mosker
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Post by mosker on Jan 12, 2023 13:28:03 GMT -5
Because of my tendency towards verbal diarrhoea 50 rooms would be a huge adventure. I normally figure about 7-10 paragraphs per "room", though I am trying to get more disciplined about this.
This is why I love getting creative with matrices and combining options ("Pick the lock L2-SR on DEX or bash it L2-SR STR" on sending them to the same success/failure paragraphs) I did warn you, he says weakly. |
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Post by alkazar on Jan 12, 2023 20:41:13 GMT -5
Ideally 50 to 60 "rooms" is a good target. Because of my tendency towards verbal diarrhoea 50 rooms would be a huge adventure. I normally figure about 7-10 paragraphs per "room", though I am trying to get more disciplined about this. You've got a game book style. I get that, it's hard to downscale descriptive narrative especially when shooting for a certain type of "feel." Game booking is a great way to create an adventure, it's quality that's important not the number of rooms. |
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trolletgunnar
3rd Level Troll
I playing solos using the French version of Tunnels and Trolls, and deluxe. (x-mas present!)
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Post by trolletgunnar on Jan 18, 2023 5:49:43 GMT -5
View AttachmentThis whole thing came to me, quite literally in a dream, on Christmas Eve. I think I've been spending too much time with the Adventurers Compendium. It's pretty trivial, and obviously thrown together in great haste, but I hope it is worth a brief read. I'm enjoying so far; although I'm in a pinch with some spiders for the moment. Life's hard for Delvers with abysmally low dexterity and speed! |
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trolletgunnar
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I playing solos using the French version of Tunnels and Trolls, and deluxe. (x-mas present!)
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Post by trolletgunnar on Jan 23, 2023 5:51:14 GMT -5
View AttachmentThis whole thing came to me, quite literally in a dream, on Christmas Eve. I think I've been spending too much time with the Adventurers Compendium. It's pretty trivial, and obviously thrown together in great haste, but I hope it is worth a brief read. I'm enjoying so far; although I'm in a pinch with some spiders for the moment. Life's hard for Delvers with abysmally low dexterity and speed! With an uncharacteristic amount of luck, I managed to make it through the adventure. Entertaining keep up the goog work! |
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Post by dwayanu on Jan 30, 2023 14:57:31 GMT -5
Years (now decades?) ago, I had a program that worked with source text in a game book format. I reckon anyone versed in HTML could easily produce a hyperlinked document version of such a book.
A fancier approach would be to use an Interactive Fiction authoring tool such as Inform or TADS. What they have for an RPG in terms of data structures and random number generation seems to be rather buried in the documentation, but I’ll bet it’s included somewhere in the system.
Kerkerkruip is basically a Roguelike IF; I don’t know what the development environment is.
Even if you don’t have the program handling mechanics, the parsing of natural language input might be an interesting change from the simple menu of choices at each decision point in a “pick your path” book.
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trolletgunnar
3rd Level Troll
I playing solos using the French version of Tunnels and Trolls, and deluxe. (x-mas present!)
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Post by trolletgunnar on Jan 31, 2023 6:10:07 GMT -5
Years (now decades?) ago, I had a program that worked with source text in a game book format. I reckon anyone versed in HTML could easily produce a hyperlinked document version of such a book. A fancier approach would be to use an Interactive Fiction authoring tool such as Inform or TADS. What they have for an RPG in terms of data structures and random number generation seems to be rather buried in the documentation, but I’ll bet it’s included somewhere in the system. Kerkerkruip is basically a Roguelike IF; I don’t know what the development environment is. Even if you don’t have the program handling mechanics, the parsing of natural language input might be an interesting change from the simple menu of choices at each decision point in a “pick your path” book. When, it was a while ago, I write solos I usally use word, and create hyperlinks for for paragarphs, appendices and such. It works kind of well I think. |
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Post by houndle on Feb 1, 2023 10:56:47 GMT -5
Something with a little bit of a M!M! flavour. The Anourial Stone.pdf (252.26 KB) It was supposed to have pictures but because I'm rubbish at drawing I made a little card model of the temple. Turns out I am also rubbish at making models. But this may help give you the basic shape. .  |
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trolletgunnar
3rd Level Troll
I playing solos using the French version of Tunnels and Trolls, and deluxe. (x-mas present!)
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Post by trolletgunnar on Feb 1, 2023 11:06:53 GMT -5
Well my drawing skills are at the level of making figures at the level of a four year old; you know just a head and two legs (hm maybe that would be a good t&t monster?), so no criticism from my side! I will try your adventure when I have the chance.  |
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