World's Largest Dungeon
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The World's Largest Dungeon is a Dungeons & Dragons
adventure set entirely in an enormous dungeon. It is over 800 pages long and was produced by Alderac Entertainment Group
in 2004. It also includes 16 full-color poster maps, making its single tome one of the largest campaign settings in one product.
The players can't leave the dungeon the way they entered because the entrance uses a one way wall of force effect. This means that all supplies must be taken into the dungeon with them. The campaign is designed to take four to six characters from first level to 20th or above over the course of two real-time years and at least a year of game time. The dungeon contains examples of every type of monster in the System Reference Document as well as a few new ones.
The World's Largest Dungeon was also parodied in Knights of the Dinner Table
as the Biggest Damn Dungeon Ever which was a product by the fictional creators of Hackmaster, but unlike the World's Largest Dungeon, it was only an alphabetical collection of monsters.
In 2006, the Guinness Book of World Records listed World's Largest Dungeon as the most expensive roleplaying book to date. And while this has since been eclipsed by several books, it remains the largest role-playing book ever published (at 840 pages).
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
adventure set entirely in an enormous dungeon. It is over 800 pages long and was produced by Alderac Entertainment Group
Alderac Entertainment Group
Alderac Entertainment Group, or AEG, is a publisher of role-playing game and collectible card game products. AEG was formed by Jolly Blackburn in 1993 and is based in the city of Ontario, California...
in 2004. It also includes 16 full-color poster maps, making its single tome one of the largest campaign settings in one product.
The players can't leave the dungeon the way they entered because the entrance uses a one way wall of force effect. This means that all supplies must be taken into the dungeon with them. The campaign is designed to take four to six characters from first level to 20th or above over the course of two real-time years and at least a year of game time. The dungeon contains examples of every type of monster in the System Reference Document as well as a few new ones.
Impact
Several Blogs have been established to chronicle adventures in the dungeon, which Alderac collected on their website.The World's Largest Dungeon was also parodied in Knights of the Dinner Table
Knights of the Dinner Table
Knights of the Dinner Table is a comic book/strip created by Jolly R. Blackburn and published by Kenzer & Company. It primarily focuses on a group of role playing gamers and their actions at the gaming table, which often result in unfortunate, but humorous consequences in the game...
as the Biggest Damn Dungeon Ever which was a product by the fictional creators of Hackmaster, but unlike the World's Largest Dungeon, it was only an alphabetical collection of monsters.
In 2006, the Guinness Book of World Records listed World's Largest Dungeon as the most expensive roleplaying book to date. And while this has since been eclipsed by several books, it remains the largest role-playing book ever published (at 840 pages).