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I rolled up a random Shadowdark monster which turned out to be a "were stirge" and this is what ChatGPT came up with:

I want to build the next adventure site around a unique, bespoke enemy, so I am going to roll one up! (see page 190 of the SD rules) Combat = d20 = 9 = PL (party level) = LV 3 Quality = d20 = 2 = Avian Weakness = d20 = 10 = Silver AC 13, +3 beak, 1d8 damage. Now let's mutate it! (page 191)...

This is the most important bit. "Flee" should mean "get away as quickly as possible, but also surviving." A creature might not run off a cliff, then, but could certainly try and climb down it. A creature might not run into the lava but might try to hop between cool stones or move along the end...

Obviously, I have fleshing out and clean up to do, but in general that is the process. it took longer here because I was documenting. Generally it takes between 45 minutes and an hour. Sometimes I will roll up the monsters totally from scratch, or mutate them, per the rules. Other times I might...

The annotated map:

There are two more solo monsters. the one in the northwest corner room is a roll=27=page220=gibbering mouther. The cultists can't get past this creature. the one in the room in the south hall is a roll=30=page223=grey ooze, just for some classic dungeon fun. it lurks nearly invisible hoping to...

Looking at the map, I think I am going to change the solo monster outside the Axe chamber where the manticore lairs to a minor hazard. I rolled a 3, so a stuck or locked barrier. The door to the east is stuck, and if the PCs force it open before investigating the axe chamber, they will alert the...

The "story" of the con-campaign is that the Moonless Vale appears once every 1000 new moons (80ish years) for one month, disappearing again at the next new moon (the vale has a new moon the whole time). It travels from world to world, so there are all kinds of crazy things in the vale, from...

But I made a couple adjustments for better flow:

Anyway. The dungeon stocking method is on page 130 of the Shadowdark book. Since I am using a pore-drawn map, we will skip the size and type rolls, and instead roll Danger Level and Room type for each of the ten rooms. Here I roll a handful of 10s on the paper, and then move each die to the...

NOTE: My printer is having issues (SHOCKING, I know), so I am switching to a different map I had printed previously: Bloodied Axe Shrine.

I want to be clear that I am not tied to the brand. I can and do buy and play lots of other games. I just wish I like what Official D&D was doing, too.

NOTE: This would have just gone in the Shadowdark General thread but the author of that thread decided to lock me out with two way ignore. I am prepping my 4 session "West Marches" style convention game for next weekend at TotalCon. Part of doing so is stocking small dungeons for the PCs to...