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Looking for dungeons. And NPCs

Started by Headless, June 22, 2022, 11:42:10 PM

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Klytus

#15
June 25, 2022, 09:53:40 PM
Highly recommend Trilemma Adventures. It's not 100 dungeons, but it is 48. This coupled with the One Page Dungeon Contest compilations from the last 13 years ought to be all you need.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/286792/Trilemma-Adventures-Compendium-Volume-I

For NPCs, I recommend these 2 on DMs Guild:

https://www.dmsguild.com/product/208518/35-Versatile-NPCs
https://www.dmsguild.com/product/250621/Versatile-NPCs-II

Those'll give you 95 NPCs. The site donjon.bin.sh should get you over the finish line.
Klytus, I'm bored. What plaything can you offer me today?

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Visitor Q

#16
June 26, 2022, 10:19:07 AM
Quote from: Shawn Driscoll on June 23, 2022, 07:52:44 PM
Quote from: Headless on June 22, 2022, 11:42:10 PM
Hi.

I am dreaming of a new game.  It's going to be player driven, fly by the seat of my pants.   I hope to be just out of sight laying the road barely in front of them.  Bizarrely I think it is going to take a lot of preparation to do so little planing.


I am looking for two books.  I don't know if either of them exist. 

First I want a book of 100 simple dungeons.  If I mention a lonely tower off in the distance and the PCs decide to investigate (next session). I want to be able to flip through my book find an "abandoned tower" and spend 1 hour familiarizing my self and fitting the canned adventure in to my game, instead of 5 or 6 hours building one from scratch.


The second book I want is a simple book of 100 NPCs.  If Pot and Dor to random guards that were barely in the story suddenly become important, I don't want to do any work on their stats.  Or if I need a 5th level half Orc ranger to help the PCs track a band of Ogers I would like to be able to look one up instead of make one.  Suggested Names possible tribal loyalties 'other stuff'.   I can ignore what I don't need, but it would help to have an index to draw from.

I'm planning on running D&D 5th ed.  But I could run 3rd.  The book of dungeons doesn't half to be the same system I'm running but a book of NPCs with stat blocks kind of needs to be.  And they don't have to be exactly what I am describing here.  Maybe there is an adventure or two that I could pull apart and get the pieces I need. 


I appreciate your suggestions.


Edit.  To sum up; I'm looking for books full of nuggets of generic nondenominational crunch I can paint with my fluff and slot into my game.  Or something I can tear apart and
File the serial numbers off of.  I'm looking to run the roleplaying equivalent of a chop shop.

In other words, you have no clue how to run a sandbox without help. Why even bother then.

Big round of applause for the voice of mediocrity ladies and gentlemen. Heaven forbid anyone asks questions or tries to improve at anything they do.

As for dungeons personally I'd split it out into pure dungeons, urban locations and wildness locations. You can also cheat a bit by having some pre-made or pre-prepared scenarios including published scenarios and just change the detaols and names to suit the exact location.

For urban locations WFRP 4th edition has a supplement on buildings of the Reikland which is very helpful.

As for NPCs I have found a list of names, careers, and one driving motivation, and an archetype is generally more than enough.

E.g. Klaus Fauststark A Knight On a Quest to find Redemption etc



Headless

#17
June 26, 2022, 10:26:35 PM
I've ordered a couple books you all suggested.  Thank ypu.  I'm still checking in for more suggestions if you have any

Headless

#18
July 07, 2022, 11:59:40 AM
Thanks all.  The dungeons book is great.  And I have found a few on line adventures. I appreciate the suggestions.


Anyone know a good cheep play to get figs?
The new stuff all seems to expensive. 

Looking for orcs, skellies, ogres, gobbos, lizardmen etc.  Any and all of those low lever humanoids.  And I want 6 to 20 or so of each.

jeff37923

#19
July 07, 2022, 12:11:41 PM
Quote from: Headless on July 07, 2022, 11:59:40 AM
Thanks all.  The dungeons book is great.  And I have found a few on line adventures. I appreciate the suggestions.


Anyone know a good cheep play to get figs?
The new stuff all seems to expensive. 

Looking for orcs, skellies, ogres, gobbos, lizardmen etc.  Any and all of those low lever humanoids.  And I want 6 to 20 or so of each.

Check eBay and Amazon for fantasy toy figures and price compare. I got a hundred 15mm barbarian figures sold as "Cimmerians" from a company in Poland for $15 including shipping. They are out there, you just have to look.
"Meh."

S'mon

#20
July 07, 2022, 01:41:50 PM Last Edit: July 07, 2022, 01:43:22 PM by S'mon
Dungeons - I use a mix of Dyson's Delves I & II, 12 Peculiar Towers from Kobold Press, and their Book of Lairs to a lesser extent. I also have https://www.board-game.co.uk/product/mini-dungeon-tome-dd-5th-edition/?gclid=CjwKCAjwiJqWBhBdEiwAtESPaCkBPqKKhX3EDUgJIcQxjrZOuOtPqIUjvMyA522uuCGBNwTXw-saYBoCjo8QAvD_BwE but it hasn't really grabbed me yet.

