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4 hours ago, Bill the barbarian said:

Interesting point, but how can you tell? Short of downloading it, using it and  creating a doc and turning it into a PDF and then trying to embed it, that is. Thanks in advance.

Download and install the font, then go to your Windows/Fonts directory and check out the Font settings (LH menu). You're looking for Font embeddability (bottom bar).

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Apologies if you're not a Windows user, but that's the place I know to look. (Your method works too - this is faster)

Alternatively: right-click the installed font, go to Properties > Details and see what it says there.

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2 hours ago, Sir_Godspeed said:

Anyway, this [Tekumel] is a bit besides the thread topic. 

Not entirely.  M.A.R. Barker developed whole languages to bring his world to life.  And right there in the game books are all the different military ranks and noble title and temple grades, etc, etc.  And if you as the GM use them in-game you can watch your player's eyes glaze over in (hopefully) patient forbearance.  Heck, I've had the same issue when running a game of Bushido and trying to insert genuine Japanese terminology.  It's all very well-meaning, but if it distances players from the game world by having to translate terms in play, it's counter-productive.  In Glorantha, there are various odd tribes and races and gods and all, but at least the context is in a language the players are familiar with.  Lean into the path that Professor Barker took, and Bill's right on the money -- lots of admirers, but not a lot of players.

See also: Skyrealms of Jorune.

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1 hour ago, Nick Brooke said:

Alternatively: right-click the installed font, go to Properties > Details and see what it says there.

 

 

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In the Mac OS open Font Book (open a Finder window, choose "Applications" and scroll down until you find it) and select the font (as shown below). Click the Preview menu in the toolbar and choose "Show Font Info". This will bring up a page of technical data about the font including an "Embeddable" line. 

Fontbook app in Mac

The problem is… all you get is either "Yes" or "No". I’m not kidding. If font embeddability shows up as "No" it’s unequivocal; you can be certain the font has Restricted permissions. But a "Yes" can indicate any one of the other three options: Preview & Print, Editable, Installable… but no way to tell which. What gives? Despite Mac being the preferred platform for many designers, Windows is actually better at providing this fundamental, important information. Needless to say, this less than satisfactory for many people but I haven’t yet found a workaround. If there’s a free or inexpensive third-party app that will do the trick I’d really like to know about it.

 

So this is interesting, Last time I had to worry about this (back in the late 20th century) I always rasterized docs that had to be make into PDFs losing functionality but maintaining ascetics and legalities. Most of my DTP work was sent in encapsulated post script files to printers who had the fonts in question so embedding was not an issue. This sounds like it could be a royal pain in the butt for JC contributors which I intend to be soon. Thanks for the heads up all, this is something I should tackle now.Especially with the fact that all I will be able to find out is if embeddability is on or off. I will continue to look into this and will post if I have better news.

ETA The technique I gave that was a lot of extra work that Nick said would work needs one extra step... It must be transferred to another computer that does not have the font to find out if the font embedded or not. :(

 

1 hour ago, Ian Absentia said:

In Glorantha, there are various odd tribes and races and gods and all, but at least the context is in a language the players are familiar with.  Lean into the path that Professor Barker took, and Bill's right on the money -- lots of admirers, but not a lot of players.

That’s the kicker, ain't it. So Shiningbrow, spend years and develop that great original and uniques system. Good luck selling it (hell, good luck giving it away and having it be used). There, in a nutshell, is the secret to creating a great song! It must have familiarity (that is the listener must be able to follow it well enough to be able to hum it after very few listens, usually once really). But, it must surprise as well, or the listener will be quickly bored. There is a delicate balance that must be achieved. This goes for, I am willing to say,. all art existing in the popular realms.

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It's been a while since I dropped in here: feels like a good moment to give you all an update.

A Rough Guide to Glamour is quite literally 99.115 percent done. We are just waiting for one beautiful piece of final artwork (and the sketches and work-in-progress I have seen would make you weep for joy), and then we'll be uploading the finished book to DriveThruRPG. I'll let you know here as soon as it goes on sale.

It'll be available in PDF right away; we hope to make a Print On Demand version available eventually, but that will likely take us a few months to set up (proofing the first printed copy, correcting n00b mistakes, etc.), and the coronavirus situation might make it trickier than normal. But we will get it done as soon as it's humanly possible.

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On 3/29/2020 at 2:44 PM, Nick Brooke said:

Print On Demand version

How?

I mean, I would have no problem making anything available as print on demand (POD) if I was allowed to, but I don't think I'm allowed to publish something in the Jonstown Compendium both on DrivethruRPG and on an alternative POD-service.

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3 minutes ago, Puckohue said:

How?

I mean, I would have no problem making anything available as print on demand (POD) if I was allowed to, but I don't think I'm allowed to publish something in the Jonstown Compendium both on DrivethruRPG and on an alternative POD-service.

"We" here includes @MOB, who has been working with Chaosium's partners at OneBookShelf to make this possible.

It would be available on DriveThruRPG only, of course, so POD copies would come from Lightning Source (who print in the USA & UK, to the best of my knowledge).

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  • 2 weeks later...

