I wanted to create a new one of these to see what kind of landing pages the community has created since the last one of these was made. The previous two threads that I've seen are here and here. Posted in this forum because this is where Keith Curtis posted his two years ago.
According to Keith a Landing Page is:
Also referred to as a Home Page or a Splash Page, the Landing page is the entry point to your campaign. People have come up with some clever uses for them in the past, but at a bare minimum, the Landing Page should have tokens out for all active characters, so that players can easily work with them in the down time. Other potential elements:
- A campaign map
- A map from the recent adventure
- A text area detailing the last adventure or xp award
- The latest treasure that has not been divvied up (useful if you use cards for inventory)
- Clues to follow up on
- A Notice Board of quests in the area
- A Rogues Gallery of the BBEG and his/her lieutenants
- An area for players to scribble on with the drawing tools (some people gotta)
- Images of prominent NPCs or locations
- A Kill Record— X-ed out tokens of defeated adversaries
So I first really started experimenting with this when a buddy of mine told me that roll20 uses a 70x70 pixel grid for its Tabletop. Most of you probably already know this but it is what allowed me to start experimenting in GIMP creating landing pages for my players! I have a lot of fun doing it and creating "character cards" to more easily display player stats on the Tabletop. Alright anyway without further ado here are my current landing pages that I think look pretty cool.
Delta Green 1.0
Each of the numbers are adjustable rollable tables! Right click and you can change HP on the card. Pretty neat.
Delta Green 2.0
This was a generational game. I had my players play the same group of agents from 1965 all the way to the 1985. I got tired of running it before they reached retirement age and of course several of them died along the way but it was a lot of fun. I'd change the banner every week when I switched to a new adventure.
FFFG Edge of the Empire
This is a newer game that I'm running and a less accomplished landing page but I still think it looks cool. In Edge of the Empire for those who don't know during character creation the crew gets to pick a spaceship to be their crew's space ship. My group choice the Wayfarer-Class Medium Transport. And since this is the type of game where they're going to spend a lot of time on their starship, I made a floorplan for them in DeepNight's RPG Map 2 and then found the EotE logo on google and created this splash page. (Note: I'm zoomed out to get more of the image in at one time. It looks better fully zoomed!)
So how about you. Anyone done any creative landing pages for your games? I'd love to see them!