I'd recommend Dyson's Delves I and 12 Peculiar Towers to get you started.

For NPCs I use Google Image Search & build an NPC around the picture.

Reckall

#21
July 07, 2022, 03:07:59 PM
Quote from: Shawn Driscoll on June 23, 2022, 07:52:44 PM
Quote from: Headless on June 22, 2022, 11:42:10 PM
Hi.

I am dreaming of a new game.  It's going to be player driven, fly by the seat of my pants.   I hope to be just out of sight laying the road barely in front of them.  Bizarrely I think it is going to take a lot of preparation to do so little planing.


I am looking for two books.  I don't know if either of them exist. 

First I want a book of 100 simple dungeons.  If I mention a lonely tower off in the distance and the PCs decide to investigate (next session). I want to be able to flip through my book find an "abandoned tower" and spend 1 hour familiarizing my self and fitting the canned adventure in to my game, instead of 5 or 6 hours building one from scratch.


The second book I want is a simple book of 100 NPCs.  If Pot and Dor to random guards that were barely in the story suddenly become important, I don't want to do any work on their stats.  Or if I need a 5th level half Orc ranger to help the PCs track a band of Ogers I would like to be able to look one up instead of make one.  Suggested Names possible tribal loyalties 'other stuff'.   I can ignore what I don't need, but it would help to have an index to draw from.

I'm planning on running D&D 5th ed.  But I could run 3rd.  The book of dungeons doesn't half to be the same system I'm running but a book of NPCs with stat blocks kind of needs to be.  And they don't have to be exactly what I am describing here.  Maybe there is an adventure or two that I could pull apart and get the pieces I need. 


I appreciate your suggestions.


Edit.  To sum up; I'm looking for books full of nuggets of generic nondenominational crunch I can paint with my fluff and slot into my game.  Or something I can tear apart and
File the serial numbers off of.  I'm looking to run the roleplaying equivalent of a chop shop.

In other words, you have no clue how to run a sandbox without help. Why even bother then.

Because, by default, there is always a first time someone runs a sandbox? ::)

Regarding NPCs, I have fond memories of "Everyone Else" for D&D 3E (I used it with 3.5E without problems). It gives stats for 80 "common" professions. It is on DrivethruRPG:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/16606/Everyone-Else-A-Book-of-Innkeepers-Farmers--More

Getting hassled by the tax collector? PLONK... level 3 Expert with all the right skills and stats for being a tax collector coming right up. Players decide to complain about the tax collector to the local constabulary? PLONK... level 5 warrior with the right skills and stats for the town guard at your service... Time to go over his head and take matters up with the prince? PLONK... first you have to work your way past the level 1 and level 7 seneschals that run the palace before you can meet... PLONK... the level 5 aristocrat (idle noble) that supposedly runs this town that the players were only supposed to be in to restock their rations...
For every idiot who denounces Ayn Rand as "intellectualism" there is an excellent DM who creates a "Bioshock" adventure.

Headless

#22
July 11, 2022, 06:55:29 PM Last Edit: July 11, 2022, 07:09:56 PM by Headless
Quote from: jeff37923 on July 07, 2022, 12:11:41 PM
Quote from: Headless on July 07, 2022, 11:59:40 AM
Thanks all.  The dungeons book is great.  And I have found a few on line adventures. I appreciate the suggestions.


Anyone know a good cheep play to get figs?
The new stuff all seems to expensive. 

Looking for orcs, skellies, ogres, gobbos, lizardmen etc.  Any and all of those low lever humanoids.  And I want 6 to 20 or so of each.

Check eBay and Amazon for fantasy toy figures and price compare. I got a hundred 15mm barbarian figures sold as "Cimmerians" from a company in Poland for $15 including shipping. They are out there, you just have to look.

Thats a great deal.  I'm using 25mm scale cause thats what I already have.   I've found a few deals but nothing that good.




New question.

What do people use for free (or reasonably priced) mapping programs.  I usually just sketch some in my campaign book.  But I want to improve my production values.

Over land campaign maps specifically.  But something that can do both large scale overworld maps and dungeons would be swell. Especially if they can key the one to the other.

Visitor Q

#23
July 12, 2022, 03:21:29 AM
I'd go tiles, floor plans and minatures for the dungeons themselves.

For world maps Wanderdraft is pretty good and cheap.

S'mon

#24
July 12, 2022, 04:44:59 AM
I still use & love AKS Hexmapper https://breeyark.org/aar-kelaan-hexmapper-and-more/ - getting it to run on Windows 10 is a bit of a challenge as you need Visual Basic installed.

