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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3347798" data-attributes="member: 22779">Now I feel bad.  Jim, I most certainly didn't mean to widdle in your corn flakes.  Been having a bit of a bad run with D to be honest and needed to vent.  D is a fantastic region.  I think it's because I went through H, K and J and those three regions are very tight.  Very few errors.  It's been months since I've gotten tripped up by the adventure.  Added to that, I haven't had the the time or energy to do a proper job knocking up the region for play and minor glitches get amplified.D's turning out to be an interesting region.  To be honest, this is the first time I've had PC's of these levels and I'm pretty shocked how powerful the group is.  They just sauntered into the formian lair, took one look, and let the cleric and wizzie incinerate everything.  Good grief.  A pair of blade barriers and a wall of fire and wall of force later and pretty much everything died before it had a chance to move.  I had changed the mooks into mobs from DMG 2, but, that didn't matter a whole lot.Honestly, I'm a little worried about this.  I can really see the party continuing to do this.  Walking into the larger areas and just unloading the kitchen sink on everything.  Since the majority of the critters are pretty small, even the xill are around 35 hp, I'm not sure but it shouldn't take them too long to kill everything before it can even react.Will have to give it some thought.OTOH.  I am one of the few that thinks Region A is pretty good.  Sure, it's a bit on the repetitive side, but, there's just so many ways the region can fall out.  A group that even the slightest bit interested in talking should be able to find all sorts of allies and whatnot to talk to.  With a bit of work - switching out some of the darkmantle mobs - I think A could be a heck of a lot of fun.  I know that it was pretty high on the popularity list for my bunch.IMNSHO, if I ever ran the WLD again, I would use the World Serpent Inn from Dragon 351 to tie together all the regions.  Each exit of a region would take you into the Inn which would allow you to rest, recover and whatnot between regions.  The Inn would also have about 100 doors inside that would open into random points within the Dungeon; some one way, some only opening at certain times, that sort of thing.  The main door would just send you back to where ever you had entered from.I think this would work.  Honestly, the whole, "you can only carry what you find" bit of the WLD was a weakness IMO.  I think allowing a feature where the players can get stuff crafted would help to give the players a bit more feeling of control over their PC's.  Also, the Inn could work as a nice source of information and rumours as well as some spell help and whatnot.  Wizards could get spells for their spellbooks, diseases could get removed, PC's raised, that sort of thing.What do you guys think?</blockquote>

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