Dungeon Building: The Sewers of Trefflyn
(c) Tale of the Manticore As I mentioned in Episode 42, I decided to use elements of the rules-light RPG One Shot in the Dark to create my latest ‘dungeon’, also known as the Sewers of Trefflyn. This is the brainchild of Jon Cohen, aka Tale of the Manticore , who is one of the leading lights of this mini-genre of solo-roleplaying podcasts. Jon very kindly allowed me to showcase OSiTD for Stories From The First Watch . The game is deliberately very simple, and acts like a basic version of a ‘choose your own adventure’ book, where dungeon rooms, foes and treasure are selected randomly, each created by drawing from a suit of regular playing cards. Each suite of cards represents a different element of dungeon design, for example, hearts represent the rooms of the dungeon, diamonds are the monsters or creatures, clubs represent the treasure, and spade is the Big Boss. As shown in Episode 42, for my first room, I drew a 7 of hearts, which was a treasure room. I’m not playing the game ...
