 6:49:39 GMT -5
AWE-SSUUM!! ;D *happily applaudes* I can't wait to have the time to read this over and the scan I jus' gave it has me all excited. I hope all of you are proud as you should be. But, whoa...31.7 Megs? Wha'? How'd that happen? I've full-color, 90 page rulebooks in pdf that are quite literally a tenth of that file size. Heck, I have some scanned stuff that's never been OCR-ed and is essentially a pdf of scores of pages that are images and those are in the 15 to 20 Meg range. I'm confused.
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Post by sankoff on Feb 24, 2010 6:49:48 GMT -5
congratulations guys! that work is awesome!
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sligo
4th Level Troll
Read my blog: http://indysligo.weebly.com/
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Post by sligo on Feb 24, 2010 9:02:46 GMT -5
Wow! I'm suitably impressed! I look forward to spending the time to actually read all the articles!
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Post by mgtremaine on Feb 24, 2010 9:56:56 GMT -5
Wow! That came out really nice, congrats on all the hard work everyone! Special exalts for Kevin and Dan.
-Mike
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quoghmyre
7th Level Troll
The Summer Troll
Posts: 1,048
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Post by quoghmyre on Feb 24, 2010 13:13:15 GMT -5
machfront: most of the art was provide at print quality, and I tried not to compress any thing. We wanted you to have this in all its finery. We will be having a debrief over the next week or so and will be providing a submitter guide for both articles and art. This will address such things as dpi and file size.
If the current size is a problem, please let us know and we will provide a smaller version.
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Post by ragnorakk on Feb 24, 2010 14:33:45 GMT -5
Looks (and reads) fantastic! Yowsa!
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Post by mahrundl on Feb 24, 2010 14:40:16 GMT -5
I've only had time to glance at it, but it looks excellent!
An Exalt to Quog, and one for Zanshin to follow as soon as I can!
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Post by Aramis of Erak on Feb 24, 2010 16:39:31 GMT -5
machfront: most of the art was provide at print quality, and I tried not to compress any thing. We wanted you to have this in all its finery. We will be having a debrief over the next week or so and will be providing a submitter guide for both articles and art. This will address such things as dpi and file size. If the current size is a problem, please let us know and we will provide a smaller version. Compression alone would be a nicety; both LZW and Flate are lossless, that is, no degradation occurs when reconstituted, so there is no reason NOT to use it. Further, both are standard in Acrobat PDF standards, and thus should be no problem for 90% of PDF readers out there.
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Post by wilowisp on Feb 24, 2010 16:57:44 GMT -5
Well gentlemen, allow me to join the growing chorus of praise for this fine work! Tomorrow I shall enjoy playing the fine solo in this work, and I KNOW my F2F group will enjoy the NPCs provided for when they try and sell back used goods (a perpetual event in my campaign........)!
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Post by cartomancer on Feb 24, 2010 17:17:39 GMT -5
I'd love to hear any feedback that you have on the solo Willowisp, either good or bad as i'm always looking to improve my work. Even looking at it now i can see things i would change but, it's only minor details (like the typo i mad in paragraph 42 or 43 where it says armers instead of farmers. Still, i'm sure everyone will know what it means. :0). I also broke a couple of my own golden solo writing rules but, hey, it still worked out well, so why worry. ;0).
As usual i'm currently juggling several projects (a couple of solos, a Tunnels and Trolls boardgame, a few articles, my entry in the competition, my pet GM dungeon, custom weaponary, house rules, Clip Bits, a random dungeon game, The Running Delver and, that's just the TnT stuff on my to do list) which i hope to get at least a few of into the next issue of Trollszine and, after reading this issue (which i just have) i have to say that i am really looking forward to what may be coming in the next issue.
So, it's a big thumbs up from me on the zine and a huge congratulations to everyone who put the time and effort into making it happen. :0).
Here's to many more issues!
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Post by zanshin on Feb 24, 2010 18:34:26 GMT -5
Hi guys Thanks for the positive feedback. I think Quogmyre deserves all the exalts coming his way for his work. I have exchanged mails with Ragnorakk and we are working on the lulu e book. Once that is available i'll start pushing it at all outlets. Any advice , comments, feedback, constructive criticism welcome. Oh, and new articles
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quoghmyre
7th Level Troll
The Summer Troll
Posts: 1,048
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Post by quoghmyre on Feb 24, 2010 18:56:09 GMT -5
Armers is now fixed :-)
Pages just Exports as Best, Better and Good there are no compression options, but next issue we'll ask for the artists to prepare their work for layout and distribution. But this is issue is full print quality :-)
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Post by cartomancer on Feb 24, 2010 19:16:15 GMT -5
Armers is now fixed :-) Pages just Exports as Best, Better and Good there are no compression options, but next issue we'll ask for the artists to prepare their work for layout and distribution. But this is issue is full print quality :-) Cool. My 2 cents on the sizing issues is that i'd sooner have the larger download for the better image quality but, i know in general the world likes smaller file sizes. I'm sure we'll work out something that everyone's happy with though.
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Post by sonofliefeld on Feb 24, 2010 20:09:50 GMT -5
Kudos to everyone involved......great first issue
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