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Message: <blockquote data-quote="enrious" data-source="post: 1799442" data-attributes="member: 2126">Heh, I'm in exactly the same boat.   I'm going to be setting the WLD as Undermountain, under Waterdeep.   I'm going to have a 28 point buy and the party will be 1st level.I'm going to be running it somewhat tongue-in-cheek (the PC's will have to fill out hold-harmless waivers before entering) and will have it set as an annual dungeon spellunking event.  My premise is that there's a lottery for 1 person to recieve permission to enter with a party; one of the pc's will have won the lottery and basically randomly selected the party.  Should the party leave the dungeon within 180 days, they will recieve land, title, money, fame, etc.The lantern archons will be able to keep those above ground informed as to the party's progress and usher in a randomly selected replacement as pc's die.  Replacement characters will be 2 less than the party average.I also am going to be using DMGenie to keep track of things (jim, thanks a lot for providing electronic versions of the maps - anyone who uses an electronic aid will find them very useful).As I won't be starting for a few weeks, hopefully the player maps will be out.  I intend to spread bookeeping out among 4 players - 1<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=":)" /> Cartographer - basically this person will have to look at the map section I show and copy it into the player's map pack.  2<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=":)" /> Monster death scribe - this person is responsible for keeping track of monsters encountered and the results.  3<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=":)" /> Treasure scribe - This person will be responsible for recording treasure found and the location where it was found.   4<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=":)" />  General scribe - this person is responsible for keeping track of time passage, player deaths/serious injury, ration useage, and anything else I designate.I'm also going to run with the Lantern Archons as Tron Bits (thanks to the above who suggested this), even to the point of using a text-to-speech program.</blockquote>

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