Nice side effect of Wolfgang Bauer's Open Design project

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Last day to sign up is July 4th!

Ever wish you were in Renaissance Italy and had the ducats to be a patron of the arts? You could have paid the likes of Michael Angelo and Leonardo DaVinci to paint your portrait or design you a flying machine or maybe paint your face onto one of the figures in the Sistine Chapel... This project is a little taste of that.

They are one patron away from the project being fully funded. July 4th is the deadline.

If you participate, at the end of it all you get a really cool, professional grade adventure, with maps and art, designed by top designer Wolfgang Baur. And, along the way, you get to participate in the process. Story, style of play, art, encounters, maps, you get to see it evolve and provide commentary, give direction, participate in polls, etc. But only if you join!

If you are a designer, or dream of designing RPG products professionally, or just want some amazing ideas for designing your own weekly adventures, I would think this would be an ideal project for you to be a part of. They say you don't want to see sausage being made, but any DM should want to be in on the process of how a professional adventure is designed.

Wolfgang has already posted several intriguing design essays in the patrons only section that have fantastic insights, tips and philosophy on aspects of adventure design (including designing hooks, encounter types, designing roleplaying situations, stocking treasure, structure, plotting, desiging terrain and traps, etc.) a really cool bonus that in my mind was worth the price of admission alone.

If you are interested in what the project is about, check it out at this link: http://customadventure.livejournal.com/

 

[Varianor Abroad]

As of this morning, it's fully funded.

I joined last week. I had meant to join earlier. It's a very cool idea. I do wish I had the money like Renaissance Italy patrons did to commission stuff that I want. Fortunately, Wolfgang's a really good designer.

The articles leading up to this? A major bonus round. Very good stuff. I always like refreshers. There were new ways of looking at things too, so I learned something. Okay, several somethings.

 

[Old_Man_Fish]

Well, now it's fully funded + 1

I had read about it earlier but was just to lazy to sign up, this topic reminded me to, with a nice spiffy cut off date to boot. nothing like realizing if you don't do something now you won't be able to get it done ever again.

 

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Yaaaay!

This reminds me of the "Storytellers Bowl" which is how storytellers made a living in olden days. They would pass a bowl, and once it was filled up, the storyteller would begin.

Or maybe he would tell the begining to the crowd but refrain from telling the ending until the bowl was full--seems like that would have been more profitable for him.

Anyway, our little bowl is full, so things can begin. And that makes it a very satisfying bowl indeed!

By the way, today is the last day to sign up I think. Climb on board! The train is leaving the station!

Click here to check it out: http://customadventure.livejournal.com/

 

[Wycen]

Here are the details:

The patrons have chosen “Steam & Brass” as the adventure title: it's a city adventure with a clockwork mage, a Mouse King, and a persistent devil. Per patron request, I’m designing it for high level play (around 11th to 14th), and scaling it down to two lower levels (4th to 10th). The final design will be provided exclusively to members, no later than October 4.


I had been hoping the Chthuloid Lost City would make it, but Steam & Brass is my second pick.

 

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Cool, Steam & Brass was my second choice too. Flying Fortress was my first. I still would have liked to have seen a cutaway map of such a thing.

Actually, I was intrigued by the Lost City as well. All his concept outlines rocked. I would have been happy with any of them.