An idea....

[SilentThief]

You know, TwilightKing; this is a good idea in many ways! Back in the old days of the FRUA gaming community (with all its awesome hackers who went to great lengths to make FRUA more U for your A...), they had the idea to do group adventures, like; for example, to have someone create a overland map and a story, then send it to someone else so they could do the 1st dungeon level, then someone else for the next... You get the idea.

By the way, as a side note, anyone looking for some insight or new ideas should look up the old UA newsletters. These had event coding ideas that were worth checking out. Now, if I could only remember the web address...

Anyways, obviously with the renewed enthusiasm and multiple replies this post generated, ppl like this idea. When I get done moving, I'll check out the sunless citadel and maybe upload one of my own.

SilentThief

[TwilightKing]

I was also thinking about suggesting a group project. If anyone thinks they may have time to do this, let's discuss it!

[manikus]

there have been several ideas for shared designs on the ua list and in the newsletters. i've always thought it would be cool to be part of one. we could use space at the yahoogroups list to store it (if it becomes too big, we could spin off a separate list).

there is a lot of pertinent info in the ua newsletters, as mentioned, so here's the link-
http://www.giga.or.at/pub/ua/pc/uanews/
enjoy!

-manikus

[manikus]

so where do we start?

genre? i'm interested in doing fantasy

setting? it would be cool to do a city

level? more interested in low and medium

anyone have any ideas?

-manikus

[TwilightKing]

Fantasy is good. City..GOOD! I like the level range too. Perhaps we could do our own Pool of Radiance type adventure. Not a remake, but an inspired by. We all know it. We all love it. Crap, I wish I had a floppy drive so I could play it again!
But the reason I bring up PoL is it's simplicity. An urban setting with plenty of dungeon action, and even some wilderness. If this project is successful, we could spin off a sequel of course. Our very own 'Gold Box' series if you will.
If we, as a team, could make these adventure really cool, they could kinda be like the defacto DungeonCraft modules. The yardstick that new designers will measure their designs against (and hopefully exceed!)
What we need first...solid story.

Manikus, I am definately all for this. I will contribute everything that I can.

[manikus]

story driven is very good.
where should we put this? forgotten realms, greyhawk, dragonlance, etc, something original?
single character or party?
heavy magic or light magic?
how important is religion?

i've probably got a million questions. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[TwilightKing]

Originally posted by manikus: story driven is very good. where should we put this? forgotten realms, greyhawk, dragonlance, etc, something original? single character or party? heavy magic or light magic? how important is religion? i've probably got a million questions. [img]smile.gif[/img]

I think it should be a party. Probably medium magic, to show what DC is capable of, but not so much to make it unplayable. If I remember, Pool of Radience had a decent magic level, it didn't get obscene (not in a bad way!) until Curse.

Religion can be what we make of it. Definately throw in some temples for healing and such, as for as specific gods for clerics, maybe keep that mind for later expansions.

Campaign World....I feel a poll coming on! I'm cool with any, really. We could make a simple one for DC, make it DC's default world. But that may be WAY too much work [img]smile.gif[/img] Would copyright be problematic in using one of WotC's worlds?

You've got a million questions? Keep 'em coming! I think we may have started something good.... [img]smile.gif[/img]

PS: When we finish a design, Ziroc can make the box art! I remember seeing his post where he showed the 'Gold Box' version of his design. It was really cool!

[SilentThief]

Awesome ideas everywhere!!! A poll it'll prolly have to be, altho I think it'd be a better idea to make a world up than deal with a copyright problem.

The idea of still doing the unfinished projects is still a good idea, and I was gonna throw one (or two) of the few I started up on the website after I finish moving. I still got a bunch of ideas for this world I created, but I was thinking of trying to keep it simple by doing just a city adventure for my first scenario, and maybe if/when the writer block comes...

Now here's something else to consider because I've seen a bunch of requests on this, What about doing an adventure that is a tutorial??? I remember the FRUA tutorial had both a book and an adventure to go with it, so you could see the events as you made them. You could even do text messages to explain the settings, or to be really extra special; do movies that show a drop down of the window and circle or highlight the setting... hmmm, this gets me thinking...

BTW, I understand as the beginning thread of this topic was that "real life" is a real pain that sometimes slows down or even stops us for a time; with that in mind anyone know how CocoaSpud is doing? I mean, he's the genie that granted our wishes and the genius that (I thought) was making DC. With everyone having "real life" problems at this time (me, I'm going to be moving across the country for the 2nd time in a year), I do understand hearing less from everyone. But I was just wondering...

Just a' thinkin' and a' wonderin'...

SilentThief

[SilentThief]

oh yeah, I was gonna ask this from the previous post, but the caffiene isn't working to help me organize any of my thoughts...(potion of haste + confusion, anyone?)

There was talk of doing a tutorial B4, is anyone seriously working on one???? If there is and since it seems like it has potential to be a long boring thing to do, perhaps I can help. I'd be yet another way to get familiar with DC events and processes, give me ideas on bugs and/or new events and procedures that may be necessary to code, as well as being another of my many projects(but one I'd try to do things on in a more timely manner).

oh and the statement I made in the previous post (as in "and the genius that (I thought) was making DC"), that wasn't supposed to sound as snotty, it was supposed to sound like "the (I thought) genius...", If you read that 'Spud, I want you to know I love your work!!!

SilentThief

[manikus]

it's been pretty nifty to see people get excited about this game again. well, i actually mean to see people write about thier excitement.
real life can be a pain in the rear, sometimes in mysterious ways- i have a ton of free time for about another week, but have been having allergy related sinus-headaches severe enough to seriously limit my recreational stareing at computer screens.
with that said, i'm about to post at yahoogroups and in a new thread here, some questions i've thought of about doing a collaborative project and my answers to them.

btw, i heard from cocoaspud just about a week ago and it sounds like he is trying to clear up some bugs with the engine before he puts out the next release.

-manikus