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| Do we want to do the Pellucidar thing? | Do we want to do the Pellucidar thing? | ||
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| + | Centralizing Concept = that part of the premise of play that keeps the characters from spinning off in all different directions. | ||
| Optimally the game will be created so that mechanically it can be inserted into another ongoing DW game. But it may work best to have chargen be specifically for the game, so that specialized rules can come into play that will create a centralizing concept and/or hooks that have to do with exploring the underworld area in question. Otherwise the challenge is to both leverage off what currently exists and make the new rules such that they can be incorporated into a normal game of DW. The extant rule that currently feeds into this is bonds... Players just have to tailor the bonds in question to have involvement with the adventure in question. | Optimally the game will be created so that mechanically it can be inserted into another ongoing DW game. But it may work best to have chargen be specifically for the game, so that specialized rules can come into play that will create a centralizing concept and/or hooks that have to do with exploring the underworld area in question. Otherwise the challenge is to both leverage off what currently exists and make the new rules such that they can be incorporated into a normal game of DW. The extant rule that currently feeds into this is bonds... Players just have to tailor the bonds in question to have involvement with the adventure in question. | ||
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| Unlike your standard dungeon, where at best you have perilous journeys to get to the dungeon itself, the vast underground realms themselves will involve many perilous journeys, often with the loss of rations or whatever, and many specific dangers along the way. Keeping track of resources becomes a real challenge, not being able to easily backtrack to town all the time. | Unlike your standard dungeon, where at best you have perilous journeys to get to the dungeon itself, the vast underground realms themselves will involve many perilous journeys, often with the loss of rations or whatever, and many specific dangers along the way. Keeping track of resources becomes a real challenge, not being able to easily backtrack to town all the time. | ||
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| + | === Interesting Modes of Travel === | ||
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| + | In addition to just hiking through the caves of the underworld there should be opportunities to take boat-rides, Tram cars across chasms, even flying through giant chasms on the backs of some sort of tamed beasts. There may be magical gates that link up places, or which lead to otherworlds (plan an Otherworld supplement? | ||
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| + | ===== Denizens ===== | ||
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