Monday, 23 June 2025

House of the Rat

This is a 63 room, abandoned mansion for level 4 characters to ransack. It's written for D&D BECMI / Rules Cyclopedia, but should work for B/X etc. As the title implies, there are lots of rats. Better bring some silvered weapons for this one.

Here are the maps:




Here's the stocked dungeon: House of the Rat

Thursday, 13 February 2025

Grim Hollow

 This is a 59 room, BFRPG dungeon for level 1 characters to pillage. There should be ample treasure for a party of 5 to hit level 2 (assuming the gold for XP optional rule in BFRPG).

Here's the map:


And here's the stocked dungeon: Grim Hollow

Saturday, 12 October 2024

Sphere of Avantarr

I wrote this rolling dungeon for the 2024 One Page Dungeon Contest. It got an honourable mention which made me very happy.

Here's the map:


And here's the stocked dungeon: Sphere of Avantarr


Wednesday, 18 September 2024

Kubuk Mill

I went to visit the National Slate Museum in Llanberis recently and saw their massive, working water wheel. This is a little dungeon all about making a water wheel turn again.

Here are the maps:

And here's the stocked dungeon: Kubuk Mill


Saturday, 3 August 2024

Gadwick's Tribute

This is a two page dungeon that I wrote for the Delightful Dungeon Contest. I quite like the way it turned out, but it might be a little heavy on the petrification.

Here's the review it got.

Here's the map:


And here's the stocked dungeon: Gadwick's Tribute

Friday, 3 May 2024

Mourndeep Caverns

This was a bit of an experiment in dungeon map generation.

To make the dungeon I generated three stacked dungeon layers. Each layer used a dice drop to generate randomly placed rooms which I linked up with corridors to form a minimum spanning tree. 

Next I added the shortest corridor I could to form a loop on each layer. Then I linked the layers up at points where their rooms were closest, with stairs.

I found the result to be pleasingly twisty with lots of corridors running underneath higher layers. Should be fun to map.

For stocking, I used the D30 DM Companion for the monsters and BFRPG for treasure.
Finally, I checked my encounter difficulties with Frank Mentzer's algorithm from Dungeon magazine ("Plan it by the numbers" page 16).

Here's the map:

And here's the stocked dungeon: Mourndeep Caverns

Wednesday, 20 March 2024

Sausages of the Devil Swine

This is a silly, 16 room, pig themed dungeon, set below a town. It's stocked for 4, level 5 BFRPG characters and contains a couple of new monsters.

Here's the map:


And here's the mini-module: Sausages of the Devil Swine


Update: I entered a condensed, B/X version of this module in the Adventure Site Contest II.
Here it is: Sausages of the Devil Swine (B/X)

Here are the reviews:
Update: Wow! The B/X version was judged worthy enough to be included in the top 8 entries, and as such is available in the content compilation on DriveThru RPG here.

House of the Rat

This is a 63 room, abandoned mansion for level 4 characters to ransack. It's written for D&D BECMI / Rules Cyclopedia, but should wo...