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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMMichael" data-source="post: 6459638" data-attributes="member: 6685730">Sounds about right.  And the problem (that I'm seeing, anyway) is that the monsters are often on a separate page from the map, which is on a separate page from the items.Yeah, the simplest encounter has a person, place, and thing.  Which is why I like the dynamic element idea, and if it's not too meta, a plot element.The TimeLine depends on scripts.  Dynamic elements of an encounter do too.  So they have something in common.  Your app would need an alternative script - how the NPC's behavior CHANGES once in the encounter.  For a published encounter, NPCs have less of a script, so their dynamic elements describe how the person, place, and thing change over time, or in certain conditions.Example dynamic element:7. Sounding the alarm (dynamic).  Enemies in this room have an additional combat option: reaching the bell and ringing it.  A good ring or two gathers the attention of more opponents, but only from the barracks (p.3, e.12) or the training yard (p.3, e.14).Ah, stat blocks.  These are, by the way, a big reason why WotC can't use the Delve format.  In editions prior to 5, they're just way too bulky.  I have seen some very elegant stat blocks for 5th ed, though.If you really want gamers to use your app, you'd better make those WYSIWYG blocks easily drag'n'drop or cut'n'paste.  I doubt anyone will want to spend time actually typing these sorts of things in.  Unless, well, you have a simple game system that makes stat blocks short and sweet.Can we create a game-agnostic adventure module format?  Janx's generic text boxes might then become actual blank boxes on a page - with just an NPC name listed at the top.I'm writing up a series of module elements - the "reference" side of the module.  I have NPC elements, locations, items, and some "encounter" elements (around which the other elements tend to gather).  The upcoming test: will the encounter pages have enough space for their essential elements, and how much page turning will be involved for the non-essential elements that are listed in the reference section?</blockquote>

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