This Dungeon

I have found a few pictures of what ruins and dungeons look like. This is a test of what this blog can do.


Stairs down









We make it to a door


















We find an atrium





















Suddenly goblins are coming...






If you don't put lots of space the images will overlap.

You think you can take these Dungeons?

This is a little experiment to see how much I can post on a blog.




I am the guide for the adventurers. They are young and stupid full of piss and vinegar and gold.

Stupid all stupid they are they actually "want" to go deep into a dungeon. I bring them to the entrance. The foolishly make noise and sounds of glee. If I did not need the money and not have these men working for me oh how I would get a young wife and start a farm BUT all my gold goes they way of drinking.

There are the two young lovers. The Thief and the Druid. She could do so much better.








The Wizard











The Fighter










Not enough to enter this dungeon. Me and my men grumble at these idiots. The entrance looks like this...











Will we survive?

Hero's Mag Setting

I have this world that I have used for years in various incarnations. Here is what I have so far from the North American Continent.

Mega-Earth present day:

North America was slit up into five distinct nations after the civil war with many smaller city states in between. These nations are roughly called the United Megalopolis North America. These nations are nothing close to being United.

United Megalopolis North America 1-7
Republicia
The nation that is the remnants of the old USA. It is in the current midst of an economic crisis and is bogged down by wars in the middle east. This area is know as the East Coast or Neo England. It is primarily thought of as a Republic but it is at the begging stages of a Fascist State.

Steelton
A corporatist owned industrial giant that has been rotting from the inside due to free trade. Much of Steelton's factories are closed down. This area is know as the North East or the Great Lakes Nations. The nation is owned by warring corporations.

Tropica
The nation of sun and sand also know as the Southeast Coast or The Peninsula that goes out into the Gulf and Atlantic. It is ran by various families of great power.

Confederation
The southern gulf coast is home to the Confederation Megalopis. The Confederation is the very successful nation that won their freedom from the former United States which is now Republica. The Confederation has many petroleum refineries and very good farmlands. The Confederation has not been without it's problems as the slave rebellion in 1962 will attest. On that year slavery was finally abolished but it nearly tore the nation apart. Justice Johnson lead the rebellion and is still alive today. It is a very loose libertarian and/or anarchist state.

Desert
This is a nation know as the high desert. It is a highly religious area and is quite self sufficient. It is ran by a theocracy and various warring sects.

Rain
Know as the Nortwest this area is a mecca of industry. It is ran by various powers of all kinds.

Liberalia
Know as the East Coast this area is a huge Socialist Democracy. It is ran by the state but there are many factions all at war.

The Black StairsNPC party idea

Well up till 3:40 in the morning drinking fine vodka(because I ran out of bourbon) and working on my huge maps. About a hundred rooms per level. It's going to be a massive undertaking for anyone to take on this dungeon.

Once again I came up with a twist. One of the monsters I rolled up was an NPC party.

Now that can be interesting in itself as on a previous session the NPCs that were not hired went to the dungeon to explore on their own and best of all attack the weakened party to steal their stuff.

But why not give them more of a story?

When the players reenter the Black Stairs there will be a letter claiming the dungeon to the Raven's Keep Adventuring Society. The letter will also say that only sanctioned RKAS members may enter the dungeon if not legal action will be taken on the offenders. On the back will be a waiver of liabilities and a HUGE list of more that 15 NPCs in the party.

How will the players react to this? This is the dungeon that they bled in many times and now some upstart is claiming it?

This should be pretty good...

FALLOUT3 PC

Fallout 3 is just one of the best first person RPGs ever made.
The graphics and game play are fantastic if you got the machine with the ass to run it. If you don't have the machine to run it the enemies won't render at a distance but they still can shoot you.

The story is gritty and very deep as you explore the wastelands of a futuristic art deco Washington DC wasteland.

The game is huge with months of game play. Its so big that you wonder how did they have the time or budget to make a world on a massive scale.

If your looking for something to take up far too much time then F3 is the game to be.

The Black Stairs

Well this week I am going to work on my old school dungeon The Black Stairs.

I will incorporate story into a megadungeon and it will be good.

Am I going to try and publish it? Hell no!

So far as my other projects are in limbo as well.

This is going to be a character grinder that does not forgive but any who survive shall be wealthy and gain levels.

It shall be at least 4 sheets of graph paper per level with some even larger.

One requirement I have is it shall not be work but pleasure and enjoyment.

Gamers and Health

With so many Original Gamers dying off this last few years at way of a too young of an age in my opinion, is the gamer lifestyle a killer lifestyle?

Are there things that we need to do more like watching what we eat and getting exercise?

How many of us have had a checkup in the last few years?

Many of us need to make a change on how we live or die too early.

Plus there is still LOTS of gaming to do so I ain't got time to die.