March 12 Dungeon 23
Temple of Briareus — Upper floors
• (2nd) 4 large windows overlook the glade. Contians fragments of the shattered statue from above - 25 stone hands litter the floor
• (3rd) Roof. The stair-statue once extended from stairs, its hands and arms forming a canopy. Statue is shattered, hands broken off.
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Which style are you using, one of these, a mix, or something else?
And how has your first week gone?

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But also a few doing a bottom-up approach, like I’m using. Some random lists or tools, maybe “exploring” it the way characters might. The site title I rolled helps frame things but I’m still having all sorts of fun discovering areas; I get to stitch a few prompts into a neat idea and it still feels like less workload than being performatively clever.

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It’s interesting seeing people’s approach to #dungeon23:
One that has me thinking - Most seem to start with a map and a grand plan. That must work well, it’s probably the predominant way it’s been done for 40+ years

#dungeon23 #dungeon23jan #dungeon23meta Also, I’ve go some thinking about how I want to handle monsters in a decolonized dungeon crawl that I’m going to try and flesh out. I don’t know how much of that will actually make it into mastodon posts, but they’re worth mentioning up front, at least.

#dungeon23 #dungeon23jan #dungeon23meta For me, this will be as much worldbuilding and setting creation as it is dungeon crafting. Frankly, all dungeons are implicitly settings anyways, so this isn’t really a reach.

The theme for January, for me, is going to be defining the surface region. As such, it’ll be a lot more hexcrawling/point-crawling than dungeon room making.

#dungeon23 #dungeon23jan #dungeon23meta I posted a little about this a couple days ago, but Dungeon23 is supposed to be a single dungeon room each day for the whole of 2023. I am absolutely not going to do that.

Instead, I am going to just use this as a kind of focus of daily creativity, without picking a proper system and with each month having a theme of some sort.

I’m going to do this systemless/system agnostic, and decolonized as much as I can manage.