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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vanifae" data-source="post: 5311358" data-attributes="member: 58765">I love playing D&D and I love the newest incarnation 4E, I have just never enjoyed running dungeon crawls all that much.  I usually find them too tedious or boring I like to get to the action the dramatic stuff.  Like in the film the Fellowship of the Ring when they go into the Mines of Moria, the proto-dungeon as it were.  There isn’t too much focus on clearing each room and turning at the t-sections or cross sections.  It focuses on major moments the dramatic scenes and the fight scenes.Even in older forms of D&D I tended to abstract the dungeon usually, or have simple maps when I run the dungeons.  Maybe I am just not all that good at running dungeons I can admit that.  I don’t mind playing in dungeons, though I like to get to the fun stuff as quickly as I am able.  Anyone else feel this way, I mean I know that D&D can be run without dungeons I am just wondering how prevalent this notion is or if I am jut the weird guy in the bunch.With 4th Edition I find I could probably abstract many tedious dungeon crawls with a protracted skill challenge punctuated with exciting scenes of combat o drama.  Anyone else try this, and as an addendum any advice to make dungeon crawling more fun to DM?  For those that enjoy it what do you do that maybe I can do different?  I tend to try to make it an interesting place but I find the pacing is what throws me off and the tedium of opening doors, checking for traps, describing hallways and all that is not exciting.  I mean I find the idea of mega dungeons just off-putting but maybe they can be exciting?</blockquote>

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