GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Setting: Caverntown

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by Kromm

Thank you all for the kind words. I wrote this during a tough time in my life (ongoing), so it's great to hear it isn't a flop.

It certainly isn't. It's twistedly ingenious, and interesting even to someone who isn't that much into dungeon fantasy.

I hope your real life issues are resolved well.

[Refplace]

Also hoping for the best for you.
As for a flop, I dont recall anything of yours that qualifies.

[scc]

You know, I've been wondering when we'd see something like this for a while.

[Joe]

Ah! I'm so excited about this - I snapped it up right away, and just started reading it. Much fun!

[Evil Roy Slade]

My congratulations to Kromm for getting the rarefied vocab of monadnock and inselberg into a gaming product, a trick that not even the polysllabic EGG ever managed*. If only he had managed to work bornhardt into the list of things it is not... but that would be asking too much.

Anyway, it is a great product and I am very happy to see it. Unfortunately my DF game is on hiatus until the summer, but that gives me all the more time to ponder how to get the PCs here.



*C'mon, where did most of us learn dweomer, weal, demiurge, geas, and milieu?

[Joe]

Originally Posted by Evil Roy Slade

My congratulations to Kromm for getting the rarefied vocab of monadnock and inselberg into a gaming product

Ha! I laughed at those, too. The whole first chapter is quietly hilarious, in my humble opinion, partly because (rightly or wrongly) it gave me a strong sense that the author had had fun writing it....

It's also a really fun setting for a game, and could totally be run "straight", without the humor, if one preferred. But the writing itself is quite funny, IMHO.

[JohnLynch]

I have t finished reading it, but I like what I see so far. Surprisingly there aren't many products like this. Typically you get books on whole nations or adventures, rather than just one city. D&D 4th ed did one product like this and it was probably one of the best ones it did. This compares quite favorably

It's fascinating to see the tone which is equal parts irreverent and equal parts old school Greyhawk.

I'm working on my own DF home base, and this has me thinking of ways to help liven it up. Like Caverntown (which is a ridiculous name but it works and I like the touch of other names trying to be used officially but the locals were just like "Nah") I've got a gold rush mentality for adventuring, but this book helps give me ideas on how the local farmers and thatchers react to this sudden influx of adventurers.
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[Blind Mapmaker]

Published a review on my blog:

https://blindmapmaker.wordpress.com/...ng-caverntown/
Warning: May contain ads, depending on your ad-blocker settings (really should make my own site I know). It's only Wordpress, though.

I agree with the things said so far, but I want to stress one thing in particular: This is basically the plug-and-play setting folks have been clamouring for for ages. Go buy it! And if you do, maybe we get a couple of those dungeons fleshed out in a while.

[Dalin]

Ahhhh, this is a delicacy!

I read the first 15 pages last night, falling asleep while mulling the Royal Embassy and Deep Rangers.

One of my favorite bits so far was the potential for wealthy "tourists" to provide quest opportunities:

Originally Posted by GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Setting: Caverntown

Rich tourists see delvers as trained animals (albeit dangerous ones), and offer money for insane dares. Others want to be escorted through a dungeon, which is madness of another kind.

Both of these tourist roles sound fun. I can imagine creating a recurring dilettante NPC who begins by simply asking for stories (and paying for mementos), proceeds to suggest increasingly challenging quests or dares, and finally asks to come along on an absurdly dangerous journey.

[Refplace]

Originally Posted by Dalin

Both of these tourist roles sound fun. I can imagine creating a recurring dilettante NPC who begins by simply asking for stories (and paying for mementos), proceeds to suggest increasingly challenging quests or dares, and finally asks to come along on an absurdly dangerous journey.

Oh, yeah.Kind of like some Safari types from back in the day.
Imagine the fun with a dilettante monster slayer using the PCs as 'Guides' and they have to keep him from getting killed while making him look good so he comes back with a trophy and great stories.