Steve Long Posted August 26, 2003 Report Share Posted August 26, 2003 Just wanted to let everyone know that our first new book in the Hero Plus line of e-books, Shades Of Black, is now available in the E-Books section of the Online Store! SOB, written by our own Allen Thomas, is a Champions adventure that pits the character against the evil Black Paladin and his followers. In addition to over 80 pages of text, the adventure has numerous maps (including a completely mapped out haunted mansion!) and three new villains. All this can be yours for a mere $12 -- so don't delay, order today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Posted August 26, 2003 Report Share Posted August 26, 2003 I am sorry but I don't like e-rpgs, I might consider buy it if it ever became availabe in print. Still, the cover appears to be very nice. Could you post an enlarged version? I noticed that Shades of Black is not being listed in the "Our Products" section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djday38 Posted August 26, 2003 Report Share Posted August 26, 2003 I have purchased Shades of Black but when i atempt to open the PDF file it say the file is damaged and caanot be repaired. Is this happening to anyone else? Pls let me know how I can view the file. rgds Dean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victim Posted August 26, 2003 Report Share Posted August 26, 2003 Is the adventure self contained, or does it require villain stats from other books? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Seeman Posted August 26, 2003 Report Share Posted August 26, 2003 Originally posted by djday38 I have purchased Shades of Black but when i atempt to open the PDF file it say the file is damaged and caanot be repaired. Is this happening to anyone else? Pls let me know how I can view the file. rgds Dean I'm looking into this right now. Strangely, when I download the file from the server I get the same error, but the original of the file opens without any problems. When Tina downloaded the file she didn't get any error. I'm going to reupload the original and see if that fixes the problem. Once I have a solution I'll announce it here and then those who need to redownload should email me. Sorry about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allen Posted August 26, 2003 Report Share Posted August 26, 2003 Originally posted by Victim Is the adventure self contained, or does it require villain stats from other books? It uses the Black Paladin presented in Conquerors, Killers, And Crooks. For minions, so the GM can increase the difficulty of some of the encounters if necessary to challenge his players, it uses Demon Hounds and Lesser Demons, both of which are presented in HERO System Bestiary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Seeman Posted August 26, 2003 Report Share Posted August 26, 2003 Okay, well, here's what I think has happened. When the PDF file was uploaded to the server, it appears as though it was compressed. The file would upload to the server but only be about 3.8MB instead of the 4.9MB it should have been. But when I downloaded the file from the server it seemed to have expanded it. So perhaps the problem people are having is with the decompression during the download. So, I have ZIPped up the file and uploaded it. THAT upload came across without descrepancy in the file size. So I am hopeful that when people download the ZIP file, they PDF inside will be intact. For those of you who still don't have a good download after purchase, please email me . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeroTina Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 Re: SHADES OF BLACK Now Available! Originally posted by Steve Long Just wanted to let everyone know that our first new book in the Hero Plus line of e-books, Shades Of Black, is now available in the E-Books section of the Online Store! SOB, written by our own Allen Thomas, is a Champions adventure that pits the character against the evil Black Paladin and his followers. In addition to over 80 pages of text, the adventure has numerous maps (including a completely mapped out haunted mansion!) and three new villains. All this can be yours for a mere $12 -- so don't delay, order today! And I'm on the cover...... T. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allen Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 Originally posted by allen It uses the Black Paladin presented in Conquerors, Killers, And Crooks. For minions, so the GM can increase the difficulty of some of the encounters if necessary to challenge his players, it uses Demon Hounds and Lesser Demons, both of which are presented in HERO System Bestiary. errr... forgot one... It also uses Talisman from Champions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenKimball Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 Sub-par proofing First of all, I look forward to running this adventure, and overall I'm very pleased with the product. However... It seems that quality control slipped a bit on this one. I've noticed several layout errors that surprised me, given the consistently high quality of Hero products. For example (page references are for the PDF, not the book): p. 3: the book starts on a left-hand page (intentionally?) p. 66: text flows from previous chapter onto title page p. 74: at top of page, chapter name is incorrect, page number duplicated on the wrong side of the page, text overwrites "Shades of Black" copy p. 82: combat record sheet is labelled "Down In The Hole," which I believe is from Champions Battlegrounds These things won't detract much from my enjoyment of the book, but they do bug me. Cheers! Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Seeman Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 Ben, whend did you first download the PDF? Did you extract it from a ZIP file when you downloaded it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenKimball Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 I downloaded it yesterday afternoon; I did extract it from a .zip file. I'm using Adobe Acrobat Professional v6.0 on Mac OS X 10.2.6, if it's relevant. Cheers! Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenKimball Posted August 28, 2003 Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 One more minor problem Page 40 is not numbered. Do you plan to release a "version 1.0.1" of this PDF? I'm only asking to see if I should wait to print and bind my copy. Thanks! Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Seeman Posted August 28, 2003 Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 A new version has been uploaded to the online store. I have reset all of the download flags for all purchases of Shades of Black. You (and anyone else who has the errored version) can simply go back to your Order Status and download the ZIP file again. Any questions? Let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenKimball Posted August 29, 2003 Report Share Posted August 29, 2003 Hey hey hey! Way cool. Thanks Ben. Cheers, The Other Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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