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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8304225" data-attributes="member: 71699">You are restating here the same thing that I am saying. Asked whether I believe ToH can be played in Gygaxian-mode using rules intended to be played - and in fact played - in dramatic-mode, I answered that I do not.What I suggested might be possible is to use the ToH map+key and play it in dramatic-mode. In which case we will not be narrating PC's passage down a corridor poking things with a 10' pole. That is not what will be happening at our table. We will be narrating some dramatised action using the ToH material, which I believe is possible.But that will warp the ToH to be an entirely different experience from the intent of its design. So I am suggesting that when it is warped that way, it stops being ToH qua ToH. It becomes something else.Yes, it is hard to get the concept right. Assess is the wrong word. Let's put it this way<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I take ToH map+key</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">I use HQ to run a circus attraction House of Horrors style dramatic-mode session using that ToH map+key</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">My players don't walk down corridors with 10' poles because that's not the sort of thing that we do in dramatic-mode</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">So it is not right to suppose that it will make sense to do Gygaxian things in dramatic-mode</li> </ol>By assess, I mean something like - make sense of. You used the word "bonkers". I am saying that it ceases to be coherent to try to do Gygaxian things in dramatic-mode. The primary assessment we can make of them is they are bonkers.EDIT On one run through ToH we eschewed the entries and melted our way in with high-level magic. I have read about runs where players used tribe-of-goblins approaches. These sorts of subversive approaches can be run in dramatic-mode.</blockquote>

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