Strange Eons
A Custom Component Design Tool for Arkham Horror
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This is the [French, German, Spanish, Italian, etc.] welcome page for Strange Eons. Most of this web site is in English, but Strange Eons supports many languages. If you don't read English well, this page will tell you a little about the program and help you to download and run it.
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Introduction
Strange Eons makes it easy to create new investigators, Ancient Ones, monsters, items, allies, and other custom content for the Arkham Horror board game.
All of the cards you see in the picture at right were made in Strange Eons. If you would like to see some samples of cards made with the program, check out the PDF file on this page (page is in English).
Requirements
The program requires that you have Java 6 installed in order to run it. For most operating systems (Windows, Linux, SunOS), Java can be downloaded from http://www.java.com. The Mac version of Java must be obtained from Apple, if you do not already have it.
Installing and Running
There are often two different versions of Strange Eons available at any given time. One is the current "stable" release, and one is the current "experimental" release. The experimental release is the current work-in-progress. It will usually have new features and bug fixes that are not in the stable release, but it may have unfinished areas or new bugs that are not present in the stable release. Eventually, the experimental release will be far enough along that it will become the new stable release.
The experimental build is usually just as safe to use as the stable release, but which version you use is up to you.
If you are a Windows user, there is an easy to use installer package available for the current stable release, which you can download and run to install the program. You will then use the Start menu to run Strange Eons just like any other program.
Otherwise, you should download the .jar file and start it with Java in order to use the program. On most operating systems, you can start a .jar file just by double-clicking on it. However, this will only allow Strange Eons to use a small amount of memory. When working with large cards, more than one card at a time, or when printing or exporting cards at high resolution, you will probably get Out of Memory errors. To prevent these, you must run the .jar file from the command line and request that the program be allowed additional memory. For example, a line like this will let the program use up to 512 MB of memory:
java -Xmx512m -jar strange-eons.jar
Download Links
These links will take you to the Download section of the English-language
page:
Current Stable Release
Current Experimental Release
Updated January 10, 2010