Country Boy, City Girl Chapter 39
Country Boy, City Girl Chapter 39We pretty much spent the rest of summer vacation together, but that does not mean we were always fooling around. I knew I had a deadline for submitting new adventures, so I wrapped up the one that we had playtested and sent it off to Mr. Cummings, along with the issues we had encountered. The idea had been to try and reverse the usual scenario and had the players controlling various monsters and traps, and trying to wipe out a band of villains that was trying to invade and desecrate a temple. It was interesting, but did not play out as I had hoped.In my notes I said it might work better as a board game than as a traditional role-playing game, and they might look into that. The group loved the concept I had, but the execution was simply impossible to play off in an RPG setting.I also had sent off an adventure I had made as an introduction adventure. It was also a combined city-wilderness-dungeon, but much smaller than Chaos in the Capitol. The party started in a small village, then had to travel into the mountains to battle a hedge wizard that was trying to drive people away from a mine. It was designed for players from levels 1 through 3 and was only 6 pages long (not counting random encounter tables and maps).I was rather surprised when 2 weeks before school ended and the big LA Airport convention I got a letter of acceptance. This time the check was $125, and said I would be getting a ?Created by? credit on the game, for the concept. In it they said I should be getting a sample copy in the mail in the next few days, and that they were trying to procure an ?alternative means? of publishing ?Hedge Mage?, and if I would accept an extension on it until a decision was made.Linda and I were making out on the couch as Mandy and Peggy were doing the same on the floor when the phone rang. It was Mr. Cummings, and he told me that they had gotten an agreement to publish the module in ?Collective Wargames?. This meant that there would only be a single payment, no royalties involved unless they decided to republish it at a later date. And because it was not just a D
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