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DFRPG / Re: Why Zhayad?
« on: June 06, 2010, 04:23:47 PM »
I felt right at home with it... having started playing Pen&Paper Games with The Dark Eye almost 17 (or so) years ago.  ;D

This is the reason why I felt it was strange... I always think of TDE when seeing the font, not of Harry Dresden :-)

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DFRPG / Why Zhayad?
« on: June 06, 2010, 01:28:47 PM »
Hello,

as I looked over the website and the downloadable material (like the character sheet), one question arised: Why did they use the Zhayad font? Zhayad is the font of the mages (and demons) in the Dark Eye universe (and obviously inspired by Paracelsus' "Alphabet of the magi" from the 16th century). As far as I know, it has been invented by the TDE authors...

Perhaps I missed something and the font is even older than the TDE universe, could be (but not very likely, as I collect runic scripts for my LARP character and never stumbled upon the font outside the TDE context), but if not, the question is: Why? I don't care about any legal problems (hopefully, there aren't any), I just believe that the font is not a really good choice. Original fonts (like Theban, Alpabet of the magi, etc.) would have been much better, imho, even as I have to admit, that Zhayad looks nicer than, for example, the Alphabet of the Magi...

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