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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spunky_mutters" data-source="post: 979637" data-attributes="member: 5426">When I have made dungeons of this size, I usually break it down into a series of steps. 1. Basic concept for the main dungeon. (abandoned mine, dwarf city, crazy wizard maze, natural cave system, etc.). This will tell me how it got there, even if none of the current inhabitants were involved in building/creating it.2. Entry/egress points. The players may be entering from the surface (or the city sewers, or a gate they've found in some baddy's house), but there are probably other ways out of a complex this large.3. Based on step 1 and 2,  what are the main areas of the dungeon, and who/what lives there?(not rooms or encounter areas, but thematically distinct sections). The undercity might have catacombs, sewers, ruins long built over, natural caverns that creatures have dug into/from. This lets me break things up into manageable chunks.  Depending on step 2, the neighbours might have laid claim to different areas,  or there might be power struggles going on within the dungeon. If you want to maintain any illusion of consistency, there's either going to be an 'alpha' monster or monster group in each area, or ongoing conflict. The residents of a section will either learn to live with that monster, or move out (or get wiped out/enslaved, etc.). 4. Mapping. An overview map that breaks out locations of each section and movement between them (and in/out of the dungeon) should be drawn up or just sketched out.5. Section by section adventures. As players move through the dungeon you can fill in each section. Keep notes and if possible maps on upcoming sections, but you don't need to fill in the details until the threat of PCs exploring a given section approaches.6. ???7. Profit!Or something like that.</blockquote>

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