Foundry

Foundry contest update #5. FINISHED! I finished… the first pass. It can be played and finished with all three quest paths. This screen shows how complicated the final room can get when you have three storylines colliding. I wrote a conversation for my in-dungeon avatar that explains how the storylines work, and talks about my other foundries, and (naturally) begs the player to leave a review. It’s a contest, after all. No reviews, no ratings, no winning. ...

It’s another night of foundry fun! Four player quests played by our intrepid questing duo. One of which was actually really good :) Wild Man of the Wood by @Kathrian A noblewoman invites you into her home to ask you to go on a mission of utmost discretion: bring a letter to a wild man seen in the woods outside of town. Kasul and I were sure this was some sort of illicit affair, and guess what, we were right. Her hubby is a demonic chimera, her lover is a druid who has taken a vow against showering, and this quest leaves most of the actual story to the next quest in the campaign. ...

Well, I meant for this second map, “Outside the Auction House”, to just be a transition map. You hand an NPC an item, he sends you on to the next map. And then I wanted to add a second NPCs story, allow you to, perhaps, choose the lesser of two evils to support. And then I thought, why should the player have to choose between two bad choices? Maybe there could be a third, hidden choice that would be more difficult, but more honorable. ...

Despite storms both here and in Columbus, the potato salad capital of the world, Kasul and I managed to fight our way through the thunder for another FOUNDRY NIGHT! YAYYY! Only the Young by @lakatoi7 Petre’s village is inhabited only by young people! Older people disappear when they reach a certain age. Petre’s parents are just now reaching that certain age, and she is afraid for their lives. ...

My internet troubles delayed our weekly Foundry Festivities, but the stars aligned and once again set off into the hinterlands of player-written adventures. The Eternal Darkness (Golf) by @freddykidd Kasul led off with this one, a fairly newish quest with an interesting premise – what DO vampires get to in the long, cold dark of night? Why, they play golf! The adventure was mostly an excuse to let loose with punny names, like “Benny Hillgiant”, above. I was disappointed in not being actually able to play golf at any point, but both Kasul and I marked it up for decent level design and puns that just wouldn’t stop. ...

Five days without Internet was tougher than I imagined. But it’s back up now, just in time for the new Neverwinter foundry contest. To kick off our Season of Dragons campaign, we’ve decided to hold a Foundry contest focused on the Cult of the Dragon! To participate, authors must create a Foundry quest with an average duration of at least 15 minutes that includes the Cult of the Dragon in a meaningful way. The winners will receive some amazing prizes in addition to having their Foundry quests featured for all to admire! ...

Neverwinter Foundry Night! Wind and weather conspired to give me and Kasul enough uninterrupted power to meet in Neverwinter and do some foundries. Due to the lateness of the hour, we only got around to two of them. First up: “Merlin the Story Teller 3”. I knew this was going to be trouble when I read the intro: In the realm of Midguard lies the Sky Kingdom of Zeal, and is home to The Temple of Athena. Merlin was summon by the High Priestess Schala when the Spear Of Mars had shock the Land, but was cursed and repelled by The God Mars as he Invaded The Kingdom Of Zeal. ...

Today’s weekly Foundry run was a mixed bag… some good, some bad, and some we’d done before. We’ve been running these things so long that we’re getting into these foundries and after a couple minutes, feeling almost positive that we’ve played these before. And we have! It’s actually a kinda sad commentary on just how similar some foundries are. But, we had a couple bright spots… and one really low one. ...

So Saturday, I had this wild idea that it would be fun to make an STO mission in the game’s User-Generated Content system, the Foundry. See, I wanted to get a preview of the new Vulcan science ship that’s hitting the store next month. Making a mission that included it would be one way to do that. Playing other people’s missions based around the same general idea would be an even better way :) ...