Campaign Banners and Briefs

I'm going to write up some new campaign briefs, even though I don't yet have a solid idea on what exactly each of the potential Old Night campaigns will look like yet. But first, I want to have some solid banners for them, because I like having them. I'm going to go a little more with my current banner style, so let's see how these work. I may have more than one option for each.

Cult of Undeath A uses the Necrofonticon runes on the top, JungleSlang runes on the bottom, and the Kothika font for the main title. Add some drop and inner shadow and extra outline on the main title, and it looks pretty good. I made it transparent so I can use it over background images, but that might make it hard to read on a black background.

This next one simply swaps the Kothika for LLPaladin. I also noticed that I accidentally outlined the drop shadow, so I didn't do it this time. Let me try the Kothika one more time with the outline and drop shadow applications reversed.

Huh. That doesn't look quite as different as I'd thought. Rather subtle. Of course, I also increased the opacity of the drop shadow a bit. I'm not sure that I have a favorite between them, or care even about the difference. Let's try one more Cult of Undeath main font, and then I'll switch to another campaign.

This one uses Season of the Witch Black, which is a relatively chunky looking font. I think that's enough for this one. I might need alternative color schemes too, depending on where I want to use it. But I like this one for now, and it looks good with the blog, at least.

This Curse of the Corsair Coast banner uses CybertronianFinal for the runes and Treasure Map Deadhand for the text. For the one below, I swapped the main text to Treasure Hunt PERSONAL USE, which is just slightly more ragged looking than the very similar Treasure Hunt. I'm obviously going for a bit of a Pirates of the Caribbean look on this one. Let me try a couple more options. I have a lot of piratey fonts, although many of them are actually quite similar to each other.

This one is called The Rum is Gone. I like how the lower case Os are skulls. Given that it's an all caps style font, I probably should have had some upper case Os to mix it up. Let's try one more that's a bit of a different style...

This one is Sovereign, and it's surprisingly not quite as legible.

This is a lot of banners, even though I've got several more campaigns to do. I'm only a third of the way done! I'll continue to think about it, #3 for Cult of Undeath and #1 for Curse of the Corsair Coast, at least right now. Let's see if I decide late to change my mind.