CSG: Game Dev

 For past couple days just play testing mainly the encounters to see if enemies balance enough if the story more flexible for wild card players.

Since the mechanics team still has task to be completed and I needed task to complete so i jump on another enemy with another person who was also on level design.Two level design people working on a mechanics type of task should be interesting. I learn a lot about the process of making enemies just collaboration with other people and asking questions.

Gearing up for the end of the final sprint majority of the team was playtesting the couple of scenarios. I had a Beta which one of the new races in this mod. I had to roll for my stats which turned out pretty good.

in this task that I took on was pretty much attempted to come up with the numbers for the elf wizard guard. after one of the mechanics guys go over the enemy i did so questions arose on how I got those  numbers. I believe my numbers were off a little bit and not reading all the steps in the monster manual didn't give me a clear understanding of the process.

After doing most of level design work, I decided to hop on some mechanics of the mod. Not so much on the player aspect of it but the enemies and or the opposition side. My whole process for this has been looking inside the book seeing how the dnd came up with the numbers i see in the monster manual.

here is my finalize map of the high elf district. i got it approved by the team leads so its going to be in the codex. my overall thought on this that i was much more prepared for this map than my other map i've done. i laid out how the map was going to connect to each other and transition to each part of the map.

Hello again and welcome to by blog. I just finish the last two parts of the high elf district which isn't the same as the political district. Even if it has a lot of influence in the political district and many high elves live there.

Once again welcome to my blog. We are starting a new sprint were we have to pick up the pace so we can playtest and have some what a polish Dungeons and Dragons module. As part of being on the level design team we have finish the detailed part of the map. Something that players, if they want to use map, can have something visually to help them explore on.

hello everyone i am back with some with some update on the map portion of the project. I just finish the political district were the campaign supposedly will end. i had two part of the, plan to combined them into one map. as far as the process of the maps, One of my colleagues found a nice program called Dundjinni to do these battle maps. what I was going for in this dist was a more modern eleven victorian style as I state in the description. since eldarin rule has most influence in the whole city I wanted to incorporate in the district that has the most influence.  

Hear are the top view map with less detail. Made one minor change in the map changed the drow dist to Human dist. My teammates made that correction stating that drow (Dark elf) didn't have a dist they were more underground.

One of the task on level design was to create a rudimentary topical view of the Capital city (Black Star). Here I have six districts four of them are the two new class and the elves. i have a line across the city representing the main road that connects the bridges.i also added a beach area just because it is an island.  

 My second round round of character creation he still sucks but their are a lot more in there than before.

before we can start on making the mod we have to be sure that we understand the basics. since the other campaign didn't do any combat scenario and my campaign never got a chance level up so that is what we focus I focus on. Just understanding the changes that has to be made when leveling up. What new skills and or spells your character received.

hello internet today we have to pitch mod ideas to the class and we choose one to make for the remainder of the semester. it was many good ideas on the table from an 1800s Paris style mod to an full metal alchemist style mod. but the one we chose was one that introduces a new race and class that has an space science fiction influence to it called children of the corn, no just kidding, its called children of the stars (working),

Just to save on time in the class were we went over some combat scenarios. the creatures we face was rats, killer rats. Fairly easy opponents but I know it was to get noobs like me familiar with combat system of D&D. what confused me about the combat system was the casting of spells, how many spells i used at once in combat.

I am too drunk to go on quest , ill just sleep it off. Remember when I said that I couldn't go on quest because I was drunk? Well look like I had too many drinks after looking for my item and have to sleep it off till later in the campaign when I finally wake up with an headache, Dice gods are not on my side in this campaign.

After the character creation campaigning and exploration starts. The dungeon master, (DM) carries out the stories allowing for quest to happen among the players. Our campaign consist of me loosing an item and me attempting looking for it while the other players get ready to go on a quest. lucky for me i had a chance to go on the quest with the other players.

Today we are putting together our characters for a campaign. This is my first time playing d&d so it was like a kid in candy store. i have to admit I cheated a little bit, I used some character creator in class in filled in the stats and info. I picked my own race and class and used the numbers from the randomize. Bottom image is my first character sheet. Character sheet 5E

Hello again everyone, for those who don't know my name is D'Merro and I am student game developer at MATC. In intermediate game design we are playing some D&D for a couple of weeks. I've never played D&D before so this will be a very interesting experience for me.