Dungeon Musings

Go Play NW gave me a big energy boost. There's a bunch of awesome stuff going on right now, so that I hardly know where to begin.

First up, thanks for all the great dungeon ideas in the Thanks for all the Dungeons thread! There were a ton of great ideas. That will help keep us all in dungeons for a while to come. David of Tower of the Archmage won the dungeon giveaway. Go check out his megadungeon maps on his blog!

Also, I'm adding a new theme to the blog: city tiles. I have very fond memories of the City of Lankhmar setting that TSR published. These city tiles were created for John Harper's as yet unpublished Stranger Things RPG. The first one, Wound Way was posted yesterday. I'm going to start posting these once a week as well.

Finally, the Apocalypse D&D project has a new home over at Vincent Bakers Barf Forth Apocalyptica. Most news and discussion of this D&D hack will live there, though I'll make the occaisonaly announcement through this blog as well.

I'm Goin' on Vacation!

I'm going off on vacation, so this will be the last dungeon for at least a week. Then after I get back it's Go Play NW! I've got three dungeons prepped for play at the con, and I'm bringing a fourth one (and a Monster Manual) with me to work on the plane.

I am totally exhausted. I don't expect this to be a relaxing vacation, but it's much needed. It's been very hard keeping the blog going this month. Work has been crunch time all the time, and I've had a few art commissions on deadlines to squeeze in. I think a break, followed by some 30-ish hours of gaming is just what I need to re-prime the creative engine.

See you in a week!

The Number of Dungeons

I took a little inventory today. I currently have 23 dungeons scanned, but not posted, 8 dungeons drawn but not scanned, and 36 blank dungen-sized peices of paper. That means there are 67 dungeons yet to come. That seems like more than enough microdungeons, don't you think? In fact, I'm starting to wonder if I have 36 more ideas!

If I keep to my current rate, I'll publish my last dungeon somewhere around September 20th. That's a lot of dungeons! Right now, I'm not planning to end this blog. This is turning out to be a good year of art for me, so I think I'll probably just keep posting gaming stuff and artwork here at a reduced rate once the dungeons are done.

Nevertheless, it's good to have a deadline.

Store Woes

So setting up the dungeon store is turning out to be more than a pain than I thought. Specifically, trying to have art appear in the store at the same time as I put the dungeons on the blog is a pain. I'm still figuring out the solution to this one.

Now you can buy the Dungeons

I'm still working on the Microdungeon Store. In fact, it's quite a mess if you care anything about Web design. Nevertheless, I'm now going to be making the original artwork for each dungeon available as I publish them (with the exception of some that already have homes). You'll find a little link at the bottom of each post going to the dungeon store. I'll also be adding past dungeons to the store as time allows, and announcing it here on the blog.

UPDATE OK, it turns out that posting the dungeons for sale as I post them on the blog isn't going to work logistically. So for now I'm going to post them sporadically as I'm able to update the store.

Boot Hill Week!

Chris Bennett has been challenging me to create some microdungeons on the themes of the classic non-fantasy TSR role-playing games from back in the day. To show that I am up to the challenge, I declare the upcoming week Boot Hill Week! Nothing but Boot Hill dungeons all week long!

I have never played Boot Hill, but the way, and have only a vague notion of what a Boot Hill game might involve. Maybe you could also use these maps for a game of vs. Outlaws (which is a pretty cool-looking game I have also never played). OK, I admit it. My knowledge of Westerns comes mostly from growing up with a brother and father who loved Louis L'Amour books and John Wayne movies.

February Compilation - Fixed!

FYI, there was a problem with the February compilation. It was missing some dungeons! It has been fixed now.

Google Fail

Since Google forced me to migrate off of FTP publishing and move this blog to http://blog.microdungeons.com/ instead of plain-old microdungeons.com, I've lost 200 subscribers. This has made me unusually discouraged. 200 people aren't seeing my dungeons any more. I started using Google services because I wanted services I knew would stick around. This is a fail.