The finished manuscript was something like , words by the end and I could have easily carried on! Originally, it was meant to be a four act story, with Mistwood and Black Marsh existing as separate zones — but it became apparent quite quickly that the format I chose for the book with the different narrative quests meant that it would have made the book quite unwieldy.
I had to do a fair bit of chopping and editing! The planning happened quite quickly, maybe a few weeks. I started with the zone ideas first and then rolled that out into a plot that gamers would easily identify with. The book never felt like a chore, in fact, quite the opposite — and I did have to remind myself at times that a break can do you a world of good!
The testing of the book. Oh boy. That was a mammoth task. Writing it was the easy part… balancing 3 classes, 15 careers and umpteen gazillion items was the real challenge.
Basically it involved playing the book… again and again, and then again… and again. I know that, towards the end, I was doing about 13 hours a day of solid testing.
That can drive you a little crazy, to be honest. I was lucky enough to be able to recruit some friends to help out — and their feedback was invaluable in making last minute tweaks. I was very conscious all along that there can be no patch for a book — no quick fix once the words are printed, so I had to do my very best to get it as perfect as I could.
Obviously, with a game of this size and complexity, there will be some builds that might inevitably struggle in places — that is just the nature of the beast — but I hope that the play experience will be enjoyable, no matter what crazy hero builds people decide to experiment with! As people may already know from my website, I was a big Fighting Fantasy fan when I was growing up.
I still have very fond memories of playing Talisman which I understand has now been re-released , as well as the Firetop Mountain board game and a little known game called Dungeon which had colour coded levels, if I remember correctly — similar to the quests in DestinyQuest. Also, like most teenagers of a fantasy persuasion, I was a regular at my local Games Workshop, playing Warhammer and Warhammer 40k.
I got pretty addicted to online gaming; at one stage I was playing Warcraft 50 hours a week and that was while holding down a full-time job!
So, what possessed me to write a gaming book? The file format was created to improve the efficiency, distribution and communication of rich design data for users of print design files. DWF files are highly compressed, smaller and fast.
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