#dungeon building

[dungeonmalcontent]

I really think that detecting illusions is a heavily underused mechanic in ttrpgs.

So try this. You make a dungeon. Everything in the dungeon is positioned and behaves as if there are walls. In reality, there are no walls. There are incredibly high level illusions if walls. The doors are real, the floor is real, all the items in the dungeon are real. Some of the doors are even locked. But there's no walls.

And the trick is, unless a player specifically says they touch a wall or they lean up against a wall or anything like that, you say nothin to give them even a hint that the walls aren't real. Because they're going to assume that there are walls, even if you don't have miniatures, or a VTT map, or you don't describe them. It's unreasonable to poke around at every aspect of your surroundings to see if they're real or not.

With perceptive skill alone, a player requires an absurdly high check. 35 or something along those lines.

So there are really only four ways to discover the walls aren't really there.

1) player touches the wall and realizes that it isn't there.

2) player uses magic to detect or see through an illusion. I'm considering extrasensory ability in this category as well, but sensory still has to be mostly intentional because they have to have a reason to distrust their eyes.

3) skill check. They try to look around them to find something. They might notice a slight improbable repeating perfection to the illusion.

4) they beat the dungeon and the illusion fades, revealing how silly they've been this whole time.

[briarpatch-dragon]

I’m back at it with designing new dungeons for Fun and Profit

I really liked the name for my previous attempt, The Descent of Hours. I also liked the initial conceit of an innocent location leading to a dungeon much deeper and more sinister than expected…

So we’re taking those ideas and combining them with a different conceit: a Soulslike dungeon centered around a hub level that you return to each time you die! This will hopefully allow for nonlinear exploration and more JRPG/MMO style fight mechanics where experimenting with strategies against powerful bosses is a part of the gameplay loop.

This is the main floor of our hub level, a tavern known as the Eagle’s Rest. The bartender is, of course, an eagle aarakocra named Qraik.

[ruporas]

don’t worry about me. goodbye, big brother

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Must be a Sugondese joke.

[d34c0nfr0st]

Amazon.com: Deacon Frost: books, biography, latest update

As a harem writer I've decided to put almost my entire catalog on sale until July 31st. That's 16 out of 17 novels marked down to 2.99 each.

These books feature mature themes, fantasy, adventure, romance, steampunk, isekai, cultivation, gamelit, tower climbing, magical academies, science fiction, dungeon creation and more. With 2 completed series, 2 ongoing series, and 1 standalone novel, there's plenty to choose from. There's even a squirrel with some serious attitude.

[lylahammar]

the way that this page in particular was adapted just OOZES studio trigger tbh. like I know everyone likes to joke about studio trigger being the horny studio, but the quick jerky animation direction is what truly makes their work recognizable to me. I can practically see Lio Fotia bleeding through the pixels in that 5 frame animation of Falin peeking through her fingers

[haunting-hole]

One detail I've always really liked in dunmeshi's worldbuilding is the difference in life expectancies among races. I don't mean the different rates at which they age but specifically how long they live from the point of view of their own group. For example, dwarfs are directly stated to age 2.5x slower than a tall-man, but where tall-men's life expectancy is only about 60, for a dwarf it would be about 200 (equivalent to 80).

At first this stood out as odd to me but it makes sense when you look up the average lifespan for every race. In general, the short-lived races all have a smaller age of maturity to life expectancy ratio than all the long-lived ones.

I really love this discrepancy because the implication here is that long-lived races not only have longer lifespans due to aging slower, but they also just live longer generally due to a better quality of life, as they have taken the most fertile and livable lands to themselves, resulting in less conflicts over resources and faster technological developments.

Ultimately how long you live isn't just a fantastical element of the setting, but a political one as well.

[monotcchi]

a quick halfling senshi for today's warmup (and to better my mood)

[guywithbeer]

Check my gaming channel for the playthrough videos of levels 1 to 10 of DUNGEONS 4. More levels will be out as soon as I get a chance to play some more.

