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Thanks! I hope it is useful to you :)

Thanks for taking a look and for the feedback! I'll see what I can do about that. I'm planning on writing up the full instructions first, but after that I can attempt to make a mini-version.

I chose NC because I don't want people selling my work.

I plan on keeping the license CC BY-NC-SA. Can you expand on why you want this changed?

Thanks for the feedback! Perhaps I will reconsider the cards then. :)

I am working on another revision to the pocketfold. Still early in the process, but one of the things I want to add is a way to generate dialog with an NPC.

Are there any other things missing that you think would be handy to have?

I was trying to find a way to have the cards tell me Ironsworn results in place of dice, but the method I used didn't account for assets or momentum properly.

The Y/N answers at the top didn't really account for advantage/disadvantage, though that can be somewhat solved by drawing two cards.

The icons in the middle have duplicates and are not evenly distributed.

There is no name generator! Which I have found is a must-have.

The 5e DCs are way off, I found they are too high.

The dice rolls at the bottom didn't have a fate roll ( /0/-), even though Juice relies heavily on that.

I might revisit making a card set again in the future, but I think some of the complex tables in the pocketfold just won't translate well.

i did make some cards a long time ago, but after a lot of play testing I determined they had a lot of flaws and scrapped the idea. Now I use the pocket fold alongside the gm apprentice cards.

Ha! I love it! Thanks for the fun review :)

The license is the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license found here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

This is also listed on the last page of the PDF.

Thanks! I'm pretty happy with this version, and I'm essentially out of space, so this might be the final version for a while. Enjoy!

By the way, in my picture I showed two separate cases, I didn't intend to mean that both the red and blue cases could be done simultaneously. I intended to either extend the arc in both directions (like the clue line shows, just on both sides), or shorten the arc in both directions (the red X, but on both sides).

I'm not sure I fully understand the two options. I would have thought a singe width override that applied to the whole ring would be enough, to either extend the arc in both directions, or shrink the arc in both directions. It seems by default the arc extends to the connection point lines, so overriding with a larger width could extend it towards the outer ring, while overriding with a shorter width (or negative offset?) would bring it closer to the "connect-point-skip-2" lines. It doesn't seem like a rotation is necessary. But I'm not sure how it is implemented under the hood.

If it isn't hard to implement, something like `./magic_circle.exe --file settings.json --output circle.png` to take in a previous export and generate a png would be perfect.

Is there a way to control the Inscribed arc width? For example, a star (symmetry 5, connect points skip 2, connect border off) with Inscribe Points on will have the inscribed arc extend outside of the star, to where the invisible border of the pentagon is.

I'd like to control this width in both directions: one to extend the arc to the outer circle (like the blue line in the picture), and one to shorten the width such that the inscription is inside the star (I crossed out the line in red). I imagine an "inscription width" variable would be enough?

 

I'm not sure offhand. I don't know who created that style first, but I do know its very popular. Both Dyson Logos and Inkwell are top notch artists!

If you go over to the Juice PDF, towards the end I tried to document all the sources and credits I used, with links. Browse through them, there is lots of good info out there.

If you like the map, take a look at Dyson Logo's maps, I believe he was the inspiration for Watabou's tool.

https://dysonlogos.blog/maps/

I just uploaded an A4 size, try it out and let me know! I have no way to test it :)

https://thunder9861.itch.io/juice-oracle/devlog/581688/juice-oracle-now-availabl...

I will see what I can do about that! I won't be able to print and test it, but I can try changing the paper size in the software and generate an A4 size. I'm not sure how much of the formatting will need to be modified.

Can you help me understand what units the "Rotation" field is in? If I make a diamond using "Symmetry Count" = 4, then "Rotation" = 45, I would have expected this to rotate it 45 degrees into a square. However, it is always off, and even clicking up 1 makes it rotate a lot. I've tried a ton of numbers, and "0.78" looks close, but still isn't exact. 

Great to hear! I'm glad it is helpful!

Thanks for your reply! I'm glad its been so useful to you

Yea, the system-agnostic monster generator is a better way to go for sure. Its simpler yet more flexible.

I use Scale quite a bit, just to add a bit of flavor to things or flush an idea out. Lets say I am making a random quest, and I roll "Fetch Object". Ok, what is this object like? I'll roll 1d10 1d6 on the scale table a few times. If I roll 8:Style, 1, that means whatever this thing is, its ugly. If I roll 2:Durability, 5, then its pretty solid. Maybe its a shield made of bone? As an added bonus, I can roll the detail check, maybe I roll Favors NPC. That might mean someone is looking for this shield, and I can get a hefty payout for retrieving it, whereas if I rolled Focus Plotline, then maybe that shield will protect me from whatever weapon the big bad guy has.

I use it with the treasure table too. Maybe I open a treasure chest, and roll 4,5,3,2: A crafted leather brooch. Rolling on the scale table and getting 4,6 might indicate this brooch has some sort of high-level power associated with it, like it can cast Fireball or something.

Or roll on it when entering a settlement, getting 1,1 might mean this settlement is very newly developed, and might have plenty of work for outsiders. Or getting 9,4 might mean the settlement has decent quality shops available.

I like how much value a small table can provide, its fast and sometimes more evocative than the Description table on the inside.

Thank you so much, I'm glad this tool has been so useful to you!

Thank you so much!

Thanks! Yea, the more I playtest, the more tweaks I make. I doubt I will ever be truly done, but this one is doing pretty well so far. Though I already have some notes written down about the monster encounter table that I want to change :)

Oh, and btw, the Treasure Generator is very heavily based on https://darkrealmgames.itch.io/random-item-generator, I highly recommend checking it out!

I made a Pocketfold format for my Solo RPG Oracle, I'd love for you to include it in your collection! Thanks for sharing this wonderful tip!

https://thunder9861.itch.io/juice-oracle

This looks very interesting! I have few questions:

1) Can this export the settings/parameters into a text format like JSON, such that I could import that file and recreate the same circle?

2) If the above is true, is there a way to use this tool from the command line, for scripting? Like `./magic_circle.exe --file settings.json --output circle.png` ?

This would be an awesome way to generate some specific circles in batches, I would simply have a python script modify the JSON before calling this to generate the image.

Thanks!

Thanks! That means a lot :)

I don't have any plans to make a Sci-Fi version at the moment.