The bad news is that real world tombs aren't good for dungeon crawling. Look at this. No loops at all. You're going back to Dungeon Course, Sobekemsaf the Builder of Tombs - ThreadSky

riseupcomus.bsky.social • 97 days ago

The bad news is that real world tombs aren't good for dungeon crawling. Look at this. No loops at all.

You're going back to Dungeon Course, Sobekemsaf the Builder of Tombs

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tnmakesit.bsky.social•96 days ago

"How dare these architects didn't jayquays this tomb!" 🤓

syntropian.bsky.social•96 days ago

would be a good challenge for a DM to try and make a dungeon this simple still be an interesting and/or difficult experience for players

syntropian.bsky.social•96 days ago

5 rooms, all separated by sealed doors. 5 unique traps on the doors or in the rooms, 5 unique puzzles to solve to access the next room or leave the one you're in, and 5 combat encounters. lore dump and puzzle hints in the wall-carvings/mosaics. possibly cursed loot. that could fill a whole session

syntropian.bsky.social•96 days ago

i think where king tut screwed up his tomb security is not having animated corpses burst out of the walls, floors, and/or ceilings at would-be looters or having his burial chamber slowly fill up with water when entered unless the looters can decipher and solve a sequence of hieroglyph sudokus

syntropian.bsky.social•96 days ago

the mummy doesn't animate to attack the PCs until after they enter the treasure chamber, cornering them inside with no room to maneuver. when they rush to attack the mummy in the burial chamber, that's when the statues in the treasure chamber animate to attack them from behind

salsa-wits.bsky.social•97 days ago

Only five rooms if you could the entry hallway/stairs, somehow less than no effort railroad

victor-el-dm.bsky.social•97 days ago

I'm not kidding, but when I saw that I INSTANTLY though of how incredibly similar to the Hero's Tomb in @bastionland.bsky.social 's Into the Odd Remastered.

victor-el-dm.bsky.social•97 days ago

It is... ODDLY similar.
*dramatic music*

hungryclone.bsky.social•97 days ago

Did you go back and time and become a Tomb Engineer?

bastionland.bsky.social•97 days ago

Those hacks!

sheerspec.bsky.social•97 days ago

You want a bottleneck? Because this is how you get a bottleneck.

yuigaron.itch.io•97 days ago

Official 5e module dungeon.

godslittleloser.bsky.social•97 days ago

nice try, but I know all that empty space has to have a hidden room

alphathedm.bsky.social•97 days ago

No loops, no random encounters, ecology nonexistent, no cool things for players to interact with, zero magic items, no boss battle, not even a hidden spike pit trap. What were they using those ancient crystal d20s for then?? Clearly not for playing dungeon crawls...

scormond.bsky.social•97 days ago

they completely neglected to jaquays the tomb!

bauls.bsky.social•97 days ago

Although giving players an old dungeon map with a ‘Treasure Chamber’ and then filling with it with traps and no treasure a la Greenland/Iceland would go pretty hard.

icastlight.bsky.social•96 days ago

And small by D&D scale!

dungeondoll.bsky.social•96 days ago

i really like how claustrophobic this looks on dnd map scale. makes me want to experiment more with smaller rooms..

icastlight.bsky.social•96 days ago

Certainly could lead to tense are we gonna have a knife fight in a phone booth moments

izzypetersart.bsky.social•97 days ago

Are you SURE there's no loops? How have you investigated all the points of interest?

riseupcomus.bsky.social•97 days ago

izzypetersart.bsky.social•97 days ago

Counterspell!

tomczak.bsky.social•97 days ago

If you treat the entry passage as a separate room, then it is a classic 5 room dungeon

riseupcomus.bsky.social•97 days ago

I have grim news about how much I like 5 room dungeons as a dungeon schema

tomczak.bsky.social•97 days ago

Haha same tbh. I like my dungeons mega

dnorthcutt.bsky.social•97 days ago

I dumbly just realized that the map for the Call of Cthulhu scenario “The Necropolis” is based on this specific real world tomb.

riseupcomus.bsky.social•97 days ago

Pretty neat reference though. Grounds something like Cthulhu that's set in the "real world."

gronti.bsky.social•97 days ago

How do you like this, @dysonlogos.bsky.social? :)

dysonlogos.bsky.social•96 days ago

Love that stuff. And yes, tombs will rarely have multiple pathings as built because they are meant to discourage robbers.

But you can add collapsed areas, giant rat tunnels (or purple worms), etc, to provide alternate paths through a linear space.

boxman214.bsky.social•96 days ago

This is a very good tip. Thanks!

gronti.bsky.social•96 days ago

This is why I love your maps!

krystal-manticora.bsky.social•97 days ago

what would have been put in the annex?

riseupcomus.bsky.social•97 days ago

Probably like...1d6 rats :p

tomkilianart.bsky.social•96 days ago

Sobekemsaf is an adherent of narrative gaming and has constructed a classic Five Room Dungeon

andyhemming.bsky.social•96 days ago

Total railroad…

riseupcomus.bsky.social•96 days ago

Sobekemasaf needs to read a new blog post

levikornelsen.itch.io•97 days ago

I mean, clearly, you need to read the inscription in the shrine to understand the relief in the annex where the key to the treasure chamber is hidden, right?

At least that?

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