… but perhaps a great place to set an adventure. In my last post I started developing the adventure nodes in more detail. I switched from the original Scenes of Chance icons (with associated tables of explanations) to using World Architect Cards and the keywords on each. The results look promising. They …
A day behind — Friday night at the game café, Saturday busy with household duties — but getting done now. I have a map of sorts of the valley this adventure will take place in, but it’s pretty abstract. I’m going to start defining the nodes again, using different tools. …
I like the Scenes of Chance product, but I found it didn’t do what I needed, because I’d overlooked the actual first step. I’m putting that one back in the toolbox for another time. I still want to do my ‘thinking’ at a high level and use other tools to guide …
In thinking about how I didn’t get what I wanted out of Scenes of Chance, I realized that I hadn’t really articulated to myself what I was trying to do. I said one thing (“I’ll write an adventure! That can also be a tutorial!”), but started to work toward another …
As you might guess, I have to rethink my plans… at least a little bit. I had originally expected to use Scenes of Chance to flesh out the nodes originally created, but once I got into it I found I didn’t care for the results I was getting. I’m keeping this …
I was looking over the nodes in this adventure, and I found a few things that want explanation. This is a great opportunity to practice ‘Challenge and Response‘ analysis (I’m leaving out ‘Secret’ for now). Let’s break out the graph, the node map, for context. Why is the town linked …
“… Yes You CAN!” I am so sorry. At least I kept it out of the post title. Yesterday I created a basic adventure structure, ten nodes (places of interest, basically) all linked up. Now I need to put something in them. Time to break out the tools of imagination. …
After a campaign has started, there are usually enough loose threads available for me to hang an adventure from, and have some idea of the focus of the adventure. In this case I have none, it’s the start of a new adventure. If I had a campaign going I might …
Time for a little project, time to get something done with Echelon that I can point at and give people. The core rulebook is likely to be a while yet, but I don’t need one. Instead, I’ll create a quickstart adventure. Instead of publishing all the rules ahead of time, and …
In my last post I had a little throwaway sentence about skill ranks and how to determine them: ranks equals the sum of level bonus, proficiency bonus, and specialization bonus. This really didn’t sit well with me because skill ranks are often used as prerequisites, specifically level-derived prerequisites, and being …