The people in the GLOG community are wildly creative, but (and I'm paraphrasing what others have said in the OSR discord server, but I will say that there is a fair amount of truth to it) a lot of the creations are… high in fun, less so in usability. Hundreds of classes, (even more so with the recent microclass trend), multiple hacks, spells, the TeleGLOG... but a lot less playable material, and by this I mean adventures. Seeing how I haven't published any adventures, I'm just as guilty.
And let's be fair - writing a whole adventure is a fair amount of work! But what if we collectively tackled the task?
So here is the idea. We find a free to use map for a dungeon (I would recommend Dyson Logos). Someone (me?) numbers the rooms (and perhaps a few corridors). Perhaps we decide on some kind of theme so it's *not* completely random, but hey, maybe completely random would work. Rooms are then assigned to participants. If a few people can't make it on time - well a few empty rooms in a dungeon never hurt anyone.
Then the person running the project cleans it up a bit, and TADA! a GLOG collective dungeon!
It won't be a *great* dungeon, but it should be eminently useable.
Is this a good idea? Do we have volunteers?
EDIT: I was pondering about the theme, and Oblidisideryptch suggested that it would be a cheesy dungeon... literally.
Long ago, an underground facility was constructed with all sorts of magical devices to mass produce cheese. It has since fallen in disrepair, but still runs, somehow, a bit. What kind of foul lactose magic will be found here? Blue oozes? Cheesemaking golems? Fat goblins scavengers? Skeletons servants? Some kind of security? Hell-cows? A crazed wizard? Parmesan shields? Let's find out :P
EDIT 2: Volunteers have come forth! I will be using this post to keep track. We have enough people to make this happen. The project is officially a GO!
Timelines:
- By the end of this week (say, Saturday) I will semi-close the volunteer list (this way I know how big a dungeon we need).
- By the beginning of next week, I will have a dungeon map of the appropriate size. I will assign volunteers to specific room numbers (I'm thinking 2 rooms per volunteers?)
- Volunteers will have X amount of time to make their entry
- I collect the entries, do light editing, then collate them in a blog post
- Tada! Collective GLOG dungeon!
If you volunteer then can't make it, the list will be edited of course - I'm not going to use this to "pressure" people :)
Myself
Oblidisideryptch (they already provided the theme!)
BaaL
Jojiro
Spekkio
Mihau
SirOnyx (proposes connecting to the moon)
Phlox
Panic Pillow
Random Wizard
Spwack
Studio 315b
Bluewolf
Corgifan2
kahva
nickorish inck
Purplecthulhu
Vayra
SunderedworldDM
Lexi
Morgan
(? indicate that I am not 100% and will have to clarify - if you see yourself on this list in error, I am sorry! If you want to volunteer and *aren't* on the list, let me know!)
I'd love to offer a room or two!
ReplyDeleteI will add you to the list of volunteers! What is the best way to reach you?
DeleteI think when Zak started something like this for a hexcrawl he started with the map and folks jumped on to describe hexes. You might want to start with a map.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to do a room or two, too.
ReplyDeleteI have a new list of volunteers and I have added you. There is now a channel for it in the OSR discord :)
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