tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post6366154766426684219..comments2024-03-27T23:28:19.341-07:00Comments on Telecanter's Receding Rules: Into the Tumbling Dungeon of the Grand AlchemistTelecanterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238356788092725244noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-33076680589753508412011-04-13T20:56:12.982-07:002011-04-13T20:56:12.982-07:00Thanks squidman, I appreciate that.Thanks squidman, I appreciate that.Telecanterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238356788092725244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-29353087644860797872011-04-13T01:42:36.145-07:002011-04-13T01:42:36.145-07:00THIS. IS. AWESOME!!!
can't wait for the next ...THIS. IS. AWESOME!!!<br /><br />can't wait for the next recapsquidmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03486198900111225929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-56360880424865432992011-04-12T20:03:34.186-07:002011-04-12T20:03:34.186-07:00Sorry Richard, Blogger thought you were spam.
Tha...Sorry Richard, Blogger thought you were spam.<br /><br />Thanks, that makes me feel more confident. There <i>was</i> that spontaneous moment that my human brain decided that having the witch cut all the sleeper throats, or push them down the 60' shaft to their deaths, would be less horrible than her taking each, slowly, one by one, to drown them in the pool. A computer couldn't make that decision.<br /><br />"a 10' diameter stone sphere blocked the way"<br /><br />That's the hall of four spheres, if she had just crawled past three more spheres she would have been in the Grand alchemist's bed chamber and found all the treasure. When the dungeon tumbles again the spheres will be in their concavities again and allow for easier passage.<br /><br />But now my human brain has decided it will be full of writhing, pearly grubs when they get there. ;)Telecanterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238356788092725244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-63637104111548054522011-04-12T08:34:01.104-07:002011-04-12T08:34:01.104-07:00Thanks, both of you.Thanks, both of you.Telecanterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238356788092725244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-84890748990756820142011-04-12T05:47:07.533-07:002011-04-12T05:47:07.533-07:00I'd be OK with quite a high level of illusioni...I'd be OK with quite a high level of illusionism, but I don't think this counts anyway. Philosophically, and having DM'd and designed computer games, my take is this: you are creating a world and your players are exploring it. Some of that creation it's appropriate to do ahead of time, but the advantages of doing some of it at the table in reaction to the players is way too good to pass up. Designing computer games sucks because you can't do that. RPGs rule because you can actually have a conversation with your players, and their answers can matter, not only to the situation then and there but to future designs.<br /><br /><em>A 10' diameter stone sphere blocked the way</em><br />You've given them fair warning. You've shown them the shape of the challenge. You're still a cruel, cruel man, though. Does one of those block the end of a nice long slightly twisty pipe? I'm starting to wonder if you could make something like an internal combustion engine out of this dungeon, using gravity and valves like these rolling balls to <a href="http://www.navyaircrew.com/blog/2009/07/18/suck-squeeze-bang-and-blow/" rel="nofollow">suck</a>, squeeze and blow. And just what alchemical doodad provides the bang.richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517340075234811323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-29942689334752744522011-04-11T23:28:35.754-07:002011-04-11T23:28:35.754-07:00"Is this illusionism? Am I controlling what h..."Is this illusionism? Am I controlling what happens too much?" <br /><br />They had fun, right? Then it worked. Plus there's eight (or 6-7, anyway) people. They <i>would</i> fall back and rest.C'nor (Outermost_Toe)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01580315916281876117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-28166894067006045932011-04-11T23:18:03.165-07:002011-04-11T23:18:03.165-07:00Is this illusionism? Am I controlling what happen...<i>Is this illusionism? Am I controlling what happens too much?</i><br /><br />no. sounds like good dming to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com