tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post3696624937516324739..comments2024-03-29T06:16:21.012+08:00Comments on Monsters and Manuals: Stone Balancing and the Upwards DungeonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-64545815112217013642019-08-31T19:39:52.551+08:002019-08-31T19:39:52.551+08:00Curse you! I introduced my players to this idea, a...Curse you! I introduced my players to this idea, and they immediately fell in love with the tree variant you came up with (one of them was even chanting "Tree! Tree! Tree!" as we were trying to select the next campaign). <br /><br />So now I have to create and run a whole campaign based around this idea, JUST BECAUSE it is undeniably fun and brilliant! <br /><br />I dunno if this is kosher, but here's some of the nonsense I've got so far.<br />https://buvlo.home.blog/2019/08/30/the-great-tree-a-very-rough-sketch-of-a-vertical-megadungeon-based-on-the-excellent-work-at-monsters-and-manuals/<br /><br />Thanks for sharing your brilliance with the world!Buvlohttp://buvlo.home.blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-6298556010328316282019-08-21T02:58:54.709+08:002019-08-21T02:58:54.709+08:00Everyone's dungeon should have some sort of gr...Everyone's dungeon should have some sort of graffiti in it that translates as "COCK."Rob Barretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17791752557408134270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-47383704730305078882019-08-20T05:39:32.643+08:002019-08-20T05:39:32.643+08:00I get that a lot of folks don't want to see na...I get that a lot of folks don't want to see names and profanity carved into rocks and trees, but there's a difference between graffiti and <i>evidence that a human was ever here</i>. The complainers should be happy that people are expressing themselves with physics puzzles and not just rearranging boulders to spell "COCK" in big letters for passing airplanes to read.Slicknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-49147077634320791942019-08-20T04:31:32.255+08:002019-08-20T04:31:32.255+08:00That is a cool idea.That is a cool idea.noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-67799262118654521952019-08-20T04:30:11.782+08:002019-08-20T04:30:11.782+08:00I think the environmental concerns are a bit miser...I think the environmental concerns are a bit miserable and even misanthropic like environmental concerns sometimes are. It mostly just seems to be people who are privileged enough to be able to afford to enjoy wild places complaining that the proles are coming along and spoiling them - one of the oldest bourgeois gripes in the book! (I read one article once, I think it was in the Guardian, in which somebody was saying that moving stones around on the beach can harm the invertebrates living among them - as if the incoming tide doesn't cause a million times as much disruption several times a day.) As long as you don't drop litter and behave with care, there's no problem with it at all.noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-57600041730105430132019-08-20T03:35:39.126+08:002019-08-20T03:35:39.126+08:00Do you know the Fritz Leiber story Stardock? It...Do you know the Fritz Leiber story Stardock? It's one of the Fafhrd and Grey Mouser ones. Anyway, it's a great example of an "upwards dungeon", even if the heroes don't explore all of its innards.<br /><br />When we were on Lindisfarne, there was a much-heralded temporary art installation/exhibition in the castle. But all four of us thought that the aesthetic effect of all the rock balancing on the beach was much more pleasing. I gather that there are environmental concerns, but still ...JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17964744140140515737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-83487951912153930992019-08-20T02:12:24.070+08:002019-08-20T02:12:24.070+08:00I read the post, idly looked over the comments, cl...I read the post, idly looked over the comments, clicked away, — then had to come back immediately to tell you that's a cool idea. G. R. Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16076993341999529525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-15455849069964653352019-08-20T01:18:55.819+08:002019-08-20T01:18:55.819+08:00Noice.Noice.Rob Barretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17791752557408134270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-85873333007236497982019-08-19T22:33:48.049+08:002019-08-19T22:33:48.049+08:00My take: The massive cairn was constructed by gian...My take: The massive cairn was constructed by giants as a memorial to the dead after some ancient war. The PCs play the undead forms of human casualties who were carelessly buried in the mass grave alongside their monstrous adversaries. Not content to spend eternity in a shrine to the giants' pagan traditions, their goal is to climb the cairn to Heaven (their "correct" afterlife).Slick S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07061439646397481013noreply@blogger.com