Just found this site. (I’ve been avoiding reddit lately.) Now I’ve got an incentive to make D&D memes again. Migrating my old stuff gradually while I come up with new ideas.
Megadungeons are a bit of a relic from previous editions, when mapping was a large part of the experience. If you’re going to run one, I recommend using B/X or even OD&D and perhaps scaling down a bit - Old megadungeons were made when entire college dorms played in a single campaign, and were meant to grind down party resources.
Mega-dungeons are great. I’m running one now and I basically have zero prep, I made the dungeon and just see where they go. They go in the dungeon and explore, get into some trouble and grab some loot. It’s honestly so nice to have them dungeon crawling. My last game I was juggling plot lines across 5 cities and making custom content constantly in prep. I was burning out between 5e and building content every week.
5e Undermountain is a very poor megadungeon.
We would try to create a map, then be like nope and go outside again
I’m the party wizard/necromancer/note taker and sometimes I do make maps.
Heavy Spoilers for floor 9.
We got the initial map image from the DM. This is annotated and updated.
Where did you find this map‽ that’s so much more than the first level of DotMM. Is this an old version of Undermountain?
I refuse to believe anyone actually ran this module.
I’m in the middle of the 5e version at the moment. We’re level 11 and have reached floor 9 so far. We started December 1st of 2022 and play at least once a week.
Mind blowing. It feels far better suited for something like Shadowdark or OSE than 5e; just totally out of place with 5e’s themes. How are you enjoying it?
Loving it so far. I haven’t had a good old fashioned dungeon crawl for quite some time. Megadungeon in 5e does throw me off occasionally, but we’re doing pretty well. Only one PC died so far, but the druid/cleric revivified him before it stuck.
This the kinda thing that doesn’t work unless you’re playing on a computer.
