Sunday, April 21, 2019

What I'm Prepping for Felltower











  1. in my megadungeon I need to fill in a few levels. I think a few weeks of solid work (when I get the patience to sit down and do it) from me and I'll have enough DFRPG for the next ten years.

  2. And this is why I don't like to run mega-anythings (dungeons, hec crawls, plotlines). Too much prep up front, too much prep between games, too much fretting that "that area/plots I haven't gotten to yet is where they want to go".

    Of course I also never have games last more than a year or two before they sort of come to the end of their lifecycle (be it ending the major plotline or just fizzling).

    1. In my case, it's actually easier to have the megadungeon. I don't have to prep very much. If it was dungeon of the week, quest of the week, etc. I'd have so much more to prepare. Most of what I'll need next session is already done, and has been for years. Some of it just needs expansion and details and review, and some places they may go after that need writing.

      I'd rather have a majority of re-use than fully writing for each session. That re-use is probably a key reason why we've played in the same place for years.

    2. There is minimal prep between games in my mega dungeon.

      There is no way I could GM every two weeks for any game other than a mega dungeon.

  3. I have this problem too. Currently I see 3 ways the players in my game can reasonably go, which means they'll probably pick #4. My solution is that if ever place they can possibly reach isn't fully prepped, I ask which way they're planning to go, so I can at least prep one session ahead in that direction. Seems to work okay.

    (I've only used an artificial "you can't go that way" once so far in Castle Whiterock. A door to an area that was converted to GURPS but not fully mapped in Roll20 became Gnome Locked. They had to come back the next week with a gnome to open it.)

    1. That's clever. I've put in places you can't enter without keys/passwords/etc. the PCs don't have. It's not always to stall for time, but it does that well, too. And it's a classic of dungeon exploration - key and door must be matched to get to special areas.

    2. Ha! I didn't know that that was the strategy behind that door. It wasn't transparent at the players at all I think.


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