The resources file for this adventure (see http://godsmonsters.com/Guide/Skelter/) contains the following items:
1. The front cover fractured Palace of Fine Arts as a PNG and as a GIMP document.
2. The Scribus Gambling House Riddle and PDF.
3. The Inkscape Zodiac crossroads symbol and PDF.
4. The Inkscape Bird of Paradise symbol. and PDF.
5. An Inkscape and PDF of the Butterfly Hall door sigils.
6. An Inkscape Paradice Island Lounge matchbook and PDF.
7. An Inkscape Moulin Rouge tower and PDF.
8. An Inkscape Moulin Rouge matchbook and PDF
9. An Inkscape and PDF of Ebeorie temet hpiti (Ebeorie, Lord of Discord) as written in the underground script.
10. A GIMP and PNG newspaper page for August 5 and August 9 with articles about August Wey inserted (see later).
11. The Scribus character sheet and PDF for Joe Lakono, Deanna Carmen, and Joe Louis.
12. The Inkscape Red Jack image used in the riddle and this document. It is available under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or any later version, not the GNU Free Documentation License. It is based on the David Bellot cards from Wikimedia at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Jack_of_diamonds_fr.svg.
13. An Inkscape and PDF roulette betting table.
14. A PNG of the Las Vegas welcome photo. The original came from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:WelcomeToVegasNite.JPG at Wikimedia Commons.
15. A JPG of the Golden Gate bridge looking north.
16. A PNG of Alcatraz as seen from the ocean, and another PNG of an abandoned building marked by Lilies.
17. An Inkscape map and PDF of Alcatraz island and the dungeons below Alcatraz.
The software used to create these resources are all freely available and open source:
1. GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/
2. Scribus: http://www.scribus.net/
3. Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/
You should be able to download and install any of these software packages for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. For editing the newspaper, I’ve found that using the Noise filter “Pick” at 4% or 5% does a good job of making text match old text. I used Verdana for the caption, Futura for headlines, and Times New Roman for body copy.
- Inspiration
- You may wish to read Hunter Thompson’s Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (from which come the quotes at the beginning of the San Francisco and Las Vegas chapters) and Moore & Campbell’s From Hell. For more about Vegas in this time period, I recommend Steve Fischer’s When the Mob Ran Vegas: Stories of Money, Mayhem and Murder.
- Modern arms
- The firearms of Vegas and San Francisco are much higher quality than the fantasy firearms in the standard rules.
- The Autumnal Swarm
- “The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles, and so we might be more likely to meet them than any other type of animal on a planet that would support life.”
- Resources: Props
- Props in Helter Skelter: Resources
