tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post1670431104631615766..comments2024-03-28T08:50:57.015+01:00Comments on Beyond Fomalhaut: [CAMPAIGN JOURNAL] The Inverted Tower of Hyél SinghMelanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07165894144553629675noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-80060687094669110072023-04-10T22:46:18.614+02:002023-04-10T22:46:18.614+02:00Thanks for sharing the campaing journal, Gábor. Th...Thanks for sharing the campaing journal, Gábor. These are always inspiring. I envy you how much action you manage to cram in for each session. Our games tend to be slower, probably as the players love to deliberate.<br /><br />Seeing how the city comes alive from - I assume - are mostly random encounters and tables from the Nocturnal Table is also nice.Jiří "Markus" Petrůhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17888038430387964093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-74631373708589849642023-04-02T08:57:00.252+02:002023-04-02T08:57:00.252+02:00Best of luck with that! These will be a rough coup...Best of luck with that! These will be a rough couple of years all around.Melanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07165894144553629675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-17690401442819987272023-04-01T18:56:20.742+02:002023-04-01T18:56:20.742+02:00My engagement with the hobby is now reading your b...My engagement with the hobby is now reading your blog... Too much work, so little time. I'm the chief propagandist for a libertarian-conservative presidential candidate with a real chance of winning or dramatically increasing his share of seats at the Argentinian Congress. Santiago Oríahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06004778441776946649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-86937960803079692412023-03-27T21:45:25.596+02:002023-03-27T21:45:25.596+02:00Enharza supplement when?Enharza supplement when?Melanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07165894144553629675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-16046784674341108312023-03-27T21:45:11.107+02:002023-03-27T21:45:11.107+02:00Thank you indeed for calling it graceful, I also e...Thank you indeed for calling it graceful, I also enjoyed doing it immensely. Deeply satisfying, and very emergent as well.Melanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07165894144553629675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-17311003888066552642023-03-27T21:43:51.341+02:002023-03-27T21:43:51.341+02:00A lot of the smaller ground-level detail in this c...A lot of the smaller ground-level detail in this campaign was indeed improvised, sometimes from pure imagination, and sometimes extrapolated from the detailed key areas, or random encounters. The same goes for the dynamic of the city around the characters. As long as there is a coherent vision and consistency, the approach works, as the improvised details will fit into the whole. This is something that probably cannot be bottled in published material, only approximated. For example, the procedures and tables in the CSIO or Mythmere's City Encounters help capture the complexity of the urban environment, but it needs some effort to bring to life.Melanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07165894144553629675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-53337520259323062152023-03-26T01:14:13.060+01:002023-03-26T01:14:13.060+01:00Great read! Great read! Santiago Oríahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06004778441776946649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-56893284130858367682023-03-25T07:35:06.033+01:002023-03-25T07:35:06.033+01:00Graceful way to do away with the PCs from the prev...Graceful way to do away with the PCs from the previous campaign, just because they won (or derailed the campaign - I thought this is what emergent content means).Voljahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08826776454392269862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188119851730922397.post-55598577989554593562023-03-24T16:27:00.244+01:002023-03-24T16:27:00.244+01:00These play write-ups are always entertaining. Your...These play write-ups are always entertaining. Your mapping style looks like you could expand it on the fly. Usually DMs have a refined map and then hastily sketch maps live for the players, your style looks like a blend of the two with all the obvious advantages. Not the city map that is too complicated, and it would benefit from a very light grey filling of streets and squares, which the eye will see as shadow and won't interfere with text. This could be achieved swiftly with a copic marker with brush tip.<br /><br />With cities, the primary difficulty is killing the default atmosphere of vast emptiness. Streets and streets of fake architectural facades and robotic extras all descended from a handful of progenitors. Leiber was magnificent at giving life and spirit to his city, originally he intended Rome to be his rogues' home. In gaming, the challenge I believe is to cram the gaps *between* encounters with the details and signs of city life.Kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165997449776226774noreply@blogger.com