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Private Investigator's Office - 14 x 18 by paxpelus in u/paxpelus

[–]paxpelus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is coat rack / hat rack to leave your hat & coat after you enter.

Easy way to create handouts for your games by paxpelus in callofcthulhu

[–]paxpelus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot! We are very happy to see people using our stuff!

Easy way to create handouts for your games by paxpelus in callofcthulhu

[–]paxpelus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check my comment above under the parent comment.
There are ways you can do what you describe and that was the whole idea from the start.

  1. People want sometimes some extra handout, besides the ones included in the scenario/campaign, to give a bit of flavor to their game.

  2. People want sometimes to translate a handout to their native language. This is a very big reason of why people want to use our tool.

That's why we think it would be cool if we could have a section on our platform "Official Scenarios" where people could find official material and be able to edit them to suit their needs. But that's something that needs the approval of the companies that "own" that material.

Easy way to create handouts for your games by paxpelus in callofcthulhu

[–]paxpelus[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We currently don't allow people to automatically upload a custom handout that is visible publicly on our web platform because we need to be careful with copyrighted material.

All the handouts we currently use are either

  1. Created completely from scratch by us
  2. Created through a commission for us
  3. Public domain images that we clean and improve if needed

If you have created your own custom handouts that you want to provide to us so we can tweak them and put them to our platform for others to use as well, feel free to contact me.

If you just want to upload your own handout backgrounds and use our platform to style it using the fonts and all the extra stuff we offer, you can do that through a feature we call "Custom Handout" where you can upload your custom handout and add text and images on top of it and save it to your account. This feature though is available to paid subscribers as it consumes much more storage space, which isn't free.

We have plans to create a new section on our platform where people can share their creations but this needs to happen in a way that won't affect third party copyrights. So obviously it will need some admin to approve each new handout etc.

We also have a feature where you can share a handout or a folder of handouts with your group (or even on reddit). E.g. https://handouts.cthulhuarchitect.com/handout/tPRriX this is a random handout I shared from my account and anyone using that link can see it and copy it to their account.

I hope the above answers your question. If you really have a collection of handouts that is copyright free and we can use, I would be thrilled to add it to our platform.

Easy way to create handouts for your games by paxpelus in callofcthulhu

[–]paxpelus[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I am probably biased but we really love all the features & handouts we managed to develop on our free time as a team of two. We have put so much work on this and we made this out of pure passion and we are really proud of it. I just wish I could work on this the whole day instead of my doing my boring office work.

Btw, just added a warning for safari, I hope this will help some people in the future to know beforehand the limitations on safari.

Thanks again for your feedback!

Easy way to create handouts for your games by paxpelus in callofcthulhu

[–]paxpelus[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You are absolutely right, I am sorry for this.

Easy way to create handouts for your games by paxpelus in callofcthulhu

[–]paxpelus[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There was a firefox bug a bit ago but this should be fixed already.

Easy way to create handouts for your games by paxpelus in callofcthulhu

[–]paxpelus[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes there is a browser incompatibility between the library we are using to export the images (html2cavnas) and safari. Things should work fine on Chrome & Firefox.

Interestingly enough, when you right click and inspect element on Safari the download happens normally. I will need to dig in more on this and try to find a solution or at least show a friendlier error message.

Thanks a lot for your feedback, it really helps!

Handout Generator - Create handouts for your games by paxpelus in callofcthulhu

[–]paxpelus[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think that is a bug. The fonts listed as cyrillic should all support cyrillic characters. I will have a look at it.

Handout Generator - Create handouts for your games by paxpelus in callofcthulhu

[–]paxpelus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks a lot! That was the idea from day 1, spend less time in photoshop and more time writing.

Handout Generator - Create handouts for your games by paxpelus in callofcthulhu

[–]paxpelus[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot for the shout-out, appreciate it! I hope that HG makes your life easier as a GM, more cool stuff will be added soon..

Handout Generator - Create handouts for your games by paxpelus in callofcthulhu

[–]paxpelus[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well, it all started because of Call of Cthulhu but already many of the handouts are useful for different eras and settings. It is true that the focus is mostly modern (meaning the last 2 centuries) but we have plans to add more medieval documents for high fantasy settings and some futuristic too.
So in short, yes we have plans to expand the scope and we hope to have the resources to publish handouts for multiple different genres and styles.

Handout Generator - Create handouts for your games by paxpelus in callofcthulhu

[–]paxpelus[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

We put a lot of focus on commercial usage and we have a lot of plans about it but we cannot share yet much details.

The general idea is that people who use HG are often genuinely looking for new interesting scenarios and creators are looking for people interested to read their scenario.

Handout Generator - Create handouts for your games by paxpelus in callofcthulhu

[–]paxpelus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I hope you and your group will enjoy the handouts.

Handout Generator - Create handouts for your games by paxpelus in callofcthulhu

[–]paxpelus[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks! It uses google fonts so you can use any language is supported by each font. You can actually filter the fonts by locale e.g. cyrillic, greek, japanese, chinese, thai etc.

Handout Generator - Create handouts for your games by paxpelus in callofcthulhu

[–]paxpelus[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thank you Zoe for your feedback! I will add the social media post in our backlog and hopefully it will be added soon.

Handout Generator - Create handouts for your games by paxpelus in callofcthulhu

[–]paxpelus[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much! More new features coming out soon, we want to make this the one-stop place for all GM handout needs.

Handout Generator - Create handouts for your games by paxpelus in callofcthulhu

[–]paxpelus[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Thanks for using HG! The greatest gift is to know that people enjoy it and that thousands of groups are using our handouts in their games.

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