#dungeonfebruary

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dungeonFebruary: a retrospective

here they are, all four maps edited together into a single dungeon over two floors!

it was a lot of fun to draw it, highlights (of both rooms and monsters) and further thoughts under the cut :D

first things first; some rooms

(you might need to click on each picture to read/see the whole thing)

just some personal favorites, rooms 15, 21, and 25 are stolen from references to stuff (if you recognize what: <3), 6 and 20 were both really fun to put together, and room 29 is the last possible trap of the dungeon :3

next up; monsters!

the first two are room spesific, the latter three random encounters, hence the numbers being written different, picking out just 5 to share was kinda hard, but im really happy with theese, yet again some of theese are stolen from inspired by stuff

now; for my thoughts on this whole thing

i had a lot of fun drawing and designing this, so much so that im kinda sad to be done, the ritual of sitting down to draw each day or to catch up on a few days was nice, and i really like designing silly little rooms and filling them with references i know my players wont pick up on

i might pick this format back up for a month or two this year and im Definetly doing dungeon25 next year, but im really happy i did this instead of trying to catch up on dungeon24 in full, doing it this way let me figure out stuff like how i want to format my notes for a larger dungeon, how many extra notebooks ill need (one for ideas and one beastiary, for now), and some general design rules for myself

all in all if you have read this far and think it looks kinda fun i say go for it! you dont need to follow a spesific month/year, thats just something i feel like doing, the point is to have a little creative challange to do each day for a set amount of days :D

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week 3!

highlights include; the designroom connected to that clone lab from last week (complete with working gun-wall!), a room with two chambers labeled imaging and response, and a large control panel wich can do stuff like start playing caramelldansen with a light show, or self destruct the entire facility :D

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first week (+ 1 day) is done!!

the concept is that this is a lair built inside a mountain by an evil scientist, the structure was revealed a few weeks ago in game time by a chunk if the mountain falling and taking parts of room 1 (and maybe more) with it

this first spread feutures such things as; a storage room wich will disapear anything left in it for more than 30 minutes, a portal that will teleport you to a random room, a secret passage in the library, and some other fun stuff

i am finding this challenge quite fun and the likelihood of me doing the full thing next year is high, but im very happy that im doing this mini-version first since i am figuring out stuff i would like to do different as i work

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week 4 (and thus the challenge) is done!

im a bit sad its over, but ill talk about that more when i post a retrospective/full overview of the dungeon

this week includes one of my fave dungeon rooms wich i keep reusing; a super trapped vault room only containing a book of bad and embarrassing love poetry, a lab with organ-like machines on a workbench and a large conspiracy wall (talking about immortality, death, and space pirates), And the elevator out of the dungeon, wich contains a final trap with the potential of doing 2d20 damage

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yeahhhhh boyyyyy

1 day down, 28 to go! ill do updates once each spread of 7 (8 for this first one) rooms are done, i might even sprinkle in some of the lore ive come up with :3

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i didnt find out about dungeon23 (dungeon24 now i guess) untill i personally felt it was too late to join, also i wasnt sure if i could commit to a whole year

however i have been reading the book for into the odd in preparation for running it for my groups, and i find the way the dungeons are set up really inspiring in the context of making my own dungeon

so what im looking at now is doing a sort of trial run in february (draw a room a day, add some possible encounters, that sort of thing) to see if i would be up for doing a whole year or not and then possibly joining in for 2025!

this means that i only have a few days to figure out how i want to structure it and possibly make a simple booklet or something to draw/write in, and also if i want to do weekly check-ins here

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second week is done! (and a bit smaller than week 1, ive been busy, sue me)

this time we have a lab split in two with a force field (thus counting as two days), an unnaturally dark room with lego stuff on the floor, and a clone lab with a chute wich will lead to a design room, because my media references are predictable as shit

i have counted my squares so the two first weeks should line up perfectly if i were to edit them together, the two weeks left will be on a second level so thry dont have to make structural sense with weeks 1 and 2, but they should connect correctly with each other