WIP Update – 12 Apr 25
I know what I said I was going to do, but that wasn’t what I did. You see, I was looking at the bestiary in the WttW peripheral materials and I had just taken the first steps toward marking the habitats of the different critters. Now, I’d started by just having a text block, but the thought of cross-referencing all 24 areas for the current 746 critters and editing the text string for each and every one sounded like way too much of a pain and it wouldn’t be that readable either, so instead I decided to make a chart for all the areas to mark their presence or absence. It’s still a lot of work, as I’m checking the lists I made for the Trials as I go, but it’s a lot more manageable. Also, at least for the normal critters, I’m checking their real-world ranges and using that as a reference for their equivalents in the World.
I spent the whole day working on this and I doubt I’m even halfway done yet. I’m noticing several different categories that I hadn’t really included in the earlier lists, so I’m going to have to account for them, plus I’ve been expanding the ranges of a lot of the more fantastical sorts. I’m being a touch cruel by allowing overlevelled Monsters into certain areas, but they’re not meant to be common or anything. Speaking of which, once I finish the first pass, I think I’ll go back through and add further labels to indicate rarity. For instance, you could be really unlucky and encounter a Demon (LVL 23) in the 1st Trial, but it’s not all that likely, and you’d probably have to be in a rather dangerous neck of the woods anyway.
These are all things to occupy the time that should be dedicated to actual story content, but what can ya do? Stay tuned.
Tags: Else Arc, Welcome to the World, WIP Update, WttW
Else Arc, Welcome to the World, WIP Update | James Carmack | 13 April 2025 |
