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Aos sez: "Space dungeons"! (AKA Rotwang! Is Pissed)

Started by Dr Rotwang!, August 26, 2007, 11:18:58 PM

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Leo Knight

#45
August 27, 2007, 08:13:51 PM
Dr. R!, I believe you metioned you have the TravellerCD ROM. Some of the original GDW Traveller adventures felt very dungeony:

"Shadows": an alien pyramid complex with unusual high tech on a planet with an insidious atmosphere. I stole this map so many times!

"Twilight's Peak": a deliberately low-tech shelter, resembling a medieval keep, coincidentally built on top of an Ancient site on a hostile, unpopulated world. With a dark and stormy night to boot...maybe some Ancient goodies to plunder?

"Annic Nova": an abandoned alien starship, with the plague ridden remains of some of the crew. The ship itself can be salvaged as "treasure".

"Lab Ship": a 400 ton research vessel, some crew driven mad by the accidental release of a drug (see "Reavers" above), they have butchered their crewmates and lurk about the ship.

I must mention here my favorite dungeon ever. It appeared in White Dwarf #9 titled "The Lichway". I got it in 1978, just before I came down with the flu, and was kept home from school for a week. I had to take medicine with codeine in it, and I read that dungeon over and over and over... and it seemed new every time (mmm... codeine...). I memorized it. Every time I've been stuck for an adventure, I run "The Lichway" with the serial numbers filed off. Traps? Lightning fields, like in Sky Captain. A brig? Replace the bars with Star Trek style forcefields. Goblins? Alien bugs. Orcs? Gammorean guards. Lizardmen? Lizardmen. Season to taste.
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Pseudoephedrine

#46
August 28, 2007, 01:08:41 PM
Quote from: TonyLBYeah, big monsters are easy.  But what about the hoard?

Anyone have good, reliable tricks for creating a reason that something totally alien would want something that's very valuable to humans?  I mean ... my instinct is that they'll want it for different reasons.  I guess I'm looking for some good pairs:  "Humans want these because X, the dragon-thing wants them because Y."

Oxygen. The PCs ship has run low, and needs the valuable oxygen supplies of the dungeon-ship. A monster that lives in the ship needs the tanks to survive. Conflict ensues.
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The Pernicious Light, or The Wreckers of Sword Island;
A Goblin\'s Progress, or Of Cannons and Canons;
An Oration on the Dignity of Tash, or On the Elves and Their Lies
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