Comments on: Downloadable Delves

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:29:54 +0000

I think this is a great idea. I noticed both here and in your twitter feed you have a lot of questions about RPGs and copyright. A friend of mine is an attorney who works in that area. Shoot me an email if you want his contact info.

By: chalybsanimus

chalybsanimus — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:15:06 +0000

I love the sound of this. I will try to get two or three good delves written up and thrown at you, Newbie. This could be one of those resources that time-pressed DMs can utilize for that last minute game.

By: Dave Kester

Dave Kester — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:06:32 +0000

JesterOC and newbiedm, If you haven’t already check out the instructions on WOTC’s site in regard to how to use their materials. The document on their site really offer a very good description of how you to ensure that you are avoiding copyright issues. Also, its a good idea IMO to simply customize each of the monsters in your encounter so you can include a custom monster stats in the document or in the tool of choice. Avoiding the hassle to the consumer of having to create their own stat sheet or conduct data entry for game night from the monster builder or by hand from the source. This also gives you lots of flexibility to make small tweaks to normal monsters giving the players that sense of much bigger and more complicated world.

dave

By: newbiedm

newbiedm — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:18:39 +0000

that’s why im leaning towards original maps, or thumbnails of maps created on tiles, much like how wotc published their adventures now.

By: JesterOC

JesterOC — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:16:59 +0000

Looks like masterplan is only viable if we use zero items from WOTC, meaning new creatures, new items, and new map tiles.

I think map tiles will be the largest hurdle.

By: Behemoth0089

Behemoth0089 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:51:17 +0000

I was watching the Pymapper and its a great software, really. It gets solved the Dungeon Tiles problem, cos let build them and export them too

By: Totte Alm

Totte Alm — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:32:25 +0000

@JesterOC: My suggestion was that battle maps could, and should, be uploaded together with the delve, or the delve points to a battlemap. Dungeontiles are good, but there are many tile sets and that can cause problems. I’ve done two sets of free tiles available as PDFs on my site, and I will make more sets when needed.

Just click my name and head to 4eyes, then click “Utilities”.
A combo of commercial tiles, maps and free tiles would be good. Check out Corvins encounters, they all come with a battle map.

By: JesterOC

JesterOC — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:17:55 +0000

I second the idea of using masterplan. DM’s can create delves very quickly and players can grab them fast too boot. The biggest problem I see is the dungeon tiles.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:41:34 +0000

Link should be http://www.habitualindolence.net/masterplan/

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:40:51 +0000

Why not use Masterplan? Goes from nothing to a full delve in about 3 clicks. That particular feature of the program makes a randomized delve, but I find it’s an awesome tool for 4e adventure design.

http://www.habitualindolence.net.masterplan/