Henchman Abuse

Just another trap in the 4th level.  It's an example of my favorite style, the kind the players willingly set off. 8. Liquid Loot Floa...

It will be interesting to see how this trap plays out.  If some poor chump (probably a henchman, knowing my players) gets caught in the wire...

Another trap of the "you're going to trigger this purposely to get the loot" variety.  Treasure-hungry adventurers should figu...

As I've written before, I like my traps to be dead obvious, and completely irresistible.  It's there, it's in your face, it'...

As I create monsters and encounters, I have to watch myself, because I unconsciously latch onto certain ideas and reuse them.  You've se...

In my last post, I complained a bit how the Tower of the Stargazer's traps punished inquisitiveness.  It stands to reason that I should ...

I am keying the dungeon in two passes.  First pass,  I go through the map and mark each room as X (trap), M (monster), T (treasure), S (spec...

So I've got 16 traps to make in the first level.  I prefer to have memorable and interesting traps, but it's a pain to come up with ...

The players avoided this trap, by just peeking into the room and deciding it was boring.  So no green slime showers, and no out-of-the-box i...

Some background on who built this megadungeon.  Well, I haven't decided yet.  But I do know who built the gatehouse, not that the player...