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Re: Moria

Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 1:27 pm
by Glorelendil
Terisonen wrote:
Wed Nov 08, 2017 10:35 am
Everybody has is own Balrog.
There's a delightful children's book somewhere in that idea. Perhaps with a dark ending.

Re: Moria

Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 7:16 pm
by Falenthal
Glorelendil wrote:
Wed Nov 08, 2017 1:27 pm
Terisonen wrote:
Wed Nov 08, 2017 10:35 am
Everybody has is own Balrog.
There's a delightful children's book somewhere in that idea. Perhaps with a dark ending.
The moment you close the book, it burns in flames.
Or the reader falls down a bridge, depending on the edition.

Re: Moria

Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 7:54 pm
by Majestic
Glorelendil wrote:
Tue Nov 07, 2017 11:56 pm
Stallheim wrote:
Tue Nov 07, 2017 8:26 pm
What happened with your Moria campaign?
I got mired in creating a subsystem for exploring underground TotT-style, without mapping it out. Went through about 8 versions of it, some of which I posted here.

Version 9 is going to be awesome. Really.
What is TotT-style? Googling that term gives me Zelda and Harvest Moon references.

Re: Moria

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 3:21 am
by Glorelendil
Majestic wrote:
Mon Nov 13, 2017 7:54 pm
Glorelendil wrote:
Tue Nov 07, 2017 11:56 pm
Stallheim wrote:
Tue Nov 07, 2017 8:26 pm
What happened with your Moria campaign?
I got mired in creating a subsystem for exploring underground TotT-style, without mapping it out. Went through about 8 versions of it, some of which I posted here.

Version 9 is going to be awesome. Really.
What is TotT-style? Googling that term gives me Zelda and Harvest Moon references.
It's a typo is what it is. TotM.

Re: Moria

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 7:17 pm
by Majestic
Glorelendil wrote:
Tue Nov 14, 2017 3:21 am
Majestic wrote:
Mon Nov 13, 2017 7:54 pm
Glorelendil wrote:
Tue Nov 07, 2017 11:56 pm


I got mired in creating a subsystem for exploring underground TotT-style, without mapping it out. Went through about 8 versions of it, some of which I posted here.

Version 9 is going to be awesome. Really.
What is TotT-style? Googling that term gives me Zelda and Harvest Moon references.
It's a typo is what it is. TotM.
Sorry, but I'm still confuzzled. Google gives me "time of the month"? :?

Re: Moria

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 7:40 pm
by zedturtle
Theatre of the Mind

Re: Moria

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 8:37 pm
by Falenthal
Travel on to Mordor.

Re: Moria

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 9:17 pm
by Glorelendil
zedturtle wrote:
Tue Nov 14, 2017 7:40 pm
Theatre of the Mind
This. Sorry. In other words, being able to imagine journeying through an underground maze of passages and rooms and tunnels and caverns, without actually drawing it out on a piece of paper.

Re: Moria

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:22 pm
by Majestic
D'oh! I should have known that one. I think I've been stumped by that one before, too.

Re: Moria

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:04 am
by Glorelendil
Also, I don't mean simply "imagining" it but also experiencing, through simple TOR-like mechanics, all the dangers and fears of underground travel: getting lost, backtracking, running out of torches, getting separated, leaping dreadful gaps, etc.