Normally I’d probably title this “Scenario Design Requirements”, but I’m taking another run at the A-Z Challenge so “Adventure Design Requirements” it is. Some time ago a friend gave me a set of three “Character Design Requirements“. She was playing in a primarily ‘Supers’ game, but with only a small …
Back in April I floated the idea of combining Lexicon and Microscope in an exercise to develop a campaign setting. I realized not too long ago that this could be a very useful activity for creating a baseline setting for my Seekers of Lore campaign. I see it working something …
When building a scenario or other campaign entity, I like to graphs to show in an abstract way how various things link to each other. Sometimes I like to build purely organically, constructing these graphs as I think of the entities, but lately I’ve been taking a page from the …
Ever since I discovered (i.e. “learned about from someone else”, I didn’t invent them or anything) fractals I’ve been mildly fascinated by them. This is not an uncommon thing. A fractal can be defined, in part (I’m not going to go into the full mathematical definition), as a “self-similar pattern”, …
It may seem odd that I say “reconsidering hex crawls”, given that I’ve never really discussed them here, but that’s what I’m doing. As with megadungeons, hex crawls are something that never really appealed to me. The ones I’ve seen are generally presented as list of hexes and the things …
In developing the megadungeon, most of the graphs concentrated on the physical relationships between the nodes. In the introductory post I mentioned that those weren’t the only relationships possible and presented a sample of what it might look like if the information relationships were shown. Now that I’ve finished outlining …
It took me a couple days past the end of my weekend to finish this iteration through the megadungeon. This thing? It’s big. In total there are 107 nodes in this dungeon. Many would be mapped as single rooms, most could easily be 3-5 rooms. Many could be even more — …
GreyKnight asked if I was going to put up a graph of the entire megadungeon. I was planning to, and have been working on one as I develop the various areas. A few things will change as I do so (such as merging the maintenance tunnels around the Abandoned Tower, …
This thing has become a beast and is taking a life of its own. I originally identified ten areas of interest for a megadungeon. I came into this cold and with no idea for where it would go. Then I decided to drill a little deeper and see what happened. …
Thanks for the shout out at Intwischa, Charlie. I’m glad you like what you’ve seen so far. In my comments at Charlie’s page, I did a little bit of math. I decided to expand on it here. How Much Time So Far? So far, I have spent perhaps eight hours …
