Absolutely. The map I'm working on sort of ended up with "zones," groups of related rooms, which I like. But now I need to give incentive to explore and make different zones related to each other. Also trying to follow the maxim of putting something interesting in every room, even if it's "empty."
One theme I find helpful is "jealous neighbors." Monsters tend to want things their neighbors have. The grass is greener, you know. If you have factions scheming to rob or displace or enslave each other, then you have PCs roll in and make friends and enemies, that motivates a lot of activity.
Where did it all go wrong, Casey? I can’t pinpoint it, but it was already too late when they remade 3:10 to Yuma and took a movie that was mostly two men talking about morality in a hotel room and put in a Gatling gun.
This is my gaming circle minus my ACKS players. I am such an asshole. Since they're in the big city now, the players really wanted to know if there were any magic weapons for sale. ACKS ain't 3e or 4e though. There is exactly one magic weapon for sale. I rolled randomly to see what it was and... ...it's a cursed -2 sword. So I told the players there's a weapons dealer/fence who's looking to get rid of a magic sword he's gotten ahold of...cheap. Only 6,000gp when usually a +1 item would be 10,000gp. So far they are not suspicious. They're going to be so pissed at me. I can barely contain my excitement.
Absolutely. The map I'm working on sort of ended up with "zones," groups of related rooms, which I like. But now I need to give incentive to explore and make different zones related to each other. Also trying to follow the maxim of putting something interesting in every room, even if it's "empty."
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