Strongholds

Summary:

Mulling over the Mystarian dream...

Strongholds

Jedo 06 Jun 2011 15:23

This weekend I took some time to read up on the Stronghold system in BECMI/OD&D since I have never actually seen it in action. My 'aha!' moment was when I realized that it is basically the same thing as Carousing- a system to convert gold into XP, New powers, and generate interesting situations.

The only difference between them is scale in both money and time required. -And for me, there is a clearer narrative around strongholds… Part of my problem grasping Carousing has been that the closest equivalent I can imagine is a Chore list. But I suppose now thinking of it as a mini-stronghold kind of thing, there are a lot of other possibilities.

Re: Strongholds

TavisAllison 07 Jun 2011 14:04

We have been talking about removing the current roll-a-dice-and-see-how-much-you-are-allowed-to-spend aspect of carousing, and instead just let you earn XP for every GP you spend.

It seems to me that this will a) remove the chore list aspect of carousing and b) make strongholds more important and straightforward. It will also tend to help lower-level PCs catch up to the big guys, and help the big guys overcome the terrible humps separating them from each higher level, by removing the inefficiencies that make the conversion of GP to XP bumpy and thus require placing even larger sums of treasure.