I thought I’d take a few minutes and do a quick summary of where I stand with this year’s A-Z Challenge.
The big topic this time around is graded items, special items with abilities of various grades or degrees of power or utility. I’ve got a few posts about encounter design that I expect I’ll expand on another time, and mention a couple of books of sorcerer bloodlines (one published, one not yet written).
Given how much I’ve written so far about graded items, I expect that’ll be my next book. Get the rules together and cleaned up, write up a few dozen examples, and it should be good to go. Perhaps I’ll write about that for… well, whatever day I find a good letter to assign to, I suppose.
(The dates will generally disagree with when the blog says I posted them. For this exercise I’m publishing at 9:00 PM Pacific time the day before — partly so it’s at midnight Eastern time, but mostly because I’m up before 5:00 AM the next morning to go to work and I like to post the links to my social media before I sleep.)
| Date | Letter | Words | Title | Description |
| 2016-04-15 | M | 296 | Metamagic Feats in Graded Wands and Staves | |
| M | 296 | Midpoint Check-In | ||
| 2016-04-14 | L | 457 | Legendary/Spontaneous Graded Items, Made Simpler | |
| L | 2,096 | Legendary/Spontaneous Graded Items | ||
| 2016-04-13 | K | 767 | “Kill Everything”: Making That Plan B | |
| 2016-04-12 | J | 2,416 | JRPG-Inspired Encounter Design | |
| 2016-04-11 | I | 2,055 | Improving Encounter Economy and Design | |
| 2016-04-10 | ||||
| 2016-04-09 | H | 1,157 | Hammer Time! Polyhedral Graded Weapons and Armor | |
| 2016-04-08 | G | 940 | Graded Weapons and Armor | |
| 2016-04-07 | F | 1,317 | Forging Graded Items | |
| F | 62 | Fey Bloodlines | ||
| 2016-04-06 | E | 1,789 | Exploring Multiple Charge Casting for Graded Items | |
| 2016-04-05 | D | 845 | Determining Market Price of Graded Staves and Wands | |
| 2016-04-04 | C | 907 | Crafting Graded Staves | |
| C | 718 | Crafted Graded Wands | ||
| 2016-04-03 | B | 198 | Blood of Dragons? In My Veins? It’s More Common Than You Think | |
| 2016-04-02 | ||||
| 2016-04-01 | A | 466 | Assigning Graded Abilities | |
| Total | 16,832 |