Saturday, 12 October 2024

 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

Sunday, 10 March 2024

Maze of the Bloody Wizard

This was my entry in the No Artpunk III contest. It's an attempt to write a dungeon for high level play and you can find the review of the dungeon here. I was pretty happy with how this one turned out.

The dungeon contains 39 rooms and is stocked for 5 level 9 BFRPG characters (but it should convert to B/X or similar games with no problems).

Here's the map (it's a big one by my standards):


And here's the fully stocked module: Maze of the Bloody Wizard


Monday, 8 January 2024

Warren of the Wicked Warlord

This one started out as me mucking about with the dungeon generator from the excellent solo game Four Against Darkness. I cut off some dead ends and corridors that snaked off the map, added some twists and connections to a second level then populated it with ancient Egyptian themed orcs and undead.
Next thing I know, it's grown into a short module for BFRPG (about right for level 6).

Here are the maps:



And here's the fully stocked module: Warren of the Wicked Warlord


 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...