A short RPG Bugbears video about the idea of creating characters seperate from knowledge of the campaign background.
RPG Bugbears – Pre-genning Characters
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Red Hand of the Empire – Dark Side Remix
After my posts earlier about Star Wars intro crawl creators I was chatting with Richard Wentworth on Facebook, he showed me some interesting writing about colour theory and made some great suggestions on how I could make a more darkside looking version of the Red Hand of the Empire (my upcoming trilogy of games where the players will portray Inquisitors working for the Empire) intro crawl. After several attempts at making one using crawl creators eventually, although they made it easier, I returned to my self-made template in my own video editing software since it gave me more control. Continue reading
Star Wars Crawl Creators
One of the things I’ve really been enjoying about running a load of Star Wars RPG games recently is that I’ve been making intro crawls for each of the episodes and putting them on my Youtube channel, if you don’t know what an intro crawl is then it’s the bit at the start of a Star Wars film where the text scrolls up the screen and gives you some background on the film, normally being followed by a space battle or scene of a planet or similar.
Still not sure what I mean? Well have no fear you can the intro crawls from the first six Star Wars movies by clicking here. Continue reading
Designing a new video opening screen
As you’ll hopefully have notice there’s been a change to the overall colour scheme for Red Dice Diaries, we’ve gone for a more muted, easy on the eyes palette to go with our new website (that you’re reading now); with the new scheme though the old startup sequence (great though it was) for our Youtube videos didn’t really seem appropriate. So I’ve been messing around with my copy of Corel VideoStudio X7 and the graphics that I designed/altered for use on the website trying to create something more suitable.
I definitely wanted to end with the RDD dice logo in the middle of the screen and the text Red Dice Diaries, Table RPGs on there somewhere, since the main thing that happens with dice is that they get rolled I decided to try and have the logo bounce onto the screen and then jump up and down a bit before settling as though someone had thrown it from off-camera. Now this will be the first bit of motion based animation i’ve done on Corel VideoStudio, but overall i’m pretty happy with how it turned out.
I also wanted to keep the intro fairly short so that people didn’t get annoyed with how long it was taking, but I needed a certain amount of time to show the motion of the dice; in the end I managed to get it down to seven seconds, which I think should be okay.