#donjon

[danskjavlarna]

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I've collected some rather interesting castle imagery, including several floating in the air.

[the-spirit-of-yore]

Château de Cléron, Franche-Comté, France

[illustratus]

Crusaders departing for the Holy Land, a Bishop blesses their Arms in the Courtyard of Vufflens Castle near Lake Geneva

by Lancelot-Théodore Turpin de Crissé

[sheepintheastralsea]

if you are a dungeon master (or even a fantasy author/worldbuilder of any kind) and you don’t know about donjon let me make your life a million times easier

want to make a fantasy calendar with your own year-lengths, weeks, months, and lunar cycles? https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/calendar/

need to come up with some medieval town demographics? https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/demographics/

want to make a map and layout of a city/town? https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/town/

want a fleshed-out tavern complete with menu, innkeeper, patrons, rumors, and secrets? https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/inn/

leading your players through a dungeon and want to customize the size, treasure, layout, theme, etc? https://donjon.bin.sh/5e/dungeon/

tired of creating lists of magic items for different shops to sell, or hoards to be looted? https://donjon.bin.sh/5e/magic/shop.html and https://donjon.bin.sh/d20/treasure/

even a customizable initiative tracker! https://donjon.bin.sh/d20/initiative/

and that’s only scratching the surface! I really recommend all dms check this out. oh, and it’s completely free!

[esperfruit]

This is how Arrears in Science went, right?

[crarb]

This apple’s got a big P.R.O.B.L.E.M ….. It’s rotten right to the core

Credits to @ tiredkiss on Twitter for the composition!

[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

Have you played Donjon ?

By Clinton R. Nixon

"Do you remember the first time you played a fantasy RPG? I played an elf, and didn't know anything about the system, but just imagined it all in my head. I was so amazed that I could choose to do anything I wanted to. Donjon is all about that - recapturing that sense of wonder and running with it."

The way it accomplishes this is with an innovative game technique that turns things on their head. Remember Twenty Questions? The player leaves the room and the rest of the people choose an item for the player to guess. When they return, the player has only twenty questions with which to determine the item. But the other people made a pact. No item was chosen. Instead, when the player asks a question, the answerer can randomly reply with "yes" or "no", as long as their answer does not contradict any of the previous answers. So at the end, when the item is determined, it is as much a surprise to the rest of the people as it is to the player. This is sort of like a game version of Schrödinger's cat, the game item does not have an actual existence until it is defined by observation. This is like Donjon.

In most other RPGs, the GM carefully draws maps, creates NPCs, and generates plot twists. They do none of that in Donjon. It's in the hands of the players. Using the rules, the players can create entire encounters without any cooperation from the game master. But the GM has the ability to tweak the encounter to make it more interesting

Have you played?

Yes I have played it

No but I've read it

No but i've heard of it

Never heard of it

Voting ended onNov 9, 2025

[quu-kii]

Long distance love (parody/trace)