I Hate You, Milkman Fit-To-Page
Jul. 15th, 2002 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ralphmeltonSo, drooling over the MasterMaze pieces has been inspiring me to work on Dirt Cheep Dungeons. My ideal would be to have enough pieces that I could quickly assemble dungeon rooms during play.
But just assembling walls and floor pieces isn't all that interesting, so I decided to try an interesting piece: the Grand Staircase.
I assemble all the pieces over the course of a few hours. And then, as I started to fit the stairs to the wall piece they're going on, I discovered that the two pieces are not on the same scale. Bleah!
The problem was that I had accidentally left the 'fit to page' option checked when I printed out some of the pieces, and they were printed at 92% of their proper size. Bleah bleah bleah.
Lori persuaded me that the right thing to do was to print out other pieces in the same smaller scale, so that I wouldn't have to redo all the work. This is the correct thing--I probably won't get much opportunity to use the Grand Staircase, and when it does come up, I can persuade my players to ignore the discrepancy in scale.
But I was very put out.
(Final result: the Grand Staircase looks very nice, but I look at it and see all the little signs of things being slightly off and not quite exactly matching. Oh well.)
But just assembling walls and floor pieces isn't all that interesting, so I decided to try an interesting piece: the Grand Staircase.
I assemble all the pieces over the course of a few hours. And then, as I started to fit the stairs to the wall piece they're going on, I discovered that the two pieces are not on the same scale. Bleah!
The problem was that I had accidentally left the 'fit to page' option checked when I printed out some of the pieces, and they were printed at 92% of their proper size. Bleah bleah bleah.
Lori persuaded me that the right thing to do was to print out other pieces in the same smaller scale, so that I wouldn't have to redo all the work. This is the correct thing--I probably won't get much opportunity to use the Grand Staircase, and when it does come up, I can persuade my players to ignore the discrepancy in scale.
But I was very put out.
(Final result: the Grand Staircase looks very nice, but I look at it and see all the little signs of things being slightly off and not quite exactly matching. Oh well.)
