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Post by calithena on Mar 28, 2009 14:57:44 GMT -6
www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/calithenas-campaign-compendium/6592822The FOURTH new product for the final blitz, this one too will be going away sometime on April 1. I cobbled together a bunch of what I thought were my cooler and more interesting campaign notes, magic notes, etc. for general readership. This is not finished stuff like I would put in Fight On!, but I think it might make very intriguing reading for like minded GMs. A lot of the thoughts that went into my 'setting up your sandbox' article in FO! 1 are explored here in theory or example at greater length. Also there are some spell lists and funky tables. 54 pages of material this fast is not easy to cobble together! Buy it now and celebrate my creativity! And help us win this contest! Only available for two days! www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/calithenas-campaign-compendium/6592822
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Post by stonetoflesh on Mar 29, 2009 9:49:58 GMT -6
I just ordered a copy, I'm just too intrigued to pass this up...
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Post by sham on Mar 29, 2009 10:26:38 GMT -6
Also placed my order for CCC just now. How can I pass that up? Looking forward to adding it to my growing POD collection.
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Post by Melan on Mar 29, 2009 23:25:41 GMT -6
My order is in; hope it will make a difference.
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Post by Zulgyan on Mar 30, 2009 0:39:13 GMT -6
Bought  |
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Post by calithena on Mar 30, 2009 5:19:49 GMT -6
You guys are too kind! Thank you!
(I hope you get some things of use/interest out of it.)
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Post by ant on Mar 30, 2009 5:37:47 GMT -6
Bought, along with Art of the Old School!  |
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Post by chgowiz on Mar 30, 2009 9:44:39 GMT -6
You guys are too kind! Thank you! (I hope you get some things of use/interest out of it.) Unfortunately, I'm way out of cash, especially with the buying for the contest. Is there any hope you would consider leaving them up for sale past April 1? I know you'd have at least one sale of the campaign book and perhaps that adventure into your dark psyche. *g* (Hey, FFV amused the holy hell outta me... I have a strange sense of humor) |
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Post by calithena on Mar 30, 2009 10:21:54 GMT -6
Unfortunately, probably not...if the CCC ever appears again it will be heavily revised. Sorry!
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Post by chgowiz on Mar 31, 2009 7:22:20 GMT -6
Unfortunately, probably not...if the CCC ever appears again it will be heavily revised. Sorry! For some reason, someone's paycheck appeared in the bank a day early. ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by calithena on Mar 31, 2009 9:07:52 GMT -6
Awesome, chgowiz! Thank you for your support!
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Post by lughlonghand on Mar 31, 2009 12:29:37 GMT -6
I just registered to say that I just purchased, the CCC, Issue 4, and Dhar the Dreamer. Looking forward to receiving and reading!
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Post by kesher on Mar 31, 2009 15:17:08 GMT -6
Cal, I just ordered my copy. I've been hoping you'd write more about the sandbox, and I'm happy to see some text in there from an earlier manuscript. It's well worth sharing, and I'm excited to read it. You know, I'd actually love to see this become a publishing genre: DM/Judge/Referee Campaign Notes. This mindset we have about play around here, whatever you want to call it, seems perfectly suited for it---everyone has a unique campaign, especially when you include (and how couldn't you?) houserules, interpretations, playing set-ups (how and when the campaign is run), etc. Actually, as I write this, I realize it already is a genre, started by that Man-Ahead-of-His-Time, Dave Arneson. So, not only are you in good company, you're perhaps helping to initiate a tradition. |
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Post by calithena on Mar 31, 2009 15:22:51 GMT -6
Thanks again, all of you!
Kesher, I love reading that stuff, and have always been a little sad that internet message boards don't contain more of it. If publication is the way to make it happen, then so be it!
To be honest, Hargrave's notes about his own campaign and approach were some of the things that made Arduin so valuable to me. Just "this is how I do things" type stuff. Not that you even necessarily had to agree, just getting your own idea mill working is the key.
A&E and Dragon also had articles like that in the early going, but boy it's been a hard thing to find. Part of the problem is that we're trained to generalize and come up with principles, whereas at the state of knowledge we're at examples are still IMO more important. And the category of 'actual play' also sometimes fails to pick this up because there we're concerned with what happens at the table.
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Post by The Fiendish Dr. Samsara on Apr 3, 2009 1:52:44 GMT -6
I await my copy eagerly.
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Post by akrasia on Apr 7, 2009 17:12:20 GMT -6
Got this in the mail on Saturday. I've only skimmed it, but it's a fun read, although I doubt that I'll actually use any of the material in it. Nonetheless, it's always enjoyable to read the ideas of a very creative DM! Money well spent, IMO.
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Post by calithena on Apr 7, 2009 20:47:31 GMT -6
Surely you'll use the alternate coin types!
Also possibly the Well of Talasshar.
Glad you like it!
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Post by chgowiz on Apr 8, 2009 5:42:36 GMT -6
Calithena, I received my copy yesterday - what a nice compilation of info. I know there are several things that have spawned thoughts right away. Thanks!
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Post by calithena on Apr 8, 2009 7:46:58 GMT -6
Thanks chgowiz!
There are 51 copies of this in existence, for you collector types out there.
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Post by The Fiendish Dr. Samsara on Apr 8, 2009 19:18:32 GMT -6
But how will we know which one we have? These things are important. |
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Post by sham on Apr 9, 2009 5:27:18 GMT -6
CCC is one of my favorite PODs yet! Who cares if there is little I will be using. It will serve my purposes by providing food for thought, and plain old enjoyable reading.
Actually, the Character Destiny Ranks fit right into my own campaign with a little tinkering. I also really like the magic schools by color idea.
I'd like to see more campaign compendiums from other GMs in the future. I'm glad you took the time to offer this, Calithena.
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Post by kesher on Apr 10, 2009 13:47:29 GMT -6
Hey Cal, if I ever actually get to meet you, face-to-face, you're going to have to sign this! I loved the pseudo-Vancian magic idea; I'm quite seriously considering instituting it in Otherness. A few years ago, when I was still teaching English and running an after-school gaming group for students, I did something similar. The system was a mash-up of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks with a chunk of house rules; I used the stand-alone spell bookfrom Steve Jackson's Sorcery! series for the spells. I photocopied the spell descriptions, and any spell-using character randomly picked two to start with. Those spells were, as far as the players knew, all that existed in the world. |
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Post by calithena on Apr 12, 2009 21:16:23 GMT -6
Thanks again, everyone.
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