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 …
Buffering made the challenge much easier this year. I had time to prepare three or four posts before April 1, and while I never got that far ahead again, it was enough that I was able to stay on time. I think almost always I had at least one post for …
I had time to think about this some more on my bus ride home. And even take notes, though that’s a bit of a challenge (I hate writing in a moving vehicle). It appears I was only mostly right in what I had planned. I was having difficulty reconciling ‘data type’ and …