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<blockquote data-quote="CreamCloud0" data-source="post: 8860480" data-attributes="member: 7034710">Fitting in places: interesting locations and themes for your dungeon that are more than just 'dank underground temple' and advice on how to make a dungeon not stick out like a sore thumb, if your 'dungeon' is going to be in the middle of a major city make it be a giant library or the backalleys or a castle rather than an indiana jones-esc ancient crumbling temple.A coherent whole: advice on how to build the lore and/or quest of a dungeon with what you inside it and where it is, 'uh oh! turns out that city library's new book was actually a tome of necromancy and has started summoning spirits all over the place' if this is the case don't fill the hallways with kobolds and mimics because that doesn't match up.The Structure: this is a long section full of advice on how to build your dungeon and building blocks to do so, what different layouts there are and how to best use each: a tower with many small floors, a mansion with lots of individual rooms, a giant tree with both confined passages inside and precarious branch walkways outside and more! trap and puzzle components: natural hazards, riddles, trapdoors, magic runes, wall spikes, hidden keys and more! DCs for how strong to make a door or how easy it is to climb a wall, what makes a good place to put a secret room and how do you even open it in the first place? perception check to notice the seam in the brickwork? walk through an illusory wall? teleported in by a magic key? how to make things your players do in one part of the dungeon affect things in the rest of it.The Contents: what monsters might be found together, what treasure is apropriate, dungeon resident NPCs,</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CreamCloud0, post: 8860480, member: 7034710"] [B]Fitting in places:[/B] interesting locations and themes for your dungeon that are more than just 'dank underground temple' and advice on how to make a dungeon not stick out like a sore thumb, if your 'dungeon' is going to be in the middle of a major city make it be a giant library or the backalleys or a castle rather than an indiana jones-esc ancient crumbling temple. [B]A coherent whole:[/B] advice on how to build the lore and/or quest of a dungeon with what you[B] [/B]inside it and where it is, [I]'uh oh! turns out that city library's new book was actually a tome of necromancy[B] [/B]and has started summoning spirits all over the place'[/I] if this is the case don't fill the hallways with kobolds and mimics because that doesn't match up.[B] The Structure: [/B]this is a long section full of advice on how to build your dungeon and building blocks[B] [/B]to do so, what different layouts there are and how to best use each: a tower with many small floors, a mansion with lots of individual rooms, a giant tree with both confined passages inside and precarious branch walkways outside and more! trap and puzzle components: natural hazards, riddles, trapdoors, magic runes, wall spikes, hidden keys and more! DCs for how strong to make a door or how easy it is to climb a wall, what makes a good place to put a secret room and how do you even open it in the first place? perception check to notice the seam in the brickwork? walk through an illusory wall? teleported in by a magic key? how to make things your players do in one part of the dungeon affect things in the rest of it.[B] The Contents: [/B]what monsters might be found together, what treasure is apropriate, dungeon resident NPCs, [/QUOTE]

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