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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sanglorian" data-source="post: 5901469" data-attributes="member: 83822">A Modest ProposalHi folks,Love the idea of gnomes living between the walls of giants' dwellings: I think halflings and gnomes are the least-interesting of our demihumans so far, so it's good to see that changing.I've updated the appendix. I've been wondering for a while now if there's something that we could do to increase the number of people involved in this project. One idea I had - and feel free to disagree - was for us to start a new thread with a much smaller scope: maybe 5 hexes by 6 hexes, or something like that.This 5x6 patch would be on our map (I suggest 41.16-46.20, for reasons that will become clear) but contributors wouldn't be expected to know anything about the Shrouded Lands except for a paragraph or two which we could write.We'd still expect new contributions to build on existing contributions (which I think is this hexcrawl's 'killer app') but that would be easy with a very limited area and a small number of contributions to read through.Now, why I chose that patch is because it's in the middle of the sea, which would make it a great location for an island. An island is the perfect excuse for having entries that aren't necessarily connected to the rest of the Shrouded Lands.I would also recommend mapping out the terrain of the island, so people can say "I want to describe a forest, so I'll write about 42.18 (for example)" rather than have to worry, 'If I choose to put a forest in this hex, will it be silly/not fit the story so far/etc.'Now, this would feed back into the main project in a number of ways:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Once people have contributed to the smaller project, they might check out the larger one</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Once the small patch is completely mapped out, we can copy-paste it back into this thread and encourage people who participated in the smaller project to keep participating in this project</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">People who have participated in the smaller project will now know heaps about the Shrouded Land, so they can contribute new hexes that are connected to the smaller project</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(EDIT) Another benefit I thought of: if this smaller project is a success, we could do other smaller projects on other forums - so one patch of the Shrouded Lands could be fleshed out on Story Games, one on RPG.net, one on EN World, etc. It would be fascinating to compare the different ones.</li> </ul>Another advantage is that we can make it clear that the smaller project uses Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (Unported) from the beginning, so we don't have to go chasing people for copyright permission halfway through the project.Anyway, what do you folks think? It's just something I thought about given that we have trouble drawing new blood into the main thread.EDIT: Oh, and CONGRATULATIONS!With Castle Maratan in 07.17, we have filled just over 10% of the hexes in the Shrouded Lands map! Just literally hundreds of thousands of words to go, folks <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></blockquote>

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