Fan requests

[Zinovia]

The first encounter consists entirely of British people awkwardly opening doors, finding others engaged in marginally compromising situations, and then apologizing profusely at the inconvenience they've caused as they try to back away.

I know it's an experimental design, but after the first 7 or 8 hours, I think the players will really get into the style and mood of the campaign.

You could lay it out like a Choose Your Own Adventure, with the description of what's behind each door being on another page, printed upside down in small type. "Basil timorously opened the iron-banded oak door, and averted his eyes from the scene before him. To find out what he saw, turn to page 34 and invert your PDF reader." Choose a font to match the feel of the story, preferably one with lots of flourishes, ligatures, and mystical symbols replacing some of the letters. When printed at 8 point size, just deciphering it will be an adventure in itself! Enhance the feel by using low contrast type over a grungy grey speckled background with a watermarked image. It'll be just like those great captcha mini-games you find on websites!

 

[Marius Delphus]

Capital! But must spread XP.

 

[renau1g]

We're also not planning on putting monsters on the battlemaps. That's one 4E-ism that I don't like at all. A decent DM can put the monsters wherever the hell he wants; we can offer some suggestions, but I don't see a need to make the game "colour-by-numbers".

Thank the gods, that is one thing I hate about the 4e adventures, especially as I use a lot of their maps for PbP or printing out for at home use.

 

[Colmarr]

Thank the gods, that is one thing I hate about the 4e adventures, especially as I use a lot of their maps for PbP or printing out for at home use.

I was experimenting with Maptool today, doing a test run for Zeitgeist by trying to create a map of Keep of the Shadowfell.

Either I'm hopeless at scaling things up/down, or the published map has an inconsistent scale. It drove me mad!

 

[OnlineDM]

I was experimenting with Maptool today, doing a test run for Zeitgeist by trying to create a map of Keep of the Shadowfell.

Either I'm hopeless at scaling things up/down, or the published map has an inconsistent scale. It drove me mad!

Are you using the maps from the Mad Mapper? If not, I highly recommend them. I found them to be scaled just right for a 50-pixel grid in MapTool.

 

[Colmarr]

Are you using the maps from the Mad Mapper? If not, I highly recommend them. I found them to be scaled just right for a 50-pixel grid in MapTool.

Yeah, I found them after raging against WotC for about 30 mins

But it was an interesting exercise, and one I'm hoping I won't have to repeat for Zeitgeist.

 

[raptor112]

My fan request is to know when the intro pack is coming out? I am really interested in adventure path.

 

[Morrus]

My fan request is to know when the intro pack is coming out? I am really interested in adventure path.

Soonish. The next thing coming out is WotBS #11 (imminent).

 

[Colmarr]

Soonish.

The anticipation is killing me!

 

[raptor112]

Yeah soonish is kind of....vague.