#megadungeon — Public Fediverse posts

"Erde & Wasser" ist ein Megadungeon für D&D 5E 2014, das ich seit Jahren schreibe und playteste: 38 Level mit über 350 Räumen, Pointcrawls mit über 100 Locations, viele Storyfäden einer tiefen Sandbox.

Ich veröffentliche es in einer Serie von Heften. #2 ist jetzt raus:
- Ein Querschnitt des Megadungeons und eine Karte der wichtigsten Fraktionen
- Sechs Level im und unter dem ruinierten Tempel des Ceris

Komplett kostenlos, #noAI.

#pnpde #dnd #megadungeon

https://kritischerfehlschlag.de/2026/09/13/download-erde-wasser-2-der-tempel-des-ceris/

Is there no longer a way to export your dwarf fortress maps?!?

How am I supposed to turn this into a dungeon for my RPG campaign?

#TTRPG #GMPrep #Megadungeon #NSR #OSR

July 2026: I'm making good progress on my #Dungeon23 🫠

🐌🐢🐌🐢🐌🐢

Three years too late, but who could have guessed that actually starting a campaign in my setting would force me to make actual progress on it? 😅

Running #LiminalHorror Deluxe, an #IntoTheOdd based urban fantasy #TTRPG.

I made a quick and dirty JS character generator to save some time when rolling new PCs: https://www.whidou.fr/liminal_horror_crea.html

#OSR #DrawIO #Megadungeon #JDR

Been playing a game of Dwarf Fortress with a mind to turning it into a mega dungeon later.

I’m being less regular in my construction. I kinda expand haphazardly. Just made a small apartment complex by my mines.

Made a sheriff office/dining hall/bedroom off a hallway that leads to the mines, etc.

Thanks to an early flooding incident, I’m expanding primarily on the east side. Maybe next winter I can fix it.

I got lucky and haven’t been sieged yet.

#DwarfFortress #MegaDungeon #OSR #NSR

We look up at the "Jewel in the Sky," a new megadungeon on BackerKit from Monte Cook Games for the Cypher System that you can play as either a fantasy or sci-fi campaign. https://ttrpgfans.com/monte-cook-jewel-in-the-sky-megadungeon/ #ttrpg #tabletoprpg #rpg #CypherSystem #MonteCook #montecookgames #megadungeon #megadungeonmonth

Brilliant idea, or terrible idea: play a game of Dwarf Fortress. Turn the map into a megadungeon for my Nimble game.

A thousand years later after it’s been transformed for another purpose.

#TTRPG #DwarfFortress #OutlawsOfTheNorth #Megadungeon #Adventures #Nimble #NimbleRpg #NSR #OSR #DnD

Erde & Wasser #1: Der Einstieg ins Abenteuer – Coming Soon!

Erde & Wasser ist ein Megadungeon für D&D 5E 2014, das ich seit Jahren schreibe und playteste:

• 38 Level mit über 350 Räumen
• Pointcrawls mit über 100 Locations
• Viele Storyfäden einer tiefen Sandbox

Der Text ist größtenteils fertig, zurzeit läuft der zweite Playtest. Aber bei dieser Menge an Material war mir klar, dass ich das nicht alles auf einmal veröffentlichen könnte. Daran würde ich jahrelang herumfeilen und wahrscheinlich nie zum Ende kommen.

Also ist der Plan jetzt, das Megadungeon über eine Serie von Booklets herauszugeben. Alles unter der OGL und einer CC-BY 4.0 Lizenz. Alles Human Made und ohne KI. Mit einem schicken Cover von Christian Laugsch!

Das erste Booklet ist jetzt so gut wie fertig. Die letzte Korrekturschleife läuft und noch diesen Monat kommt es als kostenloses pdf hierher zum Download. Herunterladbare Karten-Dateien wird auf der Übersichtsseite geben, auch mit separaten Versionen für die Spielenden, die nicht alle Geheimnisse zeigen.

Und als kleine Spoiler hier ein paar Eindrücke aus dem Heft.

• EPSON MFP image

Kommt mit in die Berge von Yar und ergründet die Geheimnisse von Erde und Wasser!

"Erde & Wasser" ist ein Megadungeon für D&D 5E 2014, das ich seit Jahren schreibe und playteste: 38 Level mit über 350 Räumen, Pointcrawls mit über 100 Locations, viele Storyfäden einer tiefen Sandbox.

Jetzt wird es in einer Serie von Booklets veröffentlicht.
#1 erscheint in Kürze:
- Der Einstieg und Hintergrundinformationen
- Das Dorf Carfang
- Ein Pointcrawl mit 22 Locations in den Bergen von Yar

Mehr bald hier und unter https://kritischerfehlschlag.de/erde-wasser/.

#pnpde #dnd #dnd5e #dnd5 #megadungeon

Currently reading Non-Stop by Brian Aldiss, part of Gollancz's SF Masterworks line.

It's a great setup for a megadungeon campaign: the protagonist is part of a degenerate tribe living within a massive starship where everything has gone to crap. They explore the forest of hydroponic overgrowth hunting for meat. There are countless still-sealed rooms containing advanced tech, critical supplies, useless junk, terrifying monsters.

#scifi #books #nonstop #BrianAldiss #osr #ttrpg #megadungeon

time to start considering building a #megadungeon in 2026. it'll be a nice challenge to do. 12 levels. 1 section of the level a day with me switching to a different level on day 1 of the next month. of course, before that happens it'll need a construction day 0 on new year's eve, setting up the "home base". granted, not every month is exactly 30 days (looking at you february), but it shouldn't matter too much. not every dungeon has levels exactly the same size.

