Here we are looking at pdf and book titles for Fantasy Dungeons on Drive Thru RPG.
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Starting Points
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Dungeons are where it all started for rpgs with dungeon delving being the focus of early Dungeons and Dragons.
They still form a large part of many games, from ruined dwarven cities to haunted mines, fungi filled caves and sprawling tomb complexes.
Also of interest will be the Random Tools Guide for Dungeons. And just as important is a Guide to Dungeon Map Generators. Finally for more PDF titles try Random Table Titles for Fantasy.
Major Titles
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Some PDFs are much larger and comprehensive.
- GM's Miscellany: Dungeon Dressing (System Neutral) from Raging Swan Press brings together lists to fill out urban areas from smaller titles. It is part of a category of many Dungeon Dressing titles.
- Azukail Games brings together 10+ smaller titles in Dungeon Bundle 1, including room descriptions, doors, corpses and random items.
- Slightly diffferent are 100 hand-drawn maps and random tables from dicegeeks with Dungeons for the Master.
- Dungeon Ambience and Encounter Bundle from Grinning Skull Studios has several 100 item titles along with adventures and sound tracks.
Free and Pay What You Want Options
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If you like pdfs and random tables then there are some options. And where you find one you might find more...
- Never Engine has different dungeon encounters with 100 Spooky Yet Mundane Dungeon Encounters.
- d100 Dungeon v3 from Martin Knight is a little different, being a solo game where you steer a character through a dungeon.
- Loot and Fortune by Matthew Jarmak is an alternate system with random tables for creating D&D 5e Treasures.
- Dungeon Cards Core Set #1 is a Pay What You Want set of 24 dungeon tiles from Zadrith.
Smaller Titles
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To find more related titles by a particular publisher the "Customers Who Bought This Title also Purchased" bar at the bottom of product description is useful.
- Skirmisher Publishing helps with dragon hoards and dungeon loot with 100 Oddities for a Treasure Hoard.
- For building the lore around a dungeon, 100 Dungeon Myths, Legends and Rumours from Azukail Games can help.
- Caves are also covered with Pink Dice Bag Publishing and the Cave Generator with 16 tables to detail those caverns.
- 50 Random Dungeon Encounters is a table of fairly short but interesting encounters from Lee's Lists.
- The Random Dungeon Room Generator is written by Kent Kelly with an old school look. It has a generator and many tables for creating unique dungeon rooms
Dungeon Maps
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Digital and physical random dungeon map options.
- The Dungeon Builder's Deck from AAW Games has 114 double-sided poker-sized cards of dungeon maps.
- From Paths to Adventure is Perils of the Endless Megadungeon, Series I: Dungeon Complex, Series I: Dungeon Complex. A set of 24 large geomorphic dungeon maps, ready to use in VTT play. Series 2: Caverns covers cave complexes.
- Dungeon Tiles: DM Essentials from Dungeon Channel has 150 digital tiles of various-sizes covering rooms, hallways, doors, effects and more.
Other Titles
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Things that don't fit in the other categories.
- Inkwell Ideas has Sidequest Decks: Dungeons, Caves, & Ruins Fantasy, 50+ cards with dungeon plots and encounters.
- For a deck with basic maps and room summaries the Universal Adventures Dungeon Deck from New Realms Publishing has a deck of 54 cards, with several visible in the previews. There is a sequel of Universal Adventures Dungeon Deck II.
Finishing Up
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