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RPGLL 083

Fortress of the Iron Duke (BFRPG)

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Summary

We played “Fortress of the Iron Duke” by Chris Gonnerman.

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Quick Impressions

Numeric Rating

  • Dusty: 8, AWESOME change of pace with FAST combat and tactical play.
  • Mike: #, thoughts
  • Brian: #, thoughts

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Dungeon Crawl

We haven’t done a dungeon crawl in a while. We’ve talked about them on the show, and it inspired me to run one for fun. We’re one session in...

  • Is this a good change of pace?
  • Were we ready for a dungeon crawl, or is that just me?
    • Mike, you mentioned you’d been loving the story-driven “World of Dungeons”

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Characters

You guys ran pre-mades.

  • Just enough on the sheets to run with? Or too generic to be fun?

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Starting Off

The module starts in town with rumors, etc. And you have to “decide” to go into the dungeon. The module even jokes: “It’ll be a short adventure if they don’t.” So I just skipped all that and TOLD you that you were going the dungeon...

  • Were you okay with that?
  • Is there a more graceful way to introduce a dungeon crawl? Like try to “invisibly” funnel you toward it?
  • Would you have preferred that “herding,” or is a little meta-game honesty okay?

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Shopping

Before I dropped you in the entryway… I let you go shopping. We usually have an issue with “planning…”

  • How’d we do this time?

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Map

I made a map at half the usual scale (½-in = 5ft) and we used an aquarium stone just to represent the room that we were in.

  • Brian, you love the grid. And we did a grid for “overland” movement, but not for move-by-move combat. Weak tea, or a good compromise?
  • Mike, you could see the corridors and rooms. Did you find yourself meta-gaming?
  • Was it okay that I teased the secret rooms?

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Descriptions

I STUDIED the box-text so that I could read it with speed and emotion.

  • Did it feel like I was reading?

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Combat

Holy God, combat was FAST. We had, like, six combats in a little over an hour of play time.

  • Did you enjoy combat?
  • Did it feel dangerous?

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Conclusions

What lessons did we learn?

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