Get HighFell for OSR: bit.ly/HighFellOSR Get HighFell for 5e: bit.ly/HighFell5e Check out the Game Master and Player Companions from Dragon Shield! bit.ly/DragonShieldRP
I’ve ran this for a dozen or so sessions. Lots of fun. One thing that felt lacking was a bit more background on the wizard towers. Each one had a rad name and a little bit of theme but as a dm I wanted there to be more to discover about the wizard who built the tower. Something for a prospective dm to think about expanding on if their prepping to run this.
I ran this for a few months in the pandemic as an online game, and it was a lot of fun. The towers act as really obvious landmarks for players to poke around in, and then descending into the dungeons is a really tense choice they make. My players mostly focused on hitting towers for the first while, and only risked a couple of dungeons. They also allied with the main bad guy faction. I ran it in 5e, and I used gold for XP to motivate them to get to lootin', with the main tension being that there were rival parties also looting the place (I kept it fairly limited, just some cleared out areas to give them the feeling of pressure). The game only got to about level 5 or 6 before I got exhausted for other reasons, but it was great fun and I'd say this is a very easy module to use. More similar to Barrowmaze than Forbidden Caverns or Dwarrowdeep in that sense.
I just want everyone to know the wealth of a reasource using Dwarf Fortress is for generating a world with kingdoms and wars and providing a World History, geography, and political Map console that can search people, events, religions ect. That is easy to riff off of. 1)download it for free by searching for DF Starter Pack by PeridexisErrant. 2) Start playing with the lazy newbie launcher with DFhack enabled. and generate a world. 3) play in Legends Mode 4)export a Kingoms Map and a war and battles Map 5)type in the export legends command into DFhack's console 6)run legend viewer and select the exported world. Enjoy looking around at your populated and historied world that you can access like a Wikipedia without the game even running. Enjoy
Good luck! I ran it a few years ago and had a good time. The party got bored with the undead pretty early on, but the town intrigue and factions were broad enough for us to take it in some different directions.
Good luck! Barrowmaze is pretty newbie friendly - they can hit a few barrow mounds at first for some bite sized adventures before delving into the Maze itself.
I reccomend strongly to use the rival parties and include roving non-undead "monsters" above ground, as the dungeon is mostly undead and gets samesamey after your first arc winds down.
Luft Baboons. Lol. How many of them are there? I got a PDF copy of this in the latest OSR Humble Bundle. I think it had Rappan Athuk in there, too, along with all the OSE rules and probably 20 other dungeons plus at least one world setting. Basically, it was enough gaming material to last for a decade with no other purchases necessary, except maybe some dice. Not bad for $25. Oh, and it had Sword of Air, although that one breaks my brain whenever I even think about trying to run it.
I ran this for a few months and it's fantastic. But it's not really a "classic" megadungeon, it's more like a very dense sandbox full of lots of individual dungeons and towers. I'd say a classic megadungeon is more like levels going down increasing in difficulty. It's good because the towers act as obvious points for the players to go to and loot, and then the dungeons can sometimes be found under them, and the players can choose to delve into them or not. I found it to be very good, with lots of interesting stuff in the towers and dungeons.
@@ChuckBarchuk Yeah you can start at level 1. The biggest challenge for level 1 characters will be actually getting on to Highfell, so I put a few options around town, they ended up stealing magic birdseed from another adventuring party for their first raid.
True that but they are very good. Tbh you can get the PDFs and get the printed off locally on higher quality paper I just ordered some stuff it will be wire bound, lots of stuff for Shadowdark and ISR stuff and one of the big mega dungeons (not Greg's) but one called Gunderholfen going to run it with Shadowdark and use the Monster Overhaul book to add some extra flavour. Like Gunderholfen is 10 bucks for the PDFor so depending on your country of course and it is great! Wise more people looked into it. It's a bit more basic but I think it would be a good start for people. Tons of charts for everything, has a ton of stuff for the big city as well. Rumors, side stuff, events, encounters etc.. just years of content tbh.
I like Castle Xyntilian, but I don't think I would pick up any of Greg's dungeons. They look fine, but don't quite have the flavor that I'm looking for.
@@stevesketches We generally like the more quirky stuff, less vanilla, and a bit less serious. (Haven't read this one, but it looks to be a similar tone to Barrowmaze). Particularly for something as big and long as this it would need more spice. I could add it, but...dunno. I read through Barrowmaze and glanced at one other and this seems to be more of the same style (not more of the same exact sruff by any means) and that style just isn't what we have found we like.
I think the Humblebundle with Highfell included is still going. Check out Jorphan on youtube, he posted a link to it. Get 58 adventures (with Highfell) for like $20
Get HighFell for OSR: bit.ly/HighFellOSR
Get HighFell for 5e: bit.ly/HighFell5e
Check out the Game Master and Player Companions from Dragon Shield! bit.ly/DragonShieldRP
Dwarrowdeep just came out, would love a review of that
I’ve ran this for a dozen or so sessions. Lots of fun. One thing that felt lacking was a bit more background on the wizard towers. Each one had a rad name and a little bit of theme but as a dm I wanted there to be more to discover about the wizard who built the tower. Something for a prospective dm to think about expanding on if their prepping to run this.
Was it too much work to flesh out personally? Like, not enough primer to get paint to stick?
@@c.c.germaine9960 That's a fair way to characterise it, yeah. I felt that too, just because the wizards are quite a disparate bunch.
I ran this for a few months in the pandemic as an online game, and it was a lot of fun. The towers act as really obvious landmarks for players to poke around in, and then descending into the dungeons is a really tense choice they make. My players mostly focused on hitting towers for the first while, and only risked a couple of dungeons. They also allied with the main bad guy faction. I ran it in 5e, and I used gold for XP to motivate them to get to lootin', with the main tension being that there were rival parties also looting the place (I kept it fairly limited, just some cleared out areas to give them the feeling of pressure).
