Apologies if this has already been raised, but I couldn't find a thread about it on first glance. Overall, for an early Beta I'm very pleased with all of the work the Devs are doing. However, I'm using Beyond on a Tablet with a 10" screen and the graphics that represent different categories of spells or items are far too detailed and small to be useful. Even on my 23" monitor I need to do a fair amount of squinting (both screens are 1920 x 1080). I'd like to suggest moving to a less realistic set of graphics and more symbol based and intuitive. Then the graphics will scale regardless of the size of the screen. It might help to make the icons more intuitive as well. The item category icons are already pretty intuitive (if too detailed), but the icons for the spell schools are very confusing.
Last point, it would be nice if there was a clear way to have a legend or hover text for the icons and other visual info in sections. (I'm still puzzling what the L next to some monsters is supposed to mean. It's not Large. Is it Lair or Legendary?)
Legendary. And for a long time I was unable to read the white R in the black box on spells that meant it was a ritual. I told them I wanted that spelled out so it was understandable or at least larger because it is the same size no matter how you size the browser - too small. These little black boxes with letters in white are what drive me nuts as they are NOT readable. These need to be readable!
From what I can see on the spell list, each graphic on the far left is for the school of magic it belongs too, but you can quickly see on each spell in the list what school it is even on a small window. To me the far left picture is more eye candy and I tend to not even bother looking at it directly. It just looks nice there instead of a list of just words and no pics at all.
But it is definitely those DINKY black icons with barely visible white letters that need a revamp. I've mentioned these elsewhere after learning what the R was on the spells, as in it WAS an R, and that would also mark my ritual spells.
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Apologies if this has already been raised, but I couldn't find a thread about it on first glance. Overall, for an early Beta I'm very pleased with all of the work the Devs are doing. However, I'm using Beyond on a Tablet with a 10" screen and the graphics that represent different categories of spells or items are far too detailed and small to be useful. Even on my 23" monitor I need to do a fair amount of squinting (both screens are 1920 x 1080). I'd like to suggest moving to a less realistic set of graphics and more symbol based and intuitive. Then the graphics will scale regardless of the size of the screen. It might help to make the icons more intuitive as well. The item category icons are already pretty intuitive (if too detailed), but the icons for the spell schools are very confusing.
Last point, it would be nice if there was a clear way to have a legend or hover text for the icons and other visual info in sections. (I'm still puzzling what the L next to some monsters is supposed to mean. It's not Large. Is it Lair or Legendary?)
THanks
Legendary. And for a long time I was unable to read the white R in the black box on spells that meant it was a ritual. I told them I wanted that spelled out so it was understandable or at least larger because it is the same size no matter how you size the browser - too small. These little black boxes with letters in white are what drive me nuts as they are NOT readable. These need to be readable!
From what I can see on the spell list, each graphic on the far left is for the school of magic it belongs too, but you can quickly see on each spell in the list what school it is even on a small window. To me the far left picture is more eye candy and I tend to not even bother looking at it directly. It just looks nice there instead of a list of just words and no pics at all.
But it is definitely those DINKY black icons with barely visible white letters that need a revamp. I've mentioned these elsewhere after learning what the R was on the spells, as in it WAS an R, and that would also mark my ritual spells.
PbP - Beregost Blues - Portia Starflower, Half Elf, Cleric, Life Domain
PbP - Tome of Annhilation - Vistani Mocanu, Human, Bard