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No worries! Just curious. Regardless, I think you have some compelling thoughts about dungeon design!

Sadly not - Life happens and two kids later I struggle to post anything at all on my blog ^^.

Fantastic blog post! I wholeheartedly agree with the dungeon design principles you laid out there. The choice to use Wave Echo cave as...

This. My group maps. I as a player do that and as a DM I encourage it. But the "dungeon" needs to be mappable. Like, I started playing...

The character can’t draw a map, because the character is imaginary. Die rolls are the DM’s way of resolving uncertainty in the outcome...

In many ways, Warlock shows how "half-casters" probably should have worked otherwise. During OneD&D, WotC experimented with removing...

If you’re mapping as you go, making an accurate map is the challenge. The dungeon may be laid out in such a way as to be deliberately...

Why correct? The players are the ones drawing the map, for their own purposes. If the the GM is going to correct the player maps, just...

I think this is the way to go for groups that aren’t into mapping. I think for some modes of play, dungeons themselves are puzzles. The...

One of my problems might be that I tend to run a bunch of 5-room dungeons and not anything longer than a dozen rooms leaving mapping a...

So, I feel like people are missing some important details here. You don’t have to make the save every night. You only have to make it...

I really like the flavor and details of it - I would totally use that for a Ravenloft campaign!

Oh, I see. Yeah, that would be the first thing I’d try. I actually already edited the opening post to drop the DCs by 5, because that...

That’s all I’m saying - if it’s a problem, maybe drop the DC.

Easiest fix to what? Yes, well I set the DCs the way I did because I want it to still be pretty likely for high-Charisma characters to...