Sunday, December 11, 2022

Gathering Resources for #Dungeon23

This list of #Dungeon23 resources is mostly for my use, but I am happy to share both influences and how-tos.  Several of these links come from crowd-sourced lists on Twitter and Facebook, but not all of them.  

The truth is I enjoy making lists of (somewhat related) links and sharing them.


The nifty part about all of these links is that they run to sites that are packed with usable information.  Furthermore, I am likely to add to this list as time and the project wears on.

EDIT 1: Andrew Duvall has done something similar to this post over on itch.io, but with better organization, better presentation, and more/different links, so go check it out!

EDIT 2 and 3: both Dragonsfoot and Knights and Knaves Alehouse have dedicated megadungeon forums.  Lots of knowledge therein.

Z.W. Garth's Dungeon Architect's Workbook

DiWata's Megadungeon Jam

Permanent Cranial Damage: Brief Brainworms: Megadungeon

Grognardia's Old School Dungeon Design Guidelines 

Missing Manuals at Necropraxis

Semper Initiativus Unum asked back in 2017: Why Build a MegaDungeon in 2017

Beyond Fomalhaut's Anatomy of a Dungeon Map

Roleplaying Tips has the Ultimate Guide to 5 Room Dungeons

Rise Up Comus has Dungeon Seeds, which is free if you subscribe to their newsletter

Traverse Fantasy features Bite Sized Dungeons

Map Crow addresses building a dungeon over several videos

As does the channel Bandit's Keep

All Dead Generations provides a dandy online worksheet and So You Want to Build a Dungeon

Prismatic Wasteland offers Megadungeon Malls & Collaborative Caverns

Goblin Punch's Dungeon Checklist, What is Tested, the last part of Popcorn Leveling, Comprehensive Guide to Secret Doors, and Dungeon MasteryGhosts and Ghost Biology, too.

The Alexandrian has several: Jaquaysing the Dungeon, the Art of the Key, Goals in the Megadungeon, (Re-)running the Megadungeon.

d4 Caltrops also has several: What's at the Bottom of this Pit, A Hundred Clues and Tells for the Tersely-Detailed Trapd100 This Secret Door Opens..., d100 Instigative Scenery and Interactive Decor, d100 Why is this Door Stuck?, - there are so many d100 lists at this site that I can pull ideas from, but these are the big ones.

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On top of these is my collection of partial dungeon keys, which I shall loot with impunity, and a handful of pdfs and actual books, notably the Dungeon Alphabet, the Monster Alphabet, Dungeoncraft (cheapish copies available used online), and both Artifices, Deceptions, and Dilemmas and Bestial Ecosystems Created by Monstrous Inhabitation

When the Monster Overhaul ships in early 2023, its contents will be used, as well. 

For the mapping, I am looking at DungeonScrawl to make transferring to the blog relatively simpler.  Here is a sample of the likely main entrance - I'd love to add a secret door and passage running under the stairs and to the north, but I haven't figured out how to do that yet, at least not in a noncluttered image.



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