Trying the get the "one Friday a month B-Team" to finish adventures in a single session is far from the easiest thing to do. Not because they aren't willing and able, but most adventures just seem to take more than a single session to complete, which really isn't conductive to "drop in / drop out" play.
So, I gave it some thought after today's morning post and decided a megadungeon would be the way to go. I also left the choice to the regular "B-Team" members. I gave them a list to vote on that included the following options:
Temple of Elemental Evil
Stonehell
Castle of the Mad Archmage
(Barrowmaze was not on the list, as there are already groups on G+ playing such, and if my group is going to do session write ups, we may as well use a different megadungeon)
Castle of the Mad Archmage won hands down in some of the quickest voting I can ever recall seeing. It doesn't hurt that it's a relatively new product that hasn't been read, run and played to death ;)
We'll be using this in conjunction with the classic Thieves' World Boxed Set - so, urban sandbox when the players desire and megadungeon to kill shit when killing is their business ;)
It's a very good choice
ReplyDeleteCan I play? :)
ReplyDeleteI'd had loved to explore Stonehell for the first time, but I read it cover to cover twice, so it just wouldn't work.
ReplyDeleteToEE I ran to death back in the day, and re-read it more recently. I just couldn't pretend I didn't know what those scary doors are for.
Mad Archmage has been on my "to read" list for a while but it didn't make it to the top of the pile . . . so I'm really excited to get to it!
Cool. I like the idea of a monthly B-Team RPG group. Might have to start one up myself... maybe in the fall. Hopefully, CotMA is awesome! Did you get the PDF of all 3 books? Why did they do it as 3, anyway?
ReplyDeleteLet us know the highs and lows, Tenkar.
I have print coming and PDFs in hand.
ReplyDeleteI believe you can't bundle POD, and you really do want the maps and player visuals separate. Since you can't bundle the POD, you can't bundle the PDFs.
I am not sure if you could put a single PDF together of all three, but as you get PDFs with the POD that might confuse the shit outa things.