This is a new series in the making – 101 forms of a dungeon! A dungeon crawl does not have to be underground all the time, or the usual “You see a 4 inch by 4 inch wide stone chamber”. Every week, there will be 10 ideas for a dungeon of a different theme and style. So hopefully in 10 weeks time there really be 101 forms of a dungeon to choose from!
The first ten:
- A hedge maze, where the plants making up the walls are thorny and coated with thick lethal poison.
- Boats and large ships tied together, forming narrow walkways
- Treetops platforms and rope bridges
- A foggy marshlands where higher grounds from narrow paths and the occasional hilltops plus platforms
- The inside of a large, dead being
- The side of a mountain, with bridges or walkways cut into the side, connecting various buildings on the side steep cliffs (see the Hengshan Hanging Monastery).
- Thick, impassable jungles where the undergrowth could be higher than a human being and the only safe way to navigate is through streams and rivers
- Sewage systems of a city which leads to other ruined in the strata from earlier settlements
- A fossilized forest, where “stone” trees and bushes form obstacles
- The ruins of a city devastated by an earthquake – bottomless fissures, rubble and ruins bar the way
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