The Drowned Bride, an ICRPG Adventure

#1

Hi everybody,

I took the plunge and started learning InDesign to put together an adventure I’ve been wanting to publish for a while. I took inspiration from a couple of Decemberists songs to create the narrative and the big bad.

Here’s The Drowned Bride!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ORDDSkg1levfHRhqQOVNFdgGsL7dPQ63/view?usp=drivesdk

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#2

That’s some killer stuff right there. Excellent execution.

#3

Really amazing! The technical execution is spot on. I especially love the maps!!!

#4

That looks great! Love the artwork.

#5

Well done! That looks amazing!

#6

Great stuff! This is really cool, thanks for the hard work!

#7

Hell yeah, man. Those looks so damned good. Thank you.

#8

I think it’s great you’re using song lyrics as inspiration. More than once I’ve thought as I listened to a song, especially epic metal stuff, that I could just use the lyrics to quickly prep an adventure!

#9

I listen to the 1977 animated Hobbit soundtrack.

#10

Wow great stuff! The maps are on point!

#11

Engraved tankard with the initials “HF”

I like the inside baseball talk there~!

#12

Amazing work! It looks awesome!

#13

Woohoo that’s awesome! Excellent work dude!

#14

This is great. Thanks for sharing!

Is there a template for producing this format? I love the consistency with the homebrew ICRPG content; and if I ever create something to share I’d love to follow suit.

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#16

This is great.

Now I need to find someone that knows and has in design, lol.

#17

@Shenron you can get a free trial. I felt a bit lost and probably should have given it more time but I didn’t.

I have been messing around with Affinity Publisher which has a suite of 3 softwares for $49 each out the door and jumps you right into user tutorial videos.

There is a learning curve but it isn’t a steep one. They also offer a 10 day free trial for each program. I might go with this since I don’t think I need a subscription program for something I do maybe once a month on a weekend. I am, however, probably keeping photoshop over the program they offer. I use that way more than a publishing tool.

I did my first one using nothing but word and yoinking the art from the PDF Alex shared for the “backgrounds” because I intentionally wanted to see if you needed fancy stuff - I didn’t. Even the art was hand drawn.

You just have to roll up your sleeves and ask for help when you can’t figure it out. OR just take a picture of your journal and post it up!

@gh0sth0rse this is rad! Thank you for sharing! I totally forgot maps and now have to go tweak mine :wink: You for sure inspired me with this one.

#18

I agree … Affinity Publisher is a solid alternative. (IMHO, all of Affinity products are solid.) I made the switch from a subscription service to Adobe to all of the Affinity suite and I have not looked back!
I thinks its more intuitive than Adobe and works really well. Even for some of the more complex layout and photoshop tasks… … Game On!

#19

I’m with you, plus I think there’s a good variety of people with skills in both Affinity and Adobe software that if anyone wants to learn or gets stuck, they can find help.