We delve deep into Castle Whiterock, a new mega dungeon campaign for 5E and Dungeon Crawl Classics coming soon to BackerKit from Goodman Games. https://ttrpgfans.com/castle-whiterock-dcc-goodman-games/ #dungeoncrawlclassics #DCCRPG #ttrpg #ttrpgcommunity #rpg #rpggames #megadungeon

I set myself a rule of only buying a new module when I manage to read one I already have. And then a corollary: no buying megadungeons until I finish reading Stonehell.

So I've started reading Stonehell again. As part of that I've been collecting blogs with useful insights.

Gus L wrote a thoughtful review, https://bonesofcontention.blogspot.com/2021/06/spectral-interrogatories-stonehell.html

Wayne Rossi has written a lot of really great stuff about running it with S&W: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Ainitiativeone.blogspot.com+stonehell

#stonehell #megadungeon #osr #ttrpg

@salamandar Anything cool been happening in the #megadungeon? Saw you in my notifications and realized it's been a while since you posted a play report.

Hab mir gerade für die Teilnahme am #Megadungeon #Stonehell einen #ShadodarkRPG-Paladin gebaut. Die Klasse ist noch im Spieltest. Fokus liegt bei den Attributen auf STR und CHA; ob sich die -2 auf INT schllimm auswirken, werd ich sehen. :D Das ist bisher eine klare „Ritter:innen“-Klasse ohne religiösen Hintergrund.

#pnpde #Rollenspiel #OSR

After 114 episodes, close to 3 years of continuous emergent play, and countless memories, 3d6 DTL's campaign of the Halls of Arden Vul comes to end this Tuesday, June 24th, 2025!
Bear witness to our last session in the greatest #megadungeon ever conceived.
#OSR #TTRPGs #OSE #DnD #actualplay

Partly I just really want to have the "dragon" in D&D, as we hardly ever manage that. Partly, I love the idea of the party really needing to gather information and plan tactics against a single terrifying foe.

#ttrpg #megadungeon #osr #dragon

Pressure to beat the dragon as soon as possible leads to players having multiple goes at it, starting before they are really powerful enough, learning and adapting as they go.

Some crews specialize in recovering bodies and selling them for resurrection them (like Dungeon Meshi). Also, giant spiders that creep around the lower levels and drag bodies off to be preserved in webs, including those left by the dragon. So corpse recovery doesn't involve fighting the dragon.

#osr #megadungeon #dragon

I think it would be fun to run an OSR campaign where the goal, known from the outset, is to slay a dragon before it emerges and lays waste to the kingdom.

The dragon dwells at the bottom a megadungeon under the city, which has been sealed for centuries to prevent the underworld spewing forth horrors.

Now the King is forced by augurs of doom to break the seals and grant licences to any who would dare the darkness beneath, seeking the power to defeat the dragon...

#osr #megadungeon #dragon

https://youtube.com/shorts/3VlQHZS6InY?feature=share YT short #dungeon23 #megadungeon

I went on an adventure in the Wieliczka Salt Mine today. It's basically a 9-level #megadungeon, but we only got to explore levels 1-3.

You start by going down 54 flights of stairs to a depth of 65m (level 1). According to the local rumour table, level 9 is 327m down.

#Dungeon corridors are standard 10' width. There are 287 Km of tunnels.

Everything is carved out of rock salt.

3d6 DTL Ep 71 of The Halls of Arden Vul #megadungeon campaign! The dynamic duo of Mort and Upior plunge eastward with the goal of putting Prior Jacobus's ghost to rest. But delvin' ain't easy, and things take a turn...
#OSE #OSR #TTRPG

Video: https://youtu.be/F9BHzrAFtSA
Audio Podcast: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/Az4IuW4VXJb

@juergen_hubert The problem with the megadungeon is very much the problem with travel in any context – the initial bits are cool, getting to where you want to go is cool, but the repetitive, tedious bits along the way in the middle are absolutely reprehensible after the first couple of times. Most systems make the process of exploration as painful as they can out of a desire for "realism."

Newsflash: Reality is often tedious and boring. That's why we're not out exploring caves and putting our lives in the line every moment we do so.

My own feeling is that you should run a #megadungeon in very much the same way you would exploring any sort of outdoor adventure; there are places that are safe enough to camp, there are places with interesting things to do, and then there's that smear of places in the middle that you resolve with just a couple of rolls, dispense with for color, and get on to what you really would rather be doing.

#TTRPG

Ep 51 of 3d6 DTL's Arden Vul #megadungeon campaign! A-Team contends with their greatest fears while beset on all sides, and B-Team must deal with a betrayal of the highest order back at the Inn of the Broken Head.

@NecroticGnome
#OSE #OSR #DnD #TTRPGs

Video: https://youtu.be/bZgHI-V1JWc
Audio Podcast: https://bit.ly/3GHDB5r

Motivations for going into the megadungeon

Why Venture Into The Dungeon? – Dice Goblin
https://dicegoblin.blog/why-venture-into-the-dungeon/

#megadungeon #ttrpg #blogospherefind

A Few Days in a Megadungeon: a Referee's Perspective 💪
#OSE #OSR #Megadungeon #TTRPGs #DnD

Increasingly consumed by the idea of using an IKEA furniture assembly diagram as the floor plan for my next #TTRPG #megadungeon

I wish that @montecook ‘s Dungeon A Day site was still around. I don’t even think the PDFs are still for sale. But it was a great example of how an adventure could be presented in a non-traditional manner. Each room had its own web page, with links to lore articles and adjoining rooms. It was a cool experiment in alternative ways to present a dungeon, and I haven’t seen anything like it since.

#TTRPG #DND #MegaDungeon #AdventureDesign #MonteCook #DungeonADay