D100 Draft PDF finally released

It is not pretty but for a draft it is sufficient. The second draft will be available in February 2008 and promises to be prettier. You can download the PDF at the D100 site. Enjoy!

Playtesting and PDFs

There are many a great lesson to be learned in this life and wise man once said to me.

Be careful what you complain about in committee for it may be assigned to you.

I wish I had listened! Because I had long been whining about not having a PDF of the complete rules. I could dog ear one, make notes on it, and not have to be browsing the website in play. In truth I rarely have to refer to the rules in play, but making notes about tweaks, ideas and changes is easier for me on a hard copy. So after my repeated mentions of having no single PDF of the entire rules set, I was volunteered to correct the problem. Oh happy day.

However as it turns out it was not all the hard to automate the content capture and so now I must tweak the format of that capture (in an automated way) and then we'll be good to go. As it stands now the DEC 2007 rules are a little more then 100 pages of 8.5x11 including all charts & graphics. I only have few format issues to correct and a few linking issues to adjust and it will be complete.

That said I believe a PDF of DEC 2007 rules will be available, just before the FEB 2008 rules are released. Just in time to be obsolete!

D100 logo finalized

In the grand scheme of things this is a minor event.  I created it and I wanted to show off a bit!  You can also go see it live at the D100 Open Melee System.  I am proud of myself for getting it to look that good.  I became so frustrated at one point I considered offering bounty for the logo design at www.sitepoint.com

I used a free logo generator on the web to create the shield design.  I then used GIMP to spruce it up, add text and the fade to transparent white ellipse.  I am an amateur and it took me many hours to create the effects.  Translate that to a whole lot of rework, Save As, beer and trips to the potty!