The House of Lisport
“Melly Lisport took an axe, and gave her mother forty wacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.”
2008-04-25 18:35:17 Welcome to the House of Lisport! It ties in slightly with Illustrious Castle and The Lost Castle of the Astronomers.
The House of Lisport is suitable or 3 to 6 adventurers of fourth to fifth level.
Maps and other resources
This adventure is the first Gods & Monsters book to come with a complete resource file. All of the maps, character sheets, and other resources are created using open source software such as Inkscape, Scribus, and GIMP, so you should be able to open them no matter what platform you’re using or software you’ve purchased.
Because I’m no longer able to use the PICT vector graphics format, I’m using the EPS format instead for embedding images into the main document. This is why there are no image previews for vector graphics images in the RTF file in Word or OpenOffice. You’ll need to print from the PDF files to view map images or other vector images.
New print size
I’m also experimenting with printing in landscape. The House of Lisport is 11 by 8.5 instead of 8.5 by 11. I did this because I’ve found myself using the Traveling Books format exclusively. I don’t like making a printed version available that I’m not using myself, so I’ve been looking for a good way to make the printed versions smaller. The House of Lisport will print at 9 by 7 at Lulu. This will be slightly larger than the 5.5 by 8.5 I’ve been using (the text on the traveling books was tiny), but significantly smaller than the 8.5 by 11 I’ve been distributing. I think it’s going to be a much more useful size for gaming.
No images in HTML
The version of Word that I’m using doesn’t save EPS graphics when saving as HTML. I’m most likely going to be switching to Nisus Writer Pro, but I need to redo the conversion script. I’ve got a proof of concept working that indicates it will be possible (and possibly much better than my current workflow). Nisus does convert images, and can even do so within the conversion script. But for now, you’ll need to use the PDF or download the resource file to get the images.
Jerry Stratton
For More Information:
- The House of Lisport
- A gothic adventure for God & Monsters, The House of Lisport takes place several miles south of the gambling town Fork.
http://www.godsmonsters.com/Lisport/Lisport.pdf
- Illustrious Castle
- The Knights of the Order of Illustration once guarded the “Walled Library,” the remote scholars’ town of Biblyon in the foothills of the High Divide. This adventure is suitable for four to six adventurers of second to third level.
http://www.godsmonsters.com/Haunted/
- The Lost Castle of the Astronomers
- This dungeon crawl is suitable for three to six characters of first to third level. This is the basic adventure that Charlotte, Gralen, Sam, and Will went through in The Order of the Astronomers.
http://www.godsmonsters.com/Lost/
- Inkscape
- “Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.”
http://www.inkscape.org/
- Scribus
- Scribus is a very useful open source page layout package for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
http://www.scribus.net/
- GIMP
- The GIMP image manipulation program is one of the best free software packages of any kind. Fully multi-platform, the GIMP “is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction”.
http://www.gimp.org/
- Traveling books
- You can trick your printer into printing 8.5 x 11 pages at 5.5 by 8.5 for portable books.
http://www.menandsupermen.com/?ART=115
- Nisus “clean HTML” macro
- The Nisus macro language is Perl; this means we can use all of Perl’s strengths as a text filter scripting language in Nisus.
http://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/?ART=643
Related adventures articles:
- Dragonsfoot Adventure Modules (http://www.menandsupermen.com/?ART=183)
- The “home of First Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons” has a bunch of old-school adventures in old-style format.
- Vale of the Azure Sun (http://www.menandsupermen.com/?ART=81)
- There are things in this world that defy all logic. Places that no door enters and no road goes, where the maps exist only in the minds of madmen. This Gods & Monsters adventure is suitable for three to six characters of 3rd to 5th level.
- Xel-i-tec: the random dungeon of doom! (http://www.menandsupermen.com/?ART=125)
- Need a quick dungeon adventure? You’ll need to fill out the flavor text and stats, but everything else is ready for printing with Jamis Buck’s dungeon generator.
- Illustrious Castle (http://www.menandsupermen.com/?ART=74)
- Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where the philosophers of this world? This Gods & Monsters adventure is suitable for four to six 2nd to 3rd level characters.
- The Lost Castle of the Astronomers (http://www.menandsupermen.com/?ART=31)
- The mountains of West Highland are dotted with the ruins of lost scholarly orders. The Astronomers, in the Deep Forest south of the Leather Road, have been silent for a hundred years, unheard from since the goblin wars that so devastated Highland.
- The Gods & Monsters Adventure Guide’s Handbook (http://www.menandsupermen.com/?ART=29)
- The Adventure Guide’s Handbook contains tips on organizing games, creating game worlds, and managing the gods and monsters that populate those worlds.
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