World's Largest Dungeon?

[mroberon1972]

Oh, by the way:

Were you guys serious about the "World's Biggest City"? Don't get me wrong, it sounds silly at first, but after a few minutes, it makes sense. You would never have to buy another city setting again.

As it is, I never have to buy another dungeon again.

Ha! I win!

 

[twofalls]

8... ?!!?

holy... you're going to have to double every encounter

and probably ignore the rule about the doors to room A2

btw... that sounds like an awesome introductory session.

where are you playing? can i join? i have a half-orc charlatan
whose looking for a better group to join?

Be careful about simply doubling monsters in encounters. There are some very ugly potential combats in Region A, the nest of 24 Stirges is a real potential party killer... simply doubling the number of monsters in the dungeon setting doesn't nessesarily mean that you suddenly balance the encounter when playing with 8 PC's. If you look at many of the encoutners in the game, there is a potential for unintentionally killing the group (or forcing yourself into unsightly acrobatics to avoid a TPK) if you play the monsters intelligently. To give due credit to the designers, they tell you this in each the encounter desriptions that are truely risky. The fight against the Kobald wizard could seriously maim a group, doubling them (two wizards and bunches of missile warriors) would wipe the floor with most lower level parties.

I've been running a 7 player group in 3.0 for a couple years and have found that really there is no substitute for simply knowing your players and what thier characters are capable of. The way it was done in second ed. ;-) The CR system is nice, but its not perfect... not even close really.

 

[Chiefarchon]

Hi Jim

Will you (AEG) be running the WLD at UK Gencon this October?

If not Please contact me as I have run games there before for the last 3 years on behalf of White Wolf via a distributor called Esdevium.

I have the following Master Maze boxed sets:
Cavern Set X1
Room and Passage Set X1
Delux Room Set X1
Advanced Builders Set X1
Traps Set X1

I Will be purchasing a couple more boxes at this comming Gencon.

I might be interrested in running a game on your (AEGs) Behalf. If this is of any interrest at all to you, please contact me on gemma.charles@virgin.net

Cheers

 

[spectre72]

If anyone is interested

I wrote Amazon Customer Service about my order not shipping and this was their response....

"Thank you for writing to us at Amazon.com.

Sometimes, unexpected fluctuations in supply can add time to our
original availability estimate. We have learned that the
book "World's Largest Dungeon" is now back-ordered, and our supplier
has not been able to let us know exactly when they expect to have
more in stock. I apologize that you were not notified sooner of this
change in availability. "

And it goes on to apoligize for my inconvenience..

Just thought everyone who had ordered from them should know.

Scott

 

[DaveMage]

I've learned with amazon that 2-6 weeks after general release is when you can expect to receive products.

 

[mroberon1972]

I got mine the first day me and my wife saw it.

God's of gaming bless her sweet little heart.

She (and one of my players gave me a loan) chipped in to buy it for me. As it is, they now demand I walk them through a good, old fashioned, dungeon crawl.

I'm so happy. Now I can give them the gaming goodness they want, and still have time to write my own stuff.

I can't lose!

Later,
John

PS: jim pinto, don't forget to e-mail me. I was serious about the gift thing...

 

[Gorilla726]

I know this has probably been answered, but I can't read through 29 pages of posts... Lol. Does anyone know when The World's Largest Dungeon might be coming out? Thanks!

Gorilla

 

[mroberon1972]

I know this has probably been answered, but I can't read through 29 pages of posts... Lol. Does anyone know when The World's Largest Dungeon might be coming out? Thanks!

Gorilla

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It's out.

 

[nerfherder]

I saw a copy in my local store today. So, if it's out in the UK, I'm sure it's been out for a few days/weeks in the US.

Cheers,
Liam

 

[Nikchick]

AEG has not bundled the dungeon with any other books or products,
but it seems like a smart call for a distributor to throw in some useful
slow-moving goodies in a bundle for his better stores. Charge $5 more
for $20 worth of product and everybody wins.

At least one distributor made a special purchase of Character Record Folios from us with the intention of creating a bundle for their retail customers (and they mentioned having minis and something else as part of the bundle as well, so it's probably the same one I'm thinking of).

I thought it was a pretty clever plan myself, though they did buy up most of the rest of the year's stock of folios, which means we're going to have to start the sixth reprint earlier than I'd planned. Not a bad problem to have.