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Welcome to Dungeonaday.com! This website is a place of rumored mysteries and diabolical dangers--but also fabulous treasures!

We've recently completed Dragon's Delve, a megadungeon that has hundreds of rooms, more than 20 levels and sublevels, and more than 550 deadly, challenging, fully-fleshed out, and unique encounters.

Dragon's Delve was created by Monte Cook (co-designer of 3rd Edition D&D) and was co-written by Super Genius Games (producers of the best-selling Genius Guide supplements for the Pathfinder RPG). It's usable, in whole or in part, in any campaign setting. Although it may appear to start out like a conventional dungeon, as you get deeper the full scope of the adventure, and the unique challenges presented, become more and more apparent.

Next in line is "The Necropolis of Pergia", a small dungeon written by Charles Ryan, former Brand Manager for Dungeons & Dragons. He's been in the industry for over 20 years and has credits writing, designing, editing, illustrating, cartographing, marketing, and managing games of almost every kind. You're in for a real treat dungeon lovers! 

Below you'll find the most recent content uploaded to the site. Usually these will be either new rooms, encounters, or blog posts. Use the links to the left to navigate to see all the rooms of a given dungeon level. You can also reference the supplementary material for the entire dungeon, all the various blog entries, the forums, or other locations on the site. Along the top, you'll see links that will allow you to see the current dungeon map, other maps (like a side view of the dungeon, and the area around it), and an article about dungeon design assumptions.

Read this great review on Gnome Stew from someone who's actually used the site extensively.

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

  • The complete 20-level mega-dungeon "Dragon's Delve," conceived by 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons co-designer and award-winning author Monte Cook, and co-written by the award-winning designers from Super Genius Games.
  • New encounters added every weekday, plus bonus encounters detailing events both inside and outside the dungeon, and more! 
  • Dungeon maps, many of which are rendered by award-winning cartographer Ed Bourelle.
  • A behind-the-scenes blog with extensive and specific DM advice plus the background of the mega-dungeon'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.
  • Forums to allow members to discuss Dungeonaday.com features, trade tips, and interact directly with the designers. Members' questions and feedback help shape the dungeons as they are built!
  • Dungeon encounters that can be used as a fully-realized dungeon campaign or taken and used as portions of smaller dungeons and scenarios. And the adventures include forays into non-dungeon environments, both wilderness and urban--even other planes.
  • New magic items, monsters, spells, feats, and artifacts.

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Recent Articles

 

20. Evil Abides (2800 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
At last, after a century, the bindings holding the infernal servants of the cult have weakened, and they are hungry for more than just freedom...
 

19. The Final Revelation (1600 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
Hopefully the PCs won't let the fact that they've met Achim Wright in his role as leader of the treasure hunters' camp allow them to underestimate his cunning as the leader of the halfling cultists.
 

18. Blood in the Library (1200 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
Libraries are boring, stuffy places--except when they're filled with wererat cultists.
 

17. Sentry Post (1200 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
The presence of more halflings indicates that the PCs are on the right track to find Achim Wright, his gang, and the book of prophesy they seek.
 

16. Troubled Spirit (1600 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
The members of the ancient cult of Asmodeus are gone entirely. The PCs find the remains of one of the ancient battles that took place in the temple, and get a close-up view of on of the sites former residents.
 

15. No Pain, No Gain (1200 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
A room that has yet to be explored--the promise of gold and gems hidden in the darkness--this is as easy as treasure hunting gets ... or is it?
 

14. The Second Revelation (1200 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
The PCs learn that, in this camp, not all wererats are equal.
 

13. Disturbed Residents (1600 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
A ravenous black tide of thousands of tiny, clacking, bugs. A spider the size of a human. No, this room won't give anyone nightmares.
 

12. The First Revelation (1200 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
All mysteries are solved eventually--and the PCs are about to learn a lot about who their real enemy is.
 

Bad Tidings

 (in: Dungeon Blog)
Unfortunately, the end has come to Dungeonaday.com.
 

11. Dispose All (2000 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
When an entire room has been plundered, but still contains a door that has never been opened, it seems clear that danger lurks nearby. Will the PCs' greed triumph over their caution?
 

R10. Hobgoblin Harbingers (2400 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
Tensions are running high in the camp--treasure hunters take accusations of theft very seriously. But the real culprit (and the real target) are not as clear at is first seems.
 

R9. Blood and Shadows (1600 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
Beneath the mountain that rises behind the ruins there are many caves and caverns--a vast underground wilderness with pockets of brutal civilization. And sometimes the neighbors come to visit unexpectedly.
 

R8. The Scales of Night (1600 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
Not everything is what it seems to be. There are deeper truths hidden even within the most inconsequential-seeming creatures. Of course, those truths themselves may pose even deeper mysteries.
 

R7. Savage Sisters (1600 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
The PCs fellow treasure-hunters call upon them to destroy an invisible predator hiding in the Temple of the Black Goat.
 

R6. Death by Treasure (1200 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
When you're gathering with treasure gathered from an ancient evil cult's century-long forgotten temple, sometimes the spoils are more dangerous than the surrounding wilderness.
 

10. A Living Carpet (800 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
Normal-sized centipedes creep out many people, and this encounter has six-foot long examples of them. Their rippling movements and mindless appetites are bad enough, but these creatures have unusual behavior meant to make your players' skins crawl.
 

9. The Stench of Terror (1200 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
Sometimes manmade tunnels and chambers intrude on an existing, natural, subterranean world. It's only reasonable that the inhabitants of that world resent the intrusion, and take action against it.
 

8. Rocks Fall (1200 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
When exploring a century-old ruin, not all of the "traps" are intentionally set. The PCs find out that age and decay can be just as deadly as guile and craftiness.
 

7. A Devilish Storeroom (800 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
The ancient cult of Asmodeus had many plots, big and small--but even the smallest of them was evil to the core.
 

6. Swarmed (1200 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
In the filthy, scum-riddled waters of a bathing chamber lays forgotten wealth. Unfortunately, for the PCs, others have taken proