I ended up having the time and energy to throw something together for the OnePageDungeon 2021! It's a full page, and trust me, every millimeter was fought for. Naturally, I sent it in on the last possible day (with a couple of hours to go and I wasn't the last, but still, cutting it short). I'll try and talk a bit about it here (sharing it as well, of course, as that seems to be the custom), but this might end up being my shortest post in a long while ...
Opik's Magnificiently Damning Door Bravery
It's the nature of the beast that I'd rather share the page itself before saying anything about it, as it should all be on the page, really, not needing any context. If you know the blog, you know I'm quite verbose. I think that's alright for the medium, but other formats need other types of writing or a layouter cutting corners. Guess what I did. Ha!
Anyway, here we go (open in new window for detail):
What can I say beyond that? For one, I actually aimed to have three puzzles in there instead of two. Good thing I only had a vague idea what that third module could have been and time was the deciding factor to just go with what I had. Thankfully so, since I barely had room to do those two modules justice (close call, but I managed ... I think). Still, maybe something to expand on?
As per the guidelines, this is system neutral, and that turned out to be a challenge as well. How to scale something like that in a way that is easily adapted to every imaginable system without ending up being arbitrary was something that needed lots of consideration. I tried :)
Oh yes, but doing the dungeon modules was the hardest part, btw. Who'd have thought? Lining up some squares is easy enough, for sure, but making them presentable from scratch was harder than I thought (I looked into online variants, but even there some work would have been necessary). I aimed for 'playful' in the end, I guess.
Anyway, I hope this will give a couple of people some joy. I sure had fun writing it and putting it on the page (using inkscape has a very meditative quality, for me at least). Not sure if this has a chance for anything but being in the publication in the end, but I'm happy with the result and hope I'll get another chance next year.
So, what do you guys think? Useful? Too much? Fun?! I'd be happy to hear your thoughts on it!
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In other news, I will keep the discount on Ø2\\'3|| (that rpg I published) up until tomorrow and you can check out a free preview of the book right here (or go and check out the first reviews here). This will be with the general populace for a little while now, but we will do some sales in the future, of course.
If you need more convincing, maybe this post might get you there. If you already checked it out, please know that I
appreciate you :) It'll certainly help to keep the lights on here ...
Fantastic job! This is awesome. I love the creativity that comes out during this contest. I submitted this year, which was the first time in awhile.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Shane! I think it was you or Leicester's Ramble posting about it that put me up to it, so thank you for that (I might have seen both roughly at the same time, but you shared it on MeWe, I think, and that's when I decided). I want to get back in that blogging game a bit more, so this seemed like a good start (I am too late for the RPGaDay2021, I think). What else is good out there?
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