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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gloomshroud" data-source="post: 5305051" data-attributes="member: 92835">Here's a status update:I ran a demo/playtest game with just my girlfriend tonight. She's overly critical, so I figured it'd be a good chance to see where my theory has come along. She went so far to comment that my style was getting crappy, and I needed to step up my game - part of the impetus of the original post, truth be told.I planned for a two hour session, which is EXACTLY what happened. That's a first. I used a LOT of the ideas presented here (plot, structure, railroad/sandbox, mind maps, etc) to make the adventure (which was a forray into political intrigue, torture, and trial by jury, in addition to heady combat, to boot!). I used the structure put forth by those here, and used more ideas here to generate plot and ideas for baddies, goodies and everything in between.Long story short: My girlfriend said, and I quote:  I just laughed, winked, and said "If I told you the secrets of the Ultra Secret DM Cabal of Doom, I'd have to kill you and bind your soul into my DMG." So, this venture was a SMASHING success, ladies and gents. I am deeply obliged for your assistance, ideas, input, feedback and criticisms. They ALL paid off, and I gleaned SO MUCH information, and it was a BLAST. Let's keep this thing rolling. No telling what else we can do.PS: If you're interested in the details of the game, I'll gladly share. I ran her through an adventure set in <a href="http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/akara" target="_blank">my own homebrew world</a>. Just didn't want to make a long post for nothing. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Well, I've discovered a thing or two in the past week and a half. One of these things is that if I am given electronic media outside of a simple word processor, I get all caught up on the program itself, and lose all focus and never get anything done. So, I shy away from those. It looks AWESOME, but I dare not dig in. Masterplan caused me to lose a month of my life just playing with it, never really using it.I'll take pen, paper, random tables on paper, and Word. lol! It's old fashioned, but it does the trick.</blockquote>

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