The game only got to about level 5 or 6 before I got exhausted for other reasons, but it was great fun and I'd say this is a very easy module to use. More similar to Barrowmaze than Forbidden Caverns or Dwarrowdeep in that sense.
I just want everyone to know the wealth of a reasource using Dwarf Fortress is for generating a world with kingdoms and wars and providing a World History, geography, and political Map console that can search people, events, religions ect. That is easy to riff off of.
1)download it for free by searching for DF Starter Pack by PeridexisErrant.
2) Start playing with the lazy newbie launcher with DFhack enabled.
and generate a world.
3) play in Legends Mode
4)export a Kingoms Map and a war and battles Map
5)type in the export legends command into DFhack's console
6)run legend viewer and select the exported world.
Enjoy looking around at your populated and historied world that you can access like a Wikipedia without the game even running. Enjoy
First-time GMing and chose Barromaze. Wish me luck.
Good luck! As long as you and players like dungeon survival and exploration you'll have a blast I'm sure.
Good luck! I ran it a few years ago and had a good time. The party got bored with the undead pretty early on, but the town intrigue and factions were broad enough for us to take it in some different directions.
@@lupnasty yeah, it'll be up to them of where to take it. I'm thinking of some rival parties intrigue to keep then going down.
Good luck! Barrowmaze is pretty newbie friendly - they can hit a few barrow mounds at first for some bite sized adventures before delving into the Maze itself.
I reccomend strongly to use the rival parties and include roving non-undead "monsters" above ground, as the dungeon is mostly undead and gets samesamey after your first arc winds down.
Greg makes great content.
Definitely one of the few that fulfill my need of mega dungeons.
Nothing says fantasy like "floating island filled with adventure".
This might as well be custom made for my campaign. Love it!
this looks so nostalgically amazing! I wish I could play in one of these.
Its currently available (pdf only) as part of an Old School Bundle on Humble Bundle.
I love his dungeons, my Barrowmaze got damaged wich sucks. Such good stuff
Love that E. Otis cover.
Interesting video !
Please tell me there's an encounter with 99 Luft Baboons.
I am first! I love barrowmaze we have been running it for 14 months with no end in sight! This looks great. I'm in! Love your show!
Anyone have experience running one of these megadungeons with Worlds Without Number?
I have always wanted to run these settings. Thanks for the glance. Have you ever run a barrowmaze campaign?
Great stuff friend 👏 👍
Luft Baboons. Lol. How many of them are there?
I got a PDF copy of this in the latest OSR Humble Bundle. I think it had Rappan Athuk in there, too, along with all the OSE rules and probably 20 other dungeons plus at least one world setting. Basically, it was enough gaming material to last for a decade with no other purchases necessary, except maybe some dice. Not bad for $25.
Oh, and it had Sword of Air, although that one breaks my brain whenever I even think about trying to run it.
Fantastic review of the book! You need to get Greg Gillespie for an interview or show, that would be amazing :)
Would you recommend this as a mega-dungeon for someone that wants a more 'classic' experience?
I ran this for a few months and it's fantastic. But it's not really a "classic" megadungeon, it's more like a very dense sandbox full of lots of individual dungeons and towers. I'd say a classic megadungeon is more like levels going down increasing in difficulty.
It's good because the towers act as obvious points for the players to go to and loot, and then the dungeons can sometimes be found under them, and the players can choose to delve into them or not.
I found it to be very good, with lots of interesting stuff in the towers and dungeons.
@@johnnybigbones4955 Thanks man. That's great feedback. Is it for beginning characters?
@@ChuckBarchuk Yeah you can start at level 1. The biggest challenge for level 1 characters will be actually getting on to Highfell, so I put a few options around town, they ended up stealing magic birdseed from another adventuring party for their first raid.
My only issue with these is that a print-on-demand book is 75 euros. Dear lord.
True that but they are very good. Tbh you can get the PDFs and get the printed off locally on higher quality paper I just ordered some stuff it will be wire bound, lots of stuff for Shadowdark and ISR stuff and one of the big mega dungeons (not Greg's) but one called Gunderholfen going to run it with Shadowdark and use the Monster Overhaul book to add some extra flavour. Like Gunderholfen is 10 bucks for the PDFor so depending on your country of course and it is great! Wise more people looked into it. It's a bit more basic but I think it would be a good start for people. Tons of charts for everything, has a ton of stuff for the big city as well. Rumors, side stuff, events, encounters etc.. just years of content tbh.
I'm sorry, did you say _luftbaboons?_
cover art by Erol Otus, I see
I like Castle Xyntilian, but I don't think I would pick up any of Greg's dungeons. They look fine, but don't quite have the flavor that I'm looking for.
What sort of flavor ARE you looking for?
@@stevesketches We generally like the more quirky stuff, less vanilla, and a bit less serious. (Haven't read this one, but it looks to be a similar tone to Barrowmaze). Particularly for something as big and long as this it would need more spice. I could add it, but...dunno. I read through Barrowmaze and glanced at one other and this seems to be more of the same style (not more of the same exact sruff by any means) and that style just isn't what we have found we like.
Yeah, Greg's D&D is vanilla D&D. It's well done it doesn't stop being vanilla.
@@vagabundorkchaosmagick-use2898 Nothing wrong with that, just not generally what my group enjoys.
@@johnathanrhoades7751 There are 99 Luft Baboons.
May have to grab the file, but $75 for a POD hardcover of questionable quality doesn't really make me want to put it on my shelves.
I think the Humblebundle with Highfell included is still going. Check out Jorphan on youtube, he posted a link to it. Get 58 adventures (with Highfell) for like $20
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