tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736181985845648889.post4621745372840125791..comments2023-06-22T11:59:20.839+02:00Comments on The World Beyond: Role Playing 101 #3: Do You Dungeon Bash or Do you Tell Stories?Jaap de Goedehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08554247766752846375noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736181985845648889.post-17717899406770642212011-11-26T18:51:13.217+01:002011-11-26T18:51:13.217+01:00The two styles aren't mutually exclusive, they...The two styles aren't mutually exclusive, they're just fairly hard to combine in my experience. At least, if you consider the typical play styles that go with dungeon bash.<br /><br />And of course you can have a megadungeon as a setting to run actual stories in. But if they become stories more and more, the looting and killing become less and less important in the whole.Jaap de Goedehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08554247766752846375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8736181985845648889.post-87860723196441958642011-11-26T03:45:25.459+01:002011-11-26T03:45:25.459+01:00I don't see the two as mutually exclusive.
Th...I don't see the two as mutually exclusive.<br /><br />The megadungeon can serve as the "tentpole" for the campaign, while various plots and such are happening outside.<br /><br />In that way, the players are afforded a choice; they can spend the evening delving deeper into the dungeon, or they can pursue the various plots happening up on the surface.Greyhawk Grognardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13929743865700766901noreply@blogger.com