A dungeon from my childhood.
A dungeon from my childhood. I was maybe 11 when I drew this? 12? I think I had a Player's Handbook but no other books. Later I got the DMG which at least had monster stats in the back.
Random idea for high-lethality D&D campaigns: Character death unlocks new classes and races.
Random idea for high-lethality D&D campaigns: Character death unlocks new classes and races. Maybe useful in “special snowflake” campaigns where no one reads your carefully crafted setting material. Instead you roll it out piecemeal as PCs bite the dust. “I really want to play a saurian warlock…sure, I’ll take a drink of that mystery potion.” Someone probably thought of this before.
I wish I still had my first dungeon. It had a room that would grind you up if you closed both doors, and a dragon at the end (of course).
ReplyDeleteYeah, I don't know how that dragon gets out of his room that is barely big enough for him.
ReplyDeleteQue awesome. I did it backwards from you, I had Holmes Basic and the DMG and had to make all kinds of weird things up.
ReplyDeleteThere was nowhere to buy D&D stuff in my town, so I had to puzzle out what to order from the little bookstore in town. The lady that owned the store and I would look at her distributor catalog, "Monster Manual! That's it!"
ReplyDeleteI love how all the old dungeons -- mine looked exactly like this -- were built out of drywall. Because you had to maximize the paper, right?
ReplyDeleteCould you run this today if you wanted to?
ReplyDeleteI've got another one here that is keyed. And obviously created from the random tables in the DMG.
ReplyDeleteI suspect to see my demise in that dungeon soon... Game on Casey Garske
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