Dungeon23 – Wk 18 – The Death of Brog in the Black Maw
Michael / Chgowiz I’ve started populating and keying Level 6. This is going to represent a definite shift in the dungeon, the players are halfway through and things are about to get… interesting.…
Michael / Chgowiz
Dungeon23 – Wk (17) – Mapping with Dungeon Architect Cards – a mini-review
A week of the dungeon cards and I’m already done with mapping of level 6! Now comes the keying part. I have 21 more days in April, so definitely no…
Dungeon23 (Wk 15/16) Random encounters and random cards for dungeons
Week 15 was a bit of a wash, with a family medical event and then GaryCon that weekend. Fortunately, I had mapped/keyed far enough ahead that I didn’t fall behind.…
Podcast – The Big Five-Oh episode – 6 years in the making!
I started my podcast six years ago and here we are, finally at episode 50! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thedungeonmastershandbook/episodes/Episode-50—The-Over-the-Hill-Fiftieth-Episode-e21c55u This episode has a look back at where I’ve been, what I’ve learned and…
New Release – Swords & Wizardry Treasure Generator
tl;dr: Stephen Faure and I are releasing a fork of the original Swords & Wizardry Treasure Generator created by Brian Ramsay (foont.net). Our version incorporates a different approach by allowing…
Update to Hommlet / 3d Printing post…
I finished printing out and assembling the first two rooms of the Moat-house dungeon, on Sunday night. This was just to get a feel of how things work and see…
Dungeon23 (Wk 14) – Different sorts of monsters
Another addition to my personal, locally-hosted Dungeon23 generator, I added the Random Esoteric Creature Generator tables to it. I think it’s time to give my players something else to think…
Hommlet and GaryCon 2024 – start of a new project – 3d dungeon!
I’m back into 3d-printing again. I’d tried it out in 2019, with an Ender 3. After a period of failure and frustration, I sold the printer. Inspired by a recent…
Dungeon23 (Wk 13) – Door mini-game
A very quick Dungeon23 update, as this has been a “roll and draw, roll and draw” sort of week. The only thing of note is thinking about a little mini-game…
Dungeon 23 (Wk 12) – A Wandering Encounter and First PC Death
On Thursday (3 Mar), I was setting down to draw the next day of rooms in my Dungeon, and realized that I’d not keyed a wandering monster chart for level…