I went to look for the rules because even though I read the DMG (I'm weird, I also at least skim the manual for new cars too) didn't see any. I saw the rules for random dungeons in Appendix A, but nothing about using them to play a game without a DM.
LOL Yeah. I couldn't resist slipping that in.Boom! Full circle!
I don't see rules to that effect in the 5E DMG, either--it's possible both of us missed them--but the 1E DMG has a few paragraphs on using the random generation stuff for solo play, which isn't a big leap. It doesn't look as though it would be all that difficult, from a putting it together perspective. I wouldn't call it not-D&D if someone did that. I'd say it'd almost certainly be limited to a single type of adventure that is not one I particularly enjoy, so I'm not inclined to do it, but that's all about my tastes and preferences.
I don't remember those rules, either, but then I also file rules that have a snowball's chance in hell of ever making it into my game in the dump and forgetting about them, so I just assumed that since more than one person was saying it, that it was correct.
When I was in junior high I played 1e that way...................once. I was so bored since my friends were all busy, that I mapped out a dungeon, filled it with monsters and treasures, made a part, then played it in the dungeon. I rolled randomly for what the monsters would do and I made it less than halfway through the dungeon before I became even more bored with playing that way than not playing at all. I still felt like I was playing D&D when I did it.
I accept that it isn’t your intent to communicate exclusivity, but you should know that your langue is coming across as very exclusive. It would be a simple matter for you to use the much more inclusive phrasing, “Isn’t what I want from D&D” over the implicitly exclusive phrasing “isn’t D&D.” I can’t imagine why someone who didn’t want to be perceived as being exclusive would refuse to make such a simple change.
These were in the 1ed DMG. All that is left now are the rules (and even these have been cut down by a lot) for the randomized dungeon lay out. Previously, the rules had encounters included in the roll, in addition of random encounters every 10 minutes or so. Room content was randomized and monsters could appear on randomized content. Even treasure was random and not necessarily linked to monster's presence.
In part I'm probably being stubborn because chaos keeps saying I've said things I have not. In part because I think people should be free to express their opinion however they want on this forum as long as they aren't rude, telling others what to do, or that what they're wrong.
And official rules say otherwise.A pie without a bottom layer becomes a cobbler, a D&D game without a DM becomes something other than D&D. In my opinion.
Where?
