A Approach To Make MegaDungeon Rooms Attention-grabbing (Have Your Cube Prepared)

Roleplaying Suggestions E-newsletter #1222

A Approach To Make MegaDungeon Rooms Attention-grabbing

An RPT GM asks: Going through the Dungeon23 problem, I’m wondering give you totally different rooms as a substitute of falling into drained tropes or ending up with repetitive flooring.

My reply: roll for it!

First, theme your megadungeon and its ranges.

Subsequent, make your self a desk of theme-based room varieties:

d10 Core Room Objective

For those who’re breaking your megadungeon into 5 Room Dungeon sections inside ranges, then roll a d10:

1. Entrance
2. Guardian
3. Roleplay
4. Puzzle
5. Entice or Hazard
6. Trick
7. Highly effective Foe
8. Treasure Room
9. Discovery
10. Revelation

It doesn’t matter what’s within the desk – it’s the mechanism that counts. Rolling lets destiny select for you and also you’ll get quite a lot of prompts.

To additional assist forestall repetition, create modifier tables to generate totally different room standards:

d6 Room Dimension

Suppose exterior of tiny areas the place no ways or huge scenes can occur:

1. 500 sq. toes
2. 1,000 sq. toes
3. 2,000 sq. toes
4. 3,000 sq. toes
5. 4,000 sq. toes
6. 5,000 sq. toes

d8 Room Form

To additional stretch our artistic muscular tissues, roll for room form:

1. Round
2. Oval
3. Triangular
4. Sq.
5. Trapezoidal
6. Hexagonal
7. Octagonal
8. Cave

d12 Room Function

Roll for a distinguishing characteristic to revolve your design round with 50% probability of it being magical:

1. Pool
2. Statue
3. Altar
4. Platforms on chains
5. Cubicles
6. Saved Stuff
7. Carpet
8. Balcony
9. Cage
10. Catwalk
11. Mirror
12. Artwork

For much more selection, roll a d4 for amount.

Instance Room: Pantheon Church

Utilizing my fancy new black oak wood cube tower right here, my rolls obtained me this:

• Entice or Hazard
• 2,000 sq. toes
• Sq.
• Altars x 4

As a bit of hack, word how every desk I created has a distinct die kind. I can put a small cube set collectively and roll day-after-day, with every die similar to its personal desk for simplicity.

For those who resolve to take this strategy, I’d like to see what tables you give you! E-mail [email protected] any time, or higher but, share them right here at campaign-community.com