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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8111342" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><a href="https://www.multivax.com/last_question.html" target="_blank">INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER.</a>I mean that very sincerely, BTW. This is a bit like asking, "What's the breakdown you think is best between carbohydrates, fats, protein, and water in a well-cooked meal?" I don't think there's much you can say other than, "well you probably need most of those to show up." A well-crafted dungeon experience is about pacing and tone, which exist at a higher level of abstraction than the percentage mix of elements. You might be able to find some correlations between the presence of particular elements and the production of a desirable pacing and tone, but they'll lead you astray as like as not.For example: if you're running an intentionally very short dungeon that's there to fill time between major chapters of a more narrative game, then going light on empty rooms and on exploration might be wise. That is, those are the most likely places for new story hooks to develop, and a "palate cleanser" dungeon is a bad place to have brand-new hooks appear. Conversely, if there's a major story beat ongoing and this dungeon is one expression thereof, expanding these sections lets the players sink their teeth in deeper, lets you develop mysteries or flesh out world-elements through description and player-driven choices rather than detached narration. And all of these considerations become moot if it's a 1e-style violence-vagrants game where there are no "story beats" other than what the party is choosing to do right at this moment.</blockquote>

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