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golden delicious -> RE: Fall Grau (11/25/2013 11:07:01 AM)
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ORIGINAL: shunwick
Ben,
I am curious. Why did Jeremy never make Fall Grau publicly available? It was always a fascinating scenario and has always been a popular request.
Best wishes,
Steve
Way back when we started TDG around 2002, the intention was to create a body of high quality finished scenarios by thorough playtesting between a group of designers who knew each other well enough to give effective criticism of each other's work.
Designers could work on other stuff in their own time- but they only had one scenario up as their "submission". Until the group agreed that it was a standard to be published on the site, they could only get help playtesting that one scenario. Normally as a designer, the longer one works on a scenario the less interesting it is to do so, and we tend to wander off and do something else before we're really finished. Most of the scenarios out there are the product of someone throwing the contents together and maybe running a couple of PO playtests. We wanted to produce something really rigorous that would over time develop into a library of high quality scenarios.
Gradually our members drifted away due to family commitments, until finally after about six years the cost of maintaining the domain and the webhosting became excessive and the site was shut down. At that time Fall Grau was shaping up to be published fairly shortly.
Now, TDG as a place to publish scenarios is defunct. A couple of us are still designing for TOAW in a less structured way, with some playtesting help from the others, however the old philosophy doesn't really apply any more. I have distributed the scenario privately during Jeremy's several year hiatus from the TOAW community, but it's up to Jeremy whether he publishes his work.
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