Unseen Servant Collaborative Dungeon

[rredmond]

Reminds me of when we worked on our collaborative town - don’t ask me why, just struck a chord. I’d love to work on a collaborative dungeon here actually. Get together a map and a quick, couple sentences of background, then folks claim different rooms/areas on the map. Actually probably be more old school to let the background grow as the rooms do. We don’t have to be all “ecology of a dungeon” about it, unless it adds to the fun.

[rredmond]

Yikes. Sorry for the thread-jack Gary! I’ll think about this and start a new thread. I’m sure there are maps out there we could steal, but I’d love to get one from a member here.
Apologies again for the (continued) jack!

[Rex]

Both ideas are cool, but I would prefer here. B1 is always an option since that was its original design but sastaz does incredible map work.

[sastaz]

Hello, yes I'd love to draw a map if someone
provides a simple conceptual one on simple graph paper!

Or I can of course just make one up.

[rredmond]

Do you have one you’d like to offer up?
A decent sized, 1(ish) level - if there’s a sub-level or two, all the better. Let me check with Greg to see if there’s anything he’d think might be good for an UsS dungeon too.

[sastaz]

No, but it'll be sort of fast if it's just the map itself. When I mapped for our Barrowmaze party, I included some sort of poetic map spot art in each room (like, a room full of bones would have had two bones and a skull etcetera). If so, I'd need to know what's in the rooms first. Better start up with a map that somewhat open to interpretation by the respective room writer, right?

[ToniXX]

I'm liking this idea. Dyson Logos makes a bunch of his maps available for free. It might be a good place to start.
Check them out here: https://dysonlogos.blog/maps/

[Rex]

That makes sense as we would be starting with the map and then populating. At least that is how I envision it anyways.

[rredmond]

Agreed. We take the map, and folks choose the number or numbers of the areas they want and go. We would put the rooms we finish here for others to see and be inspired by

[Rex]

This set would be a neat inspiration.

https://dysonlogos.blog/maps/my-private-jakalla/

[hedgeknight]

Yikes. Sorry for the thread-jack Gary! I’ll think about this and start a new thread. I’m sure there are maps out there we could steal, but I’d love to get one from a member here.
Apologies again for the (continued) jack!

No worries man. I just posted the link to #Dungeon23 because I've been reading about it on EnWorld. No reason why we can't do something similar here in the forum. Dungeon rooms for everybody!

[rredmond]

This set would be a neat inspiration.

https://dysonlogos.blog/maps/my-private-jakalla/

Jinkies! That's quite a map! Might be a bit large for our purposes.

I don't know if Dyson or @sastaz have a map with 30 or so rooms? Do an old school 3 way split: 10 "empty" (but adding flair/spirit) rooms, 10 traps/tricks, 10 monsters? Or so, no need to be too crazy strict?
Maybe a little less (21, 24, or 27) if we get some interest, we can always add an extra level. The therapist in me doesn't want to put out more chairs than we think we can fill
Depending on the map folks might want to take one location, or 2-3 to work on it as a cohesive (or not so cohesive) group?

Thoughts? Love it if you could make such a map sastaz. I don't know how to put an Unseen Servant twist on a map, but there's going to have to be a room/area with an Unseen Servant encounter of sorts. One of you more creative types can have at that. Once we have a map, we can go from there - decide if we want to identify a BBEG or just go with a monster motel

[gurusql]

We can just pick Map 1A from the Dyson link for example and if that fills up and we need more add 1B, etc.

[Rex]

sastaz, do you still have this map in complete form? It would be a neat one to use.

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