Category: dungeon design

It’s no secret that Djekspek is pretty a damn impressive designer.  Check out a few of his one page dungeons over on Devian Tart and you’ll see.  Look at this thing – it’s beautiful.  Or this one – that just begs to be stocked and run.  Even with nothing in...

I feel like Lenny from Mice and Men.  I’ve found something new and shiny and now I just can’t let go of it.  I have to love it and pet it and squeeze it and hold it and design it to death.  The good news is that you get...

Tsojcanth of Lost Papers of Tsojcanth fame offers up this gem of a post in which he explains how to make awesome 3-D dungeons out of horizontal and vertical dungeon geomorphs.  Here’s a peak at it, but you have to hit up his blog for the full skinny. This...

Remember that sweet map by Dyson I showed you yesterday? Here it is again, marked up and ready for some serious analysis.  It really is an elegant design with all sorts of architectural features that work in favor of treating it as multiple dungeons. First off, notice that big red...

This post is brought to you by my son’s 13th birthday.  Everything I’m doing here, I’m doing in preparation for his party in which he and a party of friends will enter a dungeon…and they’ll do it old school. The last decade or so has witnessed countless attempts by...

Woah, that’s a lot of hits my One Page Dungeon post generated this week. Hello to all you Campaignwiki people. It looks like this blog is slowly morphing from a miniature wargame blog into an old-school D&D blog.  Even to the point that my post titles directly tie in...

UPDATED MARCH 29 – SEE BELOW While trolling the seas of the internet for a fish of rules worthy enough to grace my table, I’ve been drifting in and out of the role-playing game blog-community.  Today I discovered a little thing called the One Page Dungeon contest. “I can...