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Author Topic: Dungeon23...Well that came out of nowhere...  (Read 3404 times)


THE_Leopold

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Re: Dungeon23...Well that came out of nowhere...
« Reply #31 on: January 23, 2023, 07:34:05 AM »
Chatgpt is throwing up search limits now making an hr long “conversation” with the AI take a day.  I have finished statting up almost 1 full dungeon with enemies and treasure.  Almost came in handy last night as the PCs zigged when they should have zagged on their survival checks.  Went from looking for shipwrecked survivors to fighting venomous snake spiders and uncovering The Sunken Temple at an abandoned lake side camp.  Thankfully they did not explore any more and again wandered off in the wrong direction (their navigator is terrible at his rolls) and was caught in the crossfire between gatorfolk vs trolls in a territorial dispute.
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Re: Dungeon23...Well that came out of nowhere...
« Reply #32 on: January 23, 2023, 07:50:51 PM »
A megadungeon needs a committed group and a committed GM. One without the other results in a failed campaign after a few sessions.

In my experience, megadungeons work better for video games than at the game table.

As with any campaign, talk to your players upfront and get serious buy-in before doing the insane amount of work to create the megadungeon.

Personally, I think 6 levels with 20 areas per level is all you need to run a 6 month campaign of weekly 4 hour sessions and that would be a reasonable amount of work for a reasonable campaign attention length for the modern game table.

Or 12 levels with 10 areas each if you want to go deeper, but still run a 1st to 10th level campaign where the players feel they are making progress.

And when I say "areas", I mean meaningful zones, not empty rooms for spacing / travel / wanderers.

For my last megadungeon, I ran Tunnels & Trolls and did 6 levels with 6 zones each and we played about a dozen sessions to clear it out and face the Boss monster (who ate the party).


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Re: Dungeon23...Well that came out of nowhere...
« Reply #34 on: January 31, 2023, 09:29:05 AM »
January Status Update:

I completed the following:

1. Backstory Plot: Minotaur island of Labyrinthia is complete with history and lore
2. Major Forces: Created multiple NPC groups and factions with history and AI Generated art.
3. Districts of Labyrinthia: Created 12 unique districts with Points of Interest, plot points, and monsters/NPC's
4. The McGuffin: Created the McGuffin for the PC's to find split amongst multiple districts with a race against time subplot built in.

All in all a successful january for creativity, ChatGPT, and Stable Diffusion.
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