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<blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 6424782" data-attributes="member: 386"><p>I really think it's pretty easy to get players invested in dungeon crawling: create a bunch of dungeons and let them pick their goals.</p><p></p><p>The most recent dungeon I made was because a PC wanted to discover an "Astral Seed", a mini-black hole that would allow her to create her own universe. An NPC "rival" was searching for the same thing, so she went to stop her. Since the dungeon was made by NPCs and of interest to NPCs - other than the rival - there were many opportunities for the PC to get more involved in it than just murder death kill.</p><p></p><p>[sblock=Dhalia Doomfey and the Tower of Whispers]</p><p>Background: From the other universe that intrudes on this one, the Elder Brain came. It colonized Pluto and used proto-humans as slaves to procure brains for it to torment for all eternity. Eventually the Plutonians rebelled and the Elder Brain was forced to the Moon.</p><p></p><p>On the Moon it tried to absorb the brain of Sehanine, Goddess of Love. Her moon-elves saved her thanks to some magical anti-psi stuff. Instead of killing the Elder Brain they used it to extract memories of all those souls trapped within. Over thousands of years the moon-elves became bored with their lives and left the prison which held the Elder Brain.</p><p></p><p>The NPC rival (procedurally) learned that the Elder Brain held the secrets of the Astral Seed. She tried to learn its secrets, but was (procedurally) stymied. When Dhalia Doomfey went to the moon to defeat her rival, she made friends of the Plutonians there - and became an enemy of their Witch Queen.</p><p></p><p>Dhalia met her rival and blasted her insane psyche, turning her mad desires into love. Then she broke her promise to the Plutonians - that she would kill the Elder Brain - and instead convinced Sehanine to free all of its lost souls.</p><p></p><p>She left the moon with nine loyal Plutonians and the remnants of her rival's insane followers.</p><p></p><p>(It should be noted that Dhalia is a rootless vagabond.)[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LostSoul, post: 6424782, member: 386"] I really think it's pretty easy to get players invested in dungeon crawling: create a bunch of dungeons and let them pick their goals. The most recent dungeon I made was because a PC wanted to discover an "Astral Seed", a mini-black hole that would allow her to create her own universe. An NPC "rival" was searching for the same thing, so she went to stop her. Since the dungeon was made by NPCs and of interest to NPCs - other than the rival - there were many opportunities for the PC to get more involved in it than just murder death kill. [sblock=Dhalia Doomfey and the Tower of Whispers] Background: From the other universe that intrudes on this one, the Elder Brain came. It colonized Pluto and used proto-humans as slaves to procure brains for it to torment for all eternity. Eventually the Plutonians rebelled and the Elder Brain was forced to the Moon. On the Moon it tried to absorb the brain of Sehanine, Goddess of Love. Her moon-elves saved her thanks to some magical anti-psi stuff. Instead of killing the Elder Brain they used it to extract memories of all those souls trapped within. Over thousands of years the moon-elves became bored with their lives and left the prison which held the Elder Brain. The NPC rival (procedurally) learned that the Elder Brain held the secrets of the Astral Seed. She tried to learn its secrets, but was (procedurally) stymied. When Dhalia Doomfey went to the moon to defeat her rival, she made friends of the Plutonians there - and became an enemy of their Witch Queen. Dhalia met her rival and blasted her insane psyche, turning her mad desires into love. Then she broke her promise to the Plutonians - that she would kill the Elder Brain - and instead convinced Sehanine to free all of its lost souls. She left the moon with nine loyal Plutonians and the remnants of her rival's insane followers. (It should be noted that Dhalia is a rootless vagabond.)[/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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