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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dungeoneer" data-source="post: 6218231" data-attributes="member: 91777">I know the game is called Dungeons and Dragons and my handle is Dungeoneer, but I honestly don't like the concept of a 'dungeon' very much. The idea that a fantasy world would be populated with random holes full of arbitrary traps and monsters has always seemed silly to me.I tell stories. Sometimes the stories result in the players having to go to a specific location that has a lot of creatures that would like to kill them. I design those locations as the logic of the story dictates. I usually don't map the whole thing but I have a rough idea of the layout in my head. I prefer to have fewer but more interesting encounters (this is no doubt influenced by the fact that I got my start as a DM running 4e, where combat is notoriously time-consuming).I find that when you start with the story you end up with interesting ideas that make the game more than a sequence of rooms containing (1d4) kobolds.</blockquote>