#dungeons4 #playthrough #gameplay #videogames #gaming #dungeons #dungeonbuilder #fantasy #rts #xbox

[kensatou]

quick question: when will she ravish me.

also... the music. the little wet noises... so good...

[dunmeshistash]

Something I find amazing about Dungeon Meshi is how much "restraint" Ryoko Kui shows when telling this story. It's so clearly crafted to be the best story it can be.

By that I mean how she had SO MUCH world building for this story but still kept it as contained as it needed to be, it's a story about a few characters inside one dungeon, even if the world is expansive the story isn't. And even with the amount of characters she clearly loves so much she never got side tracked as I see so many other mangas get. The world is alive, other people exist fully with their own lives, but it stays true to the story that's being told in this universe.

I think it really shines through with how the world building relevant to the story is slowly shown to us in a non expository way, that's also something I see a lot, especially in movies, just stopping everything on it's tracks so they can info dump about the world to you, but in dungeon meshi its all so organic... magic is explained because some characters are ignorant, cultural differences are shown through cultural clashes, world history is implied through relevant conversation (monster facts are info-dumped to us but even that is in character) it's all really good and I don't think I could have gotten this into it if everything was just laid out in front of me right away.

This is all to say I'm glad we have the adventurer's bible and all this extra content that didn't fit into the story but I'm glad they weren't forced into it in detriment to the storytelling.

[morallygay]

The first time I saw kabru I was disappointed that he has blue eyes like :/ but I realized it’s perfectly consistent with how he’s laios’ opposite physically symbolizing how he’s his foil and opposite in general. Others have already mentioned it but

Laios: light skin, blond hair, droopy yellow/brown eyes, bigger build

Kabru: dark skin, black hair, sharp blue eyes, smaller build

Like if he had dark eyes everything else would be the opposite except that. Makes sense

[ciderjacks]

despite Laios low self esteem making him think that if he’d been eaten, Chilchuck and Marcille wouldn’t have helped Falin,

theres a small part of me that thinks the reason Chilchuck stayed with the party and went back in the dungeon in the first place was because he didn’t want to leave Laios alone. That Laios was moreso the reason he stayed.

[ruporas]

and together we set out on a journey to find treasure! (id in alt)

[thestuffedalligator]

The trees lumbered across the field.

It was a weird thing to watch. When a tree settled to rest or sniff at an interesting crocus, she could almost believe that it had been rooted to the spot for years; then the huge body would raise up on spidery roots and trundle forward with stupid placidity to follow the herd. When they all had settled to rest in the morning light, it was like the field had been turned into a misty woodland in seconds.

A sapling bounded up to her and sniffed at her wrist before bounding off again, spindly roots kicking with delight.

"It's pretty simple work," said the farmer. "We let them out to get some fresh air and sunlight, check them for blight. Every so often we have to lay out some manure, but that's pretty much it."

She watched the sapling. It stumbled on its own limbs and limped into the shade of its mother.

"It's pretty similar to raising cattle," said the farmer. "We raise them up for a couple years, and when they get big enough we take them down to the slaughterhouse and have them butchered."

"Wouldn't you send them to a logging mill or something?"

"Nope."

A chickadee whirred through the air and lighted onto a branch.

"There's good money in it, too," said the farmer. "There's a lot of demand for certain cuts of tree meat."

"You mean wood?"

"Nope."

There was a blur of branches. The tree ate the chickadee.

[d34c0nfr0st]

Amazon.com: Fall to the Forest: Dungeons of Underhill eBook : Frost, Deacon: Kindle Store

When the world of the Faeries began to collapse, they sought refuge in the only place they could. That salvation lay in the hope of resurrection and rebirth. The Ancient One spread the souls of the Faerie across the Universe, placing them as seeds that would grow into mighty Dungeons, each a potential location for their people to be renewed. No one on Earth was prepared for Dungeons to start popping up and causing technology to degrade. It was something they were going to have to adjust too, because Earth would never be the same. Contains some adult content, violence and language. Also present: Fae strangeness, unconventional lifestyles and exploding mushrooms.