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Dungeonaday.com provides an ever-growing dungeon adventure campaign for fantasy roleplaying games using the Open Gaming License. This site offers a new dungeon encounter for members every weekday, building a whole dungeon campaign one day at a time. Members get access to all the content, but if you want a taste, check out the free content on the site.

The dungeon encounters are usable in any campaign setting. DMs can pick and choose encounters from the daily updates to use in their own dungeons, or use them together with all the other information available on the site to create a massive dungeon-based campaign called Dragon's Delve. Although it may appear to start out like a fairly conventional dungeon, as you get deeper the full scope of the adventure and the unique challenges, become more and more apparent. Discover the Aberrant Laboratory, the Sprawl of the Demon Liege, the Prison of the Red Saint, the Secret City, and the Court of the Dragon Prince. Battle against the Venom Cult, escape from the tesseract, and explore the mysterious island of Khorant--reached only from the depths of the dungeon. And that's just for starters!

This is just some of what members of Dungeonaday.com get:

A huge dungeon written by 3^rd edition co-designer and award-winning author Monte Cook, with new encounters added every weekday, plus monthly bonus encounters detailing events both inside and outside the dungeon, and more!
Dungeon maps rendered by award-winning cartographer Ed Bourelle.
A behind-the-scenes blog with extensive and specific DM advice plus the background of the megadungeon's design. Get the inside view and the designer's perspective for why an encounter works the way it does, and how it works with the others in the adventure.
Extensive use of hyperlinks so that navigation through the material is easy, and references to the rules don't require pulling out the books.
Handouts to be printed and given to players.
A monthly update from Pathfinder designer Jason Bulmahn discussing how to use the site with the Pathfinder RPG.
Forums to allow members to discuss dungeonaday.com features, trade tips, and interact directly with the designer. Members' questions and feedback help shape the dungeon as it's built!
Photos, podcasts, and more.
Dungeon encounters that can be used as a single massive dungeon or taken and used as portions of smaller dungeons and scenarios. And the adventures will include forays into non-dungeon environments, both wilderness and urban, and even other planes.
New magic items, monsters, spells, feats, and artifacts.

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If you're new to Dungeonaday.com, check out How Does This Site Work? for more information. Or, go right to exploring the free sample content, such as the first six rooms of Level 1, the first three entries in the Dungeon Blog, and the Dungeon Design Assumptions. You can also look at the Player's Intro information, available to handout to all players. Plus, take a look at the map of Level 1, and the side view of the top seven levels.

Who is Dungeonaday.com for? You, if you fit into any one of these categories.

You're a fan of dungeons. Particularly old-school dungeons. Dungeonaday.com embraces the original idea of the massive dungeon being the centerpiece of a campaign.
You're a DM who likes the idea of using fully realized technology to make running a game easier. Follow links from one room to another, to an evolving glossary of characters, creatures, locations, and items, and even to game rules.
You want to have direct input into a big dungeon adventure and access to its creator. Members of dungeonaday.com get to provide feedback on what they see and input into what comes next.
You're interested in a big adventure, but might get a little intimidated in diving in to a huge, 20-level monstrosity. With dungeonaday.com, you can get in on the ground floor, read only a little each day, and watch as it's built. You can use as much or as little as you need.
You're interested in game design or dungeon design. If you're a gamer who likes to know the thinking behind encounter and adventure design, you'll love the ongoing discussion in the dungeonaday.com blog that provides DM tips and examines the why the dungeon works the way it does. You'll find it not only helps you use the material provided, it will help you when you create your own material in the future.
You're a Pathfinder fan. Jason Bulmahn, designer of the Pathfinder game, and Monte Cook, rules consultant for the game, are both involved with dungeonaday.com. Jason gives you what you need to use everything on the site with Pathfinder, and many other Pathfinder fans offer advice and conversions as well.
You're a Ptolus fan. Although not set in the city presented in Ptolus, Monte Cook's City by the Spire, now and again the site will contain articles for Ptolus fans and guidelines for using the dungeon as sections of the underground regions below Ptolus.

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Recent Articles

206. Gallery of Horror (EL 9) (in: Level 7): A room of horrors where even the implements of torture themselves hunger for blood and pain.

In and Out (in: Dungeon Blog): Getting into and out of the dungeon is a tricky process both for the PCs and for the group (the players and the DM).

205. Shadow of the Torturer (EL 7) (in: Level 7): A torture chamber hides a fiendish foe.

Hanged Man (in: New Monsters): A hanged man is the restless corpse of an evil humanoid that was hanged or the spirit of one wrongfully accused of a crime and hanged. It is a malevolent and vengeful creature that attacks living creatures on sight.

204. Corpse Mound (EL 7) (in: Level 7): This is a storage room for where the demons dump the remains of their victims.

Cult of Glarias History handout (in: Handouts and Game Aids): Info on the Cult of Glarias that can be found in area 203.

203. Forgotten Reliquaries (in: Level 7): This area is a trio of ransacked rooms once important to the temple of Glarias. You will need the Cult of Glarias History handout.

The Holy Sword, Part Two (in: Dungeon Blog): I've already written about the importance of the Holy Sword of Baine Strongbow. But what happens when the PCs finally take up the sword and use it?

202. Bedchambers (in: Level 7): One of the dungeon's infamous bluesteel doors seals off a suite of rooms.

201. The Moaning Stone (EL 5) (in: Level 7): A strange conduit of chaotic energies here may alter a spellcaster forever.

200. The Twisted Altar (in: Level 7): A magical link from here to Level 1 provides a new exit from the dungeon.

Level 7 Overview (in: Dungeon Blog): Although much of the background of Rivenyk is still to be revealed (although it's coming up soon), there's a lot of disparate elements of Level 7. Here's a kind of heads-up overview regarding the inhabitants of the place over the years and how that's created what the PCs find now.

Bestial Host's Incursion (EL 9) (in: Free-Roaming Encounters): Basing themselves on Level 6, members of the Bestial Host come down to Level 7 on an exploratory mission.

Ectoplasmals Illustration handout (in: Handouts and Game Aids): A picture of the creatures encountered in area 199.

Ectoplasmal (in: New Monsters): When an undead creature like a wight or a ghoul can no longer maintain a physical form, it sometimes degenerates into a mass of spiritual goo and becomes an ectoplasmal. Likewise, if an incorporeal spirit like a wraith or spectre somehow gains the ability to take physical form, the result is an ectoplasmal. Either way, this metaphysical entity can best be thought of as something between a physical creature and a bodiless spirit.

199. Unhallowed Ground (EL 7) (in: Level 7): Strange undead creatures haunt the central section of a massive temple. You will need the Ectoplasmals Illustration handout.

198. The Crumbling Temple (in: Level 7): Once the main temple of Glarias, Goddess of the Moon, now this huge temple is wrecked and ruined.

197. The First Sacrament (in: Level 7): This is an empty chamber the first time the PCs come, but if they return, demons attempt to trick them with a fake scene of sacrifice.

Invasion of the Host (in: Dungeon Blog): The Bestial Host are an important part of the early parts of the Dragon's Delve campaign, and in the mid-levels they return with the threat that their name promised from the beginning--the PCs must deal with a full-blown host.

196. A Mirror Darkly (in: Level 7): Rivenyk keeps a magical mirror here that he uses to tempt and control others.

Squamous Demon (in: New Monsters): Other than the thick, scaly hides that give them their name, squamous demons are known for illusion and trickery. They serve as both infiltrators and guards for more powerful demons, or as evil hunters on their own.

The Importance of Failure (in: Dungeon Blog): It's funny to me that sometimes I have to defend the importance of dice in the game. You see, sometimes people believe that dice actually detract from the fun. I think that's a crock.

195. Demon Pool (EL 8) (in: Level 7): Two water-dwelling demons hide in a pool of water veiled in an illusion. You will need the Squamous Demon Illustration handout.

Squamous Demon Illustration handout (in: Handouts and Game Aids): A picture of the demons encountered in Area 195.

194. Rubble-Choked Room (in: Level 7): The long-term habitation of demons takes its toll even on dwarven stone. You will need the Symbol of Rivenyk illustration.

Sirus Craddock (in: Brindenford): A wealthy merchant can be as big a thorn in the side of the PCs as any evil cultist, hungry beast, or dungeon dweller.

Symbol of Rivenyk illustration (in: Handouts and Game Aids): A symbol found in area 194.

193. Prison (EL 8?) (in: Level 7): The demons have just one prisoner left. But can she be trusted?

192. The Broken Statue (in: Level 7): This is the scene of a recent battle. An intriguing bit of treasure still lies amid the wreckage.

Demons are Not Nice (TM) (in: Dungeon Blog): The Sprawl of the Demon Liege has more grisly scenes in it than the levels so far. This will be even more true the deeper we go.

Note from Czarzem handout (in: Handouts and Game Aids): A note found in area 191.

191. Demon Witch (EL 8) (in: Level 7): A fiendish troglodyte sorcerer dwells here, with some nasty surprises for intruders. You will need the Note from Czarzem handout.

190. Demon Trogs (EL 7) (in: Level 7): Some fiendish troglodytes dwell here, standing guard.

Reuse and Rebuilding (in: Dungeon Blog): This dungeon has been used and reused by others, often with the power to reshape the dungeon further.

189. Trapped Intersection (EL 5) (in: Level 7): This corridor is trapped with a dangerous pit, but there's also treasure at the bottom.

Soulbat (in: New Monsters): Soulbats are extremely rare inhabitants of the Abyss that occasionally come to the mortal plane to hunt.

The Soulbat (EL 7) (in: Free-Roaming Encounters): An extraplanar creature ambushes the PCs in between levels of the dungeon, attempting to steal a soul.

188. Demon Brute (EL 7) (in: Level 7): A demon stands guard here, or at least it's supposed to be. You will need the Demon Brute illustration handout.

Brute Demon Illustration (in: Handouts and Game Aids): A picture of the demon found in area 188.

Brute Demon (in: New Monsters): Brute demons are among the simplest and most basic demons. They are employed by more powerful demons as guards and soldiers. They are lazy (they like to sleep, even though they do not need to), and given to vices like overeating, alcohol, and lust.