(Oh, and the frame also gives a nod to restocking and a dynamic environment. The campaign book coming next year will have more, apparently.)

So I think I'm gonna be approaching my campaign prep very much from a "prepping a megadungeon" angle. Which is pretty damn exciting.

(By default, DH only provides for milestone levelling. I don't mind it as a player, but I revolt at the idea as a GM.)

Drakkenheim for DH has a vast, labyrinthine hostile space to delve into; a faction system; and random encounters.

Sounds like good meat for a 'crawl to me.

Basically, while the core rules suggest a very trad x narrative style of adventure gaming, I think there's a lot of interesting ways we can use DH's systems (like Fear and the 4-fold duality dice results) to do other things. One thing I AM gonna be test-driving is XP levelling advancement.

DH is not an OSR, or even NSR, game by any stretching of the terms. But among other things, it has modular design, a focus on emergent stories, and proceduralized play tools. And it's definitely "a dnd" (a fantasy adventure game, playable with pen and paper and miniature figures).

I'm super excited. Especially because my read on the campaign is that, despite the urban setting, its got most all the hallmarks of a *megadungeon* campaign.

I've been fiddling with ideas for months about how to marry DH and old-school types of play.

And also at the local rpg society, I'm playing in a Werewolf: the Apocalypse game that's just getting off the ground! It's my first proper WoD experience, I'm pretty excited.

I'm pitching 3 different campaigns at them. 1 from the core rules (Colossus of the Drylands), the Drakkenheim beta frame, and a homebrew. Sent them a preview doc (1 page each).

That they are all into all 3 of them is very gratifying lmao

Tuesday can't come soon enough. We're all chomping at the bit, which is extremely gratifying. We're starting with a DH Session 0, of course, which involves deciding on a campaign frame (milieu).

Last time it took us like, 3 hours to pick 1 out of 5. My goal is.... not that long lmao.

Makes sense! I don't know why I never thought of it - probably because I usually only think about reaction tables in terms of wandering monsters, I guess.

Very true! I typically prefer it myself as well - meant mostly in reference to the effect of "heighten the risk when the player's dally and argue about inconsequential things". SD achieves a similar effect as that guideline suggests.

Did you choose to determine reactions ahead of time or was there an instruction about that? (Or is it part of the standard OSE stocking? I am unfamiliar with OSE rules.)

Oh that's a devilish number to manage on dice. I'd pull out the zocchi dice tricks and either roll a d30 (ignore/reroll 26-30) or I'd drop one of the 25 and roll d24.

One of those moments when you (or at least I) really appreciate the simple genius of Shadowdark's real-time torch timer!

When I first started looking into past editions of D&D and specifically the history of the Forgotten Realms (which had never been my *favourite* milieu), I was really surprised to learn the backstory to why TSR bought the Realms.

Looking forward to the video!

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