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SJohnRoss

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Tonight I'm pulling it all together on one of the tiny city's tiniest neighborhoods, Wighthaven, home of The Zorya (Hammondal's largest theater), Saint Kendan's, and Bowerly House. I guess it's kind of a Bohemian neighborhood, and it's home to a mildly famous heresy.

With just seven named streets and a dozen keyed locations of note, it's a gentle entry into assembling a complete neighnborhood chapter.

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I'm seat-of-the-pants about in some ways, but there's some arbitrary math guiding the scope of . The most important is probably the 1/8th rule, which says I cannot explicitly describe more than 1 location in 8 ... for every building/etc I describe, I need to leave 7 for the GM and/or later development. This is both a maximum and my target, so I'm trying to get very near to that 7:1 ratio but without exceeding it, price-is-right style. [continued]

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A second numerical rule is the "Five Excitements" rule, which says that, for each of the neighborhoods, there must be a bare absolute minimum of five reasons I'd be personally excited about PCs visiting there. This one isn't like the 1/8th in that it's not also a target; it's just a ground floor that I'm happy to exceed by as much as possible. Mainly it's to remind myself that even the smallest neighborhood needs to deserve its pages or else be made to sit in the corner until it apologizes.

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