[OOC] Dungeon Builder Monster Extraordinaire

[Dark Cloud]

@Dark Cloud are you claiming the Tier 1 Creature Lair to add to the first floor? It can't go on the Sanctum floor. The Sanctum floor is like the final boss chamber of a video game, so there won't be any prisons down there or anything like that. It has your private quarters as well, but you don't sleep near minions on the regular, because they would backstab you and claim your place if you slept around your underlings all the time. They would start to think you are acting like a minion and overthrow you.

@Mae

No I wouldn't have Zaz sleeping with his underlings unless they were to carry on his lineage as is his duty at some point in the future to ensure his future successor has a place as his replacement.

Anyways I'd like the picture I used to be for the creature lair.

[Dark Cloud]

@Kenshi I thought about that too. But to be more consistent with the character's theme, I had something like "being tortured by excessive fulfillment of desire", Slaanesh style. I still can't figure how the room is going to look like.

@VeyrinDay

You had me at Slaanesh.

[Mae]

@Dark Cloud excellent, where would you like it and what shape? There's currently exits on the maze N/S/E/W or you could build it somewhere else if you like. The first room still just has the camp in it too and mike make for a good lair since adventurers will be forced to go through it if they want to get to you guys.

You get to pick which monster takes up Lair there as well. After the GM post is up you might want to post IC about how Zaz'ak finds the creature(s) or reacts to it moving into the Lair he orders built.

First Floor Map, pending Secret Tunnel and Minion Room

@VeyrinDay luckily there's a circle button lol :D That sounds great! The Secret Tunnel and Minion Room will be going last so it'll be a little while till its on the map. But once the secret tunnel is plopped down the minion room can go opposite.

Also heads up if you still want a choir room you can do it as a Downtime Project. (I imagine this upocoming downtime project will be minion recruitment but perhaps the next one)

@POOHEAD189 what would you like to add to the dungeon? Your options are Tier 1 Lock, Tier 1 Trap, or Incomplete Tier 3 Room (might be worth talking with everyone about which room y'all like since it's a longer term project)

Tier 1 Room - Secret Tunnel • Tier 2 Room: Minion Room • Tier 3 Room 0/8 (Missing Materials) • Tier 1 Creature Lair • Tier 1 Lock • Tier 1 Trap • Tier 1 Trick - Maze

Room Info

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Tier 1 Room

Crawlway: A tiny passage that smaller creatures can move through fairly quickly, but is too tight for day to day laboring within the dungeon.

Long Tunnel: A simple, long passage used to connect areas of the dungeon.

Minor Room: A simple room built only to please your minions and give your dungeon atmosphere, such as a mess hall, latrines, a skull filled corridor, or a garden. When you build one, all minions gain morale and you take +1d on your next calamity roll. Give it two atmospheric traits (choose two): bright - cold - cluttered - crumbling - dim - echoing - hot - noisy - silent - smelly - spooky. (This could also be a choir hall or chanting room like Baganaria wishes for)

Secret Tunnel: A hidden passage that will likely go unnoticed unless recently used.

Traverse: A bridge, ladder, rope, swing, pulley lift, or other similar structure that allows safe passage over tough terrain.

Window: A hole in a wall between caverns, rooms, or tunnels.

Tier 2 Room

Guard Post: Assign a single pack of minions to this room. They can always start dungeon defense here regardless of their starting position roll.

Minion Lair: Assign a single pack of minions to this room. These minions get morale each recovery and take +1d when defending the room against invaders. Give it two atmospheric traits from the minor room list.

Prison: A room with 4 cells, each with a tier 1 lock on it. Prisoners within the cells can't escape without opportunity.

Stairway: Add another level to your dungeon, with the sanctum remaining at the bottom. This stairway connects them.

Torture Chamber: You gain +position or +effect (your choice) when torturing.

Tier 3 Room (Missing Materials)

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when this is filled the room is completed. This room is missing ingredients to complete it and get the benefit. You will need to go on some raids in order to collect what you're missing.

Alchemist Lab: Your imps are always harb at work mixing reagents. You have a steady supply to all tier 1 concoctions.

Guild Hall: You let your minions organise to better their working and living conditions. In truth you ignore their demands, but the illusion of having some control reduces grumbling. The dungeon weathers calamities better.

Factory: Your imps toil away relentlessly in the factory. Each downtime, they can either produce a single tier 1 contraption or make progress towards a higher tier contraption.

