The GameMaster's Apprentice: Adventure Guide Pack
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Adventure-Building Support for The GameMaster's Apprentice!
Minimal Layout¸ Maximum Content!*
Note: Each of these Adventure Guides is included with their respective genre deck of GameMaster's Apprentice cards (save the Fantasy guide¸ which is bundled with the Base Deck); if you purchase or plan to purchase all the decks¸ you do not need to purchase this separately! This pack exists for those who want all AGs but only one or two decks.
This pack includes six Adventure Guides¸ each containing the same basic content¸ but tuned to their respective genres.
Tools and tables for creating story seeds¸ encounters¸ and characters!These Guides each cover the following things in ways that support the use of The GameMaster's Apprentice :
This means that¸ once you've read one AG¸ using the others will be a snap--just reference the appropriate tables from your preferred guide for each use!
However¸ each guide also includes one or two unique sections. Located at the end of each guide¸ they are as follows:
Age of Sail: Ship Name Generation (Note: At the time of release¸ the Age of Sail Deck is not yet available to the public. It and its AG are due out by the 3rd quarter of 2016!)
Demon Hunters: Monster of the Week
Fantasy: Loot!
Horror: Fearful Chaos; Suspicion Tag Symbols; Questionable Decisions
SciFi: Motion Sensor and Scanner; Almost Human
Steampunk: Scandal!
*A note on art and layout: The original Kickstarter for the GameMaster's Apprentice included these Adventure Guides as stretch goals¸ and the intent had been to give them each a professional layout treatment. However¸ during the writing process¸ the guides (along with the instructions for the cards) each grew to two- or three-times their original length¸ as we refined the content to make them more useful. Having gone from ~100 total pages of layout to ~280¸ we no longer met our original budget constraints¸ and after considering our options¸ we have decided to make them available to everyone now¸ as they are¸ rather than delay their release infinitely while we wait for more money to mysteriously appear. And so they are now collected together¸ for less than a dollar¸ with their minimalist art and layout.
Please enjoy them; we loved writing and using them¸ and we count this a lesson learned about the financial world of game publishing! Larcenous Designs¸ LLC¸ will budget future projects to avoid this problem.
These Adventure Guides were created with the support of over 360 individuals on Kickstarter¸ and would not exist in their current form otherwise! Thank you!