StanJr's Blog

Players of modern dungeon crawling games aren't averse to a few charts. Although most of the games I've seen handle monster spawns by way of card draws, or by the GM playing their own cards in a competitive crawler.

 

Most crawlers use tiles, so your thoughts above immediately brought to mind area tiles with symbols on them indicating which monster spawn cards would be compatible. For example, a graveyard tile might have a skull symbol on it, so when drawing a monster you can only spawn one with a matching symbol.

 

In terms of combat in crawlers, I prefer most of my enemies to be popcorn enemies. I want to hit them and remove them from the map. I prefer rolling dice pools, and I certainly don't mind if the monsters get a defense roll. So, there's my two cents.

This is all very good stuff and very welcome insight. Right now each monster encounter carries a little more weight as there are fewer potential encounters total in the game. However, your "popcorn" enemy idea gives me much to think about. Thank you!