Browsing Archive: July, 2010

GenCon Schedule

Posted by Jay Michaels on Friday, July 23, 2010, In : gencon 
GenCon Schedule

Aug 5 - Thursday
10am - Seminar - "Ins & Outs of the Publishing Industry
1pm - Seminar - "Breaking into RPG Writing"
4pm - Seminar - "Podcasting: An Introduction"

Aug 6 - Friday
10am - Seminar - "It's Cool to be Oldschool - Discussing the OSR"
12pm - Auction
4pm - Seminar - "Podcasting: Content and Distribution"
8pm - Ennie Awards

Aug 7 - Saturday
10am - Seminar - "Eureka!Cooking up adventure plots with Gnomestew"
1pm - Seminar - "World building 101"
2pm - Seminar - "World building in an h...
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Those dang room descriptions!

Posted by Jay Michaels on Thursday, July 8, 2010, In : VisionVentures 

I've still been hacking away at my next VisionVenture module called "Into the Darkness". I seem to be having a problem with room descriptions and writers block has set it.  

 

It got me starting to think outside the box.  

  1. Why do I have to have room descriptions when the mapped room shows what's in it? 

  2. What about adding some bullet points versus a lengthy descriptions? 

  3. What if I only describe the room in basic ways 

    1. Size 20x20 

    2. Light: none 

    3. Furniture: broken 

    4. Monsters: Kobold (stats) 

     

I know it's no...
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To many gods?

Posted by Jay Michaels on Tuesday, July 6, 2010, In : fantasy religion 
I've been hashing out the major religions and faiths in Ebonyr the past few weeks. I want one or two monotheistic faiths as well as polytheistic. I have two other religions that are "mystical" in nature. I was having some problems actually creating the polytheistic faith. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks last night. Create what the classical world had, have different polytheistic religions in different parts of Ebonyr. See was creating one, world-spanning, poly religion and that wasnt woki...

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