Dungeons could be leisure attractions. People picnic outside the old ruins, pop in for a quick monster hunt, buy something from the various hawkers outside. Boards outside with rough maps and the history of the dungeon. Guided tours
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In Uresia I never ran delves, but ran adventures _about_ delver culture, and one was an investigation into corruption surrounding the public funds used to _restock_ the local dungeon. The 'villains' were funneling money into orphanages and schools, so, the PCs helped cover it up in the end.
aug 31, 2025, 7:23 pm • 1 0 • view
That's a neat idea. Did the players find out?
aug 31, 2025, 7:27 pm • 1 0 • view
They uncovered the whole scheme. The dungeon got restocked with slightly cheaper beasts sourced from local swamps instead of the exotic creatures from foreign rainforests they'd been importing, with a few PC-designed deathtraps added for spice. They made friends with the orphans. 😊 Little one-shot.
aug 31, 2025, 7:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Now that I think back on it, I should probably write it up at some point for public consumption. 😅 Sadly, I can no longer associate it with Uresia since I no longer own the setting, but I could make a little setting-agnostic freebie from it or something.
aug 31, 2025, 7:54 pm • 1 0 • view
This is basically the theme for my current campaign. A cleared out megadungeon becomes basically Dredd style housing complex.
aug 30, 2025, 12:20 pm • 2 0 • view
The Property Manager of Firetop Mountain Apartments
aug 30, 2025, 12:24 pm • 1 0 • view
There's the Dungeon Owners Association with the resident Karens complaint about people violating the rules on pit trap placement.
aug 30, 2025, 12:27 pm • 3 0 • view
"This location is supported by Dungeon Heritage."
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Sort of the pitch of this French comic book series: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon...
aug 30, 2025, 12:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Mild-manneted chicken, you say?
aug 30, 2025, 1:38 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s how he looks like. He’s actually a devious bastard.
aug 30, 2025, 3:07 pm • 0 0 • view
The Museum of English Dungeon Life.
aug 30, 2025, 3:21 pm • 1 0 • view
love the idea of missions taking wealthy patrons sight seeing in the mythic underworld!
aug 30, 2025, 12:39 pm • 5 0 • view
So Yellowstone?
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That's something Xcrawl never spent much time on, as far as I'm aware. That is a good concept, though. Lots of work for diviners and illusionists.
aug 30, 2025, 12:46 pm • 1 0 • view
There's a hint of that in early T&T, just a little less friendly. Backstory is secondary. In the T&T TNA playtest I'm running, players get their marching orders from the god of contrivanes. Keeping it British... And he'll have a scorpion's tail: a nod to the oldest school players at the table.
aug 30, 2025, 4:31 pm • 3 0 • view
Contrivances...sigh. (BTW: Dickens. Anyone who isn't British or an Anne Rice fan gets an extra 10% credit for the identification)
aug 30, 2025, 5:22 pm • 2 0 • view
I was writing a megadungeon years ago where someone had built an Alton Towers-style theme park staffed by genetically modified goblins but I scrapped it when I stopped writing 5e
aug 30, 2025, 12:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Dungeons of Hintenberg is "what if Alpine ski resort, but dungeon crawling instead?"
aug 30, 2025, 1:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Parlianth from the original Earthdawn game almost was exactly this. The box set even had a poster of a communal wall map created by various adventurers. #ttrpg #earthdawn
aug 30, 2025, 12:30 pm • 4 0 • view
I have the first few chapters of THE LAST ENGLISH DUNGEON written as a novel
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