#Dungeon23: Dragon Dreams

I'm participating in Dungeon23 a project to make a megadungeon one room per day, one level per month, yielding a 365 room dungeon at the end of 2023. To keep things low key, I'll be updating this page only as I finish each level (so, about once a month, usually in the first week of the month). I am starting with a system neutral "generic" version but will probably stat it out for Pathfinder 1e at some point.

This megadungeon is the tomb of the great dragon Berbalkor, held captive under four magical seals, each beneath a buried city, one on top of the other. Berbalkor's treasure is said to be vast -- do you dare break the seals to recover it?

Downloads

System neutral pdf.
Currently, the first four levels (plus background and outline of remaining levels). No stats, so you'll need to plug in appropriate monsters/etc. from your bestiary/system of choice.

Updates

5/1/2023: Level 4 (generic)
Finished the fourth level (see Downloads above).
4/2/2023: Level 3 (generic)
Finished the third level (see Downloads above).
2/28/2023: Level 2 (generic)
Finished the second level (see Downloads above).
2/1/2023: Level 1 (generic)
Finished the first level (see Downloads above). Special thanks to Dai Shugars for posting an excellent example/tutorial on formatting this kind of dungeon in LaTeX.

Links

More dungeons
Looking for more? There are tons of wonderfully creative dungeons being churned out as part of #Dungeon23. Here are a few:
- Dyson Logos : The Tumíssan Underworld and Dyson's Delve II (Two dungeons, both system neutral). The original Dyson's Delve is a great "mini" megadungeon.
- Better Legends: Dagamoor beautiful hand-drawn notebook pages with terse, evocative descriptions of a creative kitchen sink dungeon (system neutral)
- Mac Makes Things: The Castle of the Mad Sorcerer Ossifrage a sprawling castle of animal-headed people and gargoyles, inspired by Howl's Moving Castle but very reminiscent of The Labyrinth. (Into the Odd)
Resources
Some of the resources that I've been using:
- Tip of the hat to Johnn Fours at Roleplaying Tips for bringing #Dungeon23 to my attention.
- Nethack is my touchstone for a megadungeon that can be explored for years and still remain vast and unknown.
- Tomb of the Serpent King is great fun to run and a great tutorial on constructing a dungeon.
- The Alexandrian has lots of useful advice, particularly:
- One shot adventures has great examples of beautifully formatted adventures keyed for multiple systems
Software
- Inkscape for maps
- Emacs for keys
- LaTeX for compiling pdfs
- Python and make for gluing everything together