Topic: Serious Donjon Reloaded
Started by: Nicolas Crost
Started on: 7/10/2003
Board: CRN Games
On 7/10/2003 at 11:44am, Nicolas Crost wrote:
Serious Donjon Reloaded
Hi all.
We started playing Donjon a short while ago and after the prototypical dungeon crawl with rather low seriousness, we started with new characters and had a serious adventure! It really went surprisingly well, no crashed shuttles in the middle of the desert... The whole adventure took place in a city and we didn´t even see a dungeon the whole evening! And I was really amazed by the creative uses for looking around, speaking with people and even reading minds skills.
To make things short: I guess most people mistake Donjon for some quick and funny one-shot engine. Which it surely does very well. But I think that Donjon has a much bigger potential for good storytelling, which admittedly is a little bit difficult to find under its rather funny shell.
Anyway, great game, we will continue playing and I´ll keep you posted.
Nicolas
On 7/10/2003 at 5:23pm, Mike Holmes wrote:
RE: Serious Donjon Reloaded
To make things short: I guess most people mistake Donjon for some quick and funny one-shot engine. Which it surely does very well. But I think that Donjon has a much bigger potential for good storytelling, which admittedly is a little bit difficult to find under its rather funny shell.
I totally agree. I'm not even sure why people can't see it's potential for serious play, other than perhaps the style that the text is written in. It totally screams out to me for serious play.
Mike
On 7/10/2003 at 6:35pm, Matt Wilson wrote:
RE: Serious Donjon Reloaded
In a review I wrote up for Donjon, I suggest that a group might need to play one or two "silly" sessions to get over the power trip.
It's a lot like what John Harper says about Wushu. You have to rely heavily on the social contract to make the game work. You as players all have to be in agreement as to why you're playing. I like that a lot about Donjon.
I plan on running a 4-5 session Donjon series in a month or two.
On 7/10/2003 at 7:07pm, Lxndr wrote:
RE: Serious Donjon Reloaded
All this talk makes me wish Donjon was still in print. *sigh*
On 7/10/2003 at 7:22pm, Mike Holmes wrote:
RE: Serious Donjon Reloaded
In a review I wrote up for Donjon, I suggest that a group might need to play one or two "silly" sessions to get over the power trip.
Yeah, for the Traditional Gamer conversion process, I suppose so. I'm starting to see Clinton's genius here. Trap em with something light-seeming, and let them experience the serious side for themselves.
Mike
On 7/11/2003 at 11:13am, Sadric wrote:
Re: Serious Donjon Reloaded
Nicolas Crost wrote: Hi all.
We started playing Donjon a short while ago and after the prototypical dungeon crawl with rather low seriousness, we started with new characters and had a serious adventure! It really went surprisingly well, no crashed shuttles in the middle of the desert... The whole adventure took place in a city and we didn´t even see a dungeon the whole evening!
Nicolas
Whasnt the sewers a little Dungon. Ok, only one encounter. 2 Stealth-worms.
"I know all about the sewers. The dangerous animals down there are only worms. they couldnt make a sound (so they couldnt warn our enemies when we encounter them)." Giant stealth worms!
Nicolas Crost wrote:
And I was really amazed by the creative uses for looking around, speaking with people and even reading minds skills.
Nicolas
Yeah, mind reading is cool. So you could say what people are thinking, and could create many new ideas and plots, without talking with the other people.
Sadric
Hi Nico :-)