I'm curious: how do APs get put together? In particular, who comes up with the initial idea(s) and how does it reach final form?
As a side note, did this messageboard contribute? I remember a lot of discussion about what people wanted to see in AP3, and I remember Dungeon listening with interest (though I don't recall if the opinions were solicited).
Thanks,
Jack
(I hope this hasn't been discussed to death before)
Well, when a boy adventure and a girl adventure love each other... an Adventure Path is born!
Seriously, this is a great question. For one, as I offered my first query a few months ago I tried to write an adventure that might fit into the next AP (I had no foreknowledge but thought I'd take a guess). But now realizing that there is a greater process than "hey, all these submitted adventures have a similar element" I am also curious as to how the Paizo people come up with an AP.
I'm curious: how do APs get put together? In particular, who comes up with the initial idea(s) and how does it reach final form?
1. Erik and James get together and buy some tequila.
2. They start scribbling ideas like 'white-haired fire giant' and 'flumph commando squadron' on a whiteboard.3. After waking up in compromising positions, they look at what's written down, then erase it.
4. James overhears a random comment at the Paizo office and it starts a chain reaction in his brain.
5. James stops the chain reaction with more tequila.
6. They have a meeting which involves Erik throwing plushy beholders at people until they come up with a semi-coherent idea.
7. Paizo hires several young virgins from the local art school to sacrifice to Wizards.
8. Wizards accepts the sacrifice, but declines to commit to the AP idea.
9. Paizo hires several young virginal /girls/ from the local art school to sacrifice to Wizards.
10. Wizards agrees to the basic idea.
11. James starts sending encrypted missives by ninja courier to a select group of writers. Those who refuse the assignment meet with 'accidents'.
12. The adventures start to be submitted, and Erik completely rewrites everything to make it as pro-Greyhawk and anti-Eberron as possible.
13. The next AP comes out.
14. Gary locks up anyone capable of designing web enhancements into his supply closet, so that as many people as possible can complain about the delay.
15. Erik and James decides to lay off the tequila and starts drinking the vodka.
16. EGG shows up in a tequila/vodka-induced dream and transmits the code word to Erik that transforms him into Isquander the Sage. Erik goes to save the world from the evils of campaign-specific adventure settings.
17. Pirates! Demons! Dinosaurs!
18. People complain that there is a misplaced comma in a statblock on the new AoW HC.
19. James punishes all the editorial staff under him by making them wear hula skirts and singing showtunes.
20. Lisa laughs, for it is good.
Chief Technical Officer
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Gwydion,
Man, did you ever get that process wrong!
In step 6, it's not a beholder, it's an "Eye Tyrant."
-Vic.
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Gwydion,
Man, did you ever get that process wrong!
In step 6, it's not a beholder, it's an "Eye Tyrant."
-Vic.
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Ah, yes. I forgot. How could I have been so blind? :)
(That's an awesome plug, btw, Vic. You just sold one of those when I get my next paycheck. *G*)
Gwydion,
Man, did you ever get that process wrong!
In step 6, it's not a beholder, it's an "Eye Tyrant."
-Vic.
.Ah, yes. I forgot. How could I have been so blind? :)
(That's an awesome plug, btw, Vic. You just sold one of those when I get my next paycheck. *G*)
I liked Baba Yaga & her hut more. :-P
ah, Lillith...another fan of Baba Yaga....*grins*
Man Gwydion, thats a total crock...
Everyone knows there are no virgins in Art School.
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Sorry..I trained a girl tonight to bartend..she is 21 and a photography, art history, and is working toward a degree, don't know what the heck it is, in casting for local films, to be a waitress/bartender. She knows all the Python, Mel Brooks, Austin Powers, South Park, King of the Hill, etc...funny non PC stuff...Sanford and Son, All in the Family,The Jeffersons, (the all time best) Hogans Heroes.