I don't know whether Xen'Drik Expeditions contracts their authors, although if I had to guess, I'd say you're writing an adventure for Shawn Merwin's faction (Blackwheel Company? Crimson Codex? I can never remember). You're not under an NDA, so you can say whatever you want. It's not like they'll refuse your adventure because you told people you were writing it (I know as fact, as I've contracted to write for the RPGA before).
My Core adventure I rank as one of my two worst adventures I've ever written. Some people didn't mind it, but some people hated it. I dislike it for different reasons, actually. I wrote it in 12 days and there were a lot of mechanical errors in the stat blocks. The week OF Winter Fantasy, I got an email asking for another copy as it turns out Creighton had lost the one I submitted in September, so it ran without ever being edited. The most embarrassing part of that was the paragraph that stopped mid-sentence.
I discovered, while playtesting that, that people in other regions played a LOT different than I was used to. A shady looking character arrived asking for help and they agree no questions asked, never asking the questions that they would have later. They were then dissatisfied because they didn't ask questions, and when judging it, preceded to tell their tables ahead of time that it wasn't a good adventure. Because that's the best way to prepare them to have fun.
I got notes from one of the playtesters, one of my least favorite triads (who has never written an adventure for the campaign--including her own region--ever). Her changes weren't just bad, they were heartbreaking. The whole point of the adventure had totally and utterly gone by her. I knew then that I had failed. Which is hard for two reasons, one because I'm so egotistical and two because I have had so much success with my regional adventures.
Blah. Bad memories. And I never got to write a second core adventure because Creighton and I dislike each other so much.
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Date: 2007-10-30 11:06 am (UTC)My Core adventure I rank as one of my two worst adventures I've ever written. Some people didn't mind it, but some people hated it. I dislike it for different reasons, actually. I wrote it in 12 days and there were a lot of mechanical errors in the stat blocks. The week OF Winter Fantasy, I got an email asking for another copy as it turns out Creighton had lost the one I submitted in September, so it ran without ever being edited. The most embarrassing part of that was the paragraph that stopped mid-sentence.
I discovered, while playtesting that, that people in other regions played a LOT different than I was used to. A shady looking character arrived asking for help and they agree no questions asked, never asking the questions that they would have later. They were then dissatisfied because they didn't ask questions, and when judging it, preceded to tell their tables ahead of time that it wasn't a good adventure. Because that's the best way to prepare them to have fun.
I got notes from one of the playtesters, one of my least favorite triads (who has never written an adventure for the campaign--including her own region--ever). Her changes weren't just bad, they were heartbreaking. The whole point of the adventure had totally and utterly gone by her. I knew then that I had failed. Which is hard for two reasons, one because I'm so egotistical and two because I have had so much success with my regional adventures.
Blah. Bad memories. And I never got to write a second core adventure because Creighton and I dislike each other so much.