Mineshaft: You dig out a mine, gaining a steady supply of a single non-precious metal. You make an immediate discovery in the mine, and gain higher rolls on all future discovery rolls (e.g. breaking into a new cave ect.)

Testing Chamber: You can empower your monster science, for a price. You can pay cost related to your testing to: remove an item's volatility - increase a concotion in size, scope or duration, - gain higher chance on a next use with a specific item

Vehicle Bay: The dungeon has an incredible vehicle, such as a submarine, dirigible, steamcar, or other type of transport. Detail the vehicle and give it two edges aka upgrades armored - camoflauged - dependable - fast - nimble. Give it a flaw clumsty - distinct - noisy - rickety - slow. The vehicle is fully repaired (or rebuilt) by imps during each recovery.

Workshop: You have a well furnished workshop where you imps and minions can toil away. They gain better chance of success on building or crafting projects.

Tier 1 Creature Lair

Creatures are mindless or unintelligent monsters or beasts that have chosen to lair in your dungeon. They’re not under your direct control, though they fight off invaders in defense of their lairs. A crafty Dungeon Lord or minion might be able to trick or goad them into doing something for them, though. They're neutral towards other dungeon denizens for the most part, though a bad calamity roll might bring them into conflict with each other. Monsters moving past or through their lairs generally go unimpeded.

Creatures are rated from tier 1 to tier 4, representing how deadly they are. A creature might be a single monster or it could be a group of smaller monsters. When an invader passes by the entrance to their lair or moves through it, the creature engages them and defends its home.

When adventurers pass near a lair's entrance, they're drawn inside. When adventurers are in the vicinity of a creature, it will seek to defend its lair. You roll a creature's tier to determine how a fight goes.

Failure: The creature is slain or flees the dungeon for good.
Mixed Success: You damage an adventurer of the GM's choice and the creature is knocked out the fight.
Success: You damage an adventurer of your choice. Roll again.
Critical: You damage two adventurers of your choice. Roll again.

*You cannot damage the same adventurer twice in a row unless they're alone.

More About Lairs

Creature lairs attract creatures looking for a home to your dungeon. When your Dungeon tier increases, you add a new creature lair somewhere to your dungeon. The new lair only attracts creatures equal to the Dungeon tier when the lair was added. When you have a vacant lair, one new creature can be attracted to your dungeon each recovery phase. This always fills the lowest tier lair first. However, when you first build a lair, it immediately attracts a new creature. You can decide which creature is attracted to the Dungeon. If you wish to refill Lairs quicker, you can spend gold or take downtime actions to attempt to fill vacant lairs faster.

The initial lair, the dungeon tier increasing, and discoveries are the only ways creature lairs can be added. If you manage to come into control of a creature besides those gained in the above ways, you can place them within your dungeon but once they're dead, you lose them forever.

Additional creature lairs can't be built as your hoard can only support creatures determined by the dungeon tier or specific, self-sufficient lairs that already existed underground that you discovered.

Creatures are generally quite unwilling to venture outside of their lairs. If you do manage to coax a creature out, its effectiveness in whatever you're doing with it is determined by rolling its tier as a fortune roll.

Tier 1 Lock

Locks are used to buy time while defending to set up proper defenses, maneuver around your dungeon, or beat a hasty retreat. They also serve to push adventurers away from sensitive areas. Locks won't best an adventurer forever - sooner or later an adventurer can bust through any lock.

When building your lock, first pick a lock material:

bars - bone - crystal - ice - iron - magical eld - roots - stone - wood - ect.

Then decide on a lock mechanism:

arcane - bar - bolt - heavy object - mortise lock - padlock - password pressure plate - pulley - puzzle - rim lock - timed - ect.

When an adventurer finds a lock, they will explore every other possible path until there are no paths left but the locked one. They double back, encounter the lock and make a lock roll to see if they succeed getting through it. Locks might alert nearby minions, allow them to set up ambushes, or keep sensitive areas safe.

Locks are rated from tier 1 to tier 3 depending on how difficult it is to get through it. Tier 1 locks are the simplest locks with limited reliability, such as a wooden bar holding a door shut. Tier 2 locks are straightforward and effective at keeping people out, such as a chained door with a padlock. Tier 3 locks are complex and formidable, such as a large steel portcullis with a pulley and password system.

Tier 1 Trap

Traps are static, well hidden defenses that are meant to surprise and maim adventurers wandering your halls. Each trap consists of a mechanism which details what the trap does, and a trigger which details what sets it off.

