My friend Michael passed on this suggestion in late October:
@roninkakuhito RT @mrfb: Hey #dnd designers: Let’s start NaMoDesMo (Nat’l Monster Design Month), and make a stat block & fluff article every day in November.
I thought, what the heck, I clearly haven’t over-committed all my time already, I’m going to do it.
The rules of NaMoDesMo as I’m going to follow them are, for each day in November:
- Post a monster on your blog
- The post should also include some kind of fluff text
- The monster should be written by you and never before published
- (In the spirit of NaNoWriMo, try to actually write the stuff in November)
I’m not quite following 4, in that I started on October 31st. I’m planning to post D&D 4.0 monsters with the monster style and fluff text looking much like the stuff in the MM3. I’m planning to make silly or humorous monsters, although don’t expect them to be massively zany. My personal brand of humor is relatively straight faced.
I’ll be posting the first monster this evening. I’m starting off with the first of a set of three monsters, the sugar elementals, in honor of all the Halloween candy folks are now knee deep in.
What a great idea! I’ve done November writing month before. Maybe I could make special monsters for sewing/quilting? LOL
:) Linda
Comment by lindaschiffer — November 1, 2010 @ 2:47 pm