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I have just come into possession of the Rappan Athuk book and it got me to wondering, "How would I want to run this? How would I want to play this?"
That led me to wondering: what would the various personalities of this wonderful forum like to see out of an Rappan Athuk recruitment?
Full Disclosure: this recruitment will not happen for a while as I just got the book and I have little time to run a game at the moment. I am merely testing the waters as to what would be the most interesting for other people when I do open a recruitment in the future.
Does anyone have a certain set of books or rules that they would like to see used for this legendary death trap? Anything specific you are super tired of seeing that you think should be banned? Any quirky rules tweaks you think would lend spice to the mortality pie?
Lend me your thoughts! They will be considered for an upcoming recruitment near you!
I like Gestalt and considering the reported difficulty of this adventure it may be helpful.
Also considering this adventure, using auto bonus progression is useful.
lack of ability to make custom items or get specific items the party may want.
also eliminates the continuous standard stuff, like cloak of resistance, bracers of armor, etc. and lets the party make use of the other neat stuff that could occupy those slots.
with no real place to sell gear to get cash, the party is solely reliant upon what they find in the dungeon. Auto bonus progression helps alleviate some of that.
LF II which one is that?
cool, was going to apply to that but I really don't care for FR setting much
I'd be interested in it. There is a recruitment going to fill an opening in one that's ongoing using Gestalt and ABP, so I think both of those work well for this game.
Actually I applied to that one. and I also recommended the rules here so in case I don't get in that game it won't be much to re-apply here if it opens up.
Im interested, especially if getstalt.
Gestalt gives a little power buff, but not anything like mythic. What gestalt gives you is endurance. And that is something that I hear that Rappan Athuk needs
Here's a little more evaluation. Gestalt vs mythic
I think that a little buffing is okay, but it's mostly the length of the day that's big.
What level are we starting?
Indeed, most instances i've seen of Rappan Athuk run here on the boards, spend some time around the nearby wilderness getting up to 5-6th level, then tackling the dungeon proper.
The Dm's have also warned their non-gestalt character builders to not get too attached to their charactes as death-by-many-means was an almost certainty.
Apparently, it's also easy to stumble on non-level appropriate dangers easily, so common advice is get ready to run when needed.
Going gestalt may make the characters a bit more likely to survive a ...little...longer :)
My two cents. I'll definately be applying.
I'd give this a go. Might be fun to try and survive cartain death. If nothing else, I could try out a bunch of different character concepts.
I'd like to start at 5th at least.
I don't mind danger, but I don't want to deal with stupid, tedious character death. I've already played through Tomb of Horrors, thank you.
Basically, I'm fine with hard encounters and the thought that if we don't pick up on the signs we might walk into the lair of a dragon of much higher CR than us.
I'm not fine with "Hah-hah-ha! When you sat on the stool you only checked for traps twice and you didn't dispel the nondetection covering the curse. Now you're dead forever!"
I don't want to have to get into the 1e style where you have to be overly paranoid to simply reduce the danger.
Gestalt Rappan Athuk would be really cool. I'd, personally, like to see The Avowed Playtest made available, but it's certainly understandable why you might not.
Spheres of power is always fun.
Spheres of Power are really cool, in my opinion. I also really like the Spheres of Might playtest, but it's ended, and the rules as they were are no longer (publicly) accessible, though I believe I saved PDFs of the files before they were made private.
I like path of war
Path of war is pretty cool.
I would want to play with a core class on 15 point buy, starting at level three or higher. I tend to select the hardest difficulty for games I've never played before and die a lot, and I'm certainly quite masochistic, so...maybe you should take that with a grain of salt.
I also consider myself fairly new at this. That guy above me who said they'd done Tomb of Horrors and died a lot? I haven't done that. Have got a lot of system mastery though, and I'd love a lethal, merciless, and gruelling dungeon to send the character I worked on for twenty plus hours into.
Where would Rappan Athuk be set? Golarion? What would be the fluff expectation?
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Rappan itself is pretty setting neutral, but we would be leaning Golarion on gods and such as I am most familiar with that setting.
The fluff requirement would be dependent on the mortality rate. If we are expecting a rather high rate then I won't be too picky because the story can be the most taxing part of the creative process.
Sounds neat.
How would you plan on looking for writing quality if fluff is fairly minimal?
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I'm working on backstory and fluff right now
Mechanics are fairly simple
This assumes that soulknife/aegis is allowed then I'll go with something akin to the mutant Marrow with the mindblade reflavored into bone blades
If not, maybe dwarf fighter/war priest blacksmith style character who felt there was something missing in their craft, and decided to adventure to see how their weapons hold up under real battle conditions
Can say that there are many familiar faces here. I already have a character waiting in another recruitment, but considering that this is day 4 of the GM saying he will choose in 2 to 3 days and no activity in the game for the last 10 days.
Still would like to use path of war. but if its not allowed that is fine as well.
I was also looking to try and re-create the Whisper gnome from 3.5 using the race builder in pathfinder. (but may be to powerful as a race.)
I have... some experience with the race builder. And it is very easily broken. Just saying.