Dungeon Design

>>53539750
>Don't forget to put in toilets for the ogres, rookie mistake

kill yourself

Always one room full of spiders

>>53539750
Start with the purpose of the dungeon.
Both for those playing and whoever built it in world.
Everything else should come from that.

>>53539975
Epic

>>53541512
It's a small (ish) underground cave system that's not fully sized for the players, but hte people who live in it it's a perfect fit.

It's trapped to shit both for their own protection, and to protect their valuables inside from people trying to take it.

The problem I'm having is, like...how do I put that as a place? You know, like, how do I design the room sand cooridors and stuff

put in a dais Adventurers love a dais.

>>53541938
>Natural cave system
So keep that in mind.
It should flow organically, copy patterns of real caves.
There should be stark differences where the dwellers have built structures.

>It's trapped to shit both for their own protection, and to protect their valuables inside from people trying to take it.
Keep in mind that they live there too.
There will be paths that have less traps, or ones that can turned off or passed by.
The obvious main path will be an unused lure of death.
Beyond the long trapped paths, the inner sanctum will be almost free of traps, only a couple that can be triggered intentionally to defend against intruders.
There will be places where they sleep, cook, eat, store food, get water, and do what they do in down time, train, dance, paint, roll dice, etc.
There might an escape tunnel.

>>53542000

hnng

>>53539750
Some guidelines:
-Now, it can be fun to think of your monsters' use of a dungeon. Food/water source and storage, living quarters, refuse, armory, strategic locations, escape routes, locations where they interact with the environment or other monsters, etc. You'll get plenty of good ideas. However, this is for YOU. Your inspiration, your fun. With the exception of some groups, your players aren't going to care much about your dungeon's history, or where the Ogres sleep or whatever. If you have fun including those details and building your dungeon "naturally", do it, just be aware it's not the most important thing, and it will rarely pay off.

-Empty rooms (without valuables or danger) are important. They build tension, and can foreshadow future dungeon elements (blood-spattered campsite with missing corpses = terrified players). They're good for adventurers and monsters to rest in, hide in, set up ambushes in, retreat to, or flee through. They're potential combat rooms. They'll also fire up player creativity: "what can we do with tapestries, old crates, the poisonous mushrooms that grow in the corner?"

-Design the core of your dungeon - the critical content - like a video game level. Have a logical progression of encounters and a difficulty curve. For example X, then Y, then side challenge W, then X + Y, then Y but combined with familiar element Z, then a lot of X, and finally X + Y + Z.

Also, check this out.
https://bankuei.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/dungeons-theory-and-design/