AugustusGloop
I'm using Obsidian Portal to host the information needed to run my monthly local Dresden Files RPG game, The Albany Files. I would love a banner graphic of the skyline, with
"The Albany Files"
A Dresden Files RPG Game
emblazoned across it. I don't have any skill with, or inclination to learn, photoshop or gimp or whatever talented people are using nowadays. I'd be glad to trade for a little creative writing for your campaign, or something else reasonable. Here's a link to my (in development) campaign if you're interested: "The Albany Files: Politics, Murder, and Weirdness. That's Albany.":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/thealbanyfiles
Here's the skyline I've been using:
!imageurl!:http://cdn.obsidianportal.com/assets/89128/Albany-Skyline.jpg
~edit: thanks for bringing the broken link to my attention!~
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That's a beautiful Skyline. I'd be more than happy to work with you on that - do you know the kind of font you want/style/color? Any mood you want to evoke?
Also: "Fixed link":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/thealbanyfiles
I'm sure with your brilliant "skyline" and Rase's skill and enthusiasm, you will come up with a winner.
Welcome to the Portal, where you have obviously already found out that everyone is pretty cool.
twiggyleaf
"Shimring - The Faces of Divinity":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/shimring
(a multiplanar 3.5 D&D campaign)
"I met a traveller from an antique land....."
CotM May 2016: Mysteria: set in Wolfgang Baur’s MIDGARD.
Previous CotM Aug 2012: Shimring: High Level Multiplanar Campaign
Inner Council Member
I love how the skyline already has movement, the car lights streaking on a long exposure, but if you have any idea how to make it more evocative of crime drama, something that feels like a call to action! Whatever you come up with will be amazing. Thanks a ton!
Hi twiggy,
Thanks for the words of encouragement! I already don't know what I'd do without ObsidianPortal's amazing features, I'm considerably more organized than I was prior to finding it (in a google search for "please god let there be some program that can organize my table top pen and paper rpg") and I'm feeling much more confident about my game. Now I'm looking for incentives to get my players here, and I figure some flashy graphics will help.
Here's the "off-site link":http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn274/apmunson/Projects%20for%20OP/TheAlbanyFiles.jpg to the Photo you requested edited. Please let me know if this is what you had in mind! I had a lot of fun messing around with it :)
Just trying to help out.
twiggyleaf
"Shimring - The Faces of Divinity":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/shimring
(a multiplanar 3.5 D&D campaign)
"I met a traveller from an antique land....."
CotM May 2016: Mysteria: set in Wolfgang Baur’s MIDGARD.
Previous CotM Aug 2012: Shimring: High Level Multiplanar Campaign
Inner Council Member
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
-Jaymes
"Changing History":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/l5r-changing-history
-Jaymes
Campaign of the Month Febuary 2013
Good job Raze! Great start Augustus! To get players to visit and use the site what I'd do is exp rewards or bonuses of some sort doesn't the fate system have some sort of Story Point Reward if I recall correctly?
Set in the Dark Tower universe Roland (the Gunslinger) gets banged up off screen - when the story starts up he is being nursed back to health by a bunch of Nuns, little does he know the nuns are actually Vampires.
Shenanigans and other antics ensue when one of the strongest amongst them falls for our hero...
If you have questions on it or want to spitball ideas I would be happy to help out via PM.
In return I am hoping someone will help me out with some graphics work for buttons and the like for my sidebar ... my top tabs overlay and some other lil stuff I have started working on it myself but my Gimp skills are crappola to be frank. (P.S. My name is not Frank, nor is it Nick).
And if you say surely you cant be serious I will tell you not to call me Shirley.
All kidding aside I am nearly maxed out in the art depart after my crappy efforts at a Bad Wrong Fun banner.
I am sure some of you might be able to help.
Set in the Dark Tower universe Roland (the Gunslinger) gets banged up off screen - when the story starts up he is being nursed back to health by a bunch of Nuns, little does he know the nuns are actually Vampires.
Shenanigans and other antics ensue when one of the strongest amongst them falls for our hero...
If you have questions on it or want to spitball ideas I would be happy to help out via PM.
In return I am hoping someone will help me out with some graphics work for buttons and the like for my sidebar ... my top tabs overlay and some other lil stuff I have started working on it myself but my Gimp skills are crappola to be frank. (P.S. My name is not Frank, nor is it Nick).
And if you say surely you cant be serious I will tell you not to call me Shirley.
All kidding aside I am nearly maxed out in the art depart after my crappy efforts at a Bad Wrong Fun banner.
I am sure some of you might be able to help.
Here's my take on it.
http://s118.photobucket.com/albums/o95/jhilahd/?action=view¤t=Albany-Skyline_banner1.jpg
and apparently I can't get a link to work...
I went in to Photoshop and adjusted the levels to make the midtones pop more.
The font is Requiem. It's free http://www.dafont.com/requiem.font
What I enjoyed was I read the first post, and didn't even look to see if it had been completed. So I put that together, and when I started to post I saw your posts. Followed them and lol'd at the fact we used skyline image. :D
I like what you did, btw.
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edited because simple spelling is hard.
Most of it is future work as things progress but I am looking to engage with a talented artist for sure. Do let me know!
P.S. I cannot spell to save my life. If someone held a gun to a loved one's head and asked me to spell electrician (I used spell check) I would instead spend the time letting that loved one know that I will miss them and how much they meant to me.
I don't think we can do image rotation in CSS. As far as I'm aware, we're limited to .gifs or changing it manually. What kind of things are you trying to accomplish with CSS?
Jhialahd:
That's a pretty swank font. Did you pull a separate image? our dimensions are different.
It's not CSS specifically, I'm just jealous of the really awesome layouts I've seen on the few campaigns I've had the chance to investigate. However, I'm actively trying not to get too excited about the look of the site yet, and trying to focus on getting my story off the ground and players engaged with the site. I've had limited success, and I'm hopeful about getting a few more of my players to contribute.
Also, I'm not above changing the banner manually. Is there some code I can use to "comment" out sections of the wiki so I would just need to add/remove comment code to swap banners?
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That should sort you out. When you do decide to get fancy with your code, just let me know and I'll help you as much as you want.
...also, that article you sent me is AWESOME. Perfect. Now I just need a good name for your reporter alias, and I'm all set.
stuff
didn't work. I ended up putting the markup in the GM information, and I can copypasta more easily later.
Try testing out the code from the following page somewhere on your wiki.
"Link Goes Here":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/housecorinthyen/wikis/character-sheet
That should look seamless, and it has the Pclass hide throughout
I guess that one was meant to go in the "GM Secret" panel... :P
And sure, I've been sitting on my campaigns, doing exactly zero with them on Obsidian. But love alot of what I see here, and so my first time on the forums, I saw this thread and thought "what the heck."
So yeah, if you need help with some images/designs/et al I'd be glad to help.
And an animated gif might work.
You could interpose 3-4 different images.
Rase's first image, then maybe something related more to your story, my image and then another image/text related to the overall campaign. Just a thought...