Dungeon Delver's Guide In Polygon's Best TTRPG Books of 2023!

Polygon has included the Dungeon Delver's Guide for Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition in its Best of 2023 list.

"Continuing EN Publishing’s excellent Level Up 5th Edition line, the Dungeon Delver’s Guide provides a bounty of resources for both game masters and players in search of a more complex dungeon crawl. There are fun and flavorful new ancestries, archetypes, and backgrounds if you want to play a mushroom person with an ooze familiar riding a giant spider, plus lots of advice for designing subterranean realms filled with traps, monsters, and treasure. Game runners will get plenty of example adventures, from a witch lurking in the sewers below the city to a submarine controlled by an aboleth, plus tables for rolling up your own dungeon on the fly."

You can buy the Dungeon Delver's Guide right here on our store in hardcover or PDF!

 

[M.T. Black]

Excellent, excellent book!

 

[delericho]

Congratulations! Well deserved.

 

[timbannock]

Does the dungeon building including tables for stocking the damage with monsters and traps, or is it more on the advice/theory/discussion side of things?

I have some new, young players who may want to one day be GMs, and the one thing there's plenty of in the OSR space but not very much of in the 5E space is good tables for stocking a dungeon. It's more about the art and science of it, without any of the "here's a randomized or mindless procedure" for doing it.

 

[Arilyn]

Deserving. An awesome book!

 

[Lime2K]

Thank you for posting the pertinent excerpt, so I don’t have to grace polygon with any clickthrough income. (This is one of their extremely rare “broken clock right twice a day” moments; usually their articles are just clickbait garbage.)

 

[Quickleaf]

Congrats!!! Well deserved Love it!

 

[tabletopjess]

Does the dungeon building including tables for stocking the damage with monsters and traps, or is it more on the advice/theory/discussion side of things?

I have some new, young players who may want to one day be GMs, and the one thing there's plenty of in the OSR space but not very much of in the 5E space is good tables for stocking a dungeon. It's more about the art and science of it, without any of the "here's a randomized or mindless procedure" for doing it.

There is a random dungeon generator for free on a5e.tools and you can check the contents of the book in more details here too: https://a5e.tools/rules/dungeon-delvers-guide
The book contains guidance on how to build a dungeon with our NODES system, and has lists of examples you can use. Also has some pre-made dungeons in the book.
Hope this helps!