Educated Gamer

d20pro Promo Video

Tintagel — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:32:03 +0000

Here’s a promo video that I just put together for d20pro, a virtual tabletop software that I’m helping design. We needed a sort of kiosk video to show at conventions and on our website. Something catchy, fast, and energetic.

Download the High-Res mp4 here (right-click and Save As..)

Power Cards are now at CreativeGremlins.com

Tintagel — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:14:34 +0000

Hello Everyone!

I am also now hosting my cards on Creative Gremlins, a community & commerce site that I’ve begun for independent RPG content producers to sell their content on. We have just gone live and are still growing and gathering artists, but if you are interested in joining, see this page.

Anyways, I’ve uploaded my cards and the expansion to the marketplace. You can find them here:

Creative Gremlins Marketplace: Game Aids (Cards)

Now available is the base install, which includes the following templates

PHB classes
Dark Pack Warlock and Swordmage
generic racial, game mechanics, and feats
FREE races from the PHB, PHB 2, and FRPG

Plus the new PHB 2 Template pack for $2.99 that includes the 8 PHB 2 classes.

Power Cards Video

Tintagel — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:27:06 +0000

I placed a short overview video of my powercard templates on Youtube. It should provide some how-to instructions for those that purchased it as well as give undecided folks some incentive to buy.

Powercard Errata

Tintagel — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:24:49 +0000

A couple of errata to the latest Templates (v 2.0):

The Wizard Heroic At-Will background is incorrect.
The Feats background watermark is too strong and makes reading the text difficult.

4E Powercards Update

Tintagel — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:20:01 +0000

I have made some major changes to my 4e Powercard template. Some new features include:

Support for labels, so you can write your own numbers for attack and damage values – this is optional.
Pull-down menus for all icons and for action types, range, and labels
streamlined code – tightened things up – removed need for 2 directories
New Paragon and Epic variations of all cards, plus 2 misc colors. Total of 11 variations per class.

This new version should make entering the data MUCH faster, but it WILL invalidate some of the information in your existing cards. You will need to manually update some of that content, I am afraid.

However, I have some of the cards already updated, and within the week, I will update all of my MSE files at my website to level 30. That way, you shouldn’t have to re-enter any data for core PHB classes. If you previously purchased cards from me, simply email me and I will get you an updated file.

Action Point!

Tintagel — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:23:30 +0000

We’ve been using my 4E Powercards in my campaign and so far the players love them. In fact, they want cards for all sorts of game mechanics, like Action Points (which are pretty much an Encoutner power). As an homage to the great post on EN World.

Anyways, here it is. If you want my full powercard template so that you can make your own, visit my powercard page!

Rise of the Runelords in 4E

Tintagel — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:15:00 +0000

I’ve started my new campaign and am running Paizo’s Rise of the Runelords, converting it to 4E as I go. I will using a lot of the content from Paizo’s message boards, plus conversion information from Scott’s Tales from the Rusty Dragon – a blog dedicated to the 4E conversion of this Adventure Path.

I will be hosting most of my conversion and campaign materials on my 4E Google Site. If anyone wants to contribute to the Fan-made content, leave a comment below. Note that you must have a Gmail account to edit the content on Google Sites.

Power Card Templates for Sale

Tintagel — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:25:37 +0000

My Power Cards template is for sale for less than $10. ~~See the Power Cards page in the bar above for more details!~~

H1 Maps Scanned

Tintagel — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:04:41 +0000

Well, I bought H1, and I had to make some scans in order to get the maps into d20pro. I have all of the maps done so far except for the 2nd level, and that should be done this weekend.

I posted them on my Mad Mapper site, if anyone wants them. I’ve stitched together the poster maps and re-created the whole Level 1 map from various scans in the book. I also Photoshopped the notes and keys out of the maps (like miniature placement and such) so the player’s wouldn’t be tipped off.

Hopefully, some of you other Virtual Tabletop users will find some use for these. They might be high enough resolution to print too.

Virtual Tabletop: d20pro

Tintagel — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:28:13 +0000

If you all have not seen d20pro yet (www.d20pro.com), you really should hop over there and download a trial license. It’s a simple and powerful virtual tabletop software that lets you play face-to-face or online D&D. D20pro is one of the best-kept secrets for D&D software.

It supports special abilities (at will, per encounter, per day, and charged). It has full support for attacks, including multiple attack routines, damage, and additional attacks due to Base Attack Bonus. it also has a robust effects system that tracks almost every modifier out there, plus ability score penalties and durations. Even better, you can save effects for use later. No more headaches from tracking rage, haste, bard song, bless, prayer, bull strength, and Prot Evil (just to name a few of the ones flying at our table) – oh yeah, and Fly! LOL

d20pro doesn’t ship with content, but it’s very easy to insert your own. I’ve been collecting portraits from various sources for my own personal use, but I am happy to share my own image gallery and a map or two:

First, the character portraits: all 2,183 of them! YES you read that right. Unzip them and place the folders into your \d20Pro\dm\res\CTR folder.

http://educatedgamer.net/files/d20pro/CTR.zip

Next, two sample adventures: Return of the Burning Plague, and the first chapter to Expedition to Castle Ravenloft, for 3.5 D&D. Unzip, then open d20pro, click the Map button (lower right) and choose Import. Then choose the two .d20 files.

Burning Plague.zip a 4th edition fan created adventure from the ENWorld forums
Expedition to Castle Ravenloft (Chapter One) – Note that this only includes the maps and monsters for Barovia. The rest of the storyline, descriptions, and module information is NOT included. Don’t ask for it or for further chapters. Go buy the module!

If you intend to use d20pro for 4th Edition play (it’s natively a 3.5 product), then check out the 4th edition survival guide on the d20pro wiki: http://wiki.d20pro.com/page/4th+Edition+Survival+Guide

Enjoy, and let me know if you have any questions!