Isle of Oxuders (Sea of Os'r)

Here's my first little islet for the Sea of Os'r project. It's called the Isle of Oxuders [PDF]:

At high tide, the Isle of the Oxuders appears to be two tiny islands.
The megalith is visible from a considerable distance to anyone keeping active watch. However, from the sea, it may be mistaken for a natural rock formation. The islands’s other points of interest are not evident unless the party makes a landing.

There is a 2 in 6 chance the cast-away will spot the PC’s vessel, and ignite a signal fire on the highest point of the island, which otherwise appears uninhabited.

Boats landing on the beach at low tide must contend with oxuders, who often surprise by launching themselves from concealed burrows in the sand.

Labyrinth Lord referee screen

I'll be running Labyrinth Lord shortly, so I spend my snow day today making a referee screen with various tables and lists. It's laid-out as three letter-size landscape pages, which I've found to make a nice size screen if taped together end-to-end. So, here's my Labyrinth Lord referee screen PDF (and the LaTeX source file, in case anyone wants to mess with it).

Improved Wilderness Map

I told myself last night that was going to quit messing with it for a while, but today I couldn't help making significant aesthetic and functional improvements to the wilderness map for my forthcoming 0e/LBB retro-clone, Torch & Sword. Here's the map PDF. The map is © Paul Gorman, and licensed under both the OGL 1a and the Creative Commons Attribution License—take your pick.

Fix scans in Judges Guild PDF's

This is mainly for my own reference, but some of you might also find it useful. The RPGnow PDF's of original Judges Guild products—like the Ready Ref Sheets—were made from low-contrast grayscale scans. They read OK on screen, but don't print cleanly. If you have a Linux box (or any OS with a recent ImageMagick version) this command will produce a cleaner printing PDF:

convert -density 300 -brightness-contrast 0%x90% JGld-ReadyRefSheets.pdf readyrefsheets-contrasty.pdf

That grinds my machine to a halt for several minutes, so you might want to lower the priority level of the process with nice. If you have an older version of ImageMagick, you may be able to achieve similar results using the -contrast-stretch option instead of -brightness-contrast. If you have a better way to achieve similar results, I'd like to know. Thanks.