grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Weird New World is a big hex crawl that might work. 000
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 17/02/2025I ran a home-brewed megadungeon campaign about 10 years ago. I want to say it lasted for a few years. I never mapped past the first level, but the first level was *sprawling.* I'm working on a new megadungeon now and I hope this will be my most successful campaign yet! 010
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Something the Gray Goblin Warrens taught me is that just because I know a common feature of a common monster (trolls regenerate) doesn't mean that my players do. I thought they would just know to burn the troll; they didn't & ended up locking its head in a chest. campaignwiki.org/1pdc/2009/Ch...campaignwiki.org 010
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 16/01/2025The Grey Goblin Warrens are sprawling and will almost certainly take multiple sessions. There's a dragon. And a troll. And traps and ambushes and more. campaignwiki.org/1pdc/2009/Ch...campaignwiki.org 010
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 16/01/2025The Triune Labyrinth of Insane Mutations: campaignwiki.org/1pdc/2010/Jo... I really like how this dungeon plays with elevation. It took some extra effort to understand how to run it, and it makes it a bit more linear than I like, but I think it is very much worth it.campaignwiki.org 010
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 16/01/2025These two are just really solid, dense, Jaquaysed, dungeons that make excellent go-to modules. campaignwiki.org/1pdc/2009/Se... campaignwiki.org/1pdc/2009/St... I've run both of these and they are big enough to fill multiple sessions.campaignwiki.org 010
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 16/01/2025There are traps, puzzles, and even potential social encounters with the dragon and trolls. 010
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 16/01/2025What I like about it: 1) It is Jaquaysed. Multiple entrances, multiple choices about where to go. 2) Lots of "classic" monsters. I think a lot of D&D players only know about some of the classics but haven't actually encountered them. 3) It isn't just monsters… 000
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Well, I need to get my posting count here up for the Compendium, so I'm going to talk about some old one-page dungeons I really enjoy. First up, the Quintessential Dungeon: beholderpie.blogspot.com/2016/05/one-... I haven't run this yet, but I plan to use if for the next game I run.beholderpie.blogspot.comOne Page Dungeon 2016: The Quintessential DungeonBehold my entry into the 2016 one-page dungeon contest! This year, rather than agonise over originality, I wanted something that evoke... 210
Reposted by @grognardling.bsky.socialzakthepainter.bsky.social @zakthepainter.bsky.social · 07/01/2025the compendium—alllllmost 500 pages 253041
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 30/12/2024I love that LotFP encourages creating new monsters the players have never encountered before. The essay in the Random Esoteric Creature Generator is gold… and it's really labor-intensive to come up with new monsters and use them only once. I do really like the generators in the RECG and Carcosa! 110
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Wow. I've never heard of these. They look amazing! And… they are pricy nowadays. They sound like amazing inspiration for roleplaying adventures. 000
Reposted by @grognardling.bsky.socialSemen Tsevelev @tsevelev.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Somewhat more detailed view of #TheCompendium. Artistically, it's very pleasing (these here are the inhabitants of the Grey Fortress). The text is for the most part, but some pages that would've been hard to read were replaced with printed text. Dozens of pages of useful random tables. /1 31820
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 29/12/2024@khersheyjr.bsky.social What are you most looking forward to in the Compendium? I'm most looking forward to the megadungeon! 100
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 29/12/2024@gannaeg.bsky.social What are your favorite home-brewed d12 rules? 000
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 29/12/2024The second level of the Megalith, going up. What I like about this level is that half of it is only accessible from above. If the PCs find it, they can also find an elevator up to level 4. 000
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 29/12/2024@severedfane.bsky.social I saw you were interested in multi-classing. I don't have much experience with multi-classing, but I'm curious: what are your favorite classes to combine in a multi-classed character? 100
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 29/12/2024@mrthefalcon.bsky.social What are you most excited about in the Compendium? I'm most looking forward to the megadungeon! 000
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 29/12/2024@bardic-life.bsky.social Do you have any pointers for running point-crawls? Any links to good resources? Do you have a favorite point-crawl to run? 110
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 29/12/2024@cicatrician.bsky.social How is the DMG read-thru going? I haven't made it all the way through myself. I think the favorite parts I've read so far are the follower lists for Rangers and the disease tables. I just was not expecting them! Any fun surprises for you in the DMG? 100
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 29/12/2024@rpgdeluxe.bsky.social Looks like you've got a LOT of RPG materials! I'm curious about what your favorite might be? And are there a handful of things you haven't played yet that you really want to? 000
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 29/12/2024@sector14.bsky.social What are you most looking forward to it the Compendium? Personally, I think I'm most excited about the megadungeon! 000
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 29/12/2024@mcobden.bsky.social Would you be willing to talk a bit about how you use Vornheim? What parts do you use the most? Do you have a favorite section? 100
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 29/12/2024@dr-zephaniel.bsky.social I see you use Vornheim a lot. I own it but haven't really ever used it. Can you say some about how you use Vornheim? Do you run the city of Vornheim itself or do you use it for running other cities? 110
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 29/12/2024This is the ground level of the Megalith of Zapeth-Noor. Four entrances, each in the center of a side of the Megalith. Stars and triangles are two separate teleportation networks with different rules. The large chamber on the West is a library, staffed by robots. 010
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 29/12/2024I've been drawing the dungeon on an isometric dot grid. I don't know that it actually makes anything better, but it feels like it has stretched me to draw from this perspective, and possibly helped with creativity. 110
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 29/12/2024I've mostly just done mapping and thinking about this dungeon and there is far more to be done than has already been done before it's ready for even a preliminary run, but in my next few posts I'll do some show-and-tell. 000
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Cattle are found dead and half-eaten. The villager fear that the children will be next. Who dares enter the Megalith, and will it do any good? 100
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 29/12/2024This is the basic background for a megadungeon I've been slowly working on for the last year or so. A massive megalith appears outside the small village of Zapeth-Noor. Every sunset the doors in its four walls open, every sunrise they close. Strange shapes float through the night sky… 100
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 29/12/2024It was an age of sorcery and super-science, an age of miracles and corruption, an age of marvels – both of advanced technology and utter depravity. It was the age that brought the Cataclysm. It was an age long thought hidden from all but the wisest sages… Until the Megalith just appeared. 100
grognardling.bsky.social @grognardling.bsky.social · 25/12/2024How do you go about looping your dungeons so they are non-linear? I've been using this method I developed years ago, and then for my most recent maps I just drew free-hand and tried to make sure there were lots of loops. Any other methods? grognardling.blogspot.com/2011/02/fora...grognardling.blogspot.comForay into Dungeon Building, Part 4Having preliminarily established the three essentials of the dungeon (random tables, underlying ideas and mapping), now it's time to start m... 120
Reposted by @grognardling.bsky.socialSemen Tsevelev @tsevelev.bsky.social · 30/11/2024So looking forward to getting my hands on these 400 pages of pure LotFP-OSR-D&D-able goodness. (I have some of them as PDFs but, frankly, printed on paper they're much easier to use) 584857
