Stone Tablet Info
A6 sketchbook
I’d like to collect all the maps of the One Page Dungeon Contest 2009 and not just the “winners/runner-ups” of the contest.
I’d also like to offer a glimpse into my game prep by showing you the notes I used for a two session adventure. These notes are “real” notes, not written up to be published. They would also fit on a page of A4 paper, should I try. As it is, I have an A6 page from a sketchbook and two sheets of A5 paper.
Some campaign background: The party has a shadow elf looking for her abandoned ancestral home and meets a sort of chicken Indiana Jones who tells her he has some information for her, if she agrees to get the stone tablets from an old elephant temple that has recently been uncovered by a landslide.
The first session the party goes in, fights ogres in the hills, fights the bear in the cave, finds the secret door behind the elephant statue, avoids the rolling boulder trap, finds a room with stone tablets on the walls, copies them, and takes them back. Chicken Indiana Jones says: “But where are the rest of them? Surely you must have found the secret temple behind the facade!” The players roar in anger and I roar in glee...
The second session the party knows that there must be a second temple hiding behind the first (a temple to the moon) and ends up finding a third temple hiding behind the second (a temple to death). If you’re interested in the source material of the various funky stuff that’s coming together, here: We’re playing on the Lenap map of *The Wilderlands of High Fantasy* (Necromancer Games), I’m thinking of using *Caverns of Thracia* (Necromancer Games) soon, and *The Sunken Ziggurat* (Goodman Games).
If you look at the XP report of the session you’ll note that I have a weird system of assigning XP for this campaign: I’m assigning “points” to interesting stuff and hand out 300 XP per point. Usually combat is worth the CR of the enemies divided by two in points. Discovering stuff about the setting and doing things provides the other half of the XP, because that’s the kind of thing I want to encourage.
assigning XP for this campaign
Two A5 pages, being the equivalent of a “one page dungeon” ;) :
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