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<blockquote data-quote="Arrgh! Mark!" data-source="post: 2765279" data-attributes="member: 14559">The WoT campaignbook Prophecies of the Dragon has one dungeon of note.It's basically a city so old it's half sunk into mud. All the fun of poisonous fumes, crawling through collapsed passageways and pools of stale water. The only &quot;Traps&quot; were natural ones that one might expect to find. the only &quot;Wandering Monsters&quot; were intelligent creatures with a very good reason to be there. I found it rather refreshing to be honest. The players were keen for awhile, but when asked for their opinion they only thought it was &quot;okay&quot;. I think they got a bit bored of caving and being swept into underground lakes.They much prefferred the crumbling tower as they climbed scaffolding and fought bad guys. When I say &quot;Dungeon&quot; I mean &quot;place where encounters roughly happen in the order I predicted them too.&quot; this place might be anywhere. It doesn't neccesarily include it being the place where the BBEG holes up. One dungeon I ran the BBEG didn't even live there. It really was a complex filled with secret doors (So guards could get in without triggering traps), dangerous monsties in rooms they shouldn't have gotten into, and so on.This was because he set it up to fool stupid adventurers that he lived there. He actually had quite a nice manor house in a nearby city. When you make dungeons, make it interesting first and then make sure it fits the setting. It should then be fine.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arrgh! Mark!, post: 2765279, member: 14559"] The WoT campaignbook Prophecies of the Dragon has one dungeon of note. It's basically a city so old it's half sunk into mud. All the fun of poisonous fumes, crawling through collapsed passageways and pools of stale water. The only "Traps" were natural ones that one might expect to find. the only "Wandering Monsters" were intelligent creatures with a very good reason to be there. I found it rather refreshing to be honest. The players were keen for awhile, but when asked for their opinion they only thought it was "okay". I think they got a bit bored of caving and being swept into underground lakes. They much prefferred the crumbling tower as they climbed scaffolding and fought bad guys. When I say "Dungeon" I mean "place where encounters roughly happen in the order I predicted them too." this place might be anywhere. It doesn't neccesarily include it being the place where the BBEG holes up. One dungeon I ran the BBEG didn't even live there. It really was a complex filled with secret doors (So guards could get in without triggering traps), dangerous monsties in rooms they shouldn't have gotten into, and so on. This was because he set it up to fool stupid adventurers that he lived there. He actually had quite a nice manor house in a nearby city. When you make dungeons, make it interesting first and then make sure it fits the setting. It should then be fine. [/QUOTE]

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