Round 2 questions

[Wren Brown]

Watch out for the Munster!

[Scott LaBarge]

Unless he's of a Gouda alignment.

How long do you think before the Monty Python Cheese Shop references start?

[Wren Brown]

Cheesy puns are the best puns!

Edit: Monty Python. That reminds me I am running a game of Kobolds Ate My Baby at a local con tomorrow night. I get to horribly murder a PC Kobold for each and every Monty Python reference!

[Scott LaBarge]

I cheddar at the thought.

And anyone who saw only this page of the thread would never know that the thread was supposed to be, you know, helpful and stuff o.O

[Christopher Wasko]

That cheddar pun was sharp. I laughed till I was bleu in the face.

[Wren Brown]

Awake...34...hours...straight...brain...can't...process...more...puns....*g asp*

Time to jack out I guess.

[Feros]

Monica Marlowe wrote:

Owen K. C. Stephens wrote:

John Laffan wrote:

For the name of the place, can it include descriptions? (Kind of like The Inner Sea World Guide) For example can I call it Kent, Ice Fortress in the Crown of the world, or Bree, Cheese store with hidden slave market?

Thanks so much!

For the title of your map, you get eight words. So if you want to map out "Kent, Ice Fortress in the Crown of the world" you need to find a way to say that in 8 words rather than 9. "Bree, Cheese store with hidden slave market" is fine, since it's 7.

Great, now I have to rethink this whole cheese market thing.

Slave girls and cheese. What's not to love? ;)

[Monica Marlowe]

Scott LaBarge wrote:

Unless he's of a Gouda alignment.

How long do you think before the Monty Python Cheese Shop references start?

I hadn't even read the entire post from Owen. You?

[Monica Marlowe]

Feros wrote:

Monica Marlowe wrote:

Owen K. C. Stephens wrote:

John Laffan wrote:

For the name of the place, can it include descriptions? (Kind of like The Inner Sea World Guide) For example can I call it Kent, Ice Fortress in the Crown of the world, or Bree, Cheese store with hidden slave market?

Thanks so much!

For the title of your map, you get eight words. So if you want to map out "Kent, Ice Fortress in the Crown of the world" you need to find a way to say that in 8 words rather than 9. "Bree, Cheese store with hidden slave market" is fine, since it's 7.

Great, now I have to rethink this whole cheese market thing.

Slave girls and cheese. What's not to love? ;)

Tots going in my Round 4 entry. I'm planning my encounter now!

[John Laffan]

Monica Marlowe wrote:

Feros wrote:

Monica Marlowe wrote:

Owen K. C. Stephens wrote:

John Laffan wrote:

For the name of the place, can it include descriptions? (Kind of like The Inner Sea World Guide) For example can I call it Kent, Ice Fortress in the Crown of the world, or Bree, Cheese store with hidden slave market?

Thanks so much!

For the title of your map, you get eight words. So if you want to map out "Kent, Ice Fortress in the Crown of the world" you need to find a way to say that in 8 words rather than 9. "Bree, Cheese store with hidden slave market" is fine, since it's 7.

Great, now I have to rethink this whole cheese market thing.

Slave girls and cheese. What's not to love? ;)

Tots going in my Round 4 entry. I'm planning my encounter now!

Does that mean the encounter will have 50 shades of gruyere?

[Garrett Guillotte]

Monica Marlowe wrote:

Feros wrote:

Slave girls and cheese. What's not to love? ;)

Tots going in my Round 4 entry. I'm planning my encounter now!

Now I just want tater tots with cheese.

[Taylor Hubler]

I have already submitted my map, but I noticed something afterwards. I scanned an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper and it came out slightly less (8.47 x 10.97) I tried to adjust it but I just went back and found out that the adjustment didn't stick.

Will 8.47 x 10.97 disqualify me?

[Dana Huber]

I seriously, seriously doubt it, but you can go into any image editing software, even MS paint, and should be able to add on margin space by doing an 'extend canvas' type command to hit the EXACT size, if it's freaking you out.

eta ah, realized you were saying it was already submitted. My advice is useless, sorry!

[Adam Daigle]

Owen can be strict, but I'd hope he's not that strict. :)

[Taylor Hubler]

It would somewhat hillarious if he is and everyone but one of us had something just shy of 8.5 x 11.

[Dana Huber]

If so, WINNER ANNOUNCED! GO HOME!

[Wren Brown]

Taylor Hubler wrote:

Will 8.47 x 10.97 disqualify me?

I doubt it. That would just be mean.

