The World of Althéa

It has been a slow week for me this week. I am still fiddling with Windows 7 to get it to work how I like and feel. Most of the programs and...

Every now and then when working on the module, something amusing happens that is worth telling (or so I think). In this case, it was when I ...

So, another week goes past and the module advancement counter hardly moves. What's going on you may ask? Well, the answer is that I am ...

And by "power", I mean it literally - in the form of electricity. For this week we had two days without electricity due to "e...

On the back of last week when I worked on map encounter “goodies”, I have continued my work on the overland map by looking at how the encoun...

I did some more work with the overland map this week with respect to the “goodies” that can be discovered and random encounters. It was inte...

This week, I have been trying to tidy up some of the files that can be downloaded for players to read some background story to the campaign....

Last week I showed you my new mapping system and how everything worked just great in my single player testing. Then I tested it for a multi-...

I had no intention of doing what I did this week, but recognising my own ineptitude at designing areas led me to it: I have finally managed ...

This week has been a difficult one for me. The most stressful time came at the end of the week, when one of our pet rabbits (Honey) stopped ...

As the title suggests, I am moving more into the realms of writing quests than covering mechanics ... at last! I know I have reported on thi...

I just spent the last couple of days trying to track down why a variable was being reset to zero whenever a second player joined the module ...

A while ago I explained how I was going to change the way some spells worked because I felt they were too restrictive as they currently play...

While I have been working on the module, I have also had the opportunity to sample some of the better weather we have had of late by taking ...

I don't have much to report this week, as I have not had much chance to work on the module at all. The little I have done involved a scr...

Ye Olde Shoppe With the majority of the costing exercise behind me, I started to make use of the new economical values in my module by start...

Today, I was hoping to bring news of finishing the "costing" exercise I have been trying to sort out for the last few weeks. Unfor...

… Will not necessarily be exceeded by the value of the whole. This is my conclusion with regards to making items from various ingredients a...

What a week! Editing 2da files is a laborious task. Hopefully, however, after my long search and many calculations to try to make the cost o...

Here is my problem: Why would a player bother to use an amethyst (normally 100gp value) and some powdered silver (normally 50gp value) to c...