So my replacement laptop (oh, right, yeah, my old one died on February 5) should arrive this week and I can get back to editing the final pass for the first three adventures and I can move a step closer to publication.
The biggest hold up is the map editing since the map editing software is licensed to my Mac. Oh, crud… I need to get that reissued!
So while I’ve been waiting we’ve been retesting some of the adventures and finding a few more tweaks to cover.
While it’s always fun to run my created adventures and listen to my bards spin the tales of my stories, there is also a great deal of joy and excitement running other adventures to carry us away from a rainy cold weekend.
So this weekend we brushed off “The Burning Plague” and sent three parties into the mines to solve the dilemma of the nearby town. Two were lost themselves in barrages of crossbow bolts, but the third seems to have a more tenable grasp on the requirements of “survival”.
The story continues to unfold; where will this one end?
So, things have been slow here since my venerable 2011 MacBook Pro has started exhibiting very odd behavior; instability bordering on being unusable.
Hopefully, very soon, I’ll have a resolution to that and get back to writing and editing.
It’s coming down to the wire for the final revisions of our first adventure to be posted. Be on the lookout for the adventure to be added to the shop as a freebie download for anyone who wants to start to learn about our lands and the campaign at large.
… of PCs to run through the adventures and make sure I didn’t forget something.
I’ve got magic user PCs, roguey thievy PCs, heavily armored clunky PCs, nature tree hugger PCs, and build groups that combine them in all sorts of waves.
So far, everyone’s having a great time 🙂
Testing two adventures this weekend with multiple party dynamics, awesome.
Determining that a party without a rogue can survive a trap laden maze, great.
Seeing my favorite editor take on DMing for the first time?
Priceless!!
My favorite editor and I have spent the past three days making a slew of PCs to test adventures with and now have broken them into different teams.
Oh, and yes, we’re sooooo a nerd team that a spreadsheet was the right way to lay them out…..
Yesterday was another great day of game testing. Of course, the follow on to game testing is game fixing… or revision as I call it.
I think this one’ll take me the better part of the day to pre-edit before I can pass it off to the editor to refine my run-on sentences..
I have added narratives of the locals to the Shalannan City Overview and The Summit local map.
The mining town of Otian, in the northern region of the southern plains of Shalannan, is home to dwarves, gnomes, a militia garrison, inns and taverns for weary travelers, merchants of goods produced, and the unsavory elements that one would normally associate with a working community.
The hills to the north are known to be rich with ore and there are rumors of gems from the miners. But from these same hills come raiding parties of orcs, goblins, and other dangers.
