Paris Crenshaw Contributor |
I think those will appear in the blog, when the Open Call starts.
Looking at one of the already available adventures (especially the last two) might help as well.
I'm curious, Dryder. I've only played the first two, so I haven't downloaded any of the others. What's different about the last two that makes them especially helpful?
Chris Mortika RPG Superstar 2010 Top 16 |
Paris Crenshaw Contributor |
Russell Akred |
Hmm. There are no 750-word summaries. You need to write a 750-word outline based on a summary (or summaries) that I post to the blog and the Pathfinder Society page this Thursday.
Carefully read the instructions before you (the royal you, not anyone specific) write one. :-)
So the way I understand this is the scenarios are always based on summaries posted on the blog. You cannot start from scratch but must instead begin with the given premiss. So don't even start writing until the summaries are posted. Unless you feel like you'll be lucky enough to channel into a summary. Is this right?
Nathril |
Mark Moreland Director of Brand Strategy |
So the way I understand this is the scenarios are always based on summaries posted on the blog. You cannot start from scratch but must instead begin with the given premiss. So don't even start writing until the summaries are posted. Unless you feel like you'll be lucky enough to channel into a summary. Is this right?
For the most part, this is how they've been presented, but I believe at least one or two scenarios simply required a specific setting, or a specific monster with no plot elements listed. Season 1 might also be handled differently than season 0 was.
Neil Spicer Contributor, RPG Superstar 2009, RPG Superstar Judgernaut |
It varies, really.
The earliest open calls included an entire synopsis for the adventure, a title, and some direction on what needed to show up in the scenario.
Later on, Paizo (meaning Josh) diverged a bit from that pattern and would simply do an open call with much less guidance. No synopsis. Much more open-ended. And it might include a title (or not) and an indication that you needed to include a specific monster (usually because they were already securing art for a particular beastie).
So, it can change from scenario-to-scenario. You just need to watch the open calls and pay careful attention to the instructions for each one. The best advice I can offer, is to keep writing and imagining different scenario pitches you'd like to submit. And then, when an open call comes out, look back through them to see if they can be tweaked, borrowed from, or used wholesale to put together a submission.
But that's just my two-cents,
--Neil
Joshua J. Frost |
Going forward, the one scenario-per-month open call that kicks off next month will likely be restricted to a location and maybe a theme and I'll let the author create the rest. I reserve the right to occasionally say, "I need a scenario in this location with these monsters and titled this" but those won't be as frequent as Season 0. Also, starting with Season 1 open calls, (as mentioned above) I'm only doing 1 scenario a month as an open call but I'm (typically) assigning the other one to established scenario authors who've done good work for me before with clean map and scenario turnovers.
Mike Welham Contributor, RPG Superstar 2012 |