Tolkien's Moria is a revelation to farmers Dungeon. An abandoned mine truly dwarf epic proportions, the fragmented memories of the disaster that struck them, the constant sense of threat from the drums in the deep, fierce battles with orcs, trolls, the Balrog ... wonderful! Dwarf fortresses, mines or cities like Moria offer of several good reasons as Dungeons
- plausibility: In some publications known German role playing the various game options from classic dungeons always broken with the plausibility of the thighs. Because seriously: How can one explain the existence sprawling underground vault? Which villain would do the job, a complex system of caves auszuschürfen? For a high-fantasy campaign with D & D to me this kind of plausibility is not care, but who they still at heart, found in Dwarf holds one (in the game world axioms - there is Dwarves) comprehensible way to install a guild dungeon.
- Variation: tomb tomb remains, natural cave is a natural cave. In contrast, however, the Dwarf hold: upon each level can easily change the type and style of the dungeon. You fight through residential levels and mushroom farms is growing, down into the mines and the tomb of the High Kings to finally get to the dark caverns, from which the evil crept into the once prosperous city.
- Historical Exploration: It offers the excellent opportunity to reconstruct the fragmented history of the dwarf mine. One should of course take care to do so only with players in which the exploration is a priority. Here is an inscription, an old diary entry, where the descendant of a survivor who would not leave his home. From the barren start to the glittering wedding to the shocking end to immerse the player in the tragic history of the dwarf kingdom. Balin's recordings of Moria their regards.
- Availability: Who wants to know where to find free plans of thousands of dwarf fortresses ...
For years, a graphically minimalist freeware game is on the net talked about: Dwarf Fortress . Those who are not put off by ASCII art and cumbersome user interface can be rewarded with a true delicacy of build-up strategy: Dwarf Fortess is a highly complex Sandboxspiel, where you can in Sim-City-principle to build a miniature fortress, yet to the wishes and sensitivities of his Sims aka dwarfs have to care. Fascinating here is the incredible complexity of the game: extensive Resource cycles, augeklügelte irrigation systems for underground fungus farms, a network of traps and defenses against Goblineinfälle, several marketing systems and the regulation of lava flows are some of the diverse features of the game and the tasks that await the dwarf prince. The unofficial motto of the game is "Losing is fun" - the destruction of the fortress by Goblineinfälle, famine, flooding, magma disasters, epidemics, ceiling collapse or the unspeakable horror from the deep just a matter of time. Good players can to delay the end, but never prevent it, such as for example the history of Dwarf Fortress Boatmurdered shows "
What has got to do with paper and pencil role-playing game very simple.? The cards of hundreds of thousands of dwarf fortresses there here online In this Wiki find the appropriate legends. . decrypt the but part cryptic symbols of the cards is ready, the perfect template for the abandoned dwarf city in its own campaign course, one has the same shall have to fill with exciting encounters, quests and NPC -. after all, is the most important step in Dungeonbau more important than the topography. But we have a template for the latter schonmal remains, for now more precious time to prepare.
The advantage of such a card at the same time is its drawback: Their topography is arbitrary, but also plausible. Channels, corridors, halls are where they are for reasons of practical necessity, Goblinfallen where Goblineinfälle are expected, and raw material warehouse, where you can use them, so close to the shops - because the dwarf fortress comes from a simulation, and the builders had to contend with the same problems as a "real" dwarf community. So far, so good. This also means that the fort was adapted in its original form from the requirements of a dungeon exploration, ie narrative and playful requirements: Redundant Premises for example, can get bored players - who wants to search the bedrooms of 200 dwarfs?
Despite these drawbacks worth a browse in our Archive. If someone can give me now to point out how to convert back to Flash files to image files, I would be extremely happy.
last two impressions of some premises, the first with ASCII tileset, the second with a slightly improved graphics (!):
It greets
Grimnir
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