• Advertisement

Make a small donation to Ye Olde Inn!

Donate via Paypal

Every cent received goes toward Ye Olde Inn's maintenance and allows us to continue providing the best resources for HeroQuest and Fantasy Gaming fans.

monster icons

Discuss Icons for use on Cards and Quest Maps.

monster icons

Postby Idomeneas » July 22nd, 2009, 4:50 pm

I wander if there is anywhere a file of a good scan of the monster icons in HQ.
I have an idea of heroes learning new feats and skills, based on level of xp points. Each monster will give certain xp points once killed. In that way the Heroes will advance based on their real contribution in the game. I would like to encourage players in taking active part in combat instaed of waiting till someone else get the dirty job done. Its unfair to be promoted to Hero status only by the number of quests you participate even if you did nothing special. So i want to build some levels of extra skills the player can have through battle xp.

That means that i will make a nice cardboard chart with all the monster icons and their xp worth, for all the players to see. For my extra monsters i will make my own but i would like to avoid the trouble of redoing the standard icons if they are available somewhere.


Rewards:
Created a Hot Topic.
User avatar
Idomeneas

Fimir
Fimir
 
Posts: 72
Joined: July 13th, 2009, 8:52 pm
Location: Athens, Greece
Hero:
Usergroups:
Champion Group Member

Advertisement

Make a small donation to Ye Olde Inn!

Donate via Paypal

Every cent received goes toward Ye Olde Inn's maintenance and allows us to continue providing the best resources for HeroQuest and Fantasy Gaming fans.

Re: monster icons

Postby Phoenix » July 22nd, 2009, 7:40 pm

If you shoot me some numbers of XP, I might be able to throw something together for you.
Image


Rewards:
Created a Hot Topic.
User avatar
The Great
Phoenix

Innkeeper
Innkeeper
 
Posts: 469
Images: 0
Joined: August 18th, 2008, 7:54 am
Location: TC, Indiana
Evil Sorcerer: Zargon
Usergroups:
Innkeepers Group Member Wizards of Zargon Group Member Adventurers' Guild Group Member Champion Group Member

Re: monster icons

Postby Idomeneas » July 23rd, 2009, 5:00 pm

Phoenix wrote:If you shoot me some numbers of XP, I might be able to throw something together for you.


Basically i need the icons, the chart thing i can make it myself, Im graphic designer so its my field :D . As for the numbers i have to think and rethink :? so they are going to change several times i think. Do you have that stuff in good resolution? Cause in the pdf files i have the icons are low and i still havent bought a new scanner to scan my manual...


Rewards:
Created a Hot Topic.
User avatar
Idomeneas

Fimir
Fimir
 
Posts: 72
Joined: July 13th, 2009, 8:52 pm
Location: Athens, Greece
Hero:
Usergroups:
Champion Group Member

Re: monster icons

Postby drathe » July 23rd, 2009, 11:29 pm

Have you tried using HeroScribe to just create a hi-res map with one of each of the monster icons? That might be a good way to go about it. I do have a hi-res scan of the icons from the back of the quest books (north american system, elf pack, barbarian pack and ogre horde) if you'd rather a set of those. I think it would be easier to use the HeroScribe ones since they're all vector files, rather than fix up scans to get what you want.
Image


Rewards:
Played a turn in a Play-by-Post game. Wrote an article for the Blog. Created a Hot Topic. Participated in a Miniature Exchange. Zealot Miniatures: Twisting Catacombs Kickstarter Backer
User avatar
Lord
drathe
The Bastiferous!

Innkeeper
Innkeeper
 
Posts: 2935
Images: 103
Joined: August 16th, 2008, 2:55 pm
Location: Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
Forum Language: British English
Hero:
Evil Sorcerer: Morcar
Usergroups:
Innkeepers Group Member Wizards of Zargon Group Member Adventurers' Guild Group Member Artists Group Member Champion Group Member Scribes Group Member

Re: monster icons

Postby Idomeneas » July 24th, 2009, 5:45 pm

drathe wrote:Have you tried using HeroScribe to just create a hi-res map with one of each of the monster icons? That might be a good way to go about it. I do have a hi-res scan of the icons from the back of the quest books (north american system, elf pack, barbarian pack and ogre horde) if you'd rather a set of those. I think it would be easier to use the HeroScribe ones since they're all vector files, rather than fix up scans to get what you want.


Havent use hesoscribe yet. I ll check it out


Rewards:
Created a Hot Topic.
User avatar
Idomeneas

Fimir
Fimir
 
Posts: 72
Joined: July 13th, 2009, 8:52 pm
Location: Athens, Greece
Hero:
Usergroups:
Champion Group Member

Re: monster icons

Postby Daniel » February 26th, 2016, 8:01 pm

Did anyone ever find any monster icons? Especially any transparent .png would be great.
Daniel

Goblin
Goblin
 
Posts: 11
Joined: February 24th, 2016, 4:55 am
Forum Language: English (United States)
Hero:
Evil Sorcerer: Zargon

Re: monster icons

Postby StratosVX » February 26th, 2016, 10:10 pm

Daniel wrote:Did anyone ever find any monster icons? Especially any transparent .png would be great.

Heroscribe has .png files in it's resources. If they aren't big enough, you could always scale the vector files to the size you need, then save them as .png files.


Rewards:
Zealot Miniatures: Twisting Catacombs Kickstarter Backer
User avatar
Scribe of Heroes
StratosVX
I hate snakes, Jacques...

Scout
Scout
 
Posts: 1145
Joined: November 6th, 2012, 12:44 am
Location: Utah, USA
Forum Language: English (United States)
Hero:
Evil Sorcerer: Zargon
Usergroups:
Wizards of Zargon Group Member Champion Group Member

Re: monster icons

Postby Daniel » February 26th, 2016, 10:44 pm

Ah, thanks!
Daniel

Goblin
Goblin
 
Posts: 11
Joined: February 24th, 2016, 4:55 am
Forum Language: English (United States)
Hero:
Evil Sorcerer: Zargon

Re: monster icons

Postby Anderas » March 10th, 2016, 1:43 am

Powerpoint can read the Heroscribe Vector files after unzipping. Other softwares often reject.
I use Powerpoint to scale an icon to big size and then save as PNG. Also Powerpoint can nicely change the colors of the icons.

The other way round, if you have a good resolution image, you can ask this website to vectorize it for you:

http://www.autotracer.org/


Rewards:
Hosted a Play-by-Post game. Played a turn in a Play-by-Post game. Created a Hot Topic. Participated in four (4) Miniature Exchanges. Participated in three (3) Miniature Exchanges. Zealot Miniatures: Twisting Catacombs Kickstarter Backer Destroyed a Zombie! Encountered a menacing Chaos Warlock!
User avatar
Anderas
NOT Andreas!

Polar Warbear
Polar Warbear
 
Posts: 3397
Images: 73
Joined: September 20th, 2014, 7:02 am
Forum Language: British English
Hero:
Evil Sorcerer: Morcar
Usergroups:
Wizards of Zargon Group Member Adventurers' Guild Group Member Artists Group Member
Champion Group Member


Return to Icons

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 0 guests