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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5458709" data-attributes="member: 42582">Back in 1993 I ran something like this for my uni roleplaying group - using an AD&amp;D variant I wrote up 20-odd PCs. The dungeon had 4 &quot;starting&quot; rooms and then a central room which could only be entered using keys found in the starting rooms. There was a thin plot rationale, but I can't remember now what it was. I do remember writing a short backstory for each PC, to try and seed some conflicts and alliances.One of the starting rooms had a sphinx (we have a book of riddles for that), one some undead, one some demons, and one I can't remember. The central room had a dragon.I had one GM running each room, with me overseeing the whole show, and then me and one of the other GMs looked after things when the action got into the central room. I remember that the GM running the undead room ran the lich and vampire according to standard AD&amp;D rules rather than the monster descriptions I'd written up, which meant that players who started in that zone had no real hope of winning the competition.The whole event ran for several hours, with players cycling in and out as they went to or came from classes. I think we saw more players through than we had PCs.In the end the surviving PCs formed two parties. I can't remember now whether they killed the dragon first, and then fought it out between them, or vice versa. The PvP was a pretty dramatic climax.Anyway, I remember it being a lot of fun at the time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 5458709, member: 42582"] Back in 1993 I ran something like this for my uni roleplaying group - using an AD&D variant I wrote up 20-odd PCs. The dungeon had 4 "starting" rooms and then a central room which could only be entered using keys found in the starting rooms. There was a thin plot rationale, but I can't remember now what it was. I do remember writing a short backstory for each PC, to try and seed some conflicts and alliances. One of the starting rooms had a sphinx (we have a book of riddles for that), one some undead, one some demons, and one I can't remember. The central room had a dragon. I had one GM running each room, with me overseeing the whole show, and then me and one of the other GMs looked after things when the action got into the central room. I remember that the GM running the undead room ran the lich and vampire according to standard AD&D rules rather than the monster descriptions I'd written up, which meant that players who started in that zone had no real hope of winning the competition. The whole event ran for several hours, with players cycling in and out as they went to or came from classes. I think we saw more players through than we had PCs. In the end the surviving PCs formed two parties. I can't remember now whether they killed the dragon first, and then fought it out between them, or vice versa. The PvP was a pretty dramatic climax. Anyway, I remember it being a lot of fun at the time. [/QUOTE]

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