Damn, but I have a bunch of gaming news posts to put up.
If you haven't guessed, I love all of the Lesser Gnome game releases. If they have an unwritten motto, it's probably "Go Big or Go Home!" or some such. I have the print version of The First Sentinel, which is still available for $25 bucks at the Lesser Gnome online store.
Today we get to see the The First Sentinel as an affordable interactive PDF version for less than 7 bucks.
So, what do you get for your 7 bucks?
So, what do you get for your 7 bucks?
Within its pages Game Masters have a complete adventure for three to six players using character levels between three and five. Characters are confronted with a small mystery involving a missing resident. Clues could offer muted warnings or, if followed closely, will bring them face to face with a vanguard of the demonic Nexid.
This digital release contains the written content from the 2014 printed edition with a few PDF extras. It has a completely new layout designed to make the PDF more than just a printout on your screen. It is meant for table-top use on a tablet or other device.
The First Sentinel Interactive Features…
No watermarking (woot!)
Separate text, art and vector layers. (yeah, I can never figure this out)
Bookmarks to important tables and maps accessible via the PDF Reader (excellent)
Hyperlinks to appendix entries and tables. (needed IMHO)
Interactive buttons for quick access to relevant pages (I like)
Image buttons that link to illustrations for players. (very cool)
Purchasing the First Sentinel on PDF will make you feel younger and more 'with it'! At least we felt that way making it
PDFs SHOULD be more than just a digital copies these days. I salute Lesser Gnome for making the PDF more than just a digital copy of the print release.
Separate layers is great when you want to pull maps into VTT, it's great when the maps are done so that the room numbers and other GM information is in its own layer so you can copy just the map and use it directly.
ReplyDeleteNot useful if you aren't going to extracting the parts though.
I try to include any feature suggested to me in Lesser Gnome PDF releases. The maps for VTT is one I will be doing in the next one. Not wanting layers for extraction purposes is one I have never heard before but I am going to look into it (maybe offering both a layered and an non-layered file as a download after purchase or something). I can assure you this much though, as I am the sole means of production, if you wanted an PDF exported without layers (or color for that matter) I would make it so :)
DeleteCan't wait for this!
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