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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charles Rampant" data-source="post: 7206834" data-attributes="member: 32659">Thanks for the list! I've heavily plundered all of the Waterdeep stuff - I basically copy/pasted them into my own wiki and then hyperlinked it all - but Undermountain I've not gone into very deeply, so your list is helpful, even if I abort this method.As far as combat encounters, I am indeed avoiding them. I'd prefer to have conditions applied that give issues in the actual dungeon they're wanting to explore, rather than just random combats in random hallways. I mean, they have some value - you can toss a really tough fight down, and use stuff that's really leftfield without impacting the flavour of the 'dungeon of the week' (Drow in the random encounter, Undead in the dungeon) - but too often I find myself just wanting to skip them so that we can get on with the actual story.That's an interesting option, especially since it can help to break down the transit methods between the areas. You can have stuff like... "To unlock access to the Dungeon level, the party must enter this mini-dungeon and defeat it's defenders". It sounds like you'd not have big tables or dungeon level maps, but instead would have really abstract level maps (four big circles on square, essentially) with skill checks to pass between them?Yes, this is my big concern. Just one d100 table is going to be hours of work, even if I extensively cannibalise random encounter tables from other sources; doing it for 16 levels and transit routes is a tough gig. As you say, it'd really suit the tone of the place, and it would be easy to have really interesting choices come through as a result of different areas having different effects, shortcuts through dangerous areas, even the question of which starting point to use gets texture. But it's a lot of work, which has to be viewed in the context of the other option, which is sucking it up and and just using the extraordinarily huge maps which I can find everywhere. They're so big that I'll never run out of rooms and corridors to use, especially since the nature of the place means that I can add a two-way portal to any random wall and have that be the entrance to my 'dungeon of the week'.</blockquote>

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