Thread by @MTBlack2567

Ok, I'm going to do #dungeon23, starting January 1st.

Here's a few more details... #dnd

The mega-dungeon is called "The Forbidden Halls of Marovech. It is an abandoned goblin stronghold in the Andellan Mountains of my Iskandar campaign setting. #dungeon23

I'm no cartographer so I'll use watabou to randomly generate maps. Here is level 1: #dungeon23

To populate the rooms, I'll use the procedural dungeon generator from Perilous Wilds and the DMG appendix A tables. Monsters will come from Tome of Beasts (1-3) and the Monstrous Menagerie. #dungeon23

I'll post up the rooms in this thread with the #dungeon23 hashtag. Hope you enjoy!

Some more details... rolling on the Perilous Wilds tables, I learn that the original stronghold came to ruin through War/Invasion. I'll keep that in mind as I create, and hopefully an interesting backstory will start to emerge #dungeon23

Perilous Wilds also suggests you have multiple themes for a dungeon of this size, and I'm a big believer in the importance of theming. For the overall megadungeon, I roll up the themes of "decay, chaos, agony".

"Decay" suggests that this stronghold is very, very old and was abandoned a long time ago. Good.

"Chaos" suggests an answer to "who invaded?" What about a group of chaos mages? I'll have to add them into the history of Iskandar somehow.

Not sure about "agony" yet

I'm also going to have at least one separate theme for each level, representing it's original purpose. The theme for level 1 is "war," and it was originally the home of Marovech's armed forces.

For those interested, I'm going to record the rooms in google sheets and keep the map in google jamboard.

By using a procedural dungeon generator (ie random tables), it gamifies the creation experience for #dungeon23 and makes it more likely I'll keep this up. It's also the only way I could possibly come up with 365 rooms without constantly repeating myself

One further thing. A minor point, but goblins in my World of Iskandar are just another race, and not implacably at war with humans. They are a bit of a mix of dwarves and gnomes, in my conception, though resembling traditional D&D goblins

I’m treating this as a writing exercise, a game (with dice!), but also a chance to dissect and understand the megadungeon format. So I’ll be interspersing the thread with relevant commentary