QUARTA edizione 4th - color coded for your convenience
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niente di che i nomi in house che poi sono diventati il colore del
font dei poteri at-will/encounter/daily
The Colors of 4e
Posted By: WotC_Dave, 3/25/2008 10:47:00 AM
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One of the things you'll see when you get a real copy of the Player's
Handbook is that color conveys meaning in the graphic design.
Specifically, at-will powers get green headers, encounter powers get
red, and dailies get black.
When we started talking about power attrition and frequency issues in
4e, we didn't have the "real" terminology yet. We talked about powers
as "green buttons" (which you could press whenever you want), "red
buttons" (which you could push once per encounter), and "black
buttons" (which you could push once a day).
Some of you will see parallels to computer games there, especially
MMOs like Warcraft that have buttons on cooldowns. Others will see a
parallel to Magic: The Gathering's color wheel. But the colors have
just been a useful shorthand for us here at the office. We'll often
say things like "I just finished up the druid blacks," or "That's a
good effect, but it's too good in red." That sort of thing.
So what was the rationale behind the colors we chose? There wasn't
one. Those just happened to be the colors of the whiteboard pens that
Rich Baker or Mike Mearls (can't remember which) picked up at an early
meeting to sketch out the whole big idea.
Well, the color names stuck. For the longest time, we kept saying,
"You know, we're eventually going to have to come up with real terms
for these things." And we still use green/red/black as jargon among
ourselves.
For a while, red buttons were "renewable powers." That stuck around
until we realized that they're all renewable powers--just at different
paces. And we eventually settled on the simplest terms we could come
up with: at-will powers, encounter powers, and daily powers. James
Wyatt once suggested "refractory period" as the general term for
button pacing as a concept. But I think he was kidding, and we were
never really sure whether he meant refractory period or refractory
period. Either works, I suppose.
Out of Context: "Dave Noonan does not have notes behind his DM screen.
He has Stormbringer."
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Fabio
fabio milito pagliara
la mia discromia mi faceva temere problemi, ma il colore è intorno al
testo ed è molto contrastato come si vede da questa foto che
dimenticavo
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/benimoto/2308408982/sizes/o/>
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Fabio
rgrassi
Rob
fabio milito pagliara
> Fabio, sei un vero D&D Enthusiast. :)
è terribile essere un fanelder.... ;)
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Fabio
Luca B.
> niente di che i nomi in house che poi sono diventati il colore del
> font dei poteri at-will/encounter/daily
salut
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