Dungeon Starved..happen to you?

[Stormborn]

Exactly the opposite, as it happens! One of the mantras for 3e was "back to the dungeon", partly because that was a more easily created and run environment for newish players. This was incidentally to the detriment of play balance between caster and non-caster classes IMO, since dungeons normally mean lots of encounters quite closely packed together; travelling in the wilderness on the other hand makes it much more likely that casters have their full spell capacity for all encounters and 3e never really gave the DMs much guidance for handling/avoiding that problem.

CHeers

Yeah, I know thats what they said. But I think, from what i have seen others say, that it was more like "back out of the dungeon." But I will deffer to your judgment as I have already established I don't know that much about other editions. And perhaps this is topic for a new thread.

 

[hong]

Dungeon Covetous

For some reason, I was under the impression it was "Avarice". That's what's been on my maps for the last 2 1/2 years anyway.

A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press.

Thanks, Henry! You're a real pal!

 

[DarrenGMiller]

Sigh.

Does anyone ever find themselves in a similar situation? Wanting to play something specifically different? Genre, character, whatever? More than just wanting to try out the new Kewl thing from the latest source book?

YES!

When I got back into the game in a big way in 2000 (I was out of gaming from 1993-1998) when 3E started coming out (a hurricane in 1999 gave me the impetus to start gaming again), I ran a Greyhawk, classic fantasy game for about a year and a half. Then I ran a psuedo-Celtic game for about a year and a half. Since then, my longest campaign is short of a year. I first ran a swashbuckling game, then D20 Modern (a la X-Files), then Midnight, then swashbuckling. Then I found myself called back to classic fantasy, so now am trying to run a Greyhawk game (and am restarting it in 2 weeks after a month or so of hiatus).

DM

 

[Turjan]

For some reason, I was under the impression it was "Avarice". That's what's been on my maps for the last 2 1/2 years anyway.

That's the name of the mountain Dungeon Covetous is located under.