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So could anyone tell me (and everyone else by the way) about DROD timeline and how holds (smitemaster selection and offical) should be played chronomaticly?
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King Dugan's Dungeon
Complex Complex (semi-canon)
Journey to Rooted Hold
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Beethro's Teacher
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The City Beneath
Devilishly Dangerous Dungeons of Doom
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Perhaps worthy of a mention: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder is for the most part it's own standalone story, but occurs before all of the others chronologically.

Edit: Smitemastery 101 occurs when Beethro is young, and so would be between Gunthro and KDD, but is largely irrelevant to the overall story.

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Flood Warning happens somewhere around the same time as Complex Complex. I suggest doing Flood warning before Complex Complex, since Complex Complex's ending is a perfect kick-off for Journey to Rooted Hold.

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I think Beethro is 52 or 53 (Alex mentioned that this is said somewhere in Beethro's Teacher?), which means GatEB must come before the Cartographers' conference.

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Nuntar wrote:
I think Beethro is 52 or 53 (Alex mentioned that this is said somewhere in Beethro's Teacher?), which means GatEB must come before the Cartographers' conference.

There is also "How Much Do I Pay a Smitemaster?", which would be related to his age.

[url http://forum.caravelgames.com/site/payment

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That's interesting... it does explicitly say "age band" but I'd parsed it as "years of experience". That seems most likely what was intended?
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"625 greckles/week (about 90 greckles/day)" and the other calculations are only correct if there are seven days in a week.

I suppose it might mean there are seven working days -- but then, if a dungeon needs more than a week to clear out (which, the article says, is true if there are more than three levels), surely the Smitemaster is down there and working the whole time?

The calculation of annual pay also depends on the seven-day week (and seems to be wrong, even under that assumption). The highest pay grade is 1250 GR per week. Using the correct nine-day week, there are 37 weeks in a year, so even if the Smitemaster were working every day he would only be earning 46,250 GR.

In addition, the article earlier stated that three levels require one week, so how can the Smitemaster possibly get a two-to-three-level job once or twice a week?

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Nuntar wrote:
In addition, the article earlier stated that three levels require one week, so how can the Smitemaster possibly get a two-to-three-level job once or twice a week?

Clone potions. Or time tokens.
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Okay, that all makes sense. This article needs to be refreshed. Looks like some old text Erik wrote up long before we did some honest-to-goodness world building.
That one I'm pretty sure I didn't write. Maybe Mattcrampy.

A weird thing though is that frequently, when I read something I wrote over 10 years ago, it feels like somebody else wrote it. It's weird. Like having a conversation with another version of yourself.

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