The World of Althéa

This week I have been going over some of the items a PC will be able to buy at the stores. A simple endeavour you may have thought, until yo...

According to the 3rd edition PHB, poor accommodation is nothing more than "a place on the floor near the hearth". This came at a ...

I am not talking about the normal twists one might expect the module builder to include, but I refer to the twists that players may add of t...

Unfortunately, sometimes real life just seems to be against you and all the best laid plans go awry. I suppose I could have just left any po...

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...