Interview – Michael Kortes

All the way from Toronto Canada, Michael Kortes joins us to discuss DnD, fort saves, story writing process, mechanics, and many other things. He is the gifted writer behind The Haunting of Harrowstone Pathfinder module, the very story in which our podcast episodes 1 -11 follows.  Shout out to the Dune Squad from Toronto and thanks again to legendary artist Jeff Easley for the bumper!  Intro by Dave and Kelly. jQuery(document).ready(function($) { // We only want these styles applied when javascript is enabled $('.gal_content').css('display', 'block'); $('.thumnail_col').css('width', '181px'); // Initialize Advanced Galleriffic Gallery var gallery = $('#thumbs_6141_64').galleriffic({ delay: 3500, numThumbs: 9, preloadAhead: 9, enableTopPager: 1, enableBottomPager: false, imageContainerSel: '#slideshow_6141_64', controlsContainerSel: '#controls_6141_64', captionContainerSel: '#caption_6141_64', loadingContainerSel: '#loading_6141_64', renderSSControls: true, renderNavControls: true, playLinkText: 'Play Slideshow', pauseLinkText: 'Pause Slideshow', prevLinkText: '‹ Previous Photo', nextLinkText: 'Next Photo ›', nextPageLinkText: '&rsaquo;', prevPageLinkText: '&lsaquo;', enableHistory: 0, autoStart: 1, enableKeyboardNavigation: true, syncTransitions: 1, defaultTransitionDuration: 300, onTransitionOut: function(slide, caption, isSync, callback) { slide.fadeTo(this.getDefaultTransitionDuration(isSync), 0.0, callback); caption.fadeTo(this.getDefaultTransitionDuration(isSync), 0.0); }, onTransitionIn: function(slide, caption, isSync) { var duration = this.getDefaultTransitionDuration(isSync); slide.fadeTo(duration, 1.0); // Position the caption at the bottom of the image and set its opacity var slideImage = slide.find('img'); caption.width(slideImage.width()) .css({ //'bottom' : Math.floor((slide.height() - slideImage.outerHeight()) / 2 - 40), 'top' : slideImage.outerHeight(), 'left' : Math.floor((slide.width() - slideImage.width()) / 2) + slideImage.outerWidth() - slideImage.width() }) .fadeTo(duration, 1.0); }, onPageTransitionOut: function(callback) { this.hide(); setTimeout(callback, 100); // wait a bit }, onPageTransitionIn: function() { var prevPageLink = this.find('a.prev').css('display', 'none'); var nextPageLink = this.find('a.next').css('display', 'none'); // Show appropriate next / prev page links if (this.displayedPage > 0) prevPageLink.css('display', 'block'); var lastPage = this.getNumPages() - 1; if (this.displayedPage < lastPage) nextPageLink.css('display', 'block'); this.fadeTo('fast', 1.0); } }); /**************** Event handlers for custom next / prev page links **********************/ gallery.find('a.prev').click(function(e) { gallery.previousPage(); e.preventDefault(); }); gallery.find('a.next').click(function(e) { gallery.nextPage(); e.preventDefault(); }); });