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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shallown" data-source="post: 1607492" data-attributes="member: 1368">To go in a tiny bit more detail than Mark.IT starts with Trainz creating a map and setting a theme/BBEG. This he takes suggestions for and such and uses his own inspiration.He post it and everyone does their thing as you can see in the post.Then we take it and drop it into a Word Doc and I begin the editing process covering things like compatibility between rooms. If room A mentions room C make sure what is said matches. I check formatting overall focusing on traps, doors and such. I also write the Plot hooks and synopsis.I also make sure the basic grammar is correct to the best of my skill. Mainly making sure it makes sense to my thick head.Meanwhile Trainz handles getting the art and making sure the map is ready.I send it to Trainz who sends it to Merak And Creamsteak. Steak handles the NPC blocks and Merak handles the text editing in much finer detail.It comes back to me then Trainz for final approval. When it passes through Trainz hands he also reads it over to double check behind the rest of us.Then Trainz sends map, art and text to Mark who checks it yet again and insures everything is appropriate and legal. He does the final lay out and actually puts it up on the web.The amazing thing to me is that we get such quality from contributions to end product for free. But that's the short answer. There is a lot of E-mails and board talk between us on day to day decisions. Especially how heavy handed to be in editing. We , as a group, hate to alter a contribution but sometimes it has to be done to increase the cohesion of the whole. We try our best to minimize our impact on an individual entries.The contributors have increased their input greatly and started to self edit which is allowing us to expand our contributions as the production team in adding more to the Dungeon. For example we are banding about expanding the Plot hooks to be more richly detailed. thanks to the contributors we have the time to devote to such endeavors.Thanks again everyone.Later</blockquote>

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