
Deathly Thrones Editor
On Quisicosas since 18 August 2022
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18 August 2022 (on Substack)
What it is about
The quest editor is a set of spreadsheet files with several tabs that we use to write quests.
Each file has is own format: QuestEditor_Standalone_A4 to write a quest on a "one-page" style for A4 format; QuestEditor_Zine_Letter to write a quest in a "booklet" for the US Letter format.
Each file has several tabs to choose which pages you want to put your stories on and which ones are for event arrays.
These spreadsheets are formatted to be print into the format you want for the version you want. If you want to create a quest in the "booklet" format, QuestEditor_Zine_Letter and QuestEditor_Zine_A4 are formatted to be fold into a booklet. Their contents are blank space and empty arrays allowing you to write your own story without worrying how to print it. Just add your contents, and you have a new quest.
How it works
To be simple, each quest of Deathly Thrones are composed of 8 parts. For the "booklet" format, these parts are pages and each quest has 8 pages:
One page for the cover
Four pages for the events
Three pages for texts
By default, a quest is:
Art cover with the designer name
Beginning of the story
2 pages of events: Events 1 from 20
Middle of the story
2 pages of events: Events 21 to 40
End of the story
Typically, the beginning of the story describe the context (you are in a middle of a forest, you want to reach the near city to slay the King), 2 pages of events will describe your encounters (wild boar, bear, camp site), the middle of story give you more context (you arrived at the city but everyone is dead, the King used black magic on his people), 2 new pages of events will describe your encounters (skeleton, ghost, king's guards), the end of the story concludes it (you killed the King and took his Throne but there is no longer a city to rule over, only a heap of ashes remains).
Now, the text parts and the events parts are modular and it's your choice to determine how you want to create your story. I set several tabs with different positions and you can set your own, it can be :
Cover -> Text -> Events -> Events -> Text -> Events -> Events -> Text
Cover -> Text -> Text -> Events -> Events -> Events -> Events -> Text
Cover -> Text -> Events -> Events -> Events -> Text -> Events -> Text
Cover -> Text -> Text -> Events -> Events -> Events -> Text -> Events
It's all your choice.


