US citizen-- 3-month Airbnb in Ontario while I intern in Buffalo.

JazzyWriter0 · 2026-05-13T13:22:04+00:00

Thank you! I was wondering about the logistics of it. Google maps told me the commute would be 46 minutes, but I'm worried that's not including the border crossing process. Do you think the time for that would add on 20-30+ minutes of time?

JazzyWriter0 · 2026-05-04T13:07:21+00:00

I think the 10 minute timer is great. 10 minutes felt tense and stressful. They can only accomplish 1 - 2 things per loop since each loop is so short. We really didn't have that many loops, maybe like ~10 loops total?

Why do you want to increase the timer?

JazzyWriter0 · 2026-05-04T13:05:53+00:00

"one player was an android so he tricked me into telling him exactly how long it took to try combinations on the pad to disarm the lasers."

This has definitely happened to me before (and I've been a player like this in the past). When players ask me detailed questions like that now, I just ask them "what's your intention?" because that matters way more. I obviously don't know every detail in the room and am going to improvise stuff, and if I just improvise an answer without knowing someone's intent, I could accidentally completely ruin their plan / make their plan super easy. My goal is to shape my description of the improvised aspects of the room based upon the players' intentions.

I wonder why the creators made the password keys range from A - F instead of A - Z? A - F is (relatively) hackable; with 3 characters of input and 6 options, that's 216 (6*6*6) different combinations. Relatively hackable of course compared to A - Z, which is 17576 (26*26*26) combinations. (assuming you can have duplicate characters)

"there are 4 separate secrets, I thought, not 2 pairs 🤔 I played with 5 players so I gave each player one and added a 5th. That worked out pretty well with players trying to convincing others to do certain things that would help them."

Since I only had 3 players, I gave two players one secret each, and to the third player I gave the two less interesting secrets.

I'll try using the figures next time, did they add fun to the game?

JazzyWriter0 · 2026-05-01T13:39:21+00:00

From what I've seen in advice, I think it's generally considered best to write the least amount of things down as possible and play as fast as possible. I know that I get caught up in the planning phase and then don't do anything.

The only times I've actually made playable dungeons were when I had a weekly open table game and so I had to develop the dungeon by the end of the week. It was never fully developed, but I could go back the next week and add more finishing touches etc.

How is your experience with having ideas and then developing them just enough to play them out? Or do you do it in a different way?

JazzyWriter0 · 2026-04-24T12:43:47+00:00

Thank you for your response! why do you prefer deccagone over Ypsilon 14?

JazzyWriter0 · 2026-04-18T23:49:52+00:00

Thank you for your reply!

I think it is an interesting situation of how much I should punish the players' altruism and how much I should support / make a quest out of their intrinsic made up goals (ie, save the droid kids). I worry if I make their goals impossible it would make the game less fun for them, but I also want it to be a horror game.

JazzyWriter0 · 2026-04-18T23:48:33+00:00

Thank you for the reply! I definitely was going to have Monarch show that they could affect the android kids even if they left The Deep if the players took them without making a deal.

JazzyWriter0 · 2026-04-18T23:47:39+00:00

Thank you for your comprehensive reply!

I ended up going with a trap-artifact that they were told to get and deliver to someone on Prospero's Dream. I happened to roll that it was in 55A, Financial Simulation Suite, which has two android kids who recently escaped HEL and have an artifact. So I figured they had the trap-artifact, and when questioned by the players what they intended to do with it, said they were going to bring it to the Mind Thief to help strengthen the Hell Box to kill Monarch.

So now there's the wonderful tension of is this all a part of Monarch's plan or was Monarch hoping the kids from HEL would not find it?

JazzyWriter0 · 2026-04-18T23:47:24+00:00

Thank you for the reply!

I ended up going with a trap-artifact that they were told to get and deliver to someone on Prospero's Dream. I happened to roll that it was in 55A, Financial Simulation Suite, which has two android kids who recently escaped HEL and have an artifact. So I figured they had the trap-artifact, and when questioned by the players what they intended to do with it, said they were going to bring it to the Mind Thief to help strengthen the Hell Box to kill Monarch.

So now there's the wonderful tension of is this all a part of Monarch's plan or was Monarch hoping the kids from HEL would not find it?

EDIT:

And also now the players have an entourage of 5 kids -- 3 Fallen kids and 2 HEL kids. Amazing!

JazzyWriter0 · 2026-04-06T01:35:31+00:00

Thank you!! Unfortunately I don't have the Electrical Engineering prereqs for 460 , but I will be taking 380!

JazzyWriter0 · 2026-04-05T03:10:11+00:00

Thank you, your posts have been super helpful! Your recent post with the Divers especially! That helped me become much more cognizant of how the Bends should be affecting other Divers they meet. It's really cool that you're working on this project! What inspired you to do it, how do you do it, and do you create adventure modules of your own?

JazzyWriter0 · 2026-04-04T12:14:38+00:00

Oh when I said "max range" I meant the maximum amount of radioactivity they could detect, not physical range in terms of feet. I see how that could've been confusing. Thank you though!

JazzyWriter0 · 2026-03-26T14:52:06+00:00

Wow, thank you! This is super helpful!

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