Boom. Here’s a teaser for my upcoming adventure pack, Shadows of Umberto. The full thing should be about 32 pages (A5) with fronts, location info (I’ve shown some of that here already), magic items, monsters… all that good stuff. What do you guys think?
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I was originally thinking of the latin Umbra (shadow) but didn’t want a latin-inspired name; Umberto Eco’s name came to mind instead and just stuck. I’ve not read any of his books unfortunately – I probably should, now!
I haven’t followed your previous announcements. Umberto, as in Umberto Eco? Baudolino, Foucalt’s pendulum etc?
I’m not a super huge fan of the spacing in the four-column layout page – I feel the spacing between lines is too big, so the text is really hard to follow. It also looks like you justified the first paragraph, which doesn’t look too great.
The second page layout is good, but the text could stand to be darker as it’s pretty painful to read something that light against a white background.
Content-wise, I like it, I’m looking forward to seeing the full thing!
Alex Norris – I take your point on the four column layout – I exported the doc as spreads so they’d fit on screen better, but that’s made the text harder to read. I’ll have another play around with this and probably make the final product single sheets (I’ll have the map as a separate file). Glad you’re enjoying the content!
Incidentally, having the questions inset in the description stuff? That’s brilliant, and everyone should do that.
Agree with Alex, really digging the inset questions. I am stealing that. 😉
Really interested to see the rest! I would love to do something similar myself, but am not sure where to draw the line re: “leave blanks”. You said you will have location information, so I guess I’m specifically interested to see where you draw the line on what to detail and what to “leave blank” 😉
Mike Weem my previous post with locations is here: https://plus.google.com/103619294696451727396/posts/KqgDvnEyBVK – what do you think?