Dungeon Of The Month

[Shadekeep]

2019 Releases

January - Hive Of The Mellipheon
February - Unterbrawl
March - Deathspine
April - Lord Duchemin's Shadows
May - The Devil Will Drag You Under
June - Garden Of The Orobanc
July - Hooch Pooch
August - The Discomfited Dragon
September - Après Nous, Le Déluge
October - Last Call In Pandwick
November - The Stabian Baths
December - Queen Of The White Harvest

available at Dungeon Of The Month

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Since the beginning of the year I've been working on a project to develop a "one-page dungeon" every month for this year. Each dungeon has the descriptive text and stats on one side of the page, and any maps and/or counters on the other side. (So perhaps technically more accurate to call it a "one-sheet dungeon".) My plan was to release one every month.

Then certain things arose, like Hexagram and the Postcard Dungeon contest, and I decided to hold onto the designs in case they could be repurposed for those. But after reviewing them I've decided the original approach is the way I want to go. I ran the first four months' worth past Steve and he gave me the all-clear to proceed with this project. These are in no way officially endorsed by him or Steve Jackson Games, they are just okay'd to share with you all.

The first dungeon is now up on my site, in the new front-page section Dungeon Of The Month. They are provided in PDF format. The dungeon is Hive of the Mellipheon, and I welcome your feedback. If you run the adventure I'd be curious to hear about that too.

I will release the next ones at less than one month intervals until they finally catch up with their appropriate months, hopefully some time in June.

Hope you all enjoy!

[Frumious]

Nice!

Chamber 1 lists the C exit as C1A (the same chamber), but A's exit is AXX - the hive exit. Should C1A be C-- instead?

[Shadekeep]

Originally Posted by Frumious

Chamber 1 lists the C exit as C1A (the same chamber), but A's exit is AXX - the hive exit. Should C1A be C-- instead?

Ach! Thanks for the notification. I'll fix that and repost it later. It should be C3A.

[Shadekeep]

I've updated the Hive of the Mellipheon PDF with the above correction, and also tried to make the table a bit friendlier to read. Please let me know if you find any other errors.

[MGregory]

Great work!

[Chris Rice]

Nice. I'm a big fan of short adventures like this. I never got into "modules" or longer published adventures because in the time it took me to read and become familiar with the material I could have created something of my own.

I like that TFT is embracing this concept with the postcard dungeons and your 2 page dungeon. My own favourite format was the sort of "dungeons" published in the early RPG magazines like Dragon and White Dwarf. Typically these were 4-6 pages which allowed room for some background material, illustrations and still a decent number of encounters; the sort of thing that could be played in a single extended session.

[Shadekeep]

The April release is out now.

Lord Duchemin's Shadows

This is a one-room "dungeon", in which bad things keep happening one after another. Can form the basis of a castle of your own design, or drop it into an existing layout with a little tweaking.

[Shadekeep]

Here's the May release.

The Devil Will Drag You Under

This one is set in a series of underwater grottoes. It's a capture-and-return mission on a family of pirates. I've added some new fauna inspired in large part by animals on our own world. And I've committed the cardinal sin of an adventure designer - I've added a new slime. ^_^

Grab it at the usual place - http://shadekeep.com/

Feedback and corrections welcome, as always!

[Shadekeep]

Thanks to AFSchell on the TFT Discord for the suggestion of providing clean maps without markup. These are useful for printing or integrating into other play aids. I will work on producing them in PNG format and add them as an extra available download on each DotM. I'll post a follow-up here once that is all ready.

[Shadekeep]

As promised, the "clean map" downloads are available now for each DOTM. Hopefully this makes it easier to print them out for play or use them in a virtual gaming tool.