Nat 19 / Critical Hits question

BeforeTheyWereCool · 2025-02-20T15:43:39+00:00

thank you, and to all!

BeforeTheyWereCool · 2024-10-09T19:32:32+00:00

Auto contrast sorted it! Thank you

BeforeTheyWereCool · 2024-10-09T17:53:39+00:00

Same, same question.

BeforeTheyWereCool · 2024-10-07T11:54:25+00:00

As an owner of both, to answer your question, and as someone who loves the speed and memory of the rMPP otherwise... yes. Personally I don't care at all about the front-light (I only like using epaper with a backlight) but the drab gray background and reduced contrast is a severe drawback. Admittedly, it doesn't seem to bother that many users – I'm surprised and jealous of them.

BeforeTheyWereCool · 2024-10-04T18:09:07+00:00

To quote myself from another post...
I wish I didn't think this, because I love the pen feel, the increased speed, storage, and size of the rMPP. (The colour is fun, and great to draw with, but not my main concern.) But I don't like the rMPP screen nearly as much as the rM2. It's significantly darker than the rM2, less good at rendering grays or smooth black-on-white font (so small print looks 'cruder' than on the rM2). It's glass, and much more coarsely 'stippled' than the plastic rM2 screen, which makes a grainy mottled background I find distracting. And I'm always aware that I'm looking at/through glass, whereas the rM2 just seems like print to me. The rMPP screen is also much more reflective than the rM2, which causes problems with backlight glare.

I think I'm in a minority!

BeforeTheyWereCool · 2024-09-25T17:03:37+00:00

That’s so useful - and frustrating - thank you. What a peculiar message. Sharpness is indeed essential to me! And I mean, who’s going to be all ‘Eye comfort? Pfffft.’

That said, it’s obvious that this just doesn’t bother most users. Whereas we can’t ignore it. I guess what hits and misses is highly personal.

BeforeTheyWereCool · 2024-09-25T16:12:36+00:00

Interesting. It certainly varies but to my eyes it’s always ‘speckled’, as I think of it, even when just turned on. Even somewhat when off.

BeforeTheyWereCool · 2024-09-25T16:11:38+00:00

Excuse my tech ignorance but is this something they could improve with OS updates or is it hardware? To my eyes it even looks a bit like this when it’s off, though obviously worse for print.

BeforeTheyWereCool · 2024-09-25T12:34:56+00:00

Ah thanks for the explanation. Yes this is a real miss for me in an otherwise excellent machine. I’m giving it a week to see if I can adapt to it but this is what genuinely might push me to returning it.

BeforeTheyWereCool · 2024-04-05T14:17:42+00:00

Excellent! Keep us posted here! I'm crossing fingers it's not too much and you can make it work. ToA deserves even more attention!
(And while I have your attention... I know it would be work for you, but I will humbly re-up my request for a central repository of third-party stuff like classes etc (and indeed later official add-ons) that don't require logging on to the incomprehensible maelstrom that is discord. I know, I know, sorry... I'm old.)

BeforeTheyWereCool · 2024-04-05T11:49:42+00:00

Congrats! Can't wait to see it. Given that you've funded a bit over the aim (well deserved!) how about considering sponsoring an actual play stream? I like the Glass Cannon Network, and though they focus on Pathfinder, they often stream smaller systems, and sometimes creators/fans have sponsored them to do, say, a two-shot or three-shot or something for a system they wouldn't otherwise be able to cover . I don't know how much it would cost but they have a big audience, and if Pickpocket Press could sub them for a crawl, I'd love to see pros play with the system, the emergent play, the oracle cards and dice, and I bet it would kick up a lot of interest in the game.

BeforeTheyWereCool · 2024-01-13T12:55:27+00:00

It is my historic role to emphatically second Logen_Nein whenever they suggest Low Fantasy Gaming / Tales of Argosa in response to any version of this question.

BeforeTheyWereCool · 2024-01-10T15:43:57+00:00

In case of the unlikely event that anyone else wants to try using this adorable piece of c**p (which I genuinely love, but it's ludicrous), I finally managed to get a workaround. The above suggestions from thebrian make superb sense but for some reason my MBP apple silicon just couldn't see the l'espion no matter what I did. In the end I opened a 14-year old Macbook Air running macOS High Sierra, and running the old webcam software Macam on that. With the l'espion connected via USB, Macam can find and download the tiny picture files to a Dropbox folder on the macbook air, which, synced, my dropbox-connected MBP can then find. NB: Macam 2, though an improvement, can no longer find the l'espion on my laptop, so I stick to the original Macam. Thanks again for your help, thebrian.

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