I haven't been posting true session reports for Not My Destination because, so far, there's been little to report. One dead PC in the first session (the Herald of the Authority, killed by the sea urchin in 1:5 with full knowledge that there was an evil sea urchin) and a near-TPK in the second (thanks to the shredded ghouls in 1:15, which the PCs chose to enter into and then stubbornly remain in melee with). They have just entered Floor 2 and immediately thrown their lot in with Fluoride Vega.
The Littlest Brown Book has been working great so far. I've been using the logarithmic multiattacks suggested as a potential alternative to the quite ?????? standard OD&D multiattack rules, and after writing myself a copy of the Monsters Attacking chart combat's been no problem.
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Logistics has been an issue, however. With OD&D's all-armor-and-loot based encumbrance it was no issue for the players to fill their pockets with months of food and torches during character creation and then simply... never return to town. They beelined right through the Sea of Lights in the first few minutes of the first session and haven't crawled back to sunlight since.
Littlest's dungeon generation & suggested random encounter difficulties have been great for building floors quick, though they do start to conflict with Phlox's 20-block dungeon stocking, which I've been using for room keys. Phlox stocking expects PCs to level up 4 hypothetical Fighter PCs (of appropriate level) per 20-room region, while the tables I've been using for Littlest expect much larger floors and slower XP rates. This means that dungeon floors (which get harder according to Littlest's progression) quickly outscale PCs (who haven't neared leveling yet, and won't if they keep wading into melee with piles of ghouls).
Maybe that'll get them to explore the islands to scrape up XP, lmao.
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