This weekend I discovered that I'm near the bottom of the second printing of How to Host a Dungeon! So now I'm starting to think about what the next printing will look like. So what do you want to see or think would be cool in a new version of How to Host a Dungeon? Good as is? Needs more monsters and villains? Or something else entirely?
The problem I ran into was just that the age of monsters took forever to run through. When I added the PCs this took the longest amount of time to process. Anything to speed this portion up would be very helpful
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see optional rules systems that develop it into a genuine solitaire game, with goals and interesting decisions. Like, you want to reach Glory score X, or ensure each age lasts X turns, or foster a chosen civilization so it touches all four map edges. Or something like that. Make it possible to win or lose.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see a bit more in the way of examples and sample play. I have to confess there are a few rough spots in the explanations where don't quite understand; I wind up just winging it and hope for the best. (Room size and treasure placement/scope, comes to mind.)
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I will freely admit that maybe I'm a bit slow; it's just a tad confusing for some reason.
I recently introduced my brother to the game, and he and I started on a list of small issues that we felt needed fixing. As Boric G alluded to, there are portions of the rules explanations that are a bit... challenging. I think that some of the text just needs to be cleaned up and made clearer. Of course, you could always add more races, etc etc.
ReplyDeleteOhh Expand the sandbox around the dungeon or maybe that's just another game called How to Host a Wilderness (err or Sandbox)
ReplyDeleteI started hacking HtHaD for that but I am not such a good designer ;)
First and foremost, I would second that I would like to see optional rules that develop it into a genuine solitaire game with goals etc.
ReplyDeleteOr how about rules for creating a simple characters to romp through and try to destroy what has developed witin, again just for solitaire, we have RPG's and miniature rules for dealing with this otherwise.
Also I would, like Boric G, like to see more examples of play.
But as I said before, push a little bit more towards a solitaire version (that we could all still use as a dungeon builder as well, honestly I use this for my kids when I build Fighting Fantasy RPG dungeons now, they do it with me them I GM the dungeon). A solitaire goal orientated version would be fantastitc for those longer journeys, or an evening of peace and quiet (with kids, your having a laugh!).