Ratman_tf

#25
July 12, 2022, 05:25:38 AM
Quote from: Shawn Driscoll on June 23, 2022, 07:52:44 PM
Quote from: Headless on June 22, 2022, 11:42:10 PM
Hi.

I am dreaming of a new game.  It's going to be player driven, fly by the seat of my pants.   I hope to be just out of sight laying the road barely in front of them.  Bizarrely I think it is going to take a lot of preparation to do so little planing.


I am looking for two books.  I don't know if either of them exist. 

First I want a book of 100 simple dungeons.  If I mention a lonely tower off in the distance and the PCs decide to investigate (next session). I want to be able to flip through my book find an "abandoned tower" and spend 1 hour familiarizing my self and fitting the canned adventure in to my game, instead of 5 or 6 hours building one from scratch.


The second book I want is a simple book of 100 NPCs.  If Pot and Dor to random guards that were barely in the story suddenly become important, I don't want to do any work on their stats.  Or if I need a 5th level half Orc ranger to help the PCs track a band of Ogers I would like to be able to look one up instead of make one.  Suggested Names possible tribal loyalties 'other stuff'.   I can ignore what I don't need, but it would help to have an index to draw from.

I'm planning on running D&D 5th ed.  But I could run 3rd.  The book of dungeons doesn't half to be the same system I'm running but a book of NPCs with stat blocks kind of needs to be.  And they don't have to be exactly what I am describing here.  Maybe there is an adventure or two that I could pull apart and get the pieces I need. 


I appreciate your suggestions.


Edit.  To sum up; I'm looking for books full of nuggets of generic nondenominational crunch I can paint with my fluff and slot into my game.  Or something I can tear apart and
File the serial numbers off of.  I'm looking to run the roleplaying equivalent of a chop shop.

In other words, you have no clue how to run a sandbox without help. Why even bother then.

The notion of an exclusionary and hostile RPG community is a fever dream of zealots who view all social dynamics through a narrow keyhole of structural oppression.
-Haffrung

Simon W

#26
July 12, 2022, 05:42:00 AM Last Edit: July 12, 2022, 05:48:35 AM by Simon W
Quote from: jeff37923 on July 07, 2022, 12:11:41 PM
Quote from: Headless on July 07, 2022, 11:59:40 AM
Thanks all.  The dungeons book is great.  And I have found a few on line adventures. I appreciate the suggestions.


Anyone know a good cheep play to get figs?
The new stuff all seems to expensive. 

Looking for orcs, skellies, ogres, gobbos, lizardmen etc.  Any and all of those low lever humanoids.  And I want 6 to 20 or so of each.

Check eBay and Amazon for fantasy toy figures and price compare. I got a hundred 15mm barbarian figures sold as "Cimmerians" from a company in Poland for $15 including shipping. They are out there, you just have to look.


Alliance do a fantastic range of 1/72 fantasy minis (you can often get some of them on Amazon or Ebay):

https://www.hobbylinc.com/alliance-1:72-scale-plastic-model-fantasy-figures

cavalier973

#27
July 12, 2022, 07:57:49 PM
Quote from: Headless on July 07, 2022, 11:59:40 AM
Thanks all.  The dungeons book is great.  And I have found a few on line adventures. I appreciate the suggestions.


Anyone know a good cheep play to get figs?
The new stuff all seems to expensive. 

Looking for orcs, skellies, ogres, gobbos, lizardmen etc.  Any and all of those low lever humanoids.  And I want 6 to 20 or so of each.

The cheapest way is to make your own. Cut strips of paper a half-inch wide or so, then fold the strips like you're making paper dolls. Use stick glue in between each fold. In a few minutes, it will be nearly as stiff as cardboard. Allow the players to decorate the "figures", or just use letters for PCs and numbers for monsters. Get some of those small binder clips, clip it to the bottom of the "figures" and take the metal handles off.

cavalier973

#28
July 12, 2022, 08:02:57 PM
There is also this site: https://donjon.bin.sh/

It has a dungeon generator for different editions. Here's one for 5e: https://donjon.bin.sh/5e/dungeon/

oggsmash

#29
July 12, 2022, 08:07:09 PM
Quote from: Headless on July 07, 2022, 11:59:40 AM
Thanks all.  The dungeons book is great.  And I have found a few on line adventures. I appreciate the suggestions.


Anyone know a good cheep play to get figs?
The new stuff all seems to expensive. 

Looking for orcs, skellies, ogres, gobbos, lizardmen etc.  Any and all of those low lever humanoids.  And I want 6 to 20 or so of each.

  Cool, I am glad it was what you were looking for.    I am no help with minis, I spend like a drunken sailor on them and have no common sense on bang for buck in buying them.   
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