tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post8131864378474969136..comments2024-03-28T22:10:04.089+08:00Comments on Monsters and Manuals: The Cyberpunk MegadungeonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-34525313217432389942014-07-11T05:37:48.424+08:002014-07-11T05:37:48.424+08:00This.
It's like a technological mythic underwo...This.<br />It's like a technological mythic underworld. Nonsensical titanesque architectures, odd monsters, weird humanoid societies, powerful factions at war and more. Worth trying.Jorgemánhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12761298504034051707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-76792273467183532742013-07-24T14:23:25.537+08:002013-07-24T14:23:25.537+08:00Have you read Stanislaw Lem's "Memoirs Fo...Have you read Stanislaw Lem's "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub"? Highly recommended if you're still considering running this campaign. It reads like an absurdist text adventure -- each room is a crazy encounter that has no connection to the encounter in the prior room or hall. I'm convinced that Dragon Magazine's "Mansion of the Mad Professor Ludlow" was inspired by this gem of a book.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07439732948184954600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-66547338759733374322013-07-04T20:56:07.985+08:002013-07-04T20:56:07.985+08:00If you want to make your dungeon even bigger, make...If you want to make your dungeon even bigger, make it a dyson-sphere-like thingy. The manga Blame! did that, with literally millions of strata of city built by mindless robots, ever expanding it outwards and by the time the story took place the whole thing had turned hostile towards its human inhabitants. Humans lived only in niches where the central intelligence of the so-called network-sphere couldn't find them, eeking out existence by planting mushrooms in air-ducts, always afraid of squads of killer-robots forming out of the walls and killing them. Incredibly dystopian but also incredibly cool.Martenhttp://madzabgaming.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-52451533372500417992013-06-30T22:24:19.890+08:002013-06-30T22:24:19.890+08:00At the Hayward Gallery at the moment there's a...At the Hayward Gallery at the moment there's an exhibition showing Outsider Art with a slight bent to architectural visions-it features the work of Marcel Storr, a blind, illiterate Parisian roadsweeper who drew in private in his later years. His drawings were plans for a rebuilt Paris after an attack and seem pertinent to this post:<br /><br />https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=marcel%20storr&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=ET_QUcLoFsyLOdXSgJAF&biw=1280&bih=763&sei=Xz_QUYrsHsXrOp3BgeAMAndrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07944829206045717727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-39515418070241326142013-06-29T03:57:56.819+08:002013-06-29T03:57:56.819+08:00Shadowrun actually did this if you want to steal f...Shadowrun actually did this if you want to steal from a published module, but you seem to be doing more than well enough without it.<br /><br />(Renraku Arcology Shutdown - turns out AIs go evil when you put them in charge of a giant arcology full of people and robots and fully capable of operating without the outside world, who knew?)finbikkifinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-58325717534870214752013-06-27T02:12:59.448+08:002013-06-27T02:12:59.448+08:00Yeah, although I guess for it to be true cyberpunk...Yeah, although I guess for it to be true cyberpunk flavour it wouldn't be the spider mechs of the US Army Corps of Engineers, but of the paramilitary wing of Arasaka Co., Ltd.<br /><br />I love the virus idea though - a kind of external limit for the amount of time you can spend on each level of the "dungeon". The virus is slowly spreading down the skyscraper from level to level and you have to stay one step ahead of it. noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-41515679265779562202013-06-26T23:16:30.261+08:002013-06-26T23:16:30.261+08:00"players start off near the top floor"
..."players start off near the top floor"<br /><br />The classic dystopian version would be to have the players start at the *bottom* and fight their way up and out. Every single science fiction novel in my primary school library seemed to be some version of that plot...Richard Balmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11859724233379453584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-9677392571860414672013-06-26T22:53:06.528+08:002013-06-26T22:53:06.528+08:00I've always thought of cyberpunk (at least as ...I've always thought of cyberpunk (at least as a gaming genre) as a sort of D&D in the future. I don't see why a megadungeon couldn't workF. Douglas Wallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06497140550892192807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-39204298165809058462013-06-26T15:12:50.347+08:002013-06-26T15:12:50.347+08:00Or make it like Ballard's High Rise. You don&#...Or make it like Ballard's High Rise. You don't want to escape. This is your tribal stomping ground and you're here for blood. You've stopped going to work, but your silk ties make great garrotes. You aren't trapped in there with the booster gangs and tech cults, they're trapped in there with you.Arnold Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12603155377769597516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-33742430243596786632013-06-26T15:09:11.534+08:002013-06-26T15:09:11.534+08:00they'd rappel out of the windows. You need pel...they'd rappel out of the windows. You need pelgranes, sniper-bots, or a constant bath of acid rain. <br /><br />And maybe have acid-proof wingsuits somewhere?<br /><br />Actually, you could make it like .rec (or Quarantine), where the government is trying to seal them inside the building to prevent the release of some doomsday virus that was released inside there. And the spider mechs of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are moving slowly on the outside of the building, welding metal plates over all the windows, while the area around the building is a killzone. But maybe someone in your group knows of a secret tunnel? Or they think they do.Arnold Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12603155377769597516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-13484476930592887632013-06-26T10:27:41.853+08:002013-06-26T10:27:41.853+08:00judge dredd block wars also good on thisjudge dredd block wars also good on thisKonsumterrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170560484656800416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-195176253804570332013-06-26T04:26:43.511+08:002013-06-26T04:26:43.511+08:00Sign of the Labrys ... The Night Land (where the p...Sign of the Labrys ... The Night Land (where the pyramid is the adventure, not the base) ...Roger G-Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08594440701279968693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-85816399654196754532013-06-26T03:42:44.698+08:002013-06-26T03:42:44.698+08:00I love this idea and was getting ready to comment ...I love this idea and was getting ready to comment using Zak's Gigacrawler when...<br /><br />Still, I'd love for you to do it, giving it your own flavorDigital Orchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00276516390269689741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-27276791453587708822013-06-26T02:15:08.200+08:002013-06-26T02:15:08.200+08:00That's why I wrote GigacrawlerThat's why I wrote GigacrawlerZak Sabbathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.com