Let’s Talk About D100 Dungeon

[@GeekGamers01]

Love that you love this (I thought you would!). And I love your idea of filling the box with paper memories. That's so poetic. Thanks for the shout out... wish we could have seen some of your gameplay. The bumbling adventures would have been fun to see play out. And (naturally) I agree with you that this is a game with longevity--I'm sure I will be playing this for years to come, in various incarnations--it's that malleable. Nice vid.

[@TheDungeonDive]

Thanks. So glad I finally took the plunge. This game charges my imagination more than many games have recently. It taps into something that I really like.

[@GeekGamers01]

@@TheDungeonDive Yep... Really my only ding on the game is that the combat should be developed more than it is. I hope the designer goes more deeply into that with his new material. Oh, that and the fact that the rules are spread everywhere as I have noted, you have noted, and basically everyone has noted. It's a great game and your vid is inspiring me to take it out again.

[@fehner27]

Every time I'm thinking I need to buy a new game, I think about my time playing D100. I need to get the adventurer's companion so I can fast track a character. This game is so awesome.

[@kyrnsword72]

3 years of working with charecters on this game and it's still very fun. I wish there were lots more KZbin vloggers doing more playthroughs.

[@MikeJohnson-xw9ig]

After watching this and I'm a huge 4AD fan, now I have to buy all of this!! Love your video's longtime watcher

[@TheDungeonDive]

Thank you!

[@krx9299]

I appreciate the coverage....you did convince me to pick it up (and yes, crazy expensive for the physical products)

[@drcfungis2045]

Great, Great Game... Good review. Keep up the good work. Eric Peters-More options than four against darkness. The lay out of Martins books and rules make this game have so many options but so easy to play. Which makes this game one of my Top 5 . Start out with 1st book to under stand the rules. I also like Four Against Darkness, Fabled Lands, Destiny Quest. Anything that Martin comes out with, I will buy. I play this with my son, being the DM which makes it super easy because I just roll on the tables . I also play this solo. Excellent game!!!

[@oliverklar813]

Thank you again for this! This looks really amazing as a solo pen&paper game. I think the price is totally okay for me. If i look at the board game space and then looking at what i get with this "game". i dont think its soo much money to be honest.

[@MikeJohnson-xw9ig]

Four Against Darkness is great as well

[@kyrnsword72]

I love D100 DUNGEON MAPPING game. I lay out face down the dungeon tiles in the 6by8 grid. I'm hoping for lots more D100 DUNGEON playthroughs on vlogs. I'm trying to learn the Hex crawl book. Love how entire monster list found in The Dragons Return.

[@Mind_of_MATT]

I'm diving into 4AD right now. I've played a few sessions awhile back but I'm about to get down with it & see if I can get some characters to level 5 so I can try out the Four Against the Abyss expansion. D100 Dungeon looks good too but one thing at a time for me right now. Maybe some time down the road, way down the road, I'll give this one a go too.

[@TheDungeonDive]

So many games, so little time!

[@Mind_of_MATT]

@@TheDungeonDive Indeed!

[@volker842]

Well done Daniel!!! I enjoy this quiet a while, but without the Mpping Game. This for shure is my next buy! Thanks for keeping up such a great channel with an opinion off the main path !!! Greetz out of the Black Forest Germany!! Volker

[@florianschoppler4001]

