Yeah, I'm thinking the weekly structure will help for me. For the overland top level, there will be a woods full of spiders, a bandit camp, the ruined temple and a graveyard section, each with their own types of challenges, most of which will have a connection to a lower level of the dungeon, etc. Doing it in weekly bite-sized pieces should make the theming easier for me.I think I'm going to use some Ideas from Trophy to help frame things. Theme to help frame sets, and both of those to help frame 'rooms', by which I really just mean linked sets of encounters. Trophy incursions start with a flowchart and each flowchart item could hold however many 'rooms'. It probably helps that I already have a framework laid out for this of course.
Look for his Dyson Delves dungeons, which are basically exactly what this challenge is, size-wise. He's also been doing five-room dungeons lately, which won't exactly match up with this (although five room dungeons are a good thematic model for each of these weeks).
I have Dyson's Delve from 2017-ish. I have not looked recently.
The random stuff in the back is fantastic for this.
I am going to grab Maze Rats and a couple other OSR things to help with inspiration.
Maze Rats amuses me, because although it's by one of the main voices of OSR, its design is so similar to how video games work. I'm not sure if that's irony or parallel evolution or what, but it's great.
How so?
