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

[BlueBlackRed]

Heh. I wish I had that a year ago.
The giant maps and 100+ rooms per region can really put a strain on ya after a while.

 

[JoeBlank]

I have a new addition to my WLD page. Richard Valle sent me a jpg map that has where monsters are located and broken into the different sections that are in the book. He's looking for feedback, so let's here what you guys think....

The aforementioned page can be found here.

James

Very nice, handy to see the areas broken down visually like that. This might help me do a better job of indicating to my players when they have gone from one area to another within the region.

I'm making use of the player versions of the maps on your site, as we are playing online using FantasyGrounds. I've downloaded the maps and had to break them into fourths and enlarge them a bit so that we can use them as our actual in-game map. FG has the "fog of war" function so I can reveal the map as the players progress. We are only 3 sessions in, but are having a blast so far.

 

[DaveMage]

I have a new addition to my WLD page. Richard Valle sent me a jpg map that has where monsters are located and broken into the different sections that are in the book. He's looking for feedback, so let's here what you guys think....

The aforementioned page can be found here.

James

That is a very awesome web page.

 

[Hussar]

That's excellent. Good work.

Just a bit of an update on my World's Largest Adventuring Group. We now have 3 DM's including myself. My game is entering it's fourth session, one group has its players but has yet to get started and we have a third DM who is in the embryonic stage. If you want in, click the link in my sig. We play over OpenRPG. If you'd like to DM a group, that would be great too. The more DM's we get, the wider we can spread the work and the better the experience will be for everyone. Either PM me here or at the site in my sig and I'll set you up with your own forum and give you access to the hidden DM's forum as well.

 

[Hussar]

Just got a very cool offer. TheLe Games is offering 17 Magic Weapons and 17 Magic Armors free for every DM that signs up to the World's Largest Adventuring Group. Now how's that for a bit o' swag and incentive?

Click on the link in my sig and sign on up.

 

[rvalle]

Very nice, handy to see the areas broken down visually like that. This might help me do a better job of indicating to my players when they have gone from one area to another within the region.

I'm making use of the player versions of the maps on your site, as we are playing online using FantasyGrounds. I've downloaded the maps and had to break them into fourths and enlarge them a bit so that we can use them as our actual in-game map. FG has the "fog of war" function so I can reveal the map as the players progress. We are only 3 sessions in, but are having a blast so far.

I'm hoping to use FG for WLD as well. I'm thinking of using the players map as is and just use one of FG's small colored tokens to mark the parties location. Then when a fight breaks out use either a blank FG map and draw it in or use a blank Dundjinni map and draw in the map for combat using FG's line drawing tool. I thought blowing up the map big enough to do combats it would get too fuzzy.

Though I also want to use Dundjinni sized tokens for the fight (50 pixles) so that is a factor.

I have one more map to post... its basicly the same but without all the sections drawn in. I'll use that as the DM map and let the players move on the blank one.

I'm a visual person too.

rv

 

[JoeBlank]

I'm hoping to use FG for WLD as well. I'm thinking of using the players map as is and just use one of FG's small colored tokens to mark the parties location. Then when a fight breaks out use either a blank FG map and draw it in or use a blank Dundjinni map and draw in the map for combat using FG's line drawing tool. I thought blowing up the map big enough to do combats it would get too fuzzy.

Though I also want to use Dundjinni sized tokens for the fight (50 pixles) so that is a factor.

I have one more map to post... its basicly the same but without all the sections drawn in. I'll use that as the DM map and let the players move on the blank one.

I'm a visual person too.

rv

Your method should work well, as long as you don't have crashing problems. When I tried to share the larger maps with the players the program crashed on us and we had to reboot. Could be something unique to us, but I have read on the FG forums about similar problems. So when I cut up the maps I also had to decrease their clarity, so if you are too much of a "visual person" that this will bother you then you should certainly experiment some to find the set up that works for you.

I would get your players online for a test run and be sure that sharing the maps and such does not cause problems. Do this before you put a lot of work into the setup, and figure our what the upper limits are for the size of files you can share without problems.

Good luck. I'm loving FG and WLD. Both make DMing fun and easier.

 

[Hussar]

I'm not familiar with Fantasy Grounds, so I can't really comment on that. But, I do use OpenRPG all the time. With Open, I use a 30 pixel=5 feet scale for all my game maps. Scanning in the WLD maps, fiddling a bit with PShop to remove the secret doors and numbers and then resizing gives me a jpeg of about 500k per 1/4 map. 4 maps to a region. Had my first map crossover today as the party moves continuously eastward in Region A. Took about a minute to change maps over and reset the minis and the fog of war. YMMV.

rvalle, if you are really going to start a new game online, take a look at the link in my sig. We're always looking for new DM's.

 

[Bigwilly]

The scaling for room A100 says
"To increase the challenge of the encounter, increase the fiendish owlbear's HD to 8."

Don't think it was A100, but in the room with the floating lights that form into a gate I ended up throwing about 5 owlbears at my party. One every two rounds until they shut it down and even then only one PC went seriously into the negatives. Mind you, they are a pretty tough bunch of PCs and most of the players are pretty experienced to boot. Hoping to finish section A this weekend.

Bigwilly

 

[JamesL85]

Thanks to the positive responses, rvalle has sent me the second map to section A (without the boundary lines) as well as both maps to section B. They're up on the site now.

James