Topics regarding design and game theory.
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 …
Since I apparently don’t have enough to do, I’ve been considering another project, possibly to be packaged for sale on OBS or Lulu or something. No, I haven’t forgotten the interest people have expressed in my doing this for the megadungeon, and in fact they are related. I’ve been asked …
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 …
I’ve got a first cut at a set of domain cards (technically three sets — one for the core domains, one for core subdomains, and one for domains from third-party publishers). These aren’t done yet. I’m sure there is room for refinement. I could certainly change the fonts, but I …
I’m reviewing my Polyhedral Pantheons material and building a deck of cards to help me actually apply the process a little more easily. I wanted to automate the card layout and construction as much as possible, so I’ll be creating XSL-FO files (to be converted to PDF) from text data …
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 …
A better landing page for this series, including links to related materials on other blogs, can be found at KJD-IMC: Node-Based Megadungeon. — kjd I’ve spoken before about scenario design that focuses on the relationships between various elements of the scenario before the physical layout. These techniques can be used to manage …
