Anyone else knows Dungeonaday.com?

[Matteo Luconi]

Hey everyone,

first of all allow me to give you all a little introduction of what I'm here to talk about.
I'm a Pathfinder GM that has been running a very wonderful campaign for the past 2 years. This campaign was initially written by RPG Legend Monte Cook and then by the guys at Super Genius Games and can be found at the address in the title, and believe me, it is spectacular.
Now... the actual mantainers of the site (the SGG guys) are asking the support of the community via a Kickstarter project to keep the lights on since the site has run into financial problems a few months ago and almost died.

My point is: how is it even possible that a site like that is in danger of disappearing?
The campaign, called Dragon's Delve is fully hyperlinked and is presented in 3.5 format (and later levels are also PFRPG-converted), is a fully flashed out mega dungeon spanning almost 30 levels, each and every encounter different and unique, not a single empty room to be seen anywhere; there are beautiful maps and handouts; the site navigates easily and the story is compelling and very modular. So, if you have a campaign on your own you can, reuse many of the levels or ecounters to accomodate your personal needs.

The only explanation I can give myself is that the site didn't get the visibility and attention that such a project deserves.

I don't mean to spam these boards with links and I'm sorry if somebody feels like reading this post was a loss of time but I'm genuinely curious about how many of the users of the Paizo boards knew about this project and what it the general feeling about it.

I sincerely hope to hear your thoughts about this.

Oh, and forgive my english as it's not my mother tongue...

[hogarth]

Ciao!

I know very little about what is going on behind the scenes as Dungeon-A-Day, but from what I heard, the novelty started to wear off for people (including Monte).

I played the first bit of it, and I thought it was okay. I'm not a mega-dungeon fanatic, though.

[erian_7]

Same for me--not a fan of dungeon crawls, so Dungeon-A-Day never inspired me to purchase even though I knew about it from it's start-up under Monte.

[yellowdingo]

Anybody can create a Megadungeon.

[Matteo Luconi]

So the problem is the dungeon-oriented content of the site, not the fact that is presented as a online resource, right?

@yellowdingo: yes, anyone can create a very big dungeon but not everyone can create a good one.

[hogarth]

Matteo Luconi wrote:

So the problem is the dungeon-oriented content of the site, not the fact that is presented as a online resource, right?

I think it's also difficult to keep people (both the reader and the writer) interested in something every day over a long period of time without getting tired of it after a while. You start to suffer from burnout.

[erian_7]

An online, fully hyper-linked, well-designed product that is, say, a full adventure path with different towns/adventure areas/etc. would be great. For instance, if Kingmaker was web-based I'd buy it in a minute! But just a big dungeon? No thanks. Also, having to subscribe to the site for access can be weird--once I pay for something I want it to be mine. In general I don't invest in things where if the subscription lapses I lose my stuff (Rhapsody's music service is the only thing at present, and that's because the cost-to-benefit ratio is huge compared to buying individual tracks/albums).