by RedJak7
It may be a bit big-headed of me to make this announcement. But, I know a good number of you use my variants, and I didn't want to leave you hanging.It's been two and a half years since creating my first variant (a re-imagining of Nerdook's d6 variant for Descent). I've had a lot of fun making stuff for the community since then. I never expected that the ideas I came up with would be so popular. It felt very good to have something I created be so appreciated by others.
I want to thank everyone for your support of my work. It's quite something to have a thread about one of your creations reach nearly 500 posts, and to have a couple thousand downloads of the files. Some of my variants had reached the point where I didn't have to answer rules questions, other BGG users jumped right in to help. I think that was one of the signs for me to accept that it was OK to let go of my pet projects.
As much as I would like to continue on, I will no longer be updating my variants. I've shifted my energies to original game designs, and simply don't have room to maintain my variants. I have only so much spare time to create. And that time is less than it used to be.
This was a very hard decision for me. Being an active part of the BGG community was very rewarding. And it was something I needed during that time. I'm certainly not leaving. I just won't be active on the creative end here.
This doesn't mean that my variants are dead. I've taken steps to make sure they can continue on. I've placed all my templates on my Google Drive. Anyone can use those templates to fork off my variants as they wish. All I ask is that you attribute me somewhere in the work. You can even keep the variant names if you like. The current variant files will stay on my Drive as well.
I use GIMP for design work, so the template files are in XCF format. The rulebooks are in Libre/OpenOffice ODT format (yes, I'm an open-source kinda guy). I've also included the font files. The templates contain all the images and symbols, as well as card text. It may not have been the most elegant way of doing it, but it worked for me. The templates are sized for the hi-res cards. I used FastStone Photo Resizer to mass-resize the hi-res images down to 675x1050 for the card sheets.
And here is the link:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzpR1-5sN2wAdlNzU1JYamY1bj...
Feel free to contact me with any questions. I'll still be here; I'm not leaving BGG. Just going to be a bit less active.
Thank you,
RedJak
P.S
Note that I posted this only in the Descent forums. I am making links to this post in all my other variant threads and file sections.
P.P.S
I put this in the General forum, because I wanted everyone to see it sooner than later. Apologies if you feel it should have gone in the Variants forum.