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


Monday 17 April 2023

Shrine of the Razor Gnomes

 This started out as a death-trap tomb complex, but mutated, as I wrote it, into a shrine to a gnomish god of traps. It's designed for 2nd level parties but some of the traps and monsters are nasty and need clever play to avoid or defeat. Time for the party thief to earn his share of the loot.

Here's the map:

And here's the PDF of the stocked dungeon: Shrine of the Razor Gnomes


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 a...