Preparing for Dungeon23, Part 1: Greystone

The first project I'm going to tackle for 2023, is Dungeon23, the brainchild of Sean McCoy of Mothership fame.  Sean has always struck me as super creative and prolific. I remember him mentioning a room-a-day Megadungeon project in 2022. I tried that, but didn't keep up with it. So, like many many other RPG fans, I'm prepping to try it again in 2023.

I mentioned previously, that I co-run an open-table 5e game that's on the cusp of it's third year. That game takes place in the Sunset Territory, which is the frontier of the great Third Imperium of the Dwarves. The Third Imperium is a setting I've been messing around with for many years. I'm inclined to put this new megadungeon in the same world.

I won't get deep into Imperium lore here (though I might do that in the future), but millennia before the Sunset Territory game takes place, there was the original Imperium of the Dwarves (now usually referred to as the First Imperium).  This Dwarven empire lasted over a thousand years, but eventually fell to internal strife and civil war. After that, the Dwarves were enslaved by giants for several centuries, losing much of their culture and history. They eventually broke free and formed the Third Imperium that we know today.

I'm going to set my Dungeon23 dungeon in the millennia-old ruins of a First Imperium city. In its time, it was the greatest of Dwarven cities, Greystone. It's incredibly ancient, carved out from the mountains and connected into all sorts of natural caves and other subterranean locations. It feels like a great setting for a megadungeon.

So, that's today's work done! I'll do a bit more prep in the coming days and will start the project proper on January 1st.

I'm very excited to get going!

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