World's Largest Dungeon in actual play [Spoilers!]

[JamesL85]

Sorry....I haven't been keeping up with this thread as I should have been.....

I didn't realize that CrimsonScribe had quit working on "player maps" as was posted before....I took a new job that gave me every weekend off, but I seem to put more time into work now....LOL. I'll do some checking to see if I can imitate what CrimsonScribe has been doing in the past.

I'll be out of town for the next two days but I'm taking my laptop with me so I might be able to do some work on things. I think I may have robbed enough ideas from the boards that I can actually make WLD work for my group. They have all been a little apprehensive about the whole thing, especially when I told them that they will be going into a dungeon that pretty much scraps XP, and they don't have to train for levels, learn new spells, etc.

I liked the idea about having them placed in the dungeon as prisoners, but I didn't like the idea that some places are rough on characters with the evil alignment. I thought I'd probably place them there by a corrupt law official, so that they are in the dungeon, but not of evil alignment.....Unless of course, they choose to be.....Then the lantern archon can bring in new players as they are "convicted" of doing something wrong.....

Not sure if it'll happen this weekend, but I'll keep everyone posted.....

Just in case there are people here that haven't gone through all of the thread, here's an interesting link.

James

 

[Lord Igor]

Whoo boy....

Here's another lucky DM who gets to run his players through the monster commonly referred to as the ‘World’s Largest Dungeon’. Since it’s Easter this weekend we all have two extra days off, which we’re going to invest in playing the WLD. That’s four days of dungeon crawling goodness!

Just for this occasion the size of my group has grown from five players to no less then *eight*. Which is leaving me feeling a bit overwhelmed really. Eight players is 160% the madness and mayhem we usually produce.

For the campaign I’ve smacked the WLD down in the Eberron setting, on the Continent of Adventure: Xen’drik (where else?). This for one means the PC’s have access to action points so they should live longer and I don’t think that placing the WLD on Eberron is going to cause any major problems. Anyone tried running the WLD on Eberron?

The player group consists of:
- Warforged Barbarian (soon to be Juggernaut)
- Elf Rogue (soon to be Shadowdancer)
- Kender Scout (the only Kender on Eberron)
- Human Psion (AKA Sphinx, ‘cause he’s mute)
- Half-Orc Barbarian (soon to be Frenzied Berserker)
- Human Fighter (soon to be Order of the Bow Initiate)
- Human Artificer (to keep the Warforged in one piece)
- Human Cleric (soon to be Radiant Servant of Pelor)

So the group has pretty good stomping power, but is lacking an arcane spellcaster and is low on healing power. I wonder how big a problem these last two items will pose to be.

Well, I guess we'll see this friday

 

[pheaver]

I placed the WLD in Eberron as well. Action points really help in making the party live longer.

I changed a lot of encounters to add Eberron flavor. The rebel goblins are going to be Dolgrims and Dolgaunts (the aberrant goblinoids). A lot of the encounters with fiendish darkmantles in region A were replaced with Aberrations in non-SRD books that I own. I plan on changing region D's big bad guy to a daelkyr and have aberrations instead of demonic underlings.

Basically, I just went through and tried to add aberrations to the mostly infernal prisoners, since Eberron has a big plot point of locking both underneath the earth.

Paul

 

[DemonGnome]

My group also went through the region with Anguish & Madness. One of the players in particular loved the feel of the area with the moving/living walls and such (even if it spooked the hell out of his character).

Right now they have found out that the only thing worse then reading that the Prime Lich is imprisoned in the region they are in now is finding his cell and finding that it has been broken out of. Now after reading some more history on the walls and of who else is in here, for the first time since starting WLD they have decided "I don't wanna be here. I wanna go home." They have been confident and now are starting to worry.

Class Composition (levels are estimated, don't remember exact off top of my head):
15 Dwarven Defender
15 Bonded Summoner (w/ his Elder Earth Elemental Companion)
12 Paladin / 2 Shining Blade of Tyr
13 Warlock / 1 Rogue
14 Cleric

*They used to have a pure rogue who left a couple weeks ago.

 

[just__al]

I don't think so.
The guy who worked on the maps got addicted to an MMORPG and stopped at map F.

Dern shame too.

I also kind of wish that AEG made all the maps as jpgs rather than just some. Editing PDF's requires much more work.

You can actually save PDF's as jpegs if you have adobe stanard or pro. It helped me out a lot because I bought counter collection gold and it only had one darkmantle counter. I saved the page with the darkmantle as a jpeg and then brought it into photoshop where I was able to copy/paste a darkmantle counter over other counters I don't need right now and I wasn't forced to printout the same page a bunch of times for the same one counter. It also helped for the stirges since I'll eventually need 22 of them.

What I did was extract the one page and then save the extracted page as a jpeg.

 

[just__al]

Ok, I have made some player maps for regions F, G, I, J, D and N. If anybody wants to host them just drop me a PM with your email address. I'll send you everything I have, which includes some photoshopped versions of other peoples player maps.

I've attached an example of one of the maps. I should also have the colour ones without the labels somewhere as well.


The Horror

edit: removed map. Probably shouldn't be posting that stuff here.

You should go to http://www.james.neetersoft.com/wld/wld.htm and use the "email me" link, I'm sure he'd love to host the maps.

 

[BlueBlackRed]

You can actually save PDF's as jpegs if you have adobe stanard or pro. It helped me out a lot because I bought counter collection gold and it only had one darkmantle counter. I saved the page with the darkmantle as a jpeg and then brought it into photoshop where I was able to copy/paste a darkmantle counter over other counters I don't need right now and I wasn't forced to printout the same page a bunch of times for the same one counter. It also helped for the stirges since I'll eventually need 22 of them.

What I did was extract the one page and then save the extracted page as a jpeg.

I've got adobe photo shop. But I'm an amateur at using it. I've converted pdf's to jpg's but they don't work when I put them on the web.

I have to go through the system of editing the file as a pdf, then taking a screen shot pic and making a jpg. Nothing horrible, just 1 more step to putting a map on the blog.

 

[just__al]

I've got adobe photo shop. But I'm an amateur at using it. I've converted pdf's to jpg's but they don't work when I put them on the web.

I have to go through the system of editing the file as a pdf, then taking a screen shot pic and making a jpg. Nothing horrible, just 1 more step to putting a map on the blog.

Bummer, I hate extra work.

Well, I'd just like to say "good luck, we're all counting on you"

 

[KaosDevice]

Just wanted to note that Pyramid over at SJGames finally got around to reviewing WLD and were pretty disparaging. Unfortunately they are subscription only and I don't know what their policy is towards cutting and pasting quotes soooo..just wanted to give the AEG guys a heads up. :\

 

[JamesL85]

Attn The Horror: As Just Al said, I'd love to host the files.

Just go to the page and click on the e-mail me link and send away....

James