Hey Daniel, sorry for the following wall of text ^^. I really enjoy all your content and give a lot to your opinion! I would like to hear your thoughts on a comparison between D100 Dungeon and Dungeon Degenerates. For a better understanding what I mean with this question I wanna give you a brief background about me as a boardgamer. The real hobby (not to say passion) initially started with medium to heavy weight euro style games like scythe, terraforming mars, great western trail, maracaibo, underwater cities, feast for odin etc. but more and more I started to enjoy more narrative style, ameritrash crawls and adventure games. Coming from the euro segment it was easy for me to fell in love with mage knight to get my personal bridge from euro mechanics into adventure rpg style games. Since then I picked up the lord of the rings lcg, pathfinder - adventure card game, machina arcana 2nd edition, aftermath and hexplore it forests of adrimon. (I love all of them for a lot of reasons!) I dont fear long games. I have a seperate table and no issue with playing hexplore it for example on 3-4 evenings. But time is always limited, especially with 3 kids, and spending money should always be well thought out. Now, you might have an idea about what games I might like and which games not. I want a game in my collection where I can really dive into. On the one side, I only heared very good things about Dungen Degenerates and I love the artwork which really helps my immagination. I like to have a good looking game on the table. But I am afraid, it could be a bit samey compared to pathfinder adventure card game and aftermath. Because in the end DD is "just" move and fight, isnt it? If I'd go with DD I would propably only buy the base game and mean street expansion. As for D100 Dungeon I would pick up all 3 books and go with the spell cards and mapping game as print and plays. I love the fact that I could just pull D100 out, play a quick random dungeon or a campaign style dungeon with the expansion book while having a small set up time or go for multiple dungeons in a row with only one character which has a steady progress over many games. I would love to hear your thoughts on that. Thanks and greetings from germany! Flo

[@TheDungeonDive]

There's way more going on in Dungeon Degenerates than Pathfinder Adventure Card Game. Tons of decisions to make in the missions that inform how the campaign progresses. But then again, I am not a fan of the PACG at all. I found it far too mechanical for my tastes. I never really felt like I was on an adventure, and just felt like I was playing a card game with fantasy art. But that's just me. If you get DD, I would highly recommend also getting the character expansions, as they add a ton to the game. With everything, DD feels like one of the more expansive adventure games I've played. D100 dungeon does offer a lot, but I think it feels smaller in scope to DD. It is much easier to quickly set up and play, so it has that going for it. In reality, the two games are vastly different from one another, so I'm not even sure I could compare them in a meaningful way that would be helpful. However, DD does feel similar to the games you've listed that you like, so you might get more out of D100 since it is more different than the others.

[@florianschoppler4001]

The Dungeon Dive thanks for replying to my question. Yesterday I have bought D100 Dungeon (the first 3 books, spell cards/mapping game and game tracker as print and play files) will take 2-3 weeks until it arrives from drivethroughRPG. I will share my thoughts after couple of plays. I am really excited for the system

[@florianschoppler4001]

@@TheDungeonDive Hey Daniel, as I mentioned, I wanna share my thoughts about D100 Dungeon with you. I took my some time to craft my own print and play mapping game, spell cards etc. and I was a little unsure how much I whould enjoy it, since it is very different from everything else that I have played before. I never was a pen and paper RPG gamer. BUT by the time I studied the rulebook and did my work into the world of D100 Dungeon I played it 16 days in a row! Like every evening a little bit, sometimes more sometimes less. I went through 12 quests by now and I am still having a blast! The events are so versatile it is amazing. I got suck in the world way more than I could have imagined. I really feel like I am my character. Yes it can be swingy as hell and unfair... but that just gives you the tension . The longer your character lives, the more quests he survived, the better loot he has found the less risk you wanna take in loosing him. You really get a feeling for how much you can risk in order to succeed in your current quest. I am totally looking forward to both of the expansions I bought aswell (dragon armor and the adventurers companion) it is a fantastic experience and a brilliant game design!

[@ragnar2890]

Hey, there is a fanmade campaign, called: "V3 D100 Dungeon Campaign" in the facebook groups download section. I will never play the game without it again. It allows you to explore the land. There are different kinds of countryside you walk through, you find towns, villages, crypts, wizards towers, npcs that provide you with quests etc. Greetings

[@TheDungeonDive]

That sounds awesome! I’ll look into that. Thanks!

[@TheDungeonDive]

Can you point me in the direction of that campaign?

[@NovaGirl8]

Can you link? I am interested about it.

[@JoseAlvaroLlopez-yz3ye]

Me encanta este sistema

[@markoreilly4433]

Off my radar, now firmly on it!

[@99zxk]

I hope that you get a cut, because you made a sale!

[@TheDungeonDive]

I don’t but happy to provide the information. :)

[@vincejester7558]

I don't want to admit that I need a solo D&D game because I cannot find a game group. Spending the money, makes it true.

