Subject: MYSTARA-L Digest - 9 Apr 2004 to 10 Apr 2004 (#2004-83) From: Automatic digest processor Date: 11/04/2004, 17:00 To: Recipients of MYSTARA-L digests Reply-to: Mystara RPG Discussion There are 2 messages totalling 137 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Adventure Team (2) ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.dnd.starflung.com/ To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 09:40:08 -0700 From: Herve Musseau Subject: Re: Adventure Team From: Alex Benson > Anyway, let me know something on this. I am very interested to know how the > Adventure Team is organized. Well, for starters there is no team dedicated to adventures. Anyone, on any team (ie for any region or country), may write an adventure. > What is a template for an adventure? There is no template, you are free to write an adventure in any form you wish. Of course you have to follow the almanac format (it will be edited to it). Short adventures, long ones, level, organization, and any other parameters are of your choosing. You will see examples once I can upload the book on the website. > Are the adventures team efforts or solo acts? Generally solo. However, in some cases a few people may cooperate on an adventure, or on parts of an adventures. Sometimes stats will be done by others. Also, maps will be drawn by our resident cartographers, as requested. Likewise, you can suggest illustration ideas to our artists. > What relationship does a particular Regional Team have on an adventure's > development? Do the adventures have to reflect current events in that year's > almanac? Yes, the adventures have to reflect current events. Which means also writing events in the almanac, or picking up an event or string and turning it into an adventure. However, there are two ways to deal with this: you can either make an adventure out of regional events, or come up with an idea for an adventure and add a couple of events to go with it. Besides, the events/adventure do not have to be major events that thoroughly affect the setting; it can be something minor that could be easily be staged somewhere/when else. If you are not part of a regional team but wish to write an adventure set in it, you can submit your idea to the team to see if it will clash with intended events (or elements of the current situation you may not be aware of); the editors will also tell you. > What rules are used? 3E, though other options are possible (incl. stats-free). > This question is more > towards adventures that address minor subplots not mentioned in the Almanac > Events and do not have a direct bearing on present or future events. Indeed you can have adventures that are minor and without impact, but you should still have events to link them with. It is, after all, the yearly almanac; if you want to write a generic, undated adventure the MA is not the best publication. It is easy to work around that requirement, though, as long as you don't want to do things like write for Alfheim (and even then there are workarounds). ===== ___________________________________________________________ Herve Musseau http://www.geocities.com/hmusseau/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 22:05:45 +0200 From: Jacob Skytte Subject: Re: Adventure Team ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Benson" > I was wondering what the outline of the Adventure Team was in submitting > adventures. As one of the authors, I can certainly answer some of those questions. : ) > Anyway, let me know something on this. I am very interested to know how the > Adventure Team is organized. In the beginning, I was the team! lol! This is what I did: When the call went out for adventures, I took some events that I had written for the Almanac and made an adventure out of them. It was a solo act at first. I then advertised for help with 3E stats, as I don't do 3E. A couple of guys helped out, and the crew cartographer came through with a map, and an adventure was born. For the other adventure I semi-submitted, it was more of a group effort, where I wrote a framework, then we divided the writing between us, and a third person fleshed some things out and came up with stats. The cartographer came through again, as well as did a lot of good writing. : ) > What is a template for an adventure? Template? I just write... > Are the adventures team efforts or solo acts? The ones I've worked on: Very solo. I had minimum contact with others for the first adventure, a little more for the second, mainly because I didn't want the entire workload at the time. > What relationship does a particular Regional > Team have on an adventure's development? Do the adventures have to reflect > current events in that year's almanac? The editor(s) wanted adventures that reflected the events of the year, so I took some of the events I had written and fleshed them out into adventures. Since Herve released the titles of the adventures, you can go sift through the Almanac for a preview. ; ) > What rules are used? My writing was Rules Lite, but it was always the intention for somebody to fill in 3E stats, if somebody willing could be found. Luckily, some helpful people did that part. Anyway, those are answers from a submitter's point of view. Now I hope those adventures will soon be available; I'd like feedback. : ) Jacob Skytte scythe@wanadoo.dk ------------------------------ End of MYSTARA-L Digest - 9 Apr 2004 to 10 Apr 2004 (#2004-83) **************************************************************