Friday roundup!
- A pretty cool paint job on this Reaper Miniatures shoggoth
- Over on Don't Forget Your Boots, I read Out With The Old, In With The Gnu
Too-different character concepts is a tough problem to overcome. I've gone as far as making meta-game pronouncements to ensure everyone has some reason to be together to avoid that problem. Even then, you get the guy who wants to run a fanatical holy warrior and the guy who wants to run an undead-making necromancer and yet still play together.*
The other issue he mentions is skill-boosting. High skills are part of the fun of my game, too, but once they hit a certain point nothing can usefully compete. This is why I'm very reluctant to hand out items that boost skill. I'd hand out a +3 Puissance sword or a +5 Strength belt before I'd pass out a +1 Dexterity ring. I'd rather hand out wishes than skill boosters or non-ST stat boosters.
- Next DF Felltower game is Friday.
- Speaking of megadungeons, Elfmaids & Octopi has a look at the big published ones. It's in eyebleeding white-on-black with red, though.
* They're fighting crime the hard way, wearing magic armor, with a +3 Puissance Holy Avenger and the Black Cauldron.
I have the two core Stonehell modules and have been running them since 2020. PCs are about 6/10 done.
ReplyDeleteI have World's Largest Dungeon and I didn't even manage to read the entire second level. No plans to.
Read all of Dungeon of the Mad Mage but don't ever plan to run that either. Better than WLD but no SH.
We played Rappan Athuk (not mentioned in the article) about a decade back and gave up the third time it threw TPK shenanigans at the PCs with no warning.
I've always thought the Caves of Chaos from B2 should be at least a proto-megadungeon.