#hammondal — Public Fediverse posts
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Some days, on the two main #Hammondal projects (the main city guide, and the campaign book) it does feel like the tail wags the dog a bit.
It's less a game-design issue than an organizational one. The trick is just to make sure that the broadly-useful stuff all goes in the city guide and the campaign book is reserved for the campaign specifics.
Which-is-which is crystal clear, 85% of the time. It's that other 15% that's gonna age me. 😅
But, this is why we playtest.
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Some days, on the two main #Hammondal projects (the main city guide, and the campaign book) it does feel like the tail wags the dog a bit.
It's less a game-design issue than an organizational one. The trick is just to make sure that the broadly-useful stuff all goes in the city guide and the campaign book is reserved for the campaign specifics.
Which-is-which is crystal clear, 85% of the time. It's that other 15% that's gonna age me. 😅
But, this is why we playtest.
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As #Hammondal develops it becomes increasingly asymmetrical in design. Same thing happens to all my books yet it surprises me a little each time. 😅
Like, each neighborhood is still a chapter. But the shape of each chapter is increasingly unrelated to how other chapters are structured.
A good sign. Symmetry is never my friend.
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As #Hammondal develops it becomes increasingly asymmetrical in design. Same thing happens to all my books yet it surprises me a little each time. 😅
Like, each neighborhood is still a chapter. But the shape of each chapter is increasingly unrelated to how other chapters are structured.
A good sign. Symmetry is never my friend.
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A bit of #Hammondal going from doodly to less-doodly.
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A bit of #Hammondal going from doodly to less-doodly.
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Just playing with subtle changes to how I tone and texture the water.
(Plates like this one are the most that fit on a single page, so there will be three such plates in Hammondal's book, plus up to 23 neighborhood maps, zoomed and text-encrusted, plus a few others)
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Just playing with subtle changes to how I tone and texture the water.
(Plates like this one are the most that fit on a single page, so there will be three such plates in Hammondal's book, plus up to 23 neighborhood maps, zoomed and text-encrusted, plus a few others)
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Many fantasy cities have been presented as campaign worlds, but they're usually _big deal_ cities, fantasy equivalents of New York, Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong, London, Cairo.
#Hammondal is a campaign world that's the fantasy equivalent of Livonia, Michigan or Parma, Ohio. Cities for which most people never spare a single thought.
And if that strikes you as intriguing, or even a little audacious ... I agree. 😆
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Many fantasy cities have been presented as campaign worlds, but they're usually _big deal_ cities, fantasy equivalents of New York, Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong, London, Cairo.
#Hammondal is a campaign world that's the fantasy equivalent of Livonia, Michigan or Parma, Ohio. Cities for which most people never spare a single thought.
And if that strikes you as intriguing, or even a little audacious ... I agree. 😆