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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bouncyhead" data-source="post: 5256030" data-attributes="member: 19115">This is a good summary of my experience. I think the absurdist nature of the dungeoncrawl also appeals to our group - a bunch of anything-but-shiny adventurers (emphatically not 'heroes') repeatedly subjecting themselves to unspeakable injury and ordeal deep underground in order to acquire the means to subject themselves to yet more unspeakable ordeals yet deeper underground. Surely this would utterly unhinge you.Most of the time they have only the slghtest grasp of the 'plot' that has led them there. With the high fatality rates they are routinely being raised (or, for comedy value, reincarnated) in situ, coughing and gasping at the cold return of reality, only to get put back on their feet and pointed at the next door/glimmering portal/dark staircase/ominously placed lever. They almost certainly have beards down to their knees, have not washed in living memory and communicate only in grunts, whistles and manic cackles. Off they stagger together, staring-eyed, deeper into the dark...FWIW we started on D&D back in the late 70's, through an RPG club and we're all still firm friends. Back then we got our gear at the original Games Workshop (in Hammersmith) before it became the scary GAMES WORKSHOP and they sold Ral Partha, Judges Guild etc.. I'm not so sure that D&D isn't dominant here - if you look at the table listings for London RPG clubs it seems pretty dominant, either in D&D4 or Pathfinder form. There is the whole UK/GW/Warhammer thing I guess and we have some good, inventive developers (e.g. Cubicle 7).</blockquote>

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