{"id":4451,"date":"2019-08-15T17:34:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/2019\/08\/15\/a-random-thought-looking-back\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T22:23:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T22:23:37","slug":"a-random-thought-looking-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/?p=4451","title":{"rendered":"A random thought, looking back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been thinking a lot about my RPG writing recently.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, for the past year or two (and, unless things go wrong, for the foreseeable future *knock on wood*) my focus has been on fiction. I haven&#8217;t abandoned RPG writing, and I&#8217;d still happily delve into any project that really excited me, but it&#8217;s not my <em>priority<\/em> as it once was.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, I was thinking about adventures (or &quot;modules,&quot; as we old fogies knew &#8217;em). It&#8217;s funny, adventures are, in many ways, the meat of RPG writing, but I never found them as enjoyable as some other kinds of work. I&#8217;m not saying I hated working on them, but I prefer (for instance) campaign setting work and monster design.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I&#8217;m pretty happy with most of the adventure work I did. (And a good thing, too, since my first three or four D20 projects were adventures of one sort of another.) And I realized, recently, that perhaps my favorite adventure I ever worked on is, oddly enough, one of the ones that I think got the least publicity.<\/p>\n<p><em>The <a href=&quot;http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php\/rpgs\/05_dnd-3e\/05_ne_doom-of-listonshire\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Doom of Listonshire<\/a><\/em> came out from Necromancer Games (easily one of the best of the D20 companies), but it came out through a newer, smaller distribution channel than most of their stuff. And honestly, it kind of got lost in the shuffle. (It also got printed in crappier quality than was intended.) Not that I&#8217;m saying it was guaranteed to be a modern classic or anything, but I think it would&#8217;ve had a better opportunity to make a splash in other circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>But it remains my favorite. It&#8217;s not flawless by <em>any<\/em> means; there are entire swathes I&#8217;d redesign if writing it today. But I think it&#8217;s got the best combination of story, setting, and just general &quot;old-school feel&quot; (which I think is important for many adventures) of all my stuff. It&#8217;s definitely the most obviously <em>inspired<\/em> by 1E materials; it was heavily influenced by both <em>Keep on the Borderlands<\/em> and <em>Destiny of Kings<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>No real point to this, other than ruminating. But if I could only pick three adventures to be known for, this one would definitely make the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been thinking a lot about my RPG writing recently. Obviously, for the past year or two (and, unless things go wrong, for the foreseeable future *knock on wood*) my focus has been on fiction. I haven&#8217;t abandoned RPG writing, and I&#8217;d still happily delve into any project that really excited me, but it&#8217;s not my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-old-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}