Mazes, Dungions, and other fun things

@Simpson
Yes, I am my target audience. I create game to entertain myself. And hopfully other people. I'm running ideas as a means of entertainment. Pretend you never heard of D&D. Or go out and have some new life evperiences. Imagine being in a lovecraft story or something. "At the Mountains of Madness" or "Wisperer in Darkness" how about "Pickmans Model". Imagince your explorying the wilderness and it turns into something totally unexpected.
These are just some ideas to get you thinking beyond D&D or dungioncrawl. We like board game here. Yes It is like a DM but it doesn't have to play that way or like everyother one.

Who wants to brainstorm with me. Who wants to play?

I found these large map sheets at my local hobby shop sometime ago. They're thick paper maps with a glossy surface that you can write dry-easable markers on. I also have one that is a blank dungiony grid of tile squars. My only problem with them is the folds don't really flatten out well and you can never get creases out. They don't really lay perfectly flat. That's why I'm thinking some kind of panels that lay beside eachother. I like dry ease in a way because it's cheap and I think potentially it can be lots of fun. It may not be necessary to have the best sculpted figures or custom interlocking tile pieces like in Descent Siddgames. But the principle I see is similar to what I'm talking about.

See like the fold out mat I mentioned just above, if the dry-ease tiles had an actual scen or look printed on them, it could feel like the dungion or whatever environment. It wouldn't be a plane white board. Mayber I could get some masonite panels, cut these sheets up into squars and glue them to the masonite to experiment with this.

You could have anydry erase environment. Maybe some kind of woodsy look with sugestions of trees. And what your drawing over it is some kind of network of trails to create a board in which the adventure takes place in a forest.

Excelent point Larienna!

You speak exactly what has been on my mind about ideas for long games. My labyrinth game was always intended to be long and I've been contemplating all sorts of ways of haveing different modes and ways of apealing to both kinds of players. "A Touch of Evil" opened doors for me because it has different game modes and it big. Is sort of answered much of what I was thinking about.

Now, I'm drumming up a new one where your exploring a city in some kind of mystery adventure sort of thing. There are oober stacks of cards. Each card has a scene of an area of the city that your in. Picture on the card is what you would see in front of you as your walking in the city. You have the oportunity to encounter the scene or card. Objects that apear in the scene give you options of interaction. Like if there is a person standing on the side walk up ahead, you can encounter and interact with that person.

Now, about long games and extended games. Image in you were playing this game and evolving your character. Say I came out with a new extention of the game. It took place in another city of enviroment. What if I created the option of useing the same character from your previous game. Here's my question. Would it work if you kept your character stats? Or would the characters stats have to be from scratch in order that the next game be challenging?

Vary interesting and helpful information Larienna and Thanks!

Another thought that accured to me, sot sure if it's necessary, but when a campain character advances to the next extention or get really levels up or powerful, they find themself taking one of several paths in the game on the tree of choices. That, whatever choice they make, let's say they encounter an object of character who sais "Okay your working for me now" and somehow the mechanics or dysnamics change for them in a way that now ballences their ability with the rest of the players. Of course I'm not ready to actually create an expantion because I haven't nearly completed the game I've started. But I like to think what I should design for my players or characters in the long turm.

That's an interesting thought. I was also contemplating giving each player an Achilles’ heel to help balance things as well. Make it so there is just one skill that a character will not be able to level up on.