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Message: <blockquote data-quote="countgray" data-source="post: 3387246" data-attributes="member: 18338">Why the Open Design project is so Awesome!I was a patron for Steam & Brass, which turned out to be an awesome adventure.  I ran it for my weekly gaming group and it provided several weeks of fun, and some of the plot threads that came out of it have spun the campaign in a bunch of wonderful different directions.Castle Shadowcrag, which just recently released to patrons is I think even more amazing.  These adventures rank among the best adventures ever published, except they were only available to patrons of the project.What's cool about Wolfgang Baur's Open Design project is that, as a member you get to help shape the adventure by helping to choose the monsters, contributing ideas, voting on various aspects of the plot and presentation, offering comments and critiques of the work in progress.  You can participate as much (or as little) as you like in the creation of the work.Everyone knows Wolfgang right?  He was an editor for both Dragon Magazine and Dungeon Magazine, he has written some of the best adventures that have appeared in Dungeon, he wrote sourcebooks and adventures for Planescape, Al-Qadim, Alternity, Call of Cthulhu, Ravenloft, Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms,  including the recent Frostburn and the upcoming Expedition to the Demonweb Pits.  He also currently writes the regular Dungeoncraft article in Dungeon Magazine.  He is a top-notch designer and writer.I have learned a tremendous amount about adventure crafting from participating in the projects so far, and Wolfgang and the other patrons are a really cool group of people to hang out with on the boards over there.One little extra bonus about being a member is that Wolfgang writes these cool design essays about various aspects of adventure building that contain tons of useful advice about topics such as plot and setting and pacing and distributing treasure and including traps and doing chases and crafting memorable villains or plane hopping, etc.  He posts these articles for members. The essays are way cool and I have learned a lot from them.I signed up again for the 3rd project, which is still in the voting stages.  Looks like the top 2 contenders are either the City State of Zobeck or the Empire of the Ghouls.  I am voting for Empire of the Ghouls myself.  If the patrons pick that one it looks to be a heck of a good adventure involving an underdark kingdom of undead.If you go to the website (wolfgangbaur.com or <a href="http://customadventure.livejournal.com/" target="_blank">http://customadventure.livejournal.com/</a>) you can check out the outlines for the various proposals under consideration, and you can get a better feel for what the project is.  If you are not a member only certain parts of the site are visible to you, but you can get the gist.There are several levels of membership, basic membership is $25, there is an apprentice level for as little as $10 if just want the final adventure, and there are patron levels with greater access and privileges for larger donations.The final adventure will only ever be available to members of the project.  Plus it is an awesome opportunity to learn about the craft of adventure writing, a tremendous boon to any DM.  Check it out!</blockquote>

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