Here’s a short update on the progress of version 3.0 of Sanctum of the Archmage 1: The Sight. I’ve made a set of tweaks to the selection of available items, and to some of the areas up to and including the first level of the ancient ruins. And I’ve rebuilt the second level from scratch, to for the most part (though not entirely) resemble the upper part of Level 2 from the current version. Some parts of it, however, have been broken out into separate areas of their own, and I’m working on those now.<\/p>\n
I’ve also included a (short!) configuration interview at the beginning, to set two parameters for the module playthrough. One of them, of course, is choosing Robin as male or female, and I have all of the dialogue lines and variables written and set up now to support that. The other is a flag that I’m going to let the player set at the beginning, to indicate whether they would prefer to play with difficult combat (as in the current module), or with easier combat. I’ve written some code and have reworked many of the module’s encounters to make use of this setting, which I hope will make the module more amenable to players with varying levels of appreciation for difficult combat.<\/p>\n
SPOILER SECTION<\/p>\n
Here’s an example snapshot<\/a> of what I’m working through now in the way of updating areas. It uses this tileset<\/a>, which I rather like — except that the low ceilings do create something of a problem<\/a> that I don’t think I’m going to be able to get around. The tileset is an upgrade to this one<\/a>, which doesn’t contain the enforced (low) ceilings, and which I’m probably going to have to end up using instead. I’m interested in feedback, so feel free to post comments (prefaced by a spoiler warning ;)) if you have any thoughts on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s a short update on the progress of version 3.0 of Sanctum of the Archmage 1: The Sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-thesight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}