World's Largest Dungeon
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World's Largest Dungeon
Anyone gotten to look through this supplement? I saw a description while browsing the gaming books on Amazon. It looks interesting, a dungeon crawl meant to take characters from 1st to 20th level. Besides it comes with 16 poster maps, and a massive 5 pound book. If I had the money I might actually get this. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 28-9835163
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Hate to say this, but a guy (name of Darren) I played under ran one that ran for 50 dungeon levls and took characters up to 40th level. The place was HUGE and was of his own design (including stuff to do outside the dungeon when you left it). I didn't see his ever published though, so fudos to those who got theirs out there
I played through the first 8 levels of Darrens dungeon and it was very well plotted out and detailed, the guy spent months on the thing.
I played through the first 8 levels of Darrens dungeon and it was very well plotted out and detailed, the guy spent months on the thing.
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same here. It was BIG and heavy. (maybe 2 inches thick?) and had what appeared to be a large map. But it was shrink wrapped, and $100. No way I'm gonna buy that sight unseen, especially since I'm not big on dungeon crawls. Impressive, and ambitious, but not my cup of tea.
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Size isn't everything.
How exactly is this dungeon written?
Is it a seemingly random assortment of rooms and monsters?
Is it leveled so as to allow players to gain experience as they progress?
Perhaps more importantly, is there significant effort devoted to ecology? Are these monsters thrown together? Is there a lame mechanism binding them together - ex: a wizard's zoo?
Or does each encounter have a clearly defined purpose for being inside this dungeon so that their presence makes sense.
How exactly is this dungeon written?
Is it a seemingly random assortment of rooms and monsters?
Is it leveled so as to allow players to gain experience as they progress?
Perhaps more importantly, is there significant effort devoted to ecology? Are these monsters thrown together? Is there a lame mechanism binding them together - ex: a wizard's zoo?
Or does each encounter have a clearly defined purpose for being inside this dungeon so that their presence makes sense.
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Well, the amazon site said that they arranged the mosnters into "logical ecologies and new diabolical hierarchies" so it sounds like they put some thought into it.
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I don't know... alphabetical order has a logic to it, too. For more information on that, see the recent issue of Knights of the Dinner Table.Scipio wrote:Well, the amazon site said that they arranged the mosnters into "logical ecologies and new diabolical hierarchies" so it sounds like they put some thought into it.
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