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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 2410478" data-attributes="member: 463">Although Barakus is tough - it is not a meatgrinder - I have suffered meatgrinders (Necropolis) and heard of others - City of the Spider Queen is infamous, as is RTTOEE.  Barakus is far more open than these and includes a pretty well-developed city, a wilderness forest, and hills full of caves & ruins.  Assuming by "dungeon crawl" you don't mean "any dungeon", I'd think it should work well for you.  It's _extremely_ easy to run, partly because the 1/2 XP helps the GM keep control of the game.  It's completely open, PCs can wander anywhere and find adventure all over, the GM can present them with hooks to particular adventures but if they don't bite that's fine, there are plenty more.  Only reasons to avoid Barakus:1.  Your players won't accept reduced XP gain.  NB the NPCs are subject to the same limitation, their levels are roughly half standard, so the highest levellers in the metropolis are 8th-9th not 18-20th.  6th level PCs are powerful folks here.2.  Your players won't play low-level.  Barakus could be started at ca 3rd, but no higher IMO.3. You won't use dungeons _at all_.  In that case D&D probably isn't your cup of tea.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>