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The dungeon crawl as survival horror

Started by Balbinus, November 17, 2006, 11:16:45 AM

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Balbinus

#30
November 21, 2006, 07:11:28 AM
Quote from: Mr. AnalyticalAn RQ dungeon crawl?  Christ... why not have a combat-oriented game set during the battle of the Somme.  We nearly had a total party maiming when two guys came at us with daggers, we've got NO chance against "horrors best left undisturbed" ;)

It's not nicknamed Limbquest for nothing you know.

You would be afraid, hell one could just have the party in the dungeon and somewhere out there an upset child with a small dagger and the party would be nervous...

Balbinus

#31
November 21, 2006, 07:12:53 AM
My impression by the way is that Runequest was originally used quite a lot for dungeon type bashes, the trick is to load up on the healing magic primarily.

Mr. Analytical

#32
November 21, 2006, 07:16:19 AM
Yeah, I remember you saying that the healing magics are actually quite potent allowing you to repair mangled stumps and so on.  I actually think it would be quite a good fit for a survival-horror type game, simply because it's so easy to get dead very quickly indeed.

You wouldn't get the whole levelling effect but I think it would be a good fit nonetheless.

Balbinus

#33
November 21, 2006, 07:21:54 AM
Quote from: Mr. AnalyticalYeah, I remember you saying that the healing magics are actually quite potent allowing you to repair mangled stumps and so on.  I actually think it would be quite a good fit for a survival-horror type game, simply because it's so easy to get dead very quickly indeed.

You wouldn't get the whole levelling effect but I think it would be a good fit nonetheless.

I have no love for the whole levelling effect.

Mr. Analytical

#34
November 21, 2006, 07:25:38 AM
Fair enough, it does bring certain twatty side effects with it.

"Hmmm... the town council are an unpleasant lot... how many XPs would we get for killing them?"

arminius

#35
November 21, 2006, 09:25:42 AM
Nah, that's the XP effect.

I played an RQ dungeoncrawl a few weeks ago in a one-shot. We were a group of Sartarite tribesmen delving into a chaos-infected tomb to try to recover an artifact for use against Lunars. It was a little on the easy side--nobody died or lost limbs, though they came close. We did have healing magic, which helped.
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