Back to the Purple

 After that second foray, I will admit to being a bit overwhelmed. How could I possibly do everything that happened in that adventure justice?! Especially with the death of a beloved PC?

And, of course, I have been working on so much other content, including sourcebooks, modules, and a couple of my own games. A lot of those projects are ongoing on my other blog .

But I have really enjoyed my adventures across the Purple Islands. And it was never my intent to abandon this project.  So now that I finally have that long, brutal, strange adventure on paper, I will get back to it.

Going forward, I have learned a few lessons to make life easier.

1. Use Paper:  digital notes slowed me down writing what happened, and then again when I turn them into a blog entry I had to flip back and forth between applications on my phone. I originally thought I could copy paste information, but I ended up not doing that anyway.  I now have a dedicated notebook for future adventures.

2. Constrain Dungeons: The grotto of the eight men was a necessary evil. The encounter in the book said eight eight hit die eight men monsters living in a grotto. And the dice perversely said that I needed to get the necronomicon as I happens to be in a haxware one was located. It was almost miraculously pat. If I hadn't created a huge dungeon to house those beasts they would have slaughtered my poor 4th level party. In the future, I need to constrain dungeons to know more than a dozen rooms. 22 was way too big.

3. Break it Down:. When something gets long and involved like a dungeon brawl, I have to be willing to break the day of adventures into discreet packages and spread them over multiple blog posts. Initially, I wanted to put everything in one entry because I thought that I would slack off and stop playing if a couple of hours of gaming then took me several weeks of entries to share. But now that I've had an actual experience with getting overwhelmed by the scope of a crawl, I realized I would have gotten more done had I been willing to stretch it out. Probably would make it easier to read, too.

4. Experiment with Media: I was a voiceover professional for several years before my body simply rebelled and I became allergic to almost every living thing. I have finally found a combination of medication, treatments, exercises, and diet that means that I no longer live with a sore throat 24/7. It might be time to start using my pipes again. Starting off slow with a few podcasts episodes of Crawling the Purple Isles might be a good way to woodshed my skills again... While being faster to produce.