Behold! The first dungeon of Wizard City: The Manticore (formerly known as St. Manti's Cathedral). It is a procedural-generated high-risk wizard casino, where one can and most certainly will bet anything and everything that can be bet.
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In all its criminal unregulated glory!
This actually fits perfectly with the campaign I'm running at the moment. The party are in a magical college town, and just got some quest rewards.
ReplyDeleteCheck out the rest of Wizard City Hexcrawl - the whole thing's an aggregation of materials for a magical college town.
DeleteAlso, if you end up running it, promise me you'll post the playtesting notes either here in the comments or DMing me over Discord. I've yet to try and run this thing (hence the Unplaytested tag), so I've got that nagging feeling that some changes may be necessary as experience with the module is accrued.
DeleteThank you very much.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, Kyana!
DeleteUpdate: I ran it tonight as a "filler episode", since only half my players could make it.
ReplyDeleteA suspicious graduate student came up to the wizard in an inn and showed him a portable portal to the place, and the cleric followed to try to keep him out of trouble.
The crawl got cut short by the cops showing up before the party had the chance to do any serious gambling.
I ended up having them exit through a portal that landed them in another town's party district.
Oh man, they rolled a 6-1? Damn that's unlucky.
DeletePlaytesting notes: The encounter system feels unwieldy. I think it could probably be streamlined a bit.
ReplyDeleteAside from that, I enjoyed it, and so did the players.
I think I'll probably adapt a few more bits of Wizard City for my setting, since this went well.
Yeeeaaahhh... Craps is a really unwieldy game. Even meeting the game halfway leaves it feeling a bit clunky. It may just be best to do the standard chance per Turn for random encounter, then roll 2d6 on the list.
DeleteThat picture got a proper snort and chuckle from me.
ReplyDeleteAdditional note:
ReplyDeleteThe music from Cuphead is the perfect soundtrack for this.