tonytranrpg

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Tadpole at Frog Postal Snail Mail Network (Lite) but also formless at other realms. (Duckworth was here)


zedecksiew
@zedecksiew

A lawless market, lovelorn pirates, a dispute over legacy. 12/12 - 18/12 #dungeon23

A small city with some classic factionalism: old traditionalists vs new profiteers. Seasoned in a salt-preserved pirate flavour!


Have been trying to approach #dungeon23 organically. In my mind, planning = expectations = work. Even giving the thing an overall map, or a title, makes it into A Serious Thing I Have To Do Well.

And the only way I get through any length of this exercise is if I treat is as a fun side thing---the squeeze I procrastinate with when I am stressed with actual work.

(Entirely a mind trick, of course; drawing the map for the above thing took half a day and broke my hand. So it is not like it is less stressful in real terms.)

ANYWAY: this one came out of last week's burial mound---figuring out who Queen Lessa was, what the popular conception of her legacy is, and what other people might want to do with that.

"People are fighting over where they think she should be buried" was the first idea that came to mind. And the city grew around that.

It did seem prudent to leave blank space for the future, though. Hence the Moon Fort, and the Beacon House, and the open question that the clockwork person wandering around poses.

Why are they shopping for vegetables? I don't know, yet.


I'm still having fun. Hope this will last!


tonytranrpg
@tonytranrpg

wow. and nice! Did you modulate/drew the areas as you went as well? or was this done at the end of the week?


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in reply to @zedecksiew's post:

Doing a faction/location a day in a town is a great idea! I might have to throw in a settlement one week.

It'll be extra interesting to see what all you have on your hands when you're done since you're following what you find interesting.

By cheating, mostly! I was thinking about stuff on and off, but drew the city on one day, then wrote the entries all in a single go the next. (And even then bits of it---like the "disinterment tracker"---are obviously squeezed in wherever ...)

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