AWW: Adventure and Monster Design

THE GIANT IN THE HILLS

This is a fairly brief, fairly rough draft of a typical one-off adventure for A Wilder World to show some of the philosophy behind adventure and creature design. This kind of adventure is meant to reflect the kind of problem/resolution plot you'd find in a single episode of an episodic fantasy series: group reaches town, town has problem, group solves problem.

Depending on the group (and the optional elements used), this could be a very combat-heavy adventure, one that revolves around figuring out what's going on and how to make people happy while avoiding combat, or something that takes a middle path.

The actual adventure write-up would include more numbers (Target Numbers for checks to notice things, convince people of things using different approaches, etc.) and some outlines for particular NPCs (for example: a village leader, a hothead, an advocate for calm)
( Cut for nerdery. )

Tuesday, June 5th

The Daily Report

A Wilder World continues to occupy a lot of my brain's cycles. Earlier today I posted a rough draft of an adventure to help give some idea of what I'm going for. It includes a character who (as a combatant) fills the niche of "solo monster" in D&D 4E... designed to be a single large creature that can engage the whole party at once. My intention is to post a "mock combat" using this creature's stats and some sample characters to show roughly how combat works, in preparation for the playtests that will happen when I'm back in Omaha.

State of the Me

Doing okay. Little tired, after having stayed up late last night. I believe we're going out tonight, so I'm going to be stealing some rest.

Plans For Today

I've done some writing and some game design stuff. Now I think it's time to lie down for a bit.