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Thoughts on running Rappan Athuk (and deadly megadungeons in general) [SPOILERS]
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<blockquote data-quote="Eyes of Nine" data-source="post: 9012677" data-attributes="member: 99786"><p>I love the idea of MegaDungeons (MD). I own Rappan Athuk as well as Arden Vul</p><p></p><p>From my perspective, a MD is a setting; not an "adventure". Adventures can happen in the MD, in fact multiple adventures can happen. The MD has multiple factions; and also has multiple safe-spaces for the party. And if the party never appeared in the MD, the factions would continue to act to their own interests</p><p></p><p>I am currently a player in an Arden Vul west marches campaign. He's running it in Freebooters on the Frontier, a Dungeon World fork that's trying to more closely emulate the feel of an AD&D/Old School type rules set but also to preserve the PbtA nature of Find out what Happens. The GM handwaves returning to town after every adventure, mostly due to the West Marches nature of the campaign. All avenues of entry are available to us, and as PCs we can encounter any monster - there is no concept of "encounter balance". After about 6 months worth of essentially weekly games (some weeks 2 sessions, some none) we have explored about 5% of Arden Vul <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /> I'm loving it - but also because as players we have also started to build out some of the localtown of Gosterwick.</p><p></p><p>I do think a MD needs a local town within a half-days or less journey to provide respite. The town should be large enough provide most everything (including a place to sell unwanted magic items!); but not so large that itself becomes a hub of adventure. Like I wouldn't run a campaign with Arden Vul or Rappan Athuk next to Ptolus</p><p></p><p>A specific question on Rappan Athuk - I had a hard time figuring out all the interconnections between the levels. There is a map in the tome - but it wasn't great for my brain. To the OP - did you have any suggestions or tips on how to keep all the connections between the levels straight?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eyes of Nine, post: 9012677, member: 99786"] I love the idea of MegaDungeons (MD). I own Rappan Athuk as well as Arden Vul From my perspective, a MD is a setting; not an "adventure". Adventures can happen in the MD, in fact multiple adventures can happen. The MD has multiple factions; and also has multiple safe-spaces for the party. And if the party never appeared in the MD, the factions would continue to act to their own interests I am currently a player in an Arden Vul west marches campaign. He's running it in Freebooters on the Frontier, a Dungeon World fork that's trying to more closely emulate the feel of an AD&D/Old School type rules set but also to preserve the PbtA nature of Find out what Happens. The GM handwaves returning to town after every adventure, mostly due to the West Marches nature of the campaign. All avenues of entry are available to us, and as PCs we can encounter any monster - there is no concept of "encounter balance". After about 6 months worth of essentially weekly games (some weeks 2 sessions, some none) we have explored about 5% of Arden Vul 😂 I'm loving it - but also because as players we have also started to build out some of the localtown of Gosterwick. I do think a MD needs a local town within a half-days or less journey to provide respite. The town should be large enough provide most everything (including a place to sell unwanted magic items!); but not so large that itself becomes a hub of adventure. Like I wouldn't run a campaign with Arden Vul or Rappan Athuk next to Ptolus A specific question on Rappan Athuk - I had a hard time figuring out all the interconnections between the levels. There is a map in the tome - but it wasn't great for my brain. To the OP - did you have any suggestions or tips on how to keep all the connections between the levels straight? [/QUOTE]
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