In between
What I find is pleasing and I'm feeling fine
Love is so confusing there's no peace of mind
If I fear I'm losing you it's just no good
You teasing like you do...

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As always, great review, if one can call it that, as Andrew's reviews tend to veer more into the realm of proper art critique (and I use that term in the best sense here). They do justice to the product and they tell you something much more, too.

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1 hour ago, Grievous said:

As always, great review, if one can call it that, as Andrew's reviews tend to veer more into the realm of proper art critique (and I use that term in the best sense here). They do justice to the product and they tell you something much more, too.

Andrew's reviews have the remarkable quality of making authors feel that they were being even cleverer than they already knew they were. He is a very perceptive and insightful fellow.

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On 3/22/2020 at 12:13 AM, Shiningbrow said:

I've never seen "Orlanthi" in any English dictionary

It is clearly an "English" style word.  If we discovered a previously unknown tribe in the Amazon that called their lands "Orlanth", or worshipped the great god "Orlanth", we would likely call that tribe "Orlanthi".

We call people who worship Christ "Christians".  Those who follow the teachings of Mohammed are called Mohammedans.  Zoroastrians are followers of the teachings of Zoroaster. 

Just what do you propose to call the people who worship Orlanth?  (Maybe "Orlanthian" fits better, but that's no real difference)

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12 hours ago, Rodney Dangerduck said:

Just purchased.  I'm sure I'll like it, but first impression is poor:

What's with the lame PDF bookmarks? Six _GoBack?  That don't even lead to chapter headings?

Hi, Rodney. I'm Nick - I did all the layout on the Rough Guide to Glamour. It's my first book, I'm an amateur fan publisher and you bought our book from a community content site, the Jonstown Compendium on DriveThruRPG. I understand you'd like it to have better bookmarks than some professionally-produced RPG corebooks. Is that right?

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For customers with special accessibility needs who can only navigate PDFs via the Bookmarks menu, there's now an updated version of the Rough Guide to Glamour in your DriveThruRPG library. The only thing that's changed is the Bookmarks menu in Adobe products. If you don't use that, there's absolutely no need to replace your copy of our book.

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Thanks @Nick Brooke That's the quickest customer service ever!

1 hour ago, Nick Brooke said:

better bookmarks than some professionally-produced RPG corebooks

You have achieved it.  The bookmarks are a big help.  I am really looking forward to an in-depth read of Rough Guide to Glamour, and now it is near perfect.  🙂

My apologies for the tone of the original post.

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If you picked up our new book A Rough Guide to Glamour yesterday, you should be able to leave a rating and/or a review today. (There's a short delay built into the process by DriveThruRPG to make sure you have time to look at whatever it was you've just purchased before rating it). We'd really appreciate constructive comments and, of course, accurate ratings. Here's the link:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/309765/A-Rough-Guide-to-Glamour?affiliate_id=392988

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Following a helpful suggestion from @Joerg, I've added a Glamour Map Pack to the bundle, containing all the maps from the book in a higher-resolution, printable format. If you log in to DriveThruRPG, you'll find it alongside the Rough Guide in your Library.* 

*NB: this only works if you've bought the Rough Guide to Glamour.

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By special agreement, the beautiful Mucha Blondie Glamour artwork by Antonia Doncheva from our new edition of A Rough Guide to Glamour is now available to purchase in a whole raft of formats -- including t-shirts, phone cases, posters & art prints -- from Chaosium Inc's RedBubble store. (Scroll down and click on "Available in +57 products" to see the whole range)

https://www.redbubble.com/i/art-print/The-Goddess-Glamour-from-The-Rough-Guide-to-Glamour-by-Chaosium/46847318.1G4ZT#&gid=1&pid=3

And just to clarify: this had to be "by special agreement" because nothing in the Jonstown Compendium Ts & Cs either allows or obliges Chaosium to use art from its products or sell related merchandise from their company store.

We commissioned this art, knowing Antonia would knock it out of the park, and then we assigned "second use" rights to Chaosium, so they could sell (and we could buy) these beautiful printed products via RedBubble.

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Initial impressions leaving me disappointed. Not sure why the Lunar Empire gets such a jokey presentation when Sartar gets treated so seriously in the official material, especially given Jeff Richard says this is 95% official. But first impressions can be wrong, so hoping my opinion shifts as I read it. 

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2 hours ago, Gene M. said:

Initial impressions leaving me disappointed. Not sure why the Lunar Empire gets such a jokey presentation when Sartar gets treated so seriously in the official material, especially given Jeff Richard says this is 95% official. But first impressions can be wrong, so hoping my opinion shifts as I read it. 

My impression as a newcomer to Glorantha is that this is a throwback of sorts to back when ALL of Glorantha had the tongue at least somewhat stuck in the cheek. There's still some of it left (ducks, "casino town", troll paraphernalia like parasols and sunglasses and shirts with logos on them, punny names for various characters - I mean, Prax is a literal Doctor Seuss reference, and Koromandol is a reference to a folk hippie music album or something, Nochet and Dunstop etc. are just wordplays), but art direction and nomenclature has taken a different direction. 

Anyway, I could be wrong, it is what it is.

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