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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing wrong with a five room dungeon, just remember that sometimes a "room" can be more than one room. A "room" can even be a five room dungeon unto itself. Also be sure to create loops, branches, and dead ends. One of the best things to discover in dungeons is when there are multiple ways of traversing them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm trying to keep the actual "rooms" from becoming too formulaic, it's the episodic part that's got me a little worried. I want my players to control the story but they're being sent on away missions so I'm worried they feel like they're just checking boxes:

  • get to know the locals
  • find the reason they're there
  • gather info
  • find/kill the X but, oh no/yay, here comes Y
  • repercussions for finding/killing (or not) the X
  • possibly stay and party with the ewoks for a while
  • head home

Of course, the missions they go on are not happening in a vacuum and affect other missions and the overall story and they choose the missions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds to me like the standard rinse-and-repeat for most D&D-style TTRPGs. Are your players complaining?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They aren't, I should definitely keep that in mind