#stonehell — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #stonehell, aggregated by home.social.
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CW: Spoiler for Stonehell level 1A map
I'm currently making up bare bones maps for #Stonehell in #Dungeondraft for a few reasons:
- it passes the time;
- lets me practice drawing/copying large maps;
- there are existing maps out there but the ones I've seen have a lot of objects and decoration. These only have objects that are on the original maps. (I did add notes of the stalls in 1D because otherwise I can see that being a nightmare to run.)
- I am only using assets which are in core Dungeondraft, so if you have a copy, you can edit them from the source file. -
Finally got around to uploading scans and notes for the last weeks of my #dungeon23 project - yes actually from 2023. It's been a while.
I was thinking of doing an actual megadungeon #dungeon26 but I'm still not sure. I've been reading #Stonehell and playing #ArdenVul recently which has made me think of megadungeons. The theory is that it will make the "blank days" easier by letting me fill in corners but I dunno if that's realistic.
https://daisychase.net/blog/2025/12/06/the-rest-of-my-dungeon23/
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CW: Spoiler: One room from Stonehell, 3B
OSR tidbit, Stonehell 3B:
"Disused common room; dusty, small-sized furnishings; sidebar holds mugs and complex device that resembles an espresso machine. The machine produces a foul tasting, gray liquid the Small Men find delicious. Each mug of this substance is equal to a full day of food, but any PC drinking it must make a CON check to keep it down."
I choose to believe the Small Men just drink awful awful coffee.
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CW: Spoiler: One room from Stonehell, 3A
Another OSR tidbit from Stonehell, level 3A:
"Dwarven Feast Hall: Dwarf-sized stone tables & benches ... Speaking 'Gudrun' while touching the carving fills all empty containers in the character's inventory with fine dwarvish mead."
I love the idea of it being *all* empty containers. Your flat coin purse? Full of mead. Spent quiver? Mead. Spare sack? Bursting full of mead.
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CW: Spoiler: One room from Stonehell 2C
OSR tidbit from Stonehell, 2C:
Chilling breath chamber: Caisson ceiling decorated with hemisphere globes & bas-relief of bearded man shouting. Writing appears in the relief's mouth. If examined, it reveals itself to be _chilling script_ (4d6+6 damage to reader and all within 10’; all but reader save vs spells for half damage). Mouth has secret compartment holding 700sp & 200gp.
(1/2)
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CW: Spolier: one room of Stonehell Level 2A
From the asylum (level 2A) of Stonehell:
"Haunted hydrotherapy room: Sunken baths filled with dirty water... one pool suddenly boils if entered (2d8 dam; save vs breath attacks for half). Pool contains parboiled remains of an elf adventurer with 700sp & wand of detect magic (12 charges)."
That's a nice tempting bit of interaction!
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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
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Yesterday I ran "Death Frost Doom" from #lotfp for my running #osr campaign which started as an open table #Megadungeon campaign with #Stonehell and B2 as milieu.
Since January, we have grown in size. Around 30 distinct players explored the world of Nordmark over the span of 80+ sessions.
Running "Death Frost Doom" in an established and loved campaign world makes its impact so much more meaningful that running it as a one shot. Everyone loved the session, hated the outcome and want more! -
Megadungeon Open Table d&d session. We play the old school way. Mapping by the players, gold equals experience points, there is no perception check. #Stonehell #lotfp #osr #DnD #ttrpg
