The Gygax 75 Workshop [ EDIT ]
This game has been retired! That means it's no longer being run.
This is the Gygax 75 Workshop, where each participant will work their way though the Gygax 75 Challenge. The "game" here will serve as a sort of subforum where we will build our worlds.
Alternative link to the pdf of the challenge, thanks to Dhakhan for finding it:
The Gygax 75 Challenge
The Gygax 75 Challenge is based on an article written by Garry Gygax in 1975, where he lays out his approach to constructing a campaign setting. The challenge summarizes this article and divides it up in to a 5 week program. While written with an OSR mindset, the challenge is very flexible. There is no limit to genre or game system, the only assumption made is that you will have a "town", a "dungeon" and some sort of wilderness separating those. What this means and how this looks like is up to you. At the end of those 5 weeks, you will (hopefully) end up with a fully functional setting to play in. You are strongly encouraged to do just that, here on GP or wherever else you intend to play.
This workshop is intended to facilitate an exchange of ideas as each participant works though the challenge, to keep everyone motivated and to provide help if some one gets stuck in whatever way. Also just chatting is nice as well. :)
To make this work, I envision the following principles:
-There are no restrictions as to what you do with the challenge, any genre, any system that works for you is fine.
-You are free to alter the challenge in any way that benefits your project.
-While it is desirable to have everyone work on the same part of the challenge at the same time, you may work as slow or fast as you want.
-The "game" will be set to private, allowing us to freely discuss things we do no wish potential players to know.
-You can cooperate and collaborate as much or as little as you want.
-Every participant will be given a subforum to work in, they are free to organize it in any way they see fit.
-I will keep the "game" around, but please backup anything you produce here. You never know.
-I can not see a reason to limit the number of participants. If you are interested, but not invited yet, please pm or @me.
-Most importantly, please remain civil and kind at all times. Make sure all criticism is constructive and wanted. Respect the other participants and their work.
Alternative link to the pdf of the challenge, thanks to Dhakhan for finding it:
The Gygax 75 Challenge
The Gygax 75 Challenge is based on an article written by Garry Gygax in 1975, where he lays out his approach to constructing a campaign setting. The challenge summarizes this article and divides it up in to a 5 week program. While written with an OSR mindset, the challenge is very flexible. There is no limit to genre or game system, the only assumption made is that you will have a "town", a "dungeon" and some sort of wilderness separating those. What this means and how this looks like is up to you. At the end of those 5 weeks, you will (hopefully) end up with a fully functional setting to play in. You are strongly encouraged to do just that, here on GP or wherever else you intend to play.
This workshop is intended to facilitate an exchange of ideas as each participant works though the challenge, to keep everyone motivated and to provide help if some one gets stuck in whatever way. Also just chatting is nice as well. :)
To make this work, I envision the following principles:
-There are no restrictions as to what you do with the challenge, any genre, any system that works for you is fine.
-You are free to alter the challenge in any way that benefits your project.
-While it is desirable to have everyone work on the same part of the challenge at the same time, you may work as slow or fast as you want.
-The "game" will be set to private, allowing us to freely discuss things we do no wish potential players to know.
-You can cooperate and collaborate as much or as little as you want.
-Every participant will be given a subforum to work in, they are free to organize it in any way they see fit.
-I will keep the "game" around, but please backup anything you produce here. You never know.
-I can not see a reason to limit the number of participants. If you are interested, but not invited yet, please pm or @me.
-Most importantly, please remain civil and kind at all times. Make sure all criticism is constructive and wanted. Respect the other participants and their work.
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