In case you haven't heard the good word, there's a community project this year. (Already in progress!)
Sean McCoy posted about this on Twitter and his Substack, but the gist is that you make a megadungeon by writing one dungeon room per day. At the end of the year, you'll have a twelve-level megadungeon with 365 rooms.
I've seen a lot of folks doing a bunch of pre-planning for this project, but as Sean himself says in another post, keep it simple. Divine your megadungeon via random tables and free association. (And in my personal experience, front-loading too much of the work makes it seem unattainable.) This is a brainstorming exercise more than anything else, so get ready to get weird with it.
Personally, I'm excited to see what develops. Hopefully everybody takes this opportunity to figure out how a megadungeon is put together and what they like to see in dungeons.
I don't plan on writing about my own #dungeon23 project too much on the ol' hobby blog, but I plan on keeping up with it. My dungeon is tentatively called The Crucible, although I don't know what it will become with the fullness of time. For starters, I don't think "The Crucible" is what the locals call it; they don't know that the nearby cave systems are actually connected into a megadungeon complex. (In fact, I'm not even sure anyone — including the inhabitants — has ever discovered the main entrance!)
In the meantime, here are a handful of additional community discussions around dungeon23:
Ben L.'s dungeon23 tag on the Mazirian's Garden blog
It's an exciting an idea, but I determined I lack the spoonage necessary for it. :(
ReplyDeleteI was originally going to skip it for similar reasons, but I figure it will be a good brainstorming exercise.
DeleteIt probably helped that I've been wanting to try 30-minute dungeons for a while, but spending five minutes a day on a dungeon seems way less daunting: https://web.archive.org/web/20190228124734/http://bogeymanscave.blogspot.com/2019/02/30-minute-dungeons-are-back.html