The Old School Dungeon – Review, Siting the Underworld in a Wilderness, and Keeping Things Fresh
Review There is no substitute for setting something aside and then coming back to it later on, if you can.
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The Old School Dungeon – Levels 1-3
General Information The doors in this underworld are wood bound with copper straps and studs. They are green with oxidization.
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The Old School Dungeon – Level 3, Automatons
G. Bruce MacKenzie Level 3 Inspiration has struck! Let’s add some mining Automatons. We shall propose that these magical clockwork
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The Old School Dungeon – Level 3, Miasmic Mines
Level 3 If we remember our instruction, we are to prepare at least three levels in advance of our game.
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The Old School Dungeon – Populating Level 2, Random Room Fill, Level Completion
Level 2 Random Room Fill At this point we have placed the treasure for Level 2 that we wanted the
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The Old School Dungeon – Populating Level 2, A Bit More O’l Schoolery
The Leader of the Game Back in days of yore we grew up with playing the game in its formative
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The Old School Dungeon – Populating Level 2, Theatre of the Mind
The Underworld as Theme With Level 1 populated with monsters, treasure, tricks, and traps we can remind ourselves that we
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The Old School Dungeon – Populating Level 1, Mastering Random Room Fill
To be Empty or Not to be Empty? Level 1 has some rooms to which we have not assigned any
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The Old School Dungeon – Populating Level 1, Chillyfist the Ghoul
G. Bruce MacKenzie Map key 8, Revisited We will skip over this key and randomly determine its contents later. Map
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The Old School Dungeon – Populating Level 1, Beyond Room 9
In our last article we introduced some Kobolds as part of the special Wandering Monsters who respond to the shriek
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The Old School Dungeon – Populating Level 1
Edit – 2026-08-07 Minor alterations to text and presentation. Some little things escaped my notice but I have made a
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