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Author Topic: What is your favourite megadungeon and why?  (Read 4660 times)

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« Reply #30 on: August 24, 2020, 02:15:26 PM »
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Do you guys know any snake man themed megadungeons?


Dwellers of the Forbidden City has yuan-ti as a major faction, and while it's not a megadungeon per se, it could definitely be fleshed out and run in that style.

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« Reply #31 on: August 26, 2020, 09:09:57 PM »
The Lost Dungeons of Tonisborg (1973)

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« Reply #32 on: August 28, 2020, 12:53:18 AM »
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The Lost Dungeons of Tonisborg (1973)

Damn, reaching back old school.  Before the release of OD&D.
I need you to roll a perception check.....

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« Reply #33 on: August 28, 2020, 10:29:21 AM »
While the final product isn't out yet, I'm really hopeful for Gradient Descent.  It's a sci-fi megadungeon for the Mothership RPG.  Very reminiscent of BLAME! or Blade Runner, it's a huge "abandoned" production facility.  Everything from the layout of the room's info to little things like matching room numbers to page numbers for easy look-up shows a lot of care went into producing it.

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« Reply #34 on: August 28, 2020, 10:38:02 AM »
I hated them back in the OD&D era, and our group never ran them- I guess we were an outlier. We always had smaller locations and a variety of them. I still don't like or run the traditional D&D mega-dungeons.

When I run something big I prefer a non-traditional setting- Tegel Manor, The Black Monastery, Parlainth, The Big Rubble, etc.

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« Reply #35 on: August 28, 2020, 12:10:35 PM »
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Parlainth

Fuck yeah!  Killed many an Adept there.

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« Reply #36 on: August 28, 2020, 03:16:46 PM »
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Fuck yeah!  Killed many an Adept there.

I'm guessing your players don't think as highly of the place as we do?! ;)

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« Reply #37 on: August 28, 2020, 04:24:35 PM »
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I'm guessing your players don't think as highly of the place as we do?! ;)

Oh no they love it.  Weeded out the ones who didn't really like the game/setting but those who did just made them want to explore it even more.

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« Reply #38 on: August 29, 2020, 10:01:51 AM »
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Oh no they love it.  Weeded out the ones who didn't really like the game/setting but those who did just made them want to explore it even more.

I think it's one of the best adventure products ever produced-for any system. I sold my hardcopy years ago when the prices started to climb. Have the PDF now-really wish I would have kept the hardcopy.

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« Reply #39 on: August 29, 2020, 08:54:40 PM »
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I think it's one of the best adventure products ever produced-for any system. I sold my hardcopy years ago when the prices started to climb. Have the PDF now-really wish I would have kept the hardcopy.

It was one of the few hard copy things I kept.  We never had a single campaign that didn't have at least 1 visit there.

So many distinct regions with logical reasons for separation.  So many different factions to work with/against.  So much blank space to do with as you please.  That being said it had very little mapping or keyed encounters so I'm not 100% sure it falls into the same category as many of the adventures mentioned here.  But it very much is in the same spirit.

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« Reply #40 on: August 30, 2020, 10:48:58 PM »
Got Stone Hell because of this thread.  Enjoying it so far.

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« Reply #41 on: August 31, 2020, 09:14:49 AM »
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I'm not 100% sure it falls into the same category as many of the adventures mentioned here.  But it very much is in the same spirit.


No, it's definitely not your typical D&D mega dungeon. I guess I'm just saying as a player/DM who started with OD&D BITD, we didn't care for them, and here's the kind of alternative I prefer for "large scale sprawling adventure sites". There's a lot of hype today about megadungeons, but none of the groups I knew of, the D&D Clubs that sprang up at schools and libraries, etc- very very few actually had mega-dungeons going on. Anecodotal I know, but I think the folks in the OSR who were not around when OD&D was the option (pre AD&D) tend to think it was by the book and in emulation of all the famous midwest games with megadungeons and minis and outdoor survival, etc.. Which is probably a topic for another discussion- Just thinking out loud this morning,