{"id":317,"date":"2013-03-16T01:32:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T01:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?p=317"},"modified":"2017-02-08T18:31:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T02:31:25","slug":"creating-an-adventure-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/creating-an-adventure-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a Cynosure Romp – Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is Part 2 of my dissection of game prep for a recent GURPS convention adventure\u00a0<\/a>— if you need to catch up,\u00a0Part 1 is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When last we left my brain, I had 8 pre-gen characters in very rough form. A couple days later I spent my “lunch hour” (3:00 – 4:00 a.m.) jotting down a more formalized set of notes of the things I had been mulling over in my brain.<\/p>\n

Step 4 – Adding Detail<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n
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First, a two-line synopsis of the game, mostly from Steps 1 and 2:<\/p>\n

“GrimJack kidnapped — each of the PCs ‘owe him one,’ will (likely) choose to help find him.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In the left margin I brainstormed a few different dimension types to use, and ultimately wrote down six as the “nodes” of the story (laid out in a most excellent post here<\/a>). As a basic skeleton, I imagined the flow of the story going something like: start at MUNDEN’S, follow the clues to a LOW-G dimension, then a LOW-TECH (note: arrows indicate swapping order) only dimension, a roaming SNOWBALL pocket dimension (only if the players were burning through the adventure way early), an ORGANIC\/ARTIFICIAL SWITCH dimension where organic beings become robots and vice-versa, culminating in the FINAL BATTLE scene against the cultists who kidnapped GrimJack in the first place.<\/p>\n

Even then, that seemed like an awful lot for a four-hour game.\u00a0But since I still had time left on my break, I wrote a second page.<\/p>\n

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Work Notes – Page 02<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This sheet added in the details of what could be found at at each node (or scene), as well as three separate ways the party could potentially move from one to the next. So now the story was looking like:<\/p>\n