Comments on: Need D&D in a Hurry? ‘Dungeon Delve’ Delivers!

By: Mika

Mika — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:35:57 +0000

I started DMing with 3.5 edition start of this year: Being old school player going through editions 3 and 3.5, I really dont like the high fantasy look of the 4e (neither do our group).

4e seems similar to WoW and I want to keep that kind of gaming on the computer.

Only positive side of the 4e is that will probably create more supply for 3.5ed materials.

By: darrell

darrell — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:04:52 +0000

one thing i have learned, if your going to DM and your new, go 4E. don’t mess with 3.5 unless you already have a LARGE supply of 3.5e materials and your familiar with the rules. if your a new DM and your thinking I’ll start with 3.5 and transition to 4E. DON’T! ! ! there is no flattening of the learning curve. the guidelines for governing 4E DMing is so much different and so much easier its not even funny. consider this, in 3.5, the DMG is thicker than the PHB. its the reverse in 4E and half of t hew info in 3.5 is gone with more info pertaining to DMing in 4E. most of 3.5 DMG is rehashing and going through the PHB with a fine toothed comb. boring and a waste of time.

By: xan

xan — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:38:22 +0000

Hey, to all oldschool DM’s and newbies trying to pillage 4th for any other edition –
Don’t. In all seriousness, the other editions of D&D were spiffy and fun but off-balanced and flawed. Imagine running a level-one wizard in a party of three characters in 2nd Edition. Death. Try it in 3rd, and after a few levels he might as well wear spandex and a cape. 3.5? Wizards and Sorcerors relied on a few weak spells and a stick. Come on. If you play a wizard you expect the power to warp the cosmos at high levels and blast enemies at low levels. No other edition gives you both. Dungeon Delve is about 4th Edition HEROES people, not the farmer-turned-dragonslayers from 3rd or 3.5, but about the Champions of all that is good and right facing toe-to-toe with the biggest, baddest, gnarliest snarling fanged monstrosity ever seen and spitting in it’s face. Dungeon Delve is a way to show the presumptions about the world in a varied way – the world has had enumerous empires which fell and those ruins harbor dangerous monsters and ravening beasts. It’s up to the Heroes to be what the farmers tell stories of. I don’t mean Dirty Harry or John Wayne, I mean legendary heroes like Pecos Bill, Davey Crockett, Beowulf, Paul Bunyun and John Henry Irons – the guys whose exploits sound so daring, so crazy that some folks doubt they ever even existed. That’s 4th Edition. That’s what Dungeon Delve is about. So, please, don’t pillage. Just try the new system AFTER ensuring you know the rules.

By: plasmabol

plasmabol — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:25:51 +0000

Quote: “”Would this thing be good for anyone that’s NOT going to be getting 4e?

I’m sure it would be, but I’m a brand new DM and I only have the 3.5 core books with a bit of an interest in getting some other materials to help the DM learning curve flatten out.”"

if you don’t want to get into 4e i wouldn’t get this book. Not because it ain’t good but you can probably get a couple of second-hand 3.5 books for the same price as this one book. And because the monster strength differs between 4e and 3.5e, you’ll have to correct that too. You better get some 3.5.
But i can recommend 4e, especially if you’re new and haven’t got much 3.5 books anyway.

By: darrell

darrell — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:58:21 +0000

the one thing i found that i do not like about the Delve is that some of the encounters require multiple copies of tiles sets. Plus almost of third of the encounters require DU1 and word is that WotC has discontinued printing that set. Its already going for $30+ on ebay and amazon.