The work is...wow...work
Well friends (and random people on the interwebs who clicked a wrong link and somehow ended up here), I'm starting to dip my toes into the actual work portion of this project. Doing research.
I am currently taking my research for this project in a two-pronged approach.
Prong One: Learn how TTRPGs work from a GM side and player side (I'm very new to that scene still).
Prong Two: Research the setting my TTRPG is going to be in.
Let me explain.
Starting with prong two (because I'm a rebel dammit!), my adventure is going to be set in Arthurian Camelot. It has very, very little to do with Arthur and his Knights, but that's the setting. All I have in my brain for that is Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail, and I want this to feel more authentic than that. So for research, I've started re-reading "Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table" by Sir Thomas Malory.
There is much more violence than I remember there being in there. I guess that's what skimming the book 25 years ago will do to memory.
On one hand, this is opening more options for encounters.
On the other hand, my characters are not going to be knights, so maybe that won't be the case. I'm still formulating that information to a cohesive thought.
Back to prong one.
I've got a 5e compatible adventure by GooeyCube here that includes a GM book and a Player book. Those are small books, about 40 pages each, which I am reading through to see how those are formatted and to give me inspiration as to how to make my game.
I'm using this research as a way to give myself a base to go off of. I don't know if my adventure will be 5e compatible as well, or something else. I also don't know if I need to read all of the King Arthur book to get my setting down. But, I do know I want to put the work in to give this a full world feeling.
I'm not working in the killer rabbit though. That's been done. There may be a dragon or a cat, and I'm definitely working in a hangover at some point.
Hopefully this research will prove fruitful and actually help out with this project. If not, oh no, I learned something and read a classic piece of literature.
Okay, back to being productive in other venues. Thanks for reading my rambling!