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June 11, 2007

WoAdWriMo: Day Eleven

Eep! Over a third of the way through the month, and we have…. not so much done. Angela said she worked on some wilderness bits this past weekend. I don’t know what she’s done, though. I was away in Maryland. I jotted some notes down and such, but the weekend was essentially dead for me, WoAdWriMo-wise.

June 7, 2007

A different kind of city book

I recently picked up Seven Cities, a book in the Penumbra d20 line that Atlas Games produced. I haven’t read the entire thing, but so far I like it. A lot. It has seven cities of various sizes – from thorp to large city. The detail is finer on the smaller towns, of course, but they did something rather smart...

June 7, 2007

WoAdWriMo: mapping

We’ve been toying with the idea of using satellite photos and such for mapping, but I think that might be a bit too time consuming for this project. Last night, during Jeff’s game, I tried to focus my compulsive doodling constructively. I came up with this:…a rough sketch of the hamlet of Greenstone, where the adventure more-or-less begins. I scanned...

June 6, 2007

A question of taste

So, in my WoAdWriMo contribution, I am writing up an area in which a lot of VERY BAD THINGS happened. If PCs explore this area in detail, they will see the aftereffects of some of these things. I’m toying with writing up a rather graphic Gruesome Scene table that GMs can pick from or roll randomly on… but I don’t...

June 6, 2007

The Challenge Format, revisited

A few days ago, I mentioned the Challenge Format of as a method of presenting non-encounter challenges in a written adventure. I expect the format to evolve a bit more as WoAdWriMo progresses, but it has already changed a bit from where it was when I started. I thought I’d share that with the world. So, how have things changed?...

June 5, 2007

Back to game stuff

What I need for d20 creature design: A software program where you plug in the stats of a monster and it runs a few tests (expected damage per attack vs various character types and things of that sort) and tells you what the suggested CR is. I would be perfectly happy with it flagging things it couldn’t factor in, but...

June 5, 2007

update

I don’t have much more WoAdWriMo written since my last update. Luna, my chinchilla, died yesterday. Here is a picture of her, so you too can be sad. She’d been having problems with her teeth, so I’d been taking her in to the vet to have them trimmed. I took her in this past Saturday… and she never seemed to...

June 4, 2007

WoAdWriMo: Day Three

I don’t really plan on daily blog updates about WoAdWriMo, but they’ve happened so far. I didn’t get as much done as I’d hoped today. My pet chinchilla isn’t doing well, and I’ve been stressing out about it. I’m going to take her into the vet tomorrow and cross my fingers, but it doesn’t look good. Anyway, somewhere over 2000...

June 3, 2007

WoAdWriMo: Day Two

Today I set aside my outline/notes and forced myself to write the introduction and overview/background to the adventure. I also wrote up a new treasure item and a new special material for the appendix. I wrote 1550 words today, which isn’t bad at all (admittedly, though, one of them was “blahblahblah.”) What took me the longest? Stat blocks. Gah. I...

June 1, 2007

The Challenge Format

In thinking about my WoAdWriMo adventure, I realize that not every challenge to be overcome by the party is a monster to be defeated in combat. Sometimes there is a puzzle to be solved or a short quest to be completed. Many of these transcend the physical location that they are found in, so embedding them in the text describing...

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