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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 6156258" data-attributes="member: 386">I am not very good at dungeon design, but I am trying.  This is my basic method:You know the "random dungeon generation" tables in the back of the 1st edition AD&D DMG?  The one that looks like this:1-12 Empty 13-14 Monster Only 15-17 Monster and Treasure 18 Special 19 Trick/Trap 20 TreasureI use that as my framework.  Every 20 rooms will look like this (actually I go with 21, with a trick and a trap).  I expand the "empty" rooms into four different categories, though: three actually empty, three rooms that give information, three rooms that provide a tactical or strategic advantage (for monsters or the PCs), and three rooms that provide both information and a tactical or strategic advantage.Those "information" rooms provide information about what's in the dungeon.  I try to have the trap and trick be solved through deduction; signs of whatever monsters lie up ahead; and perhaps how to open secret doors.  Sometimes these rooms need magic to unlock the information, depending on the level of the party: you can imagine an NPC trapped behind a magic ward that needs to be Dispelled, or (in the last dungeon I ran) an ossuary that allows the skulls to respond to Speak With Dead no matter how long they've been there.  Other times it's a book or journal or a bunch of corpses.By making sure to have six rooms with information about the dungeon I can place save-or-die monsters, tricks, and traps within.  I haven't figured out how to give these rooms a "cost" except through time and wandering monsters, but I'm still trying it out.  (I guess I could require skill checks, certain feats, spells/magic item charges, and/or HP loss...)</blockquote>

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