Traps roll damage as if they were ticking a timer, with each tick doing half a heart of damage.

Traps are rated from tier 1 to tier 3, based on how deadly they are and chosen by the player when it's crafted. A tier 1 trap is somewhat easy to avoid, such as a doorknob trapped with a poison needle.
Tier 2 traps are deadly, like a giant swinging blade attached to a pressure plate.
Tier 3 traps are the deadliest, likely to affect multiple adventurers, like a tripwire that releases an enormous rolling stone ball.

Failure: The trap is disabled or avoided by the adventurers.
Mixed Success: You damage an adventurer of the GM's choice.
Success: You damage an adventurer of your choice. Roll again.
Critical: You damage two adventurers of your choice. Roll again.

* You can't damage the same adventurer twice in a row unless they're alone.

Mechanism

The mechanism details how the trap is effective against invaders. Some examples:

crushing wall • darts • spikes • fire • boulder • sawblade • pendulum blade • gas
lighting coil • lightning arc • swing blade • explosive barrel • pitfall • floor blade • acid pit • ect.

Trigger

This is how the trap is activated. Depending on the nature of the trigger, adventurers may not even activate it - such as a levitating mage not setting off a pressure plate or a barbarian not setting off a magic sensor. Some examples:

pressure plate • tripwire • magical detection • illusion or disguise • sound • item removal • false door

Tier 1 Trick

Tricks are subtle ways to get adventurers to do what you want or create advantageous situations for your dungeon. They don't tick adventurer heart/do direct damage to them. Instead, they let you play with the minds of the invaders.
Each trick consists of three things:

• A method which details how it fools the adventurers
•A trigger which details when it activates
• An intent which details what happens when it works

Tricks are rated from tier 1 to tier 3 based on how likely they are to work. The more likely it is to work, the higher its tier is. This is decided by the player when crafting the trick. A trick might be something like the following:

A string with metal pieces tied across it that jingles when kicked.
(warning string - move past it - alert all minions to presence)

A pool of water that fools adventurers into leaving heavy armor behind.
(method: pool of water - trigger: move through it - intent: remove armor)

A tied up prisoner that screams for help, drawing adventurers towards them.
(method: tied up prisoner - trigger: prisoner hears noise - intent: recklessly follow the sound)

A winding maze that splits up the adventuring party.
(method: maze - trigger: enter it - intent: split up the party)

A statue that grabs onto them, allowing imps to snatch a potion.
(method: statue - trigger: look at it - intent: use up an adventurer move)

Moving lights from around a corner that make them snuff torches.
(method: lights - trigger: enter the hallway - intent: proceed in darkness)

Glowing moss in a cavern that rubs off on adventurers.
(method: glowing moss - trigger: move through cavern - intent: make adventurers glow)

A dazzling waterfall that distracts adventurers as minions sneak up on them.
(method: dazzling waterfall - trigger: stop to look - intent: don't watch own back)

A trick can never lead an adventurer into a situation they can't escape from. Once some time has passed, they finally overcome it somehow and move on. These types of tricks buy you time or an advantageous situation, but they’re temporary. Remember that adventurers are incredibly crafty and even if they’re stuck down a pit trap or chained to a wall, given a bit of time, they’re likely to find a way out. You can also never trick an adventurer into leaving your dungeon completely.

Sanctum

A luxurious place where your Dungeon Lords spend most of their time. Dungeon Lords don't defend the first level of their dungeon, that is far below them, that is a job is meant for minions, creatures, and cleverly built defences. Your denizens expect you to act accordingly as the boss of their dungeon. For this reason, Dungeon Lords don't leave the sanctum during a Dungeon Defense, as it would risk upsetting the dungeon hierachy. Doing so would show weakness to the minions and cause a revolt as your creatures try to wrestle leadership from you and establish the proper dungeon hierarchy.

The Sanctum is the heart of your dungeon. The vast majority of your hoard is here, and this is where you entertain and impress other evil entities, as well as conduct rituals. Your characters have their private lairs here, as lairing with the other dungeon denizens will make you appear weak (and lead to a few nasty accidents, in some cases). Each character has their own private lair attached to the large sanctum room.

The Sanctum is where your Boss Fights happen. When adventurers best your defences on the first floor, it is your job to defeat them and protect the hoard here.

At the end of your Dungeon's first floor is stairs leading downwards to the sanctum. As your Dungeon grows you can move the stairs during your downtime (without using up your downtime action).

[Mae]

@Dark Cloud woops, missed some posts. Do you mean this picture?

