BakaPenguin
Hello, everyone! I just finished working on a theme for an upcoming game my group is about to start. This is the first extensive modification I've done to a campaign, so any feedback is welcome.
"High Fantasy Theme":https://high-fantasy-theme.obsidianportal.com/
"Jump right to my custom CSS here":https://high-fantasy-theme.obsidianportal.com/wikis/get-the-css-here
Comments
- Kallak
Yeah, when I said finished, I really just meant the skeleton of the design. I'm still working on typography and other assets for laying out and navigating wiki pages on our actual campaign. I'll bring some of that to the mock-up campaign, eventually.
The default sidebar is rather ugly, in my opinion, and isn't important for our needs. However, I appreciate that it is probably a good thing to keep. I'm going to see about adjusting some things to bring it back and make it look consistent with the rest of the design. I'm also looking into styling the Adventure Log which I removed altogether in my campaign.
I hadn't noticed that the portraits only show up on the list. I'll have to look into styling the character pages, too.
It's definitely a good start, though. I'm curious to see a detailed example of a wiki page.
As Always,
_~Mae_
~Mae
CotM Selection Committee
I agree with Maesenko about the "pirates" vibe - not that there is anything wrong with that though, but those planks do divert the mind to ships and pirates.
I like your fonts in the Left Navigation Bar but I would watch out for some of the Headings being too small. In my opinion it looks mighty weird for the titles and subtitles to be smaller than the actual text.
twiggyleaf
CURRENT CAMPAIGN: "Mysteria":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/mysteria - set in Wolfgang Baur’s MIDGARD.
Previous CotM Aug 2012: "Shimring":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/shimring
"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
Also, not to sound too critical, but, the bubble writing doesn't really seem fantasy to me. Might just be me but it just doesn't seem right. Also makes the menu on the side overflow and hard to read.
A good start though. Much better than my initial efforts were
As a suggestion take a look at Wolfhound's awesome Tutorials. Even the ones he lists as outdated (due to the reforge of OP) are helpful in a great many ways. You can find them "HERE":https://dfd.obsidianportal.com/wikis/main-page
They're on the bottom of the page
Keelah Se'lai,
Keryth
"Shadows Over New York":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/shadows-over-new-york
"2013 Campaign of The Year":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/2013-coty-shadows-over-new-york/
"Campaign of the Month July 2013":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/shadows-over-new-york-julys-campaign-of-the-month/
twiggyleaf: I'm still trying to work out the typography. I agree about the headings, my players have made the same comments.
Thanks for the resource Keryth, alway good to have more tutorials and tools. Don't worry, I don't mind criticism so long as it's constructive. Obviously, I'm going for a hand written look. Some of my players have complained that the headings are hard to read. I'm looking to change them to a more legible hand writting-like typeface.
Ooh, and I just had a thought -- character pages could be done up like Wanted posters!
~Mae
CotM Selection Committee
And some fantasy-esque fonts from Google Fonts that I've used:
IM Fell English SC
Bilbo Swash Caps
Eagle Lake
I like the wanted poster idea. I haven't started tackling the Character pages, yet. My idea was to make them look sort of like dossiers if and when I got around to working on it.
Basileus: Wow. I can't believe I didn't know about this. Thank you for the heads up. Absolutely going to be doing that.
* Thanks to Basileus for the tip using the border-image property, the overall design now looks more unified. Also, this allowed me to bring the sidebar back and not look out of place.
* On Mae's suggestion almost every element is now nailed to the background with copper nails.
* The Adventure Log has now been styled to reflect the design. I bit of refinement still to go, though.
* Decided to remove the text from the menu to get a little extra space for content.
Thanks again everyone for the feedback and help!
Keelah Se'lai,
Keryth
"Shadows Over New York":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/shadows-over-new-york
"2013 Campaign of The Year":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/2013-coty-shadows-over-new-york/
"Campaign of the Month July 2013":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/shadows-over-new-york-julys-campaign-of-the-month/
- Kallak