I've really neglected this blog. I don't have that many new zany ideas, revolutionary content, or engaging opinions, and over the last 12 months or so I've been more player than referee in a bunch of games, both OSR and not, so there wasn't much to post. However, I submitted an entry to the NoArtpunkII contest last year, and I plan on releasing it here too, in slightly more polished form, as soon as the NAP2 anthology gets published.
In the meantime, there's this neat #Dungeon23 thing I'm taking part to.
The basic idea is to draw and key a dungeon room for every day of 2023 to stay creative and active, ideally collecting it all in a journal. I'm also doing a hex a week, so at the end of the year, I'll have 12 dungeon levels of about 30 rooms each and a hexmap of roughly 50 cells of land.
So here's the first month worth of rooms, and hexes:
- Empty Alcoves - Trampled bones to the east
- Dead Adventurer - 20sp on corpse
behind hidden door: 25gp, 50sp - Cells
a) Sack, silver dagger
b) 1 Zombie
c) Imprisoned Wererat, wants to get out - Spying Outpost - Hidden door and spy-holes to the west
- Old Armory - Broken weapon rack, spear
- Shrine - 4 Skeletons, Scroll of Protection from Evil
- Rat nest - 6 Giant Rats and 1 Swarm of Rats; gold belt buckle (40gp)
- Lizard Lair - 8 Kobolds
a) behind locked door: 400sp
b) 3 Lizardfolk - Unclean Lair - 1 Ogre, 1000gp, 8 gems (2x1000gp, 3x500gp, 2x50, 10)
- Hermitage - Ascetic (Cleric2) in meditation, Scroll of Detect Evil
- Looted Tomb - Empty sarcophagus
- Trapped Tomb - Sleep gas trap; 10 gold ingots (30gp each)
- Damaged Room - 500cp hidden under loose tiles
- Spider Nest - 1 Crab Spider
- Trapped Stone Idol - Flammable Gas Trap
- Crypt - 8 Skeletons
- Bear Lair - 1 Black Bear, silver necklace (10gp) (wanted by NPC party)
- Temple - 6 Acolytes and 1 Priest (Cleric3) performing rites, Jade Idol (1000gp)
- Storage Room - Crates of moldy supplies
- Kitchens - 5 Orcs
- Hideout - 11 Orcs
- Dank Room - 1 Yellow Mold
- Cursed Tomb - 3 Zombies, Scroll of Hold Portal, 200gp
- Dusty Tomb - Shattered bones
- Shrew Nest - 7 Giant Shrews
- Mining Warehouse - Excavation Tools, Hand axe
- Archeological Expedition - 5 Dwarfs
- Insect Nest - 12 Cave Locusts
- Replicant Nest - 1 Doppelganger (shaped like the dead adventurer in Room 2)
- Abandoned Nest - Empty cocoons
- Tomb with Fresco - 500gp, Sword +1, Scroll of Knock
Random Encounter Table d8
- 1d4 Cave Locusts
- 2d4 Skeletons
- Green Slime
- Panicked Swarm of Rats
- NPC party (Fighter2, Fighter 1, Thief1, Thief1) looking for silver necklace
- Doppelganger (from room 29)
- 1d4 Kobolds and 1 Lizardfolk
- 1d4+1 Orcs
- Dungeon Entrance
- Forest - Gem (1000gp) in pond
- Town
- Plains - Inscribed Dolmen (random MU1 spell, 1d6 chance to find)
