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<blockquote data-quote="James Jacobs" data-source="post: 5159716" data-attributes="member: 23937"><p>Folks are pretty close on the money for Paizo adventures.</p><p></p><p>We generally assume about 900 words for a full page of text. Stat blocks and illustrations reduce this number, obviously.</p><p></p><p>For a 32 page module, we ask our authors to provide 20,000 words.</p><p></p><p>For a Pathifnder adventure path installment, we ask the authors to provide 35,000 words. The remaining 30,000 or so words in a Pathfinder AP volume consists of new monsters, support articles, fiction, and the like.</p><p></p><p>Some more fun statistics we assume:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A half-page illustration counts as about 500 words.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A full-body illustration of an NPC counts as about 400 words.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A spot illustration (such as an item or an NPC's head) counts as 150 words.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">An average encounter in an adventure is about 500 words.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The opening of an adventure, including the Adventure Background and Adventure Synopsis should try to be no more than 5% of the total adventure's length (this works out to about a page for a module, and about two pages for an Adventure Path installment); less words is always better for the background/summary.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A 2-page Pathfinder AP style new monster is 1,400 words, counting the stat block.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A 1-page, hardcover Bestiary style monster entry is about 550 words (including stat block).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">High level adventures tend to take up more room on an encounter-by-encounter basis, partially due to larger stat blocks, but mostly due to the fact that you have to account for a much wider range of possible PC actions and abilities.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">2,000 words of workable writing progress is considered an average day's work. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">5,000 words of workable writing progress in a day is considered phenomenal.</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Jacobs, post: 5159716, member: 23937"] Folks are pretty close on the money for Paizo adventures. We generally assume about 900 words for a full page of text. Stat blocks and illustrations reduce this number, obviously. For a 32 page module, we ask our authors to provide 20,000 words. For a Pathifnder adventure path installment, we ask the authors to provide 35,000 words. The remaining 30,000 or so words in a Pathfinder AP volume consists of new monsters, support articles, fiction, and the like. Some more fun statistics we assume: [LIST] [*]A half-page illustration counts as about 500 words. [*]A full-body illustration of an NPC counts as about 400 words. [*]A spot illustration (such as an item or an NPC's head) counts as 150 words. [*]An average encounter in an adventure is about 500 words. [*]The opening of an adventure, including the Adventure Background and Adventure Synopsis should try to be no more than 5% of the total adventure's length (this works out to about a page for a module, and about two pages for an Adventure Path installment); less words is always better for the background/summary. [*]A 2-page Pathfinder AP style new monster is 1,400 words, counting the stat block. [*]A 1-page, hardcover Bestiary style monster entry is about 550 words (including stat block). [*]High level adventures tend to take up more room on an encounter-by-encounter basis, partially due to larger stat blocks, but mostly due to the fact that you have to account for a much wider range of possible PC actions and abilities. [*]2,000 words of workable writing progress is considered an average day's work. [*]5,000 words of workable writing progress in a day is considered phenomenal. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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