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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trainz" data-source="post: 1437439" data-attributes="member: 2122">Hi Blackshirt ! Has the originator of the cooperative dungeon concept on ENW, I'd like to share a few things with you, that might help out, or that you can simply ignore. Hope you don't mind ! First of all, I hope you're bracing yourself, because you're putting yourself in overwork mode. The first CD we did (and the only one published so far) has only 30 rooms, but it took a LOT of work to get it done. Not even counting the work of the contributors (which took many weeks, if not months, to get 30 rooms done), there was a developing and editing team comprising more or less 6 people, a few of which are professional editors that edit and proof-read for a living, and of course Mark Clover from Creative Mountain Games, who with editing, did the layout, PDF conversion, and is publishing it. And it took us months to achieve that. 30 rooms. Delivering a product with hundreads of rooms would take... MANY man-hours to produce, usually in the scope that only a profit based gaming company can deliver. Coordinating the room submission process would also be quite an endeavour. It's taken me a lot of time with CD1, CD2, and CD3. Granted, with each new CDx, the process is more refined and elegant. All that said, I think that all projects of passion are worth doing. I just want you to realise that you will have to really brace yourself for a lot of work for many months to come. If you don't intend to deliver a polished product, and don't really care about the layout and spelling mistakes, but just want to do a compilation of rooms in a file with maps, then it would be much easier to do the post-compilation, and maybe this is just what you want to do. In that case, your project might be more possible.  But to get people to give you hundreads of rooms, still this would take quite a while. For example, for CD1, I produced a detailed map with room numbers, and it took well over a month just to get 30 submissions. Granted, CD2 and CD3's rooms were ammassed within one week each, at 15 rooms per dungeon. I know that this may come down like I'm trying to rain on your parade, but that would be far from the thruth: having done the process myself, I'm sharing with you my experience so that you get an idea of the project you're getting yourself into, so maybe those pointers will help you out better prepare yourself, and make you more likely to succeed. [Han Solo] Good luck, you're gonna need it ! [/Han Solo] <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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