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<blockquote data-quote="zakael19" data-source="post: 9231023" data-attributes="member: 7044099"><p>One thing my group (and me as a player) is struggling with, and talking to some other folks on a different forum who are playing through DoD are as well - is player character motivation. I think DMs planning to run this need to be very clear up front that a) this is actually a dungeon crawl and b) you have to really buy into your chosen character quest and/or form close bonds as a group, since that's what's impelling you forward into magical Chernobyl. I wasn't fully cogent of the lack of a classic WOTC-style externally driven 'plot' so we're at 5th level trying to figure out what to do with a significant magical artifact & it's hard to figure out what our way forward is. I know there's some groups and players out there where just fortune is enough, but that doesn't work for me and I think a lot of people expecting another heroic adventure need their expectations calibrated before starting.</p><p></p><p>From a DM side, love what they've done here. Going to shortlist this to my things to run with teh appropriately interested group for sure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zakael19, post: 9231023, member: 7044099"] One thing my group (and me as a player) is struggling with, and talking to some other folks on a different forum who are playing through DoD are as well - is player character motivation. I think DMs planning to run this need to be very clear up front that a) this is actually a dungeon crawl and b) you have to really buy into your chosen character quest and/or form close bonds as a group, since that's what's impelling you forward into magical Chernobyl. I wasn't fully cogent of the lack of a classic WOTC-style externally driven 'plot' so we're at 5th level trying to figure out what to do with a significant magical artifact & it's hard to figure out what our way forward is. I know there's some groups and players out there where just fortune is enough, but that doesn't work for me and I think a lot of people expecting another heroic adventure need their expectations calibrated before starting. From a DM side, love what they've done here. Going to shortlist this to my things to run with teh appropriately interested group for sure. [/QUOTE]
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