Hider

This looks like it has some extra tunnels and more then one room on it. It can be how you want the lair to look eventually, but right now for the beginner dungeon you need to add one room for the Creature Lair with maybe a small hallway attached at most. You can add these tunnels as downtime projects over the course of the game- we've only just gotten started ;)

[Dark Cloud]

@Dark Cloud woops, missed some posts. Do you mean this picture?

Hider

This looks like it has some extra tunnels and more then one room on it. It can be how you want the lair to look eventually, but right now for the beginner dungeon you need to add one room for the Creature Lair with maybe a small hallway attached at most. You can add these tunnels as downtime projects over the course of the game- we've only just gotten started ;)

@Mae

Could we use part of the picture?

[Kenshi]

@Kenshi I thought about that too. But to be more consistent with the character's theme, I had something like "being tortured by excessive fulfillment of desire", Slaanesh style. I still can't figure how the room is going to look like.

@VeyrinDay

love dungeon

[Dark Cloud]

It took me forever to try to find a generator that actually gave a linked image.

[Mae]

@Dark Cloud certainly! And you can build up to this map too. Which room do you want to start with?

Also you don't have to use a generator if it's too much work. You can type out the room description like @VeyrinDay is doing if that's easier (Tier 2 Room: Minion Lair, Circular, size doesn't matter, opposite secret tunnel). I feel bad you had to spend ages looking for a generator like that >.<

[Mae]

@Dark Cloud also heads up if you pick Kobolds for the Creature Room just bear in mind they'll be an unintelligent or beastlike variant. I'll leave it up to you how you want to seperate this kobolds from intelligent ones.

Minions are intelligent underlings. Creatures wander in from the outside world and lair up in your dungeon. They'll still defend their territory but you can't control them easily.

But you can still go that way if you want. You'll end up with Kobold Minions (intelligent), Kobold Creature Tier 1 (Unintelligent, territorial) and some Kobold Imps (cannot partake in combat but will do menial labor).

[Dark Cloud]

@Dark Cloud also heads up if you pick Kobolds for the Creature Room just bear in mind they'll be an unintelligent or beastlike variant. I'll leave it up to you how you want to seperate this kobolds from intelligent ones.

Minions are intelligent underlings. Creatures wander in from the outside world and lair up in your dungeon. They'll still defend their territory but you can't control them easily.

But you can still go that way if you want. You'll end up with Kobold Minions (intelligent), Kobold Creature Tier 1 (Unintelligent, territorial) and some Kobold Imps (cannot partake in combat but will do menial labor).

@Mae

I'm like an open book to you aren't I?

[Kenshi]

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I'm like an open book to you aren't I?

@Dark Cloud

I'm sorry , forgive me Dark, I just couldn't resist.

[Dark Cloud]

@Dark Cloud certainly! And you can build up to this map too. Which room do you want to start with?

Also you don't have to use a generator if it's too much work. You can type out the room description like @VeyrinDay is doing if that's easier (Tier 2 Room: Minion Lair, Circular, size doesn't matter, opposite secret tunnel). I feel bad you had to spend ages looking for a generator like that >.<

@Mae

The room I would like to use is that big square room with all the walls separating the chamber with cubicles. Each one is a sort of living quarter for the *Cough* _Kobolds *Cough* Creatures with basic bedding (i.e straw stuffed wooden framed beds or just beds of straw) and the central chamber has a small pit for a fire to keep the room warm when it's cold outside.

[Dark Cloud]

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I'm sorry , forgive me Dark, I just couldn't resist.

@Kenshi

Yah got me there man, you win this time.

[Mae]

adding in the chambered room now! I should be able to put some beds and a firepit in there too.

oh yeah, where would you like it to go?

[Dark Cloud]

adding in the chambered room now! I should be able to put some beds and a firepit in there too.

oh yeah, where would you like it to go?

@Mae

Is this what Zaz'ak will look like when he's old?

[Dark Cloud]

@Mae I would like it to be placed facing the northern wall of the adventurers camp or replace it entirely.

[Mae]

@Dark Cloud How about this? I can move it up if you prefer. Or if you want anything extra in the rooms:

Hider

[Dark Cloud]

@Mae Move it up a little please.

[Mae]

@Dark Cloud want any more furnishings?

Current Map

[Dark Cloud]

@Mae Is it possible for there to be a Dragon effigy on the northern wall for these unintelligent Kobolds to worship? Maybe in the visage of the dragon Zaz once (or maybe still) served.