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<blockquote data-quote="ruemere" data-source="post: 1752172" data-attributes="member: 5515">requested feedback...Cooperative dungeons are a very fine idea. Bringing strangers together and working over a single project is a rare occurrence... well, may be not that rare but still worth a lot appraisal in itself.Kudos to all involved.However, I am rather unwilling to use Dungeons (most of them, anyway) due to reasons pertaining to my gaming style - an underground complex without privies, ventillation shafts and other elements allowing for complicated ecology is not my cup of tea. In other words, as a collection of encounters (aka Book of Challenges) the series shines. In an effort to add more value to my criticism, allow me to suggest this:- appoint screen writer and director,- screen writer (or writers) devise general plot and major twists,- screen writer (or writers) devise linking elements, required for the above to be interlinked in a more dynamic way,- director breaks it down into encounters, also ensuring that some items must be presentFor example, if there is an pixie impostor king to be overthrown from a forest throne, the plot may call for a EL6 encounter with dying pixie courtier (vital information here) and EL7 encounter (bloodthirsty thugs in impostor service) which should occur if the PCs dally too long with EL6.Regards,Ruemere</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ruemere, post: 1752172, member: 5515"] [b]requested feedback...[/b] Cooperative dungeons are a very fine idea. Bringing strangers together and working over a single project is a rare occurrence... well, may be not that rare but still worth a lot appraisal in itself. Kudos to all involved. However, I am rather unwilling to use Dungeons (most of them, anyway) due to reasons pertaining to my gaming style - an underground complex without privies, ventillation shafts and other elements allowing for complicated ecology is not my cup of tea. In other words, as a collection of encounters (aka Book of Challenges) the series shines. In an effort to add more value to my criticism, allow me to suggest this: - appoint screen writer and director, - screen writer (or writers) devise general plot and major twists, - screen writer (or writers) devise linking elements, required for the above to be interlinked in a more dynamic way, - director breaks it down into encounters, also ensuring that some items must be present For example, if there is an pixie impostor king to be overthrown from a forest throne, the plot may call for a EL6 encounter with dying pixie courtier (vital information here) and EL7 encounter (bloodthirsty thugs in impostor service) which should occur if the PCs dally too long with EL6. Regards, Ruemere [/QUOTE]

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