New Icons!

[manikus]

Scale is probably the main reason why I like DC over FRUA- there is more than four sizes for icons.

[Uatu]

Yeah, it feels good to work without constraints on size and such. (The only remaining constraint with respect to icons is the working in blocks of 48 x 48, which does make it a bit more challenging.)

[manikus]

Ya, I would really love if we could work at whatever size. I know it's relatively easy to change how it works, but for consistency sake with FRUA, we would probably want to keep this style. Though, if we could work with 24x24 squares, I know it would make Steve McDonald very happy.

[Uatu]

Well, we can - just scale2x it after

[manikus]

What Steve would like is to keep everything at the scale we are working at now, but have the square size be 24x24 so that, for example, troll icons would be 72x48 instead of 96x48. Or maybe he did want it to be at FRUAs smaller scale... I'm getting old, I can't remember.

[Uatu]

Ah - I see. Weeell... 48 x 48 isn't such a bad constraint The hardest thing for me is when large creatures have weapons, greatly changing the amount of space they might need from the standing pose to the attacking pose. Of course, it is better to "pack" the creature into the smallest size available for them, so it makes doing giants, etc. a challenge (large creatures that use natural weapons are easier in that sense).

But anyway... New icon for tonight is the megalodon, essentially a huge resize of the great white shark (we don't know how the megalodons were colored, anyway). Now there is a huge monster for your PCs to be preyed on by (the sperm whale is huge, too, but should normally be benign)! Yay! May work on it some more later, but this is what I have for now.

[manikus]

That is a big fish. Looks good.

[Uatu]

Yeah, it's big, anyway! Should be good to scare PCs, anyway...

And now, a mini-icon - a badger. Badgers are cool. (North American badgers don't look as cool.) Maybe I will do a giant badger one day, too...

[SilentThief]

Someone in the FRUA community made a combat icon for a squirrel. I thought a squirrel would hardly be a combat (unless its the vicious bloodthirsty "Vorpal Squirrel" LOL)

ST
PS altho in reality since I don't wear armor personally, I give a lot of respect to a creature that can crack wallnuts with its teeth lol

[SilentThief]

I see you made a squirrel icon, as well. As usual, Uatu; I'm in awe of your artwork.

ST