For a decade now, we’ve been told that Dungeons & Dragons (and roleplaying more generally) rests on three pillars of play: combat, exploration, and social interaction. This was brought up throughout the D&D Next playtest and laid out most clearly in the 2014 Player’s Handbook.
Our final mode of play for Hundred Dungeons is Recuperation, which incorporates rest, downtime, and wealth management. When the pressing danger of adventure subsides, characters need to rest and spend time furthering their personal goals. Recuperation is a realm of play with no set time scale. It begins when the party isn’t immediately entering another realm of play.
This is the fourth post showcasing rules from Hundred Dungeons, a free roleplaying game that borrows from d20 fantasy, OSR, and narrative games like FATE. Today we’re looking at Combat, the third mode of play. If in reading these posts, you haven’t yet had the thought that Hundred Dungeons is a sort of retroclone of 2014 D&D, today’s post might get you there. It’s fairly obvious where the starting point for the Combat rules came from.
Welcome to our third spotlight on the free roleplaying game Hundred Dungeons. Today we’re checking out rules for the Dark: the play mode in which you brave danger to uncover secrets and treasure. If you missed the introduction to the game, or the Wild (rules for exploration and overland travel), feel free to check those posts out first.
If you joined us last time, in the Introduction to Hundred Dungeons, you read that there are four modes of play: the Wild, the Dark, Combat, and Recuperation. Today we’re going to look at the rules for the Wild, which includes overland travel, exploring large areas of geography, and resting outside of safety.
