Tag: Reviews & Culture
Adventure Design 2.0
by Chris Cumming on Jan.09, 2010, under 4e D&D, Adventure Design 2.0, Advice/Tools, Game Design
For quite some time now I’ve found the format in which adventure design is presented to be outdated. Sure the Delve format had a large impact in the last few years since its debut in some of Wizards of the Coast’s later 3.5 D&D adventures. Even that, however, stuck to the format of a book be it in hard copy or pdf format. Dungeon-a-day.com is actually the most recent example of a very forward thinking designer pushing the bounds of what is possible. Dungeon-a-day.com offers a hyperlinked website with new encounters updated every weekday. The site features fresh new content from the mind of Monte Cook and its presented in a much more modern format.
But where too next? Where can today’s modern web tools such as XHTML and HTML5.0 push design forward?
I recently read two very informative articles by two of RPG Blogging’s rising stars, Phillipe Menard (aka @ChattyDM) and Dave Chalker (aka @DavetheGame) that explored some of the possible scenarios that set my mind aflame. Here were two popular vocal proponents advocating the same revolution in adventure design that I had been craving.
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Open Design – Courts of the Shadow Fey
by Chris Cumming on Aug.23, 2009, under 4e D&D, Game Design
Castle Shadowcrag © Wolfgang Baur, 2009
Wolfgang Baur is running another round of Open Design so this is the perfect time to get in on it. This time is a little different as there are three proposals for people to vote on and any one or even all three can progress should they achieve enough funding. I’ll outline below all 3 proposals, but only one is being written in 4e ~ Courts of the Shadow Fey! The Scathsidhe return from both the Ennie nominated Castle Shadowcrag and Wrath of the River King.
Free RPG Day
by Chris Cumming on Jun.21, 2009, under News, Reviews & Culture
Free RPG Day
Free RPG Day
Free RPG Day was held on June 20 this year. This was the first year that I was able to enjoy the day as it has not been supported outside the States before. Here in Vancouver there were several stores who had received packages from the fine people running Free RPG Day. I went out to my FLGS, Imperial Hobbies, in Richmond in the late afternoon.
Even with the late time I managed to pick up quite a few products all of them phenomenal. From Keith Barker’s Eberron Adventure to a Rogue Trader introduction, all great promotional material.
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