| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Yeah. I'm feeling even worse now than I did then. :(
Not to thread jack, but I hope you are seeing someone in regard to depression. I have bouts of it myself, and I think a lot of creative people do. I see a counselor and am on medication. Please take care of yourself so you can fulfill your dreams, including writing.
Dot.
Well I have an idea, hopefully I can get my current messes with my computers out of the way in time to sit down and type it out =)
Just to echo what others have said - Creighton is great to work for!
Cheers
Rich
Dot.
Really want to see if I can manage something worthy of publishing...no hard feelings if not, of course!
Publisher, Raging Swan Press
|
I was wanting to submit something, but the document doesn't say anything about whether or not creatures from sources other that Bestiary 1 are allowed. Given that the statblocks are included, could I include creatures whose species were detailed in, say, Bestiary 2, but have a unique stat block?
Bestiary 2 and 3 are more than fine!
Sounds like a great opportunity to me. I'm off to work on a few ideas now... :-D
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Not to thread jack, but I hope you are seeing someone in regard to depression. I have bouts of it myself, and I think a lot of creative people do. I see a counselor and am on medication. Please take care of yourself so you can fulfill your dreams, including writing.
Yeah. I'm feeling even worse now than I did then. :(
Depression is the monkey on the back for a lot of creative types. I see it as coming in waves, primarily when the 'juices' go dry. I'm on meds now, but the best treatment I've found is a small dog that has no time for you to be 'down'.
Speaking of which, I must now go let him water the neighbor's grass.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Depression is the monkey on the back for a lot of creative types. I see it as coming in waves, primarily when the 'juices' go dry. I'm on meds now, but the best treatment I've found is a small dog that has no time for you to be 'down'.
Speaking of which, I must now go let him water the neighbor's grass.
I guess I must be the weird one, in that I turned to creativity to help deal with my depression. Writing, painting minis, etc tends to relieve mine to a degree, although I still get periods of being unable to even face anything, even a keyboard.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Yeah, I just got a text that I also use the 'two sides of the same coin' metaphor. Prior to the Welbutrin (sp), I remember deep holes every winter and manic springs!
Creighton, I've got a question about your stat block format.
If a particular creature is suffering from a condition, do you have any particular place you'd want it mentioned, and/or should any modifiers/penalties be applied overall to the stats?
|
Publisher, Raging Swan Press
|
Creighton, I've got a question about your stat block format.
If a particular creature is suffering from a condition, do you have any particular place you'd want it mentioned, and/or should any modifiers/penalties be applied overall to the stats?
Do you mean like sickened? If you do, I'd suggest handling it like Paizo handle a barbarian's non-raging stats. I think that's a pretty neat way of doing it.
Do you mean like sickened? If you do, I'd suggest handling it like Paizo handle a barbarian's non-raging stats. I think that's a pretty neat way of doing it.Creighton, I've got a question about your stat block format.
If a particular creature is suffering from a condition, do you have any particular place you'd want it mentioned, and/or should any modifiers/penalties be applied overall to the stats?
Just like that, yes. I'll go ahead and work it in that way, thanks.
My guess is there's plenty of folks sitting at home, quietly working on their scenarios... I doubt you'll lack for submissions :)
=)
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
I was supposed to break?
Oops. D:
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Should be putting the finishing touches on this this weekend.
Still some time left for anyone else interested!
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
I was supposed to break?
Oops. D:
Don't worry, you will. It's just a matter of when...
You heard it folks! If a Raging Swan product should be released with my name on it (say, in December), make sure you buy a copy so Creighton has motivation to try and break me again! ;-)
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Darn. Just seeing this now for the first time. What a great opportunity! Nine days is plenty of time...right? :)
It actually is, if you can scrounge up the free time =)
And...done. Well, unless I get a second idea and churn that out in the next eight days.
I'm about halfway done with a submission -- doing all the math in the invisi-text...
I have a half-baked idea for a second encounter, but need to figure out how to wrestle it into shape.
please someone correct me if I'm wrong, I think EL is Encounter Level and it is the same as Challenge Rating.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Encounter Level is the calculated difficulty of the entire encounter. CR is the difficulty of the individual monster.
Multiple creatures adding together increase the EL of the encounter - there's a chart on it in the Gamemastery section of the core book.
Creighton, I've noted that your encounter template document spell-checks per British English; for example "color" is misspelled and gets a red squiggly line, "colour" is not. Do you want all such things in British English or does it matter?
Creighton, I've noted that your encounter template document spell-checks per British English; for example "color" is misspelled and gets a red squiggly line, "colour" is not. Do you want all such things in British English or does it matter?
Creighton is British and Raging Swan Press is based in the United Kingdom. Make of that what you will ....
That got me when I was writing Vulgruph's Hollow for Creighton. Specifically, the word "favourite."
Thanks, just wanted to check =) I think I'm just wrapping things up here.
Encounter Level is the calculated difficulty of the entire encounter. CR is the difficulty of the individual monster.
Multiple creatures adding together increase the EL of the encounter - there's a chart on it in the Gamemastery section of the core book.
Thanks, Orthos, my third printing of the core book just uses CR in that section, but I remembered seeing EL somewhere, so I went back to the Legacy of Fire AP and found EL and CR both being used exactly as you described.
I understand you want full stat blocks for monsters, but how much of general situational rules should be re-produced for the Game Master's convenience?
I am thinking of:
- rules for swimming
- rules for drowning
- rules for operating a vehicle
- conditional modifiers for vision and combat on the surface or below the surface?
|
Publisher, Raging Swan Press
|
Creighton, I've noted that your encounter template document spell-checks per British English; for example "color" is misspelled and gets a red squiggly line, "colour" is not. Do you want all such things in British English or does it matter?
British English would be fantastic.
|
Publisher, Raging Swan Press
|
I understand you want full stat blocks for monsters, but how much of general situational rules should be re-produced for the Game Master's convenience?
I am thinking of:
- rules for swimming
- rules for drowning
- rules for operating a vehicle
- conditional modifiers for vision and combat on the surface or below the surface?
It all depends on how vital and niche the rules are for that encounter. I'd suggest pretty much everyone knows the rules for swimming, but the rules for drowning are a little bit less well known. I suspect (not having seen the encounter) the rules for operating a vehicle might be vital for the encounter so I'd include a potted version of them.
A "potted" version??
|
It all depends on how vital and niche the rules are for that encounter. I'd suggest pretty much everyone knows the rules for swimming, but the rules for drowning are a little bit less well known. I suspect (not having seen the encounter) the rules for operating a vehicle might be vital for the encounter so I'd include a potted version of them.I understand you want full stat blocks for monsters, but how much of general situational rules should be re-produced for the Game Master's convenience?
I am thinking of:
- rules for swimming
- rules for drowning
- rules for operating a vehicle
- conditional modifiers for vision and combat on the surface or below the surface?
A good example of a Raging Swan product in which such specific rules were needed ... The Sunken Pyramid includes complete rules on things like underwater combat, spell-casting under water etc.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
And sent. Here's hoping that it meets expectations!
Jesper, it means a "short version". :)
Many thanks! ;-)