A Quick Guide to Random Dungeons

A Quick Guide to Random Dungeons
Author: Tiago da Paz
Publisher: Papa-Figo
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2022-03-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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Broadly speaking, dungeons are a type of place divided into rooms and corridors that bring challenges inside, culminating in a greater objective. Traditionally dungeons were ancient ruins or underground caves, but all types can be created. With a focus on merging the traditional with the modern, the options in this manual apply to any medieval setting. This quick guide is designed to help with dungeon design and the possibility of creating totally random dungeons. It has objective and simple language and is not directed to a specific RPG system, bringing narrative and open descriptions that allow adaptation to the type of game used.

The Game Master's Book of Random Encounters

The Game Master's Book of Random Encounters
Author: Jeff Ashworth
Publisher: Media Lab Books
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781948174374
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For many tabletop RPG players, the joy of an in-depth game is that anything can happen. Typical adventure modules include a map of the adventure’s primary location, but every other location?whether it's a woodland clearing, a random apothecary or the depths of a temple players elect to explore?has to be improvised on the fly by the Game Master. As every GM knows, no matter how many story hooks, maps or NPCs you painstakingly create during session prep, your best-laid plans are often foiled by your players' whims, extreme skill check successes (or critical fails) or their playful refusal to stay on task. In a game packed with infinite possibilities, what are GMs supposed to do when their players choose those for which they're not prepared? The Game Master’s Book of Random Encounters provides an unbeatable solution. This massive tome is divided into location categories, each of which can stand alone as a small stop as part of a larger campaign. As an example, the “Taverns, Inns, Shops & Guild Halls” section includes maps for 19 unique spaces, as well as multiple encounter tables designed to help GMs fill in the sights, sounds, smells and proprietors of a given location, allowing for each location in the book to be augmented and populated on the fly while still ensuring memorable moments for all your players. Each map is presented at scale on grid, enabling GMs to determine exactly where all of the characters are in relation to one another and anyone (or anything) else in the space, critical information should any combat or other movement-based action occur. Perhaps more useful than its nearly 100 maps, the book's one-shot generator features all the story hooks necessary for GMs to use these maps as part of an interconnected and contained adventure. Featuring eight unique campaign drivers that lead players through several of the book's provided maps, the random tables associated with each stage in the adventure allow for nearly three million different outcomes, making The Game Master's Book of Random Encounters an incredible investment for any would-be GM. The book also includes a Random NPC Generator to help you create intriguing characters your players will love (or love to hate), as well as a Party Makeup Maker for establishing connections among your PCs so you can weave together a disparate group of adventurers with just a few dice rolls. Locations include taverns, temples, inns, animal/creature lairs, gatehouses, courts, ships, laboratories and more, with adventure hooks that run the gamut from frantic rooftop chases to deep cellar dungeon-crawls, with a total of 97 maps, more than 150 tables and millions of possible adventures. No matter where your players end up, they'll have someone or something to persuade or deceive, impress or destroy. As always, the choice is theirs. But no matter what they choose, with The Game Master's Book of Random Encounters, you'll be ready.

The Classic Dungeon Design Guide

The Classic Dungeon Design Guide
Author: Kent David Kelly
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2017-01-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781542405409
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Deep dwarven cities of the underworld, Infested by conquering orcs, Enslaved by demons of skull and pyre ... Black labyrinths of mad demigods, Proving grounds for daring adventurers And graveyards for greedy fools ... Twisting passages, all alike, Where lurking trolls and shadow beasts Guard the deepest riddles of the nether ... If you have ever wanted to know how to quickly and masterfully create your own mega-dungeon for your pen-and-paper Fantasy Role-Playing Game (PNP FRPG) campaigns, this is the perfect book for you. This Game Master's guide will show you, step by step, how to take your vague-yet-promising ideas and how to sculpt them with precise and careful design decisions (enhanced, if you prefer, by random die rolls), allowing you to conceive an endless mega-dungeon in record time. Best of all, the CASTLE OLDSKULL CLASSIC DUNGEON DESIGN GUIDE is also system-neutral. No matter which of the many FRPGs you choose to play, from basic skill level to advanced, a first edition or a fifth or anything in between, the lessons you master here will serve you in your gaming for years to come. Learn how to make the most of your ever-dwindling prep time, so that you can spend those saved hours gaming with your friends! This old school Guide is filled to overflowing with more than 450 pages of design material and dungeon generation tables. Highlights include: * Hack and slash and beyond. 39 adventure scenarios, with 20 diabolical twists, totaling 780 great ideas for your next campaign. * A myriad of options. Over 10,000 unusual benefactors ("quest givers"), unusual wilderness encounters your players will never forget, and extensive rumor and dungeon history generation systems. * Every endless labyrinth ever, under one cover. Extensive details on realistic underworlds, hundreds of dungeon dressing ideas, over 10,000 room types, and much more. * The imagined made real. A complete second book is included herein as a detailed example of dungeon design, featuring over 60 pages of specific examples. The Goblin Head campaign environment supplement reveals exactly how a 13-level mega-dungeon can be conceived in a matter of hours. The CLASSIC DUNGEON DESIGN GUIDE is brought to you by Kent David Kelly of Wonderland Imprints, a role-player and Game Master with over 30 years of play experience. Best of all, if there are any other materials you would like to see relating to dungeon design, feel free to contact the author. Many more CASTLE OLDSKULL supplements are being prepared specifically to support the players, initiates and Game Masters of the Old School Revival (OSR). This Guide is your gateway to the realms of sword and sorcery. Join us for the adventure! (A complete reference work designed to supplement existing pen-and-paper Fantasy Role-Playing Games. 12 chapters, over 100 section topics, 60,000 words, 475+ pages; organized via a fully ordered table of contents. Just one of the proud creations available now from Wonderland Imprints - Only the Finest Works of Fantasy.)