[@TheDungeonDive]

Worth it!

[@vincejester7558]

@@TheDungeonDive I know yer right. I know i'll take the plunge. But I hate having to admit all my gaming buddies are hundreds of miles away and this is gonna be adventuring now.

[@TheDungeonDive]

I actually prefer solo gaming. I get to control the pace, the atmosphere, the level of seriousness or jokes, etc.

[@Hybban]

Amazing game. I haven't played in a while...

[@perplexingruins]

curious if you find this more appealing or the scarlet heroes approach, with many different tools to guide play, or the more simple board/card dungeon adventure with prescripted campaigns

[@TheDungeonDive]

Both scratch totally different itches for me. D100D feels more like a board game with high structured play. Scarlet Heroes is more open and free form. It really depends on what I’m in the mood for.

[@yagsipcc287]

Hello I was wondering what books would you suggest a new player get? There are alot! I have played DnD 3.5, 4th ED, pathfinder and have some other solo games. But there are alot! of stuff for this game and how easy or hard would it be to plug in your own settings or pull from other books? I have tons of roll charts as well so that is not an issue for extra stuff there. Thanks again bud :-)

[@TheDungeonDive]

I would get the base game and world builder expansion to start with.

[@denoxy]

4AD gets a lot more content when played with almost all add-ons.

[@alvaroazariah6116]

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[@zanejimmy6905]

@Alvaro Azariah yup, have been watching on Flixzone for since december myself :D

[@cybrim1]

Sweet! I just bought the core book!

[@DevilboyScooby]

You had me at "goatman priest". 😆 How approachable is it for a novice? Not played a P&PRPG for a while, and never a solo.

[@TheDungeonDive]

I think if you take your time it should be fine. You might struggle a bit, but the community on Facebook is super helpful for answering questions.

[@MikeJohnson-xw9ig]

You can play 4 against darkness with a single player as well just take your encounters/4

[@TheDungeonDive]

Interesting! Thanks for the advice.

[@paavohirn3728]

Love the nostalgia trip! All in all sounds like a fun game. Does it support more than one player as a GMless game or purely solo?

[@TheDungeonDive]

Purely solo.

[@paavohirn3728]

@@TheDungeonDive well, I suppose that's kind of the point 😀

[@Bren71319]

I think there is an option to play multi-player in “The Adventurer’s Companion”...

[@paavohirn3728]

@@Bren71319 Aha. Cool, thanks!

[@jamesmit7914]

This looks good, great video! By the way, is there any chance you will do some more videos about your book shelves? Because of you I discovered Lord Dunsany, and now am forever in your debt... 😬

[@TheDungeonDive]

Yes! I will. Promise. Just hard with working at home because my wife has her office area set up by the book shelves. Thanks, and I’ll make sure to get back to that. Glad you like Dunsany.

[@ryanofottawa]

@@TheDungeonDive I second this! I read Ligotti and Cisco, then Jeff Van Dermeer's Weird Fiction collection and found whole new genres of of fiction that I never would have explored and that have rekindled my love of fiction after many years of reading exclusively in the "non-" realms.

[@TheDungeonDive]

Nice. What did you read from Cisco?

[@ryanofottawa]

​@@TheDungeonDive So far, "Unlanguage", but when the reference library opens up here in Toronto I hope to sit down and dig into his back catalogue.

[@TheDungeonDive]

@@ryanofottawa Nice! He's a fantastic author. Nothing else like him.

[@drcfungis2045]

Well worth the money.

[@p4n95]

I’ve looked at this in the past, But the PDFs are not printable and are not v3 Which you need to play with the mapping game, and between the books and the costly gamecrafter mapping game, it’s $100 if not more. The criticism of all the rules not being in one place is a common thread I see from users.

[@TheDungeonDive]

Yeah. All of that is unfortunate. I did not know the PDFs were not printable. That’s sucks.

[@WostryFerenc]

You upload the pdf to google drive, then download it. Done. GD takes away the restrictions that makes the pdf unprintable. Btw, 4AD vs D100: 4AD is a much better game with the expansions. Yes d100 has a lot more tables in the base game, but they are just there, random, narratively not implemented.

