tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post2177727089796710729..comments2024-03-27T22:37:01.796-04:00Comments on Dungeon Fantastic: DF Game, Session 15 - Felltower Level 2Peter Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14246000382321978462noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post-30294849095385314562012-10-02T19:06:25.592-04:002012-10-02T19:06:25.592-04:00I like this, although with two caveats:
- I like ...I like this, although with two caveats:<br /><br />- I like the idea that 250-point adventurers aren't common, so there won't be a Royal Adventuring Squad of 500 pointers to come and cause problems.<br /><br />- I also like the idea of more external involvement, but I probably won't camp an army on the surface to confiscate treasure. I have a legal explanation for how adventurers can loot and kill in the dungeon and then sell their gains without paying taxes or tithes . . . the legal writ explicitly allows it. I'll explain in another post.Peter Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246000382321978462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post-77286675124210268072012-10-01T13:54:10.976-04:002012-10-01T13:54:10.976-04:00You know, it also occurs that this has nice potent...You know, it also occurs that this has nice potential for getting out of a megadungeon rut, if one chooses. The merchants will come to Stericksburg to buy or trade for found items. This means that on the way out, they'll be carrying portable, valuable gear. So they'll need guards, or be provided guards, or those personages who can afford them (nobles and would-be conquerors?) will be coming to Stericksville to buy them some kewl magic stuff themselves.<br /><br />Likewise, things that are hard to get (valuable spices, particular crafts, luxury items) will all of a sudden be affordable due to the influx of wealth from Felltower. So the merchants will come TO the city to bring high-end goods.<br /><br />Then the entire TOWN becomes a magnet for the unsavory, as it'll be easier pickings for a while; lower level critters from Felltower itself may treat the city the way the delvers treat the lower levels of Felltower . . . a nice place to murder people and take their stuff. That, in turn, keeps the easier levels stocked with minor loot . . . virtuous cycle. :-)<br /><br />Still, "Show me the money" seems to drive a need for high-end goods to flow into and out of the city as the PCs create a low-viscosity pathway for money and cool goods to come out of the dungeon and into the city. That pool of wealth has potential economic energy, and must be tapped somehow, likely from without.<br /><br />Heck, with enough magical weaponry, armor, devices, and money, eventually the economic center might relocate to Felltower . . . which would draw political influence with it as well. <br /><br />Unless, of course, while Felltower is a Megadungeon, The Endless Labyrinth of Googoldemon happens to be a Gigadungeon, making Felltower look like easy pickings. The center of the empire is naturally outside Labyrinthville . . . Douglas Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04292678529266123501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817710432110712270.post-80619198186364816302012-10-01T12:58:54.405-04:002012-10-01T12:58:54.405-04:00"The city money meter keeps going up, but I&#..."The city money meter keeps going up, but I'm beginning to wonder about the buying capacity of even a big town."<br /><br />I think what should happen here is that word will spread. While Stericksberg will have a limit to how much money can be pumped into its economy, the rest of the world probably doesn't. The guy who drives a wagon train into Stericksberg will get the first pickings from your megadungeon. Eventually HIS competitors will figure out that Bob the Wanderer keeps showing up with awesome toys after his yearly visit to Stericksberg, and they'll go there too.<br /><br />That will allow the players and Stericksberg to change more money for their wares and found booty over time, since the demand pool has broadened. It may also cause some issues for the town itself, as the extended nobility and other powers in the world will realize that good stuff is flowing out of that hole . . . and it's NOT flowing to them.<br /><br />That, in turn, will cause political issues for Stericksburg . . . but encounter issues for the PCs, as the broader world may wind up sending parties of 500-point adventurers into Felltower to compete with the PCs. You've alluded to this and executed on this concept in the past, but I could easily see this turning into the Felltower Games, where you have groups of adventurers who are competing to bring out the best stuff, killing each other in the process, only to have it taken away and fractional value given to them due to the FRACKIN' ARMY sitting outside the grounds in the name of His Majesty Yadda III.<br /><br />Douglas Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04292678529266123501noreply@blogger.com