Millennium
2007-02-19, 03:44 PM
I've played the OOTS game 4-5 times now, and I've been having a lot of fun with it, once everyone gets down to at least the second floor.
However, the one problem we've had is that the game seems to start off very slowly. Thus far, we haven't played anything but the shortest variant of the game, but even with this we've never been able to get down to the second floor in less than a day, and usually it takes us two days (3-4 hour/day sessions). Once we actually get to the second floor the pace of the game picks up very quickly, and generally finishes off in a couple of hours, and once this happens it's a lot of fun.
Many people complain that low-level characters in D&D are too weak to do anything interesting, and maybe this is supposed to be a dig at that, but it doesn't seem likely. It seems more likely to me that we're probably doing something wrong. But in that case, what is the first level of the dungeon supposed to feel like in 3-4 player games? Certainly it shouldn't take two days just to get to the second floor. Typically we don't go further into the dungeon until we've got 3-4 additional shticks; are we being too cautious?
However, the one problem we've had is that the game seems to start off very slowly. Thus far, we haven't played anything but the shortest variant of the game, but even with this we've never been able to get down to the second floor in less than a day, and usually it takes us two days (3-4 hour/day sessions). Once we actually get to the second floor the pace of the game picks up very quickly, and generally finishes off in a couple of hours, and once this happens it's a lot of fun.
Many people complain that low-level characters in D&D are too weak to do anything interesting, and maybe this is supposed to be a dig at that, but it doesn't seem likely. It seems more likely to me that we're probably doing something wrong. But in that case, what is the first level of the dungeon supposed to feel like in 3-4 player games? Certainly it shouldn't take two days just to get to the second floor. Typically we don't go further into the dungeon until we've got 3-4 additional shticks; are we being too cautious?