[@p4n95]

Ferenc Wostry thanks! I remember reading responses by the D 100 author that he did not want to and would not remove the restriction on the PDF. I don’t quite get the reasoning, but I certainly respect his choice. I just bought four against space to add to the collection haha

[@p4n95]

CORONAVIRUS yes! I’m a derp, lol.

[@arcubal]

I wonder (for my own research)...would you enjoy the same random table-rolling if the tables started out smaller (say with only 6-8 entries) and by progressing further into your campaign unlocking more entries until, by the end, you have 50-70 entry-sized tables? Or is it the kick of 'seeing all the potential table-roll outcomes' at the very beginning?

[@TheDungeonDive]

I typically don’t like things that unlock over time, because who’s to say I’m going to stick with a game long enough to unlock things? This is one of the main reasons why I prefer Secrets of the Lost Tomb to Lost Station. I typically want the ability for everything to happen on the first turn of a game.

[@IAcePTI]

I like this game but i prefear to draw the tiles so it can keep the tiles for sufling and becouse i love to draw the things and make it diferent every time. I realy hate to look at the same thing everytime

[@TheDungeonDive]

That’s good a point. I like to draw too. So point well taken!

[@IAcePTI]

@@TheDungeonDive Well i just bought the rest of the books that i was missing now. The Dragon armor, the lost tomb and the tables and game sheets pdf. I think im going to play it on ipad using that sheets pdf.

[@nydaloth]

Does the adventurers companion and the dragon armor comes in the box or are sold separately?

[@TheDungeonDive]

Sold separately.

[@PepeSi7via]

Name of the dungeon tiles?

[@TheDungeonDive]

D100 Dungeon.

[@jdogcisco1]

Where did you get the box version of the mapping game?

[@TheDungeonDive]

Game Crafter

[@jdogcisco1]

@@TheDungeonDive thank you

[@jameskeegan3108]

Where did you purchase cards for monsters and terrain for purchase?

[@TheDungeonDive]

Gamecrafter.

[@jameskeegan3108]

@@TheDungeonDive thanks I looked it up. The shipping times worry me a bit though. But might swing for it anyhow. I have been playing Four Against the Darkness now and into it for about a year and 24 books to boot. You really only need the core to play but if you get into it you see why having the additional books make sense. Their prices range from 4$ to 12$ with the average book about 6 to 8$. Way much easier system to play. But I was looking for something new and just got the pdf for D100 dungeons and at this point digesting the rules. I like the physical aspect of the mapping game though. and just might purchase it. Thank you for your video !!

[@TheDungeonDive]

Sure thing! I’ve started to really like 4AD. Have a series on the channel about it. Love all the expansions.

[@jameskeegan3108]

@@TheDungeonDive cool gonna search for it in a bit. Looking at some how-to play videos atm thank you!

[@erikpeters7072]

How’s it compare to four against darkness?

[@Rodinov_Claw]

4AD is party based while D100 dungeon is a solo character. D100 is definitely more random but far more fleshed out because of the range of choices. This is also prevalent especially with the D100 expansion book which adds even more options such as witchery, etc... Having said that...D100 is very swingy when it comes to combat because you can imagine the range of a D100 dice roll. The mitigation factors are insufficient and when you face against a creature with 'Fear' traits, it can really paralyze you. However, I believe both 4AD and D100 is in my opinion, is equally satisfying in different degrees. Both are recommended, especially in these times where we are staying at home more often than not...

[@TheDungeonDive]

I’m not really about comparing the two, but I like D100 a whole lot more. It’s way more fun to me, and that’s mainly because there is so much more that can happen, and you only play one hero.

[@jonathana6298]

How do you buy this? Google failed me.

[@TheDungeonDive]

I'm going to do a follow up video today. I assumed that most people had already heard about this game, and knew everything about! I messed up! Anyhow, it can be difficult to find. This page has all the books www.drivethrurpg.com/product/244214/D100-Dungeon Here is the mapping game www.thegamecrafter.com/games/d100-dungeon-mapping-game

[@p4n95]

Can you please include cost vs value piece when you do?