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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5717173" data-attributes="member: 2067">Fair enough. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Out of curiosity, have you played and enjoyed survival games in other media/settings? Sort of, is it the style of game you're not into, or the particular implementation of early D&D?I don't think this is necessarily incompatible with a survivalist approach, myself, but I can see how a constant pressure would necessarily force some compromises. For me, the positive of the approach is two main things:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"> "Dungeon Survival" focuses on the adventure as the main unit of play rather than the encounter. This more naturally fits with the pace of the game, the rise and fall of action, the use of climactic encounters, and other things that a single encounter is too small a timeframe to contain. When seen as a mechanical model, the use of resources over a longer time frame than a single encounter provides for a satisfying pattern of active time and down time that is a rewarding psychological state to achieve. A game that is BAM BAM BAM all the time becomes tedius, especially over the longer time-frames a D&D game usually occupies.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"> "Dungeon Survival" gives an element of challenge and strategy to the adventure as a whole, where it matters what in-character actions you perform, rather than simply what attacks and defenses you make. It enables failure without TPK, and success without total success. It emphasizes at-table play instead of pre-table character creation. </li> </ol>It's possible to get these effects without a "dungeon survival" kind of atmosphere or mechanic, and it's possible to have completely enjoyable games without these effects, but I think for D&D, these effects are very valuable things, and need to be re-emphasized. So I'm all for bringing back the bandit scenario. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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