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2017-10-03, 04:30 AM
Hey, so, not sure if this should be here or in arts and crafts, but I figure since it's directly for a game I'd ask here first.
I'm currently running a Masks: A New Generation game and I want to create a handout to go along with a plot point that's going to come up in the next couple of sessions. The quick version is that the heroes have discovered an underground laboratory with a lot of unpowered equipment in it with, presumably, nefarious purpose behind it. The team has a tech focused Delinquent, and an electric powered Nova on it, so I'm 90% sure they'll try and get everything turned on so they can figure out what it's about. This feeds in to a plan I have for a future arc, which is going to be based on alternate timelines and realities, that I want to start hinting at here. My idea is that the machines they've found are capable of providing information on a variety of times and realities. This'll get displayed on the screens but, due to the neglect the machines have suffered due to abandonment (as well as wanting to preserve some mystery), the displays are going to be a garbled mess with only some sentence fragments being legible. These fragments are going to be things that people have said or will say (going to try and do some predictions of what the PC's will say, as well as seed some of the comments throughout NPC conversations).
Now ideally, I'd like to have the handouts be the screen displays. In my head, it's an old style black screen with green text overlaid on it. The sentence fragments would ideally be spaced around the screen (maybe 5-6 fragments per screen), with the rest of the space being an illegible, distorted mess. I had a quick look for text scramblers online, but none of them seemed to match what I was looking for. However, I'm also not quite sure what terms I should be using to search, and I was hoping some of you may know of a tool I could use to achieve my goal?
Failing anything else, I'll just have to boot up photoshop and do it the old fashioned way :smalltongue:
I'm currently running a Masks: A New Generation game and I want to create a handout to go along with a plot point that's going to come up in the next couple of sessions. The quick version is that the heroes have discovered an underground laboratory with a lot of unpowered equipment in it with, presumably, nefarious purpose behind it. The team has a tech focused Delinquent, and an electric powered Nova on it, so I'm 90% sure they'll try and get everything turned on so they can figure out what it's about. This feeds in to a plan I have for a future arc, which is going to be based on alternate timelines and realities, that I want to start hinting at here. My idea is that the machines they've found are capable of providing information on a variety of times and realities. This'll get displayed on the screens but, due to the neglect the machines have suffered due to abandonment (as well as wanting to preserve some mystery), the displays are going to be a garbled mess with only some sentence fragments being legible. These fragments are going to be things that people have said or will say (going to try and do some predictions of what the PC's will say, as well as seed some of the comments throughout NPC conversations).
Now ideally, I'd like to have the handouts be the screen displays. In my head, it's an old style black screen with green text overlaid on it. The sentence fragments would ideally be spaced around the screen (maybe 5-6 fragments per screen), with the rest of the space being an illegible, distorted mess. I had a quick look for text scramblers online, but none of them seemed to match what I was looking for. However, I'm also not quite sure what terms I should be using to search, and I was hoping some of you may know of a tool I could use to achieve my goal?
Failing anything else, I'll just have to boot up photoshop and do it the old fashioned way :smalltongue: