05-29-2020, 01:17 PM | #1 |
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Dungeon Fantasy Dungeon Planner
A dungeon is only as good as its planning. You could wing it . . . but getting that Genuine Old-School Feel™ calls for a map full of tunnels and chambers, walls peppered with doors (some of them secret), all of it keyed to monsters, traps, treasures, and tricky puzzles. The Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game includes all the forms you need, and even blank maps, but these are scattered across multiple books, which means a lot of printing and collating.These twisted tunnels Dungeon Fantasy Dungeon Planner offers an alternative: an all-in-one notebook with everything collected in one place and placed in a sensible order. It includes:
— Print: https://www.amazon.com/dp/155634905X/ ($8.95)
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05-29-2020, 11:45 PM | #2 |
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Re: Dungeon Fantasy Dungeon Planner
It won't fit in my DFRPG box...that is already stuffed with DFRPG supplements...
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05-30-2020, 05:17 AM | #3 |
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Re: Dungeon Fantasy Dungeon Planner
Thank you!
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05-30-2020, 06:32 AM | #4 | |
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Bought it and looked at it. Looks useful.
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05-30-2020, 08:10 AM | #5 |
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Re: Dungeon Fantasy Dungeon Planner
I left a few comments earlier in this thread. Short version: Simple but nifty and inexpensive product.
I imagine a lot of thought went into what to include or leave out. Should any other sort of form have been included? I suppose there could be a dedicated page to recap all the Rewards, as in the Rat book, but it doesn't seem particularly needed to me . . . The only other thing that comes to my mind is a form for key NPCs: something far shorter than a 4- or 2-page PC form, but with more space than a monster card. Say, a couple of NPC pages, with two big "cards" per page. (That said, some dungeons won't have any key NPCs, of course, while others will have a dozen, so I can understand a suggestion of "just use the Notes pages".) Then there's the idea I noted in the other thread: As the product is a journal, I think it'd be nice to see a dedicated space on the front cover to fill in the dungeon name (like the space adorning p. 2). Pretty unnecessary if you're just filling out one journal, but a GM filling out several will want to make them identifiable. And here's a final pie-in-the-sky thought. It'd be kind of fun to see SJG sell filled-out Dungeon Planner journals - i.e., ready-to-play mini dungeons using the Planner format. Maybe that'd be a good area for new DFRPG authors to get some experience. Or a fun way to hold a "submit a dungeon" contest, with the winning submission becoming a product? No particular reason why SJG should use the Planner format to publish dungeons. Just struck me as an interesting (?) idea. Anyway. It's a good product to spur the creation process. I'll go for the Amazon POD version soon.
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06-01-2020, 06:59 PM | #6 |
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Re: Dungeon Fantasy Dungeon Planner
Any chance of the PDF being form-fillable? A lot of folks are away from the printer nowadays.
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06-02-2020, 11:15 AM | #7 |
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Re: Dungeon Fantasy Dungeon Planner
Even if you have a printer available I can't read anything I wrote if it's been a day or so and I don't remember it without reading half of it. I need to be able to type the info.
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06-02-2020, 11:33 AM | #8 |
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Re: Dungeon Fantasy Dungeon Planner
One of my first thoughts when the planner came out was that it might be fun to try to work up a location in that format.
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06-07-2020, 04:13 AM | #9 | |
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Re: Dungeon Fantasy Dungeon Planner
There are plenty of free or inexpensive pdf software to allow you to add form fillable features yourself.
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