The Classic Dungeon Design Guide II

The Classic Dungeon Design Guide II
Author: Kent David Kelly
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2018-09-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781727110753
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The sequel to the Classic Dungeon Design Guide is here ... Have you read every dungeon design book out there, but you're still hungry for great ideas to amaze your players? Would you like to possess the tools to generate countless millions of randomized results for bizarre rooms and shrines, dungeon doors, magical laboratories, skeletons, Lovecraftian abominations, and torture chambers? Then this is the book for you. This massive tome is the direct sequel to Wonderland Imprints' Gold Medal Best Seller, CDDG1: THE CLASSIC DUNGEON DESIGN GUIDE. Where Book 1 was a basic inspirational tome filled with thousands of ideas, Book II: Dungeon Mastery Design Tables is an advanced nuts-and-bolts guide that provides you with hundreds of pages of tables which you can use to create an infinite number of dungeon rooms, monster lairs, thematic levels and endless details such as barracks, caves, chests, corpses, fountains, prisoner cells, quarters, shrines, and magical gateways. You can even use this book's treasure trove of systems to create millions of deities, slime monsters, prisoner NPCs, and unique NPC villains and prisoners, using nearly 1,000 different experience level titles and other tools that intersect with DDE1, DUNGEON DELVER ENHANCER. Book One was only the beginning, the entry work to a series. This is one of the largest and most extensive dungeon design books in existence, with features branching out from CDDG1 including: data for on-the-spot creation of altars, barracks, caves, containers, corpses, doors, dungeon dressing, fountains, fungi, galleries, hideouts, laboratories, magical gateways, prisoners, quarters, stairways, torture chambers, unusual rooms, and those ever-baffling magical "unclassifiable chambers" which no one can fully comprehend. It's all here, the massive set of tables I have used for years to create new mega-dungeons for the Castle Oldskull OSR campaign. I have refined and expanded them over many months of writing, and now I offer them to you. So what are you waiting for? This book is the perfect companion for THE CLASSIC DUNGEON DESIGN GUIDE, and has been specially designed to serve both as a learning grimoire and as a tabletop go-to book for design and for sandbox play. After all, if you're going to dare to delve into the netherworld, you should probably take not just a lantern and an elvish sword of great antiquity; you should also carry the ultimate guidebook to help you from getting lost along the way ... Another classic Fantasy Role-Playing Game Supplement from Wonderland Imprints, Only the Finest Works of Fantasy.

Wizards & Spells (Dungeons & Dragons)

Wizards & Spells (Dungeons & Dragons)
Author: Jim Zub
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2020-03-10
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1984856472
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An immersive illustrated primer to the enchanted beings, magic users, and spells of Dungeons & Dragons, the leading fantasy role-playing game. This illustrated guide transports new players to the magical world of Dungeons & Dragons and presents a one-of-a-kind course on the wizards, sorcerers, and other magic-makers for which the game is known. Featuring easy-to-follow and entertaining explanations of how spells are created and used in the game, along with original illustrations of the game's essential magical characters, this book shines a spotlight on the mystical side of D&D. The perfect jumping-on point for young fans of fantasy looking to give D&D a try, Wizards and Spells also features prompts to encourage creative problem-solving skills in the dangerous situations that may be encountered in a Dungeons & Dragons adventure.

