Dungeon23: Greystone - Day 1

Today is the day! The first room of my Dungeon23 megadungeon is set!

Greystone was the capital city of a long-dead Dwarven empire. Like so many Dwarven cities it was built into the side of a mountain. In the centuries since its abandonment, much of it has collapsed. Additionally, time, erosion, earthquakes and other factors have hidden virtually all of the features that would have been visible from outside the mountains.  The main city gates, alternative entrances, guard towers, etc have all collapsed or been long covered by the landslides, etc.

A recent quake has shaken loose enough dirt to reveal a window. One single, humble window looking east from the side of the mountain. It takes a serious climb to get high enough on the mountain to access it, but it's there for any intrepid (or foolhardy) souls willing to explore.

That window looked out from a bedroom in an upper class home. This bedroom is our first room. There's a thick layer of dust over everything, some broken furniture and dirt and debris under the windowsill from where the original landslide covered the window so long ago. The floor is made of fitted flagstone and there's a small cache of coins hidden under one of them. The room was kept warm by a fireplace in the south wall.

And that's it!  Day one finished!  Can't wait to see what appears tomorrow!





 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Preparing for Dungeon23, Part 3: Resources

Like I mentioned yesterday , today's post is going to be all about resources that I'm going to use to help me on my Dungeon23 project. First up will be this post from Sean McCoy, first laying out the idea for Dungeon23. Specifically, I'm going to draw inspiration from his list of one-word prompts to inspire each week's work. I'll repeat the list here just for reference: Ancient Death Sunken Love Empire Heavy Rural Darkness Bloom Rust Noise Childhood Time Excess Decay City Factory Flood Sleep Cold Ash Touch Meat Solitude Growth Greed Luck Fall Pit Chaos Laughter Smoke Forgotten Library Ocean Song Roots Bones Hangman Blood Prophet Idol Door Light Stars Bridge Mask Cut Sacrifice Incense Rise Gold OK, so those are freaking great. Each word feels like it has so much to offer for inspiration! So many of them seem to fit together thematically as well.  Like "Bloom" (birth or rebirth) followed by "Rust" (decay); or "Greed" followed by "Lu...
Read more

Dungeon23: Greystone - Day 4

Image
Today, I learned more about the goblins inhabiting this section of the dungeon. I roughed them out as a faction using the Four Blanks Method from GFC's DND YouTube Channel. You should definitely check out that channel. It is small, but mighty. So, here's what we know about these goblins- Faction: Bloodfeather Goblins Objective: Increased territory Obstacle: Kobolds (TBD) Method: Raids/Warfare This is a discrete band of goblins, who hold some territory here in the dungeon, but would like more. We already know from a previous day that they actually moved here from further down in the dungeon. If they're relatively recent arrivals here, perhaps there are more of them somewhere, thus the need for more space. The chief obstacle to their expansion is kobolds. I'd already had it in the back of my mind that there would be kobolds in the dungeon, but know I know for sure. There must be a population of them somewhere and I assume that the two territories abut one another. The go...
Read more

Dungeon23: Greystone - Day 10

Image
SANCTUARY!! Sorry, just channeling my inner Quasimodo there. Anyway, names for different parts of churches vary a lot, but one of the names for the large gathering area which includes the altar is the sanctuary . I think it's a wonderful word, so for this temple, that's definitely what it's called! Yesterday, I mentioned a tiny ritual which needs to be done before entering the sanctuary. Any person entering the sanctuary must pour a dipper of water from the font in 1-8 over their head first. If they do this, that person is "anointed" for one day. Anyone entering the sanctuary who is not anointed is, instead, "reproached". They have the disfavor of the ancient deity upon them. The mechanical effect of being "reproached" is that they have disadvantage on all attack rolls. Disadvantage, of course, is a rule from 5th edition D&D. It's not RAW for Old School Essentials or any 20th century D&D that I'm aware of.  However, I think it...
Read more