I will be using these thirty days to create (or adapt) campaign materials for my #YearoftheGoat home campaign and my as yet unnamed online campaign that I want to run for the G+ Flailsnails community.
#DIY30 Preparation
Yesterday I spent five or six hours organizing and re-familiarizing myself with my #YearoftheGoat campaign materials as preparation for this #DIY30 writing challenge. At one point this stuff was organized well, but the deterioration crept in last year and I'm just now getting things back in good order. As I sorted yesterday, I began to see what I would be tackling for #DIY30. What will follow in this post is a rough weekly breakdown of the writing, adapting, and cartography tasks that I've identified while organizing.
Caveats
Just as my campaign is a work in progress, this post will be as well. I'm not sure how fast I'll be working, so I'll be coming back to update Weeks Three and Four after I see how Week One rolls out.
Week One- First Things First
I will be starting in the area of the map around the city of Halwic. The PCs were camped just south of Halwic when the campaign went on hiatus last August. They were investigating leads regarding The Mimic Crisis. Halwic has just experienced an outbreak of plague and a fire has devastated a district in the city. One of the PCs is hoping to have his newly crafted sword blessed (enchanted) by a prominent leader of the Church of the Covenant. I have Halwic itself roughly mapped and some locations detailed, but not mapped. I'm counting on Vornheim to get me through any citycrawl stuff that comes up. Locations nearby needing more work are the estate of Lord Vortulak and the small triplet of farming communities to the southwest of the city.
-A follower NPC is in the city scouting ahead. Are they alive or dead? If alive, what information did they gather? Where will the party re-unite with them? Done
-Create relationship map for prominent city NPCs. Done
-Create relationship map for the Abby of St. Forsythia (Church of the Covenant) NPCs. Done
-Set a hook to the mega-dungeon Maze of the Blue Medusa (reading to be done on this, but I think it involves placing a specific painting....) Done
-Figure out where to locate the Maze on my campaign map. Done
-Write a description of Lord Vortulak's estate. Done
-Make a map of Lord Vortulak's estate. Done
-Finish the adaptation of the small farming communities southwest of Halwic. These are from a pre-written module, so the work is less creating and more editing or adapting. Done
Week Two- Finish Week One's Bullet Points Before Moving On
If week one was front-loaded too heavily with pieces to work on, then I will be continuing to work on those until finished this week. While working on my home campaign is my main goal here, some effort will be made to start preparing for my upcoming online game world.
-Finish all of Week One's bullet points before starting anything on Week Two's list.
-Decide on a setting for my upcoming online game. Choices I'm deliberating are as follows:
+The Midderlands
+Operation Unfathomable
+Yoon-Suin
+Red Tide Ding, ding, ding!
+The Dark of Hot Springs Island
-Once a decision on which setting to run the online game in is made, determine a starting area and make sure there is a city/town and a dungeon/lair/ruins nearby. Done
-When a setting with it's starting point is determined, schedule a start day and time.
-Make a G+ Flailsnails post with an invite to play.
Week Three- "20 Quick Questions"
I've answered 13 out of 20 of Jeff Rients' "Twenty Quick Questions for Your Campaign Setting." Getting a few done this week maybe?
Week Four-
Update 9/11/18
Welp, the votes are in and the group would like me to run them through Curse of Strahd. So looks like I'm going to need to read that and start adapting it to LotFP and the specifics of my Year of the Goat campaign. That's going on the end of the list, though, since it's so large it might take me awhile.
-Life During Wartime Part Two blogpost.
-The Temple of the Fractured Snail- adventure location idea I had.
-The Seclusium of the Orphone- I started making a seclusium from this book and it was tedious af, lol, but I want to finish it so I can drop it in my campaign somewhere.
-Scenic Dunnsmouth- I think I got my SD local map finished, just need to figure out where to put it on my campaign map and set hooks/write a rumor table.
-Curse of Strahd adaptation.
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