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<blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9302152" data-attributes="member: 7026594"><p>A group I'm in is approaching the end of Dungeons of Drakkenheim, and while it's a ruined city rather than a megadungeon, it functions in a similar way. And it provides such a reason. The city is full of a magical mist/radiation from a fallen comet that struck and ruined it, which makes taking Long Rests in the city impossible (except in a few rare spots which are hard to find/at the end of difficult dungeons), and every hour you have to take a Constitution save or take a level of Corruption. Corruption starts having mutating effects with the second level, and will kill you or turn you permanently into a monster after five. There are magical ways to mitigate the risk of corruption and to get levels of it purified/restored, but the spell to do it is 3rd level and transfers ALL your Corruption into Exhaustion levels on the caster. The mist/radiation is also stronger/worse at night (higher save DCs, lots more wandering monsters). </p><p></p><p>So you are strongly incentivized to enter and leave the city in planned short expeditions where possible, and forced to take rest time well outside the walls.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mannahnin, post: 9302152, member: 7026594"] A group I'm in is approaching the end of Dungeons of Drakkenheim, and while it's a ruined city rather than a megadungeon, it functions in a similar way. And it provides such a reason. The city is full of a magical mist/radiation from a fallen comet that struck and ruined it, which makes taking Long Rests in the city impossible (except in a few rare spots which are hard to find/at the end of difficult dungeons), and every hour you have to take a Constitution save or take a level of Corruption. Corruption starts having mutating effects with the second level, and will kill you or turn you permanently into a monster after five. There are magical ways to mitigate the risk of corruption and to get levels of it purified/restored, but the spell to do it is 3rd level and transfers ALL your Corruption into Exhaustion levels on the caster. The mist/radiation is also stronger/worse at night (higher save DCs, lots more wandering monsters). So you are strongly incentivized to enter and leave the city in planned short expeditions where possible, and forced to take rest time well outside the walls. [/QUOTE]
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