Delve Format for Adventures?

[Sammael]

No, it's too limited.

 

[Masquerade]

You can see an adventure with the delve format by downloading the module that came out in Dungeon last month. It does try to give you everything you need to run an encounter on a page or two, but in doing so uses up a huge amount of space compared to older methods. It also requires you to do a lot more reading for each encounter and strips away much of the dm's ability to adjust things on the fly. I think it's good for a module meant for a new dm, but that's it.

Thanks. I'll look at that Dungeon adventure.

 

[GlassJaw]

Yeah, not really a fan. At first I'd thought I'd like it but I find that I lose focus on things outside the specific room I'm looking at. Also, for an elite game master like myself, I don't need my hand held to run a module.

I'm much rather have a separate booklet with all the maps in that I can reference while I read each entry.

 

[Festivus]

I want the delve formatted stuff, but only as a downloadable PDF file that doesn't take up valuable space in a book or Dungeon magazine. So yeah, I want it, but no, I don't want it in print.

Besides, if it's a PDF I can print out the sheet and scribble all over it with spells used/hit points/etc and toss it when done. Much easier if it's in PDF format rather than my photocoping the page for use at the table... I don't like to page flip.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Not a fan. Uses up too much space and causes too much page flipping. They could keep the majority of the information, and just incoporate it into the flow of the text, which would work much better for me.

 

[Nifft]

Love it! Makes things far easier to pilfer for my own game.

What I'd really like is to see PDFs in Delve format. No wasted pages -- I'll just print exactly the few pages I want to use.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Jhaelen]

I voted no, but not because I didn't like the delve format in 3E adventures (I thought it was quite helpful). It's because the delve format was developed to ease the burden of the DM when running battles that were a bit more involved. It was a reaction to the realization that running complex combat situations was quite difficult in 3E.

One of the major design goals of 4E is to solve that particular problem, so if it is true to its promises, the delve format will no longer be required

 

[Baby Samurai]

I voted no, because I never run published adventures/modules, well, once I had to run the Ravenloft adventure Touch of Death as a one off at a barbeque, but that's beside the point. I might cherry pick an idea or two from a module, but I don't like to run one wholesale/straight out of the box.

The Delve Format does reek a bit of a glorified board game to me, though.

 

[hexgrid]

I like the Delve format, but I think it should be reserved for encounters that will most benefit from it, instead of being used for every single encounter in the adventure.

It also requires you to do a lot more reading for each encounter and strips away much of the dm's ability to adjust things on the fly.

How does it keep the DM from making adjustments on the fly? I didn't have trouble changing things around however I wanted when I ran EtCR.

 

[CleverNickName]

Sure, why not? As long as the delve format isn't the only format they use.