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Post by Paladin on May 14, 2020 22:52:26 GMT -5
My latest obsession has been crunching the numbers in OD&D, Holmes, B/X, and DD to see how the different rulesets compare regarding monsters and treasure placement in dungeons. A blog post got me interested and made me want to do the math for myself. Original post: boggswood.blogspot.com/2020/03/character-growth-and-dungeon-stocking.html?m=1I downloaded the work-in-progress copies of DD V5 and perused that section. It's remarkably clear and concise. The tables are slightly different from those found in the 3LLB's, but they hew very closely to the percentages found in OD&D. Has anyone else stocked a dungeon using the tables from DD(any version)? It was a pleasant exercise. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on May 16, 2020 1:26:09 GMT -5
I have not used tables to stock a dungeon since 1975-76 by the fall of 1976-77 I was not using tables for treasure or encounters either one.
Oddly enough the dungeon I got the best feedback from had zero treasure and zero combat, it was all psychological in nature.
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Post by Paladin on May 16, 2020 9:33:50 GMT -5
As a kid, I didn't understand or care to use the tables, so I just placed things according to my whim. Recently, though, I began to wonder how differently the earlier iterations of the game would play if you went strictly by the book on dungeon and encounter design. Especially OD&D, Holmes, and B/X. I realized that OD&D dungeons are much more deadly than what I'd been creating off the cuff. My usual monster numbers had been closer to a Holmes dungeon. It's been a fun experiment. The dungeon you mention sounds interesting. Any chance you might share a detail or two with an inquiring mind?  |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on May 16, 2020 10:51:17 GMT -5
Someplace I think I still have the quotes in a box. If I run across them I will post them.
I ran my very first dungeon by picking out some quotes (1975 pre-internet) from a few books that I had and I based each dungeon level on that quote. They just walked through a door and I created everything on the fly riffing off each quote. Yeah, no treasure, not combat. I wish I had it on tape. It was a blast. IIRC it was ten quotes, like I said if I find them I will post them.
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Post by karaunios on May 24, 2020 13:43:34 GMT -5
Someplace I think I still have the quotes in a box. If I run across them I will post them. I ran my very first dungeon by picking out some quotes (1975 pre-internet) from a few books that I had and I based each dungeon level on that quote. They just walked through a door and I created everything on the fly riffing off each quote. Yeah, no treasure, not combat. I wish I had it on tape. It was a blast. IIRC it was ten quotes, like I said if I find them I will post them. That's interesting because I usually get inspiration for an encounter, NPC or adventure from just reading one random sentence or paragraph of a book. It's like a challenge: make something out of just that one short piece you just read. |
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Post by hengest on Mar 15, 2021 10:53:26 GMT -5
Someplace I think I still have the quotes in a box. If I run across them I will post them. I ran my very first dungeon by picking out some quotes (1975 pre-internet) from a few books that I had and I based each dungeon level on that quote. They just walked through a door and I created everything on the fly riffing off each quote. Yeah, no treasure, not combat. I wish I had it on tape. It was a blast. IIRC it was ten quotes, like I said if I find them I will post them. This sounds fantastic, would love to see that if you ever find it, or if you have any more to say about it, worth a thread or even an "exercise" we could do on a thread, someone posts a quote and the next poster riffs on it, creating a room, then posts another quote. I wonder if anyone would be interested. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Mar 15, 2021 11:12:18 GMT -5
Someplace I think I still have the quotes in a box. If I run across them I will post them. I ran my very first dungeon by picking out some quotes (1975 pre-internet) from a few books that I had and I based each dungeon level on that quote. They just walked through a door and I created everything on the fly riffing off each quote. Yeah, no treasure, not combat. I wish I had it on tape. It was a blast. IIRC it was ten quotes, like I said if I find them I will post them. This sounds fantastic, would love to see that if you ever find it, or if you have any more to say about it, worth a thread or even an "exercise" we could do on a thread, someone posts a quote and the next poster riffs on it, creating a room, then posts another quote. I wonder if anyone would be interested. Let me catch my breath and work on how to write the thread starter and then we will give it a shot or you can do it if you like. We can work on that together. |
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