Warriors & Weapons (Dungeons & Dragons)

Warriors & Weapons (Dungeons & Dragons)
Author: Jim Zub
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2019-07-16
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 198485643X
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This introductory guide to DUNGEONS & DRAGONS is an illustrated primer to many of the characters you can play in D&D, along with their essential weapons and adventuring tools. In this illustrated guide, you're transported to the legendary and magical worlds of Dungeons & Dragons, where you are presented with one-of-a-kind entries for different types of warriors, as well as the weaponry these fighters need for D&D adventuring. This guide includes detailed illustrations of the weapons, armor, clothing, and other equipment that fighters use, and offers the tools young, aspiring adventurers need for learning how to build their own characters, including sample profiles, a flowchart to help you decide what type of warrior to be, and brainstorming challenges to start you thinking like an adventurer whether on your own or in the midst of an exciting quest with friends and fellow players.

The Game Master's Book of Non-Player Characters

The Game Master's Book of Non-Player Characters
Author: Jeff Ashworth
Publisher: Media Lab Books
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-09-14
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781948174800
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From the #1 Best-Selling author, Jeff Ashworth, comes the latest addition to The Game Master series, with more than 500 NPCs ready to populate your campaign whenever you need them! As is often the case in tabletop roleplaying games, players often venture into locales or look for answers in places and among people busy Game Masters simply didn’t anticipate. Or, just as often, an adventure won't have fully fleshed out characters in place for the locations and encounters outlined for gameplay. The Game Master's Book of Non-Player Characters solves these issues and more by providing Game Masters with the information they need to “fill in the holes” in their campaign play. It will enable GMs to instantly add depth, color, motivation and unique physical characteristics at a moment's notice to unexpected or underwritten characters as they pop up during gameplay, ensuring every session is a memorable one for players and GMs alike. This edition also includes more than 50 hand-drawn illustrations of select NPCs detailed in the book, 3 bonus one-shot adventures, and a foreword by online influencer Jasmine Bhullar.

The Exodus System

The Exodus System
Author: Jacob Dc Ross
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2018-06-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9780996147811
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The Exodus System is an all-new roleplaying game that's built on the foundation of the earliest games, but with modern innovations. It's designed to support many different genres of settings, including fantasy, sci-fi, superheroes and many more.Starting up is fast and easy. Character creation is simple yet flexible. Rather than being restricted to a pre-defined class, players take a few minutes to pick select four options and create a custom class.The gamemaster has many options laid out for them. Even with just five minutes for preparation, GMs can create a new quest, a few enemies to fight dungeon rooms to explore and treasure to find.Every character in the Exodus System is versatile enough to be useful both in and out of combat situations. The Exodus System is already a bestseller. Check it out today to see why!

Dungeon Master For Dummies

Dungeon Master For Dummies
Author: James Wyatt
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2008-11-17
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0470292911
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Design your own fantasy D&D epic filled with adventurous exploits, cloaked characters, and mysterious monsters If you're a Dungeons & Dragons fan, you've surely thought of becoming a Dungeon Master. Learning to be a DM isn't as hard as you might think, especially if you have Dungeon Master For Dummies tucked into your bag of tricks! Whether you've assumed the role of Dungeon Master before or not, this illustrated reference can help you run a D&D game, either online or in person. From organizing your first D&D game to dealing with difficult players, this book covers everything a DM needs to know. Written for the newest edition of D&D by the experts at Wizards of the Coast, the game's creators, it shows you how to: Run your very first campaign, from shaping storylines and writing your own adventures to dealing with unruly players and characters Build challenging encounters, make reasonable rulings, and manage disagreements Recognize all the common codes, tables, and spells Understand the parts of a D&D adventure and how to create dungeon maps and craft monsters Shape storylines and write your own adventures Find your style as a DM and develop a game style that plays to your strengths Script an encounter, vary the terrain and challenges, and establish rewards (experience points and treasure) Decide whether to use published adventures Use and follow the official Dungeon Master's Guide Develop a campaign with exciting themes, memorable villains, and plots to entrance players If you're getting the urge to lead the charge in a D&D game of your own, Dungeon Master For Dummies provides the information you need to start your own game, craft exciting stories, and set up epic adventures. Grab your copy today, and you'll be on your way!

4.4BSD User's Reference Manual (URM)

4.4BSD User's Reference Manual (URM)
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Computer Systems Research Group
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Total Pages: 934
Release: 1994
Genre: Computers
ISBN:
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Handy reference documentation for a key variant of the UNIX operating system, including many popular freeware utilities. It covers the final, definitive release of the Berkeley version of UNIX, which has been the basis for many commercial UNIX variants. Useful for Linux, BSDI, and other free UNIX variants.