[Chris Lambertz]

Taylor Hubler wrote:

I have already submitted my map, but I noticed something afterwards. I scanned an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper and it came out slightly less (8.47 x 10.97) I tried to adjust it but I just went back and found out that the adjustment didn't stick.

Will 8.47 x 10.97 disqualify me?

You're fine :)

[Jeff Heikkinen]

I'd be amazed if they DQed someone for leaving a tiny margin like that as long as the DPI was right. If anything that's GOOD in publishing, it helps make sure you don't have stuff so close to the edge you can't count on it actually printing.

(Mind you that's less of an issue here as I take it we're to make a usable guide for a real cartographer to make something publishable out of. Our round 2 submissions don't have to be publishable in their own right - though I'm sure that wouldn't hurt!)

[Jacob Kellogg]

Chris Lambertz wrote:

Taylor Hubler wrote:

I have already submitted my map, but I noticed something afterwards. I scanned an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper and it came out slightly less (8.47 x 10.97) I tried to adjust it but I just went back and found out that the adjustment didn't stick.

Will 8.47 x 10.97 disqualify me?

You're fine :)

Good to know. Given that most of us probably don't have access to super-duper, professional-publisher-grade imaging technology, I'd be surprised if anyone managed a perfectly 8.5x11 image. :)

[Owen K. C. Stephens]

Adam Daigle wrote:

Owen can be strict, but I'd hope he's not that strict. :)

Adam's right, as usual. If I got something that was wildly off ("It's 7" x 7", that fits on 8.5' x 11', right?") I might DQ it. A tiny margin off can be considered a question of full margin or not. And, of course, I'd expect a professional cartographer to be able to make an 8.5" x 11" map from a 8.47 x 10.97 sketch.

My general rule is "Follow all the instructions exactly, to prove you can." But a 1% scale slip really is within the real of the reasonable.

But folks, keep in mind 5% might not be.

[Owen K. C. Stephens]

Jacob Kellogg wrote:

Given that most of us probably don't have access to super-duper, professional-publisher-grade imaging technology, I'd be surprised if anyone managed a perfectly 8.5x11 image. :)

You can just count the pixels.

[Scott LaBarge]

Owen K. C. Stephens wrote:

Jacob Kellogg wrote:

Given that most of us probably don't have access to super-duper, professional-publisher-grade imaging technology, I'd be surprised if anyone managed a perfectly 8.5x11 image. :)

You can just count the pixels.

What he said. Really not that hard. I was able to get it sized right in Irfanview, which is hardly super-duper. (No digs at Irfanview intended: great program!)

[Jacob Kellogg]

Scott LaBarge wrote:

Owen K. C. Stephens wrote:

Jacob Kellogg wrote:

Given that most of us probably don't have access to super-duper, professional-publisher-grade imaging technology, I'd be surprised if anyone managed a perfectly 8.5x11 image. :)

You can just count the pixels.

What he said. Really not that hard. I was able to get it sized right in Irfanview, which is hardly super-duper. (No digs at Irfanview intended: great program!)

That's great, but in the meantime I was being charged by the minute to use unfamiliar hardware and software at Kinko's "FedEx Office", being "helped" by a guy who didn't seem to understand pixels and resolutions very much.

But yeah, I'm sure if you already have image-editing software that you're comfortable with, it's not that hard at all! :/

[Wren Brown]

Owen K. C. Stephens wrote:

Jacob Kellogg wrote:

Given that most of us probably don't have access to super-duper, professional-publisher-grade imaging technology, I'd be surprised if anyone managed a perfectly 8.5x11 image. :)

You can just count the pixels.

This post was incredibly helpful in that regard.

[Jensen Toperzer]

waitin for dat confirmation email

trying not to have a heart attack

BUT SENT.

[Jeff Heikkinen]

Owen K. C. Stephens wrote:

Jacob Kellogg wrote:

Given that most of us probably don't have access to super-duper, professional-publisher-grade imaging technology, I'd be surprised if anyone managed a perfectly 8.5x11 image. :)

You can just count the pixels.

That was literally the first thing I did. (Well, the first computerized thing; I had a hand-drawn sketch as proof of concept.) In fact I DQed the first software package I tried specifically because it offered no easy way to do this, eventually settling on paint.net, in which this step is trivial.

[Owen K. C. Stephens]

I sympathize. When I applied to wizards of the Coast in 1999, the designer test required me to draw a full-page map, scan it, and get it back to them in 3 days. (As well as write an entire encounter, using hobgoblins, in 300 words).
We did not own a scanner.
I had to do the encounter and map in one evening, and spent all the rest of the time finding a scanner, learning the software, scanning it, making sure it was the right dpi, and format, and legible, and...

It's stressful, I know. :)