Good to hear! Iâll mark my calendar.
YEA BOI
that means thereâll be a new ACKS kickstarter soon, right?
Iâve always wanted to kick a start
Yes! Soon. When my Sanity Points recover.
The ACKS version is on RPGNow; thus scheduling my lunch hours for the next couple weeks.
I bought it!
Bought! Looking good, if a bit overwhelming
Is there (or will there soon be) a âDwimmermount complete packâ so that we can be sure weâre getting everything? Or even just a list? So far Iâve discovered:
Dwimmermount itself
Dungeon tracker
Map pack
Art pack
Is there anything more? How much redundancy is there between them? (e.g., Does the main book include all the maps, making the map pack more of a âyou only need this if you buy the print versionâ accessory?) If I want to actually run a party through Dwimmermount, is the core book enough to do that or are the add-ons completely necessary to do so?
IANAA, but Tavis has said about the Map pack âYes, [Dwimmermount itself] includes each of the maps as a full page at the start of each dungeon or wilderness chapter. The Dwimmermount Map Book presents them as a two-page spread, designed for printing as a separate booklet.â Similarly, I believe both the Art pack and Dungeon tracker can be described as âluxuryâ add-ons. Dwimmermount itself contains everything needed to run a party through Dwimmermount. IMO, itâs a deal for $10.
Dwimmermount (ACKS or LL) and the three add-ons you list are all that I am aware of.
Bought it!
Bought it!
Thanks for the support!!!
There is not a Dwimmermount complete pack, although thatâs a nifty idea.
The Map Pack may be advised if youâre looking to run Dwimmermount along with itâs implied environs, the wilderness map in my PDF at least is rough to read, and the hex numbers are illegible.
Presumably the Map Book has a larger multi-page production of that.
From the preview of the Dungeon Tracker, it actually looks pretty handy; the rooms are marked up with monsters/traps/items/treasures, and each level gets an overview of what you can do, acces points, faction notes, quick-hits on history.
Itâs what Iâd have to do anyway to prep to run the thing, so itâs well worth the money to have someone else do it for you.
so just to confirm, the dungeon tracker is a separate purchase? I donât mind if it is, Iâm happy to toss more $$ at Autarch
It is, yes; $10. Itâs well under the time-value-of-money threshold to have a lot of the organizational work done for you. Itâs meant to print out on 11x17 paperâŚOfficeMax or whatever can print that out for less than $10 I think.
I kind of hope Dwimmermountâs presentation becomes a new norm, thereâs all sorts of little tidbits and things in here that are just good ideas for anyoneâs game, even if not a megadungeon.
I agree, although itâs making me a bit sad because the assumed cosmology doesnât work at all for my existing campaign so it would be quite a bit of work for me to adapt. I may be making posts here and in the G+ community shortly to discuss how people are hammering it into their own settings.
Bummer to hear that. I bought the core pdf last night and have only been browsing the appendices so far. Enough to know that the assumed cosmology doesnât really fit my existing setting (heavily based on Red Tide) either, but not enough to know how pervasive it is in the actual megadungeon itself or whether it can be simply ignored in practice.
From what Iâve seen of the dungeon tracker in the DTRPG preview of it, Iâll probably be getting it, even if I never run Dwimmermount, simply so that I can mine it for ideas on packing more information onto my own dungeon maps. I donât really like it being priced the same as the core book that it summarizes, though⌠Iâd feel better about it if it was, say $15 for core and $5 for the tracker instead of $10 and $10, even though the end result is identical. Human psychology is weird like that.
Eh. I donât think itâs that limiting; âplanetsâ are just âplanesâ with a spare âtâ. The Red Eld could easily be redone as Drow or something similar, to be made local, perhaps.
May be worth another thread though, so as not to hide something that may be generally useful up in here.
I tend to think that the core module is a steal at $10. The âbackâ page has a suggested price of $40
Our retail and PDF pricing ratios have been somewhat skewed because sometimes content cost is driven up by production cost, and then when we assign the PDF as a ratio of that it looks off.
True, the Awesomeness / Price ratio is extremly highâŚ