Piratecat's dungeon design: fun with tesseracts!
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Saeviomagy
Adventurer
Of course there's no real reason to treat the thing as a tesseract.
Any random connection of rooms to other rooms for any number of rooms and doors will tend to confuse the hell out of players. The key is to make sure that there are loops, and once you've done that, you've created an impossible space that will (naturally) confuse the hell out of your players.
Any random connection of rooms to other rooms for any number of rooms and doors will tend to confuse the hell out of players. The key is to make sure that there are loops, and once you've done that, you've created an impossible space that will (naturally) confuse the hell out of your players.
Psion
Adventurer
I never read the dragon articles, but I wrote my own article on using tesseracts in gaming when I was in college. Spelling and grammar may not be at its brightest, but you might want to check it out:
http://members.tripod.com/~hawk_wind/worlds/Tess.html
http://members.tripod.com/~hawk_wind/worlds/Tess.html
Piratecat
Sesquipedalian
I'm psyched that this is useful to some folks.
It's actually pretty simple once you stare at it for a few minutes. Just figure out the simple version - all doors connect to one another - and think of some cool encounters. Then imagine there's a top and bottom cube, and every time you go through a door the graviy shifts so that it feels like you're coming up out of a trapdoor. Once you've got that fixed in your head, it makes a lot more sense.
It's actually pretty simple once you stare at it for a few minutes. Just figure out the simple version - all doors connect to one another - and think of some cool encounters. Then imagine there's a top and bottom cube, and every time you go through a door the graviy shifts so that it feels like you're coming up out of a trapdoor. Once you've got that fixed in your head, it makes a lot more sense.
Abraxas
Explorer
You have to be careful and really know your group when you use these. My DM a few years back actually used one of these on us + a bunch of math puzzles.
I had a sketch of the place after 1 loop (looking at a room from a different direction really didn't disorient me because of all the papare models I used to make as a kid) and then it became a tedious exersize in finding the way out.
A group I used one on later couldn't figure out the connectivity and got pretty frustrated with the endless loops.
I enjoy the larger hypercubes - rooms in the 100 x 100 x 100 size
I had a sketch of the place after 1 loop (looking at a room from a different direction really didn't disorient me because of all the papare models I used to make as a kid) and then it became a tedious exersize in finding the way out.
A group I used one on later couldn't figure out the connectivity and got pretty frustrated with the endless loops.
I enjoy the larger hypercubes - rooms in the 100 x 100 x 100 size
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