The Mud Drowned Palace
a #Dungeon23 #WildFrontier project
I love the idea of building a megadungeon one room per day in 2023.
I had this vision of a palace submerged under an enormous mud slide, with just the top accessible from the outside. But not just any old palace… The magically sentient seat of power of a dreadful blood sorcerer of course!
Well, at least it was sentient, hundreds of years ago. Nowadays, most of its core crystals have been misplaced, looted, or just plain broken and dispersed. Its mind feel slow, its thoughts patchy, and it lost track of entire sections of itself. Also, strange things started living in its guts, and now bands of pillagers started to infiltrate and plunder the higher floors.
Direct inspirations: – The Founders Trilogy (a specific part, but no spoilers here) – Gradient Descent for inspiration about how to handle a sentient dungeon. – The Dragon Prince for the inspiration on how Blood Magic works in my games.
P.S: what about that #WildFrontiers thing up there? Well, I haven't written anything about it yet, but that's my home-brew campaign world and system, mostly still WIP. In short, more about that later!