D&D 5E Do you like dungeon crawls?

[Umbran]

I am fine with a dungeon as a setting for an adventure.

I quickly get bored with "dungeon crawl" as the plot of an adventure.

I will gleefully crawl into a dungeon if there's a compelling reason for my character to be there - "kill monsters and take stuff" doesn't do the trick, for me.

 

[DND_Reborn]

I find that if a dungeon crawl (or for that matter a hexcrawl) goes on long enough, the reason for doing it can fall out of the players' minds. That's about when they become tedious, in my experience.

Very true! And a continuous series of dungeon assaults can be tedious if the purpose and other factors are lacking. Also how a DM runs them is a huge factor!

 

[iserith]

I'd like to share this article (first in a series of 8 articles) that talks about dungeon design. It's well worth the read, even if you don't care for dungeons: Dungeons.

 

[atanakar]

I'd like to share this article (first in a series of 8 articles) that talks about dungeon design. It's well worth the read, even if you don't care for dungeons: Dungeons.

Thanks for that. I'll read it this evening (EST).

 

[lowkey13]

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[sneazzy95]

I think that dungeon crawls is what I play the most.

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[Shiroiken]

One thing that I've always noticed ... no matter how much care and construction goes into the MegaDungeon, the designer always forgets to put in bathrooms.

Orcs are designed to be pinatas for XP, but they still have needs, man.

I remember quite vividly that Keep on the Borderlands had the equivalent to a bathroom in the caves for the orcs. My players hid within and picked off a lot of both tribes this way.

 

[lowkey13]

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[Oofta]

That ... that is not a good use of the risk/reward strategy.

I mean, sure, you get to pick off orcs. But hiding in the orc port-a-potty? Putting aside ethical issues (and I'm not even going into the freaky-deaky stuff), that's a really foul way to get your XP.

That will scar you.

Yeah, talk about a crappy way of getting XP.

 

[lowkey13]

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