Print candidate
- Status: Checked OUT
- Owner: Solomoriah
- Task: Print Candidate pass
- ETA: (be patient)
To-Do?:
- Table of contents of Level and Class (already done in PDF version; no text page yet)
- Character Index?
Todd
Thanks Kyle, that actually makes good sense. It'll also have to fall to Chi, Solo, or Al or someone else who can make LibreOffice do tricks, because I'm terrible with it.Bumblepig wrote: ↑Sat Nov 26, 2022 11:24 am My biggest suggestion out of the gate: Don't bother with an index! (....) But what you absolutely DO need is Table of contents for each Level and Class. The headers should also show at least Level, maybe class. Making it easier to find an NPC of an appropriate class/level will make a huge difference in usability.
Actually, I said that before I started seeing references to other NPCs in descriptions. For that, a name index or inline cross references make sense. Sorry, wasn't paying attention.I guess my thinking of the name index was for pe ople trying to locate siblings, cousins, and associates in cases where a mini-bio mentions related people. But it might not be used. You're completely correct that the bios are meant to give a quick indicator of what shapes this person's behaviour. Any connecting information to other people and places is optional.
I'm glad the reading is satisfactory. My style is probably not to everyone's taste, but it really flows out that way. I'll start with a word or an idea, and bang. It's kind of freaky where some of the bios went, considering I had no clear plan for some characters until I reached the end of their first sentence... and then that sentence informed the next one. I didn't know who Chrysogon was until I was half-finished the book. Before then, it was just a name I liked the look of.
"Write what you know" is what I was always told. There's a lot of my feelings and experiences in the book spread out in small amounts, along with aspects of people I've known or met over my 50+ years. I sat at a keyboard and let it pour out of me. It took about 120 hours to write.
Thanks for saying so; that's my hope as well. It's the book I've been thinking of writing for 40 years. A couple of weeks of quiet "stay-cation" put my mind in the right place, and that was all it took to get it started.
Generally, it may be interesting for the equipment carried to go beyond armor and weapons.Idril Lorwynn, Elf Cleric 1: AC 18, #At 1, Dam 1d8, Mv 20', Ml 9
STR 11, INT 15 (+1), WIS 17 (+2), DEX 9, CON 12, CHA 7 (-1)
Equipment: Plate Mail, Shield, Mace
HP 5 ☐☐☐☐☐
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