Comments on: Forbidden Jungle Lives!

By: Badmike

Badmike — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:01:11 +0000

I’m glad you like the campaign! I have been running it as a online Skype camapaign for many months now with 4 players. It’s been a blast and I like using the “untraditional” locale to my advantage (no armor, hard to re-supply, lots of unusual monsters, etc)…I’ve always thought a jungle setting is one of the most under used settings for fantasy adventuring, and has so many possibilities. I’ll be following your campaign to crib some ideas myself!
The “Elephant’s Graveyard” adventure was originally written by David Howery and appeared in Dungeon magazine #15, and it was David’s many Dungeon magazine jungle adventures (I believe he had 3 or 4) that got me interested in using the locale as a setting for a campaign. A lot of my stuff is based on an existing adventure which I enjoy changing up (sometimes just using the maps or the adventure hook). However I also like the idea of placing lots of adventure locales and having the players follow up on them….for example, the “lost elven city” in my campaign is a hook the players haven’t followed up on yet, nor the brewing war between the Ashante and Tzulan tribes, as they are really excited about battling the snakemen at this time and rescuing any slaves.
The Forbidden City to me becomes a good sandbox setting as you can just use the wonderful map and make your own encounters, or adapt the existing encounters as you see fit, or a combination of both (which I did). So far so good, right now I’m hoping the characters are high enough level to take everything the city throws at them without a TPK!

By: Got in some serious gaming over the weekend « Lord Kilgore

Got in some serious gaming over the weekend « Lord Kilgore — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:28:58 +0000

[...] gaming on Friday and Saturday than I’d managed in the previous six months, I think. The first session with my son on Friday night was one of the most enjoyable I’ve ever played, and we followed it up on Saturday morning [...]

By: Erin

Erin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:34:35 +0000

I’m really pleased to see the Forbidden Jungle open for business! Your initial write-ups for the FJ sandbox setting was how I found your blog last year, and I was (am) very interested in how you develop the setting. I’m hoping you’ll get a chance to share some of your high-level notes, maps, history, and background for this setting. Thanks for bringing it back!

By: Badmike

Badmike — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:07:26 +0000

I’m running a campaign right now utilizing the Forbidden City (probably my fave D&D locale of all time). I’ve set it up Sandbox style, with encounters all across the city, and although the party has several nominal goals (searching for a kidnapped uncle; trying to find a library with forbidden knowledge; destroying the serpent men slavers) they are really just going to be “hex crawl exploring” the environs. BTW love your write up!
My blog for this campaign is here (http://delosdark.blogspot.com/), if you just want to read the Forbidden City writeups then skip to “The Forbidden City Parts 1-3″ which are the last few. Good Luck with your campaign!

By: The Venomous Pao

The Venomous Pao — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:04:20 +0000

Very nice, LK! Sounds like y’all had a blast. I love the jungle as an environment for RPGs. Here’s to many more sessions for you.