Someone was asking for papercraft RPG/tabletop terrain, and I of course flashed back to a publication called the “Map Folio 3D” from the DnD 3.5 era. Papercraft DnD-scaled buildings on cardstock. I’ve unfortunately long since ditched the structures, but Wizards uploaded them as PDFs back in ’04 (and why shouldn’t they have; they were selling books after all, not papercraft hobby supplies.)
I was able to dredge a few out of the archive before it started going down (again, apparently) today (see edit below), and I’ll present them here. You may have better luck, I’ll update this if the archive ever comes back up (and, more than likely, move the whole collection there or to some other more appropriate hosting.)
Seeing them again is quite nostalgic. They have the same hard to describe texture feel that other DnD 3/3.5 era maps had. Early digital photorealistic illustration… core?
Edit: The Wayback Machine was running again, I got the rest
Twitter is having a little trouble. I’m going to back up some good tweets here. I really did love one liners as a medium. Twitter offers a way to download your tweets, but it’s a long running asynchronous process so I have no idea if it’s going to work. And anyway, it’s neat to look back on this stuff. I suppose I should also mention that I made a mastodon profile but I can’t promise I’ll use it.
A good #codereview is like an all-you-can-eat buffet: an opportunity for personal growth
18 feb
2020
To keep things light, all future
discussions of employee salaries will use “smackeroos” instead of dollars.
Thanks.
29 Aug 2022
Be @arborday > Send entire packet of mail made of dead trees > I mean we’re talking about bookmarks, a calendar, personalized correspondence labels, a survey, and a certificate of completion for the survey > At least I’m thinking about it. Well played.
24 Aug 2022
#Security Thought of the day: Piccard set his auto destruct PIN to 0000
A while back, I was trying to find a specific Lego catalog that I’d looked at as a kid. However, when I tried to find the specific one I was looking for, I realized that very few of these catalogs from the 90s had been immortalized by the internet. However, many of them where on sale for reasonable prices (and Sabrina wanted a Scanner for old family Photos anyway) so I got to work.
The raw files are here on my archive.org account, if you find my (largely imagemagick-powered) PDFing of the files inadequate. If the PDFs appear small just zoom in, they’re about as high-res as they can be without creating artifacts on the screens I tried. I plan on also scanning the ones that I personally saved when I was a kid, and will post those here too.
And the specific catalog I was looking for? Turns out it was Holiday 1997. Twenty one years ago. The page I was looking for in particular turns out to be this one.
emf.sdf.org, or “The Shipyard Liberation Project” hasn’t been updated in years. This is mostly because I haven’t had anything to add to it-I think I got every last graphic I could, contacted everyone who’s email address still worked, etc. I’d also all but run out of space for my SDF account (I even had to host the 3d models from Ares on my own site.) Somewhere along the line, I lost access to my SDF account, but by then I was using Unix every day so I didn’t really miss it.
Fast-forward to now, I’ve realized that the fine folks at the Internet Archive have a sweet upload utility that allows you to upload whatever files you want, and (critically) add metadata to them so that some sort of context can be preserved. So I’ve uploaded those files to the archive, you can enjoy them here. That puts out the “what if SDF deletes my account” fire, but some stuff remains:
Files with appropriate licenses ended up on OpenGameArt rather than on SDF because I figured more people would see/use it. They ought to be mirrored on the archive.
Someone from the Ambrosia forums kindly ripped the graphics from a TC called “The Novel One.” I’ve got the graphics somewhere, but I haven’t been able to find the thread.
The “Open Source TC” had some assets at some point, and the notion was that anyone could take it and run with it. I’ve never run across a copy of it (it was hosted on DropBox of all places)
The list of missing shipyards on the SDF site still stands – if anyone out there has any of those graphics, I’d love to see them!
