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Monsen

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Monsen
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May 14, 1976
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Bergen, Norway
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Remy Monsen
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  • General question on install.

    When you install CC3+, it asks for the location of your data directory which you can put wherever you want, but the main program will always be installed to c:

    However, it is the data directory that consumes space, the main program install is only about ~50 MB, even after installing all the add-ons, so this shouldn't even be noticable on your SSD space.

    MadCartographerJulianDracos
  • Practical Mapping

    I disagree here. Those artistic maps do serve a real purpose in my games. I'm not that good of a descriptive storyteller, and an artistic map helps cover that up quite a bit. It lets me and the players agree on the look of the location, instead of they forming a very different image in their heads based on my limited description that they have. An artistic map can much more easily contain locations that may or may not be interesting which I love when showing it to the players, it's not as clear-cut as those traditional monochrome maps.

    That said, if I am not showing it to the players, I am usually not mapping it at all. Most of the cities my players have visited don't have a map at all, because I don't need one. A simple list of locations is more than enough. Heck, even a lot of the dungeons don't have maps. I don't waste time mapping locations I don't need a map for. But if you feel you need a map for a location just for yourself, then yea, keeping it as simple as possible is good.

    jmabbottDaishoChikaraGlitch
  • Forum oddities in recent days

    The most important thing for me right now, is this causing any problems (except from seeing an annoying error message)? I think I did manage to get it to stop reloading the page in the middle of writing a comment which could lead to data loss. While seeing that error every so often is annoying, what I really need to know is if situations arise where things like comments are actually lost.

    And thanks for the idea Jim, but no, this isn't caused by an old address/url.

    JimP
  • What is your favorite annual?

    There are so many good ones, but I still love the first year, which brought the Mercator Historical and John Speed City styles.

    JulianDracos
  • Community Atlas Project - Download information - Contributions Welcome

    And today I present this great contribution from Ziggycan. Thanks for contributing.


    LoopysueJimP