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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9179764" data-attributes="member: 20564">This poll was fun - with unlimited options it let me vote for all I wanted and then see the amounts of people who agreed with me.My &quot;other&quot; was I like my dungeons: Five Roomed.&nbsp; Five Room Dungeons is a short design pattern useful for all sorts of things (not just dungeons) to give them a varied structure and concise thrust.Hmm, I don't run a lot of dungeons normally.&nbsp; When I do, I usually want them to make sense, which very often also translates into ecologically sound but not always.&nbsp; Some ones I've done in the past:1. A fey-maintained prison to safely keep three baby dragons until their mother returns.&nbsp; They were dropped off decades ago but the fey, being sticklers for the letter of a contract, continue to protect the &quot;babies&quot;, and have made sure that they don't age so they stay as babies as specified in the contract.&nbsp; All of the traps (which the party took a lot of effort and resources to avoid) actually safely return the wyrmlings to the center garden.&nbsp; Well, safely if you are immune to fire damage, but that's a different story.&nbsp; There are animated armors that push the baby drakes one way, but attack others.&nbsp; That sort of thing.2. The Imperial Catacombs, known to be a hive of royal undead who are oathbound to advise (and not attack) any of the bloodline.&nbsp; The party came in in the middle level to try to get up through the top as their unexpected approach to rescuing the Child-Empress who was imprisoned in her rooms.&nbsp; However, they heard of something big that could help them on the bottom-most floor and went for that first.3. A Five Room Dungeon structure where they needed to get through a Red Dragon's Lair in a volcano to a hidden portal to the Feywild before the dragon returned from hunting, at which point it would scent them.4. Inside a coma-stricken giant skywhale being used as the flotation device for their airship that was having things host in it and harm it from the inside.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 9179764, member: 20564"] This poll was fun - with unlimited options it let me vote for all I wanted and then see the amounts of people who agreed with me. My "other" was I like my dungeons: Five Roomed. Five Room Dungeons is a short design pattern useful for all sorts of things (not just dungeons) to give them a varied structure and concise thrust. Hmm, I don't run a lot of dungeons normally. When I do, I usually want them to make sense, which very often also translates into ecologically sound but not always. Some ones I've done in the past: 1. A fey-maintained prison to safely keep three baby dragons until their mother returns. They were dropped off decades ago but the fey, being sticklers for the letter of a contract, continue to protect the "babies", and have made sure that they don't age so they stay as babies as specified in the contract. All of the traps (which the party took a lot of effort and resources to avoid) actually safely return the wyrmlings to the center garden. Well, safely if you are immune to fire damage, but that's a different story. There are animated armors that push the baby drakes one way, but attack others. That sort of thing. 2. The Imperial Catacombs, known to be a hive of royal undead who are oathbound to advise (and not attack) any of the bloodline. The party came in in the middle level to try to get up through the top as their unexpected approach to rescuing the Child-Empress who was imprisoned in her rooms. However, they heard of something big that could help them on the bottom-most floor and went for that first. 3. A Five Room Dungeon structure where they needed to get through a Red Dragon's Lair in a volcano to a hidden portal to the Feywild before the dragon returned from hunting, at which point it would scent them. 4. Inside a coma-stricken giant skywhale being used as the flotation device for their airship that was having things host in it and harm it from the inside. [/QUOTE]

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