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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 5656949" data-attributes="member: 46713">To be honest, I'm a sucker for creating random dungeons. Back in the days it was the only way I'd create dungeons. But that was before I realized I preferred dungeons to make sense.I still enjoy creating them but I no longer use them in my games.I also did something else: I used a slightly modified and simplified version of the random dungeon generation as a basis for a board game:I used several decks of cards: one each for room contents, monsters, treasure, and traps.The room deck was fixed, the other decks were built before play by referencing a table:The number and type of cards varied with the dungeon level you wanted to use.Finally, I used a stack of geomorph tiles to create the dungeon layout.I didn't make any changes to the game characters, i.e. they were normal D&D pcs. All I did was clearly define the actions they could perform, e.g. searching a room, trying to disarm traps, etc.It didn't see much play(testing) but it was a pretty cool exercise. I was quite excited to see how WotC used the concept as the basis for their 'Castle Ravenloft' board game. Their version of "my" game is a lot simpler and arguably plays better, but it isn't as flexible as my framework was.</blockquote>