Dungeon Crawling

Gwalchmai · Post by **Gwalchmai** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 3:52 pm

Originally posted by Kayless
So are you volunteering to help color/shade issues?

Hmmm. Actually, I've always wanted to take a stab at coloring/shading a comic. As a kid, I was always fascinated by how they made flesh tones in the old four-color comics by placing a lot of little red dots over a pale background.

Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 12:55 am

Bad news guys...

It's snowing here in Alaska again.

But I did finish the latest issue of DCI.

Originally posted by Gwalchmai
Hmmm. Actually, I've always wanted to take a stab at coloring/shading a comic. As a kid, I was always fascinated by how they made flesh tones in the old four-color comics by placing a lot of little red dots over a pale background.

Photoshop will do that automatically if you save something as a gif. Since gifs don't have as much color variety the computer will often employ the technique of using dots of one color on top of another to simulate a third color. It's kind of annoying actually, since it generally doesn't look as good. But gifs are much smaller than bmps, so I gotta go with what gives me the most bang for my buck.

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 1:32 am

Good one. I'm glad the threat of canoe beer and toast panned out.

Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 1:54 am

I'd rather have green orcs and spam.

Now that's good eatin'.

Vicsun · Post by **Vicsun** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 5:32 am

Huzzah!

Yeyeye a new ep. is up. I'm sinking into euphoria.

Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 6:33 am

Hey, it's not that rare an occurrence.

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 8:59 am

Seriously, @Kayless, if that's wrist still bothering you, consider some therapy. For an artist and/or regular computer user, injuries to the hand, wrist or forearm can linger and become something worse if left unattended.

Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Sat Mar 27, 2004 7:53 pm

The wrist isn't too bad, though I did get a brace and special mouse pad to help take some pressure off.

I did stop by my doctor the other day and it turns out I have a ganglion cyst on the back of my wrist (or as I like to call it, a Gremlin Cyst

) though it's unobtrusive and painless... when it's not being irritated by wrist sprains that is.

The Doc says I should take it easy on the wrist (hence a slowing of new issues) and wait to see if the cyst gets smaller and reabsorbed (and so far it seems to be doing just that). Aspirin or ibuprofen are supposed to help (But don't all doctors tell you to "take two aspirin and call me in the morning?").

Hopefully everything will be ship shape soon (since it does put a hamper on the DCI anthology I was working on).

Gwalchmai · Post by **Gwalchmai** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 1:31 pm

Re: Huzzah!

Originally posted by Vicsun
Yeyeye a new ep. is up. I'm sinking into euphoria.

Is it any good? It seems the DCI site is currently down, and I can't see the new one.

The Z · Post by **The Z** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 7:26 pm

Re: Re: Huzzah!

Originally posted by Gwalchmai
Is it any good? It seems the DCI site is currently down, and I can't see the new one.

It's pretty good, though it's more of a plot advancer than an action one.

Galuf the Dwarf · Post by **Galuf the Dwarf** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 8:22 pm

Still snowin' up in Alaska, eh, Kayless? Well, maybe I could come up and shovel 'till you've have to ask me to stop?

BTW, why's the site down?

Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 8:54 pm

The site's down because it exceeded its monthly bandwidth. It should be back up early next month (which is only a couple of days away). So hang in there.

Gwalchmai · Post by **Gwalchmai** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 5:28 pm

Originally posted by Kayless
The site's down because it exceeded its monthly bandwidth. It should be back up early next month (which is only a couple of days away). So hang in there.

[churchlady voice]Well! How conveeeeeenient! [/churchlady voice]

Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 2:25 am

Hey, the site went down sometime late Sunday. You could have checked out the new ep a few days before the site imploded.

Galuf the Dwarf · Post by **Galuf the Dwarf** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 7:52 am

You know, Kayless, I was thinking of something. It seems as if Durnkrag has a lot of crossbreed kin, so I wonder what a Shield/Gold Dwarf cross or a (Gold) Dwarf/Elf cross (which I thought would be called a Dwelf, in this case) would both look like.

Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 10:55 am

Originally posted by Galuf the Dwarf
You know, Kayless, I was thinking of something. It seems as if Durnkrag has a lot of crossbreed kin, so I wonder what a Shield/Gold Dwarf cross or a (Gold) Dwarf/Elf cross (which I thought would be called a Dwelf, in this case) would both look like.

Mating between sub-races in D&D results in offspring that favor only one parent. So the product of a gold/shield dwarf mating would be either a gold or a shield dwarf, not a hybrid. As for a dwarf/elf cross, I think that the character Treestump from Elfquest looks like a dwelf.

Galuf the Dwarf · Post by **Galuf the Dwarf** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 11:59 am

Originally posted by Kayless
Mating between sub-races in D&D results in offspring that favor only one parent. So the product of a gold/shield dwarf mating would be either a gold or a shield dwarf, not a hybrid. As for a dwarf/elf cross, I think that the character Treestump from Elfquest looks like a dwelf.

Interesting. So a Dwelf, in that case, would favor either their dwarf or elf parent (primarily in the case of character region)?

I would suppose that a Dwelf's statistics would be rather like a Half-Elf's, except that they would feature the Dwarf parent's darkvision, half the stability check, and base land speed. From their elf parent they'd have a +1 bonus to Search, Listen and Spot checks. Their favored class would likely be their highest class. Sound rational?

Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 8:58 pm

Originally posted by Galuf the Dwarf
Interesting. So a Dwelf, in that case, would favor either their dwarf or elf parent (primarily in the case of character region)?

Nope only sub-races (gold and shield dwarves are both dwarf sub-races just as drow and moon elves are elf sub-races) not totally separate races. When you mix two entirely different races you get something brand new, like half-elves and half-orcs. So a dwarf/elf hybrid would indeed be something new and unique (it's vaguely hinted that there may have been a few such hybrids in the past).

Originally posted by Galuf the Dwarf
I would suppose that a Dwelf's statistics would be rather like a Half-Elf's, except that they would feature the Dwarf parent's darkvision, half the stability check, and base land speed. From their elf parent they'd have a +1 bonus to Search, Listen and Spot checks. Their favored class would likely be their highest class. Sound rational?

Sounds reasonable enough.

Gwalchmai · Post by **Gwalchmai** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 9:17 am

Originally posted by Kayless
Hey, the site went down sometime late Sunday. You could have checked out the new ep a few days before the site imploded.

Yes, well, so you say.

Here it is April 1, and the site is still down! Very interesting.....

Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 10:51 am

Geocities always takes their time. I'll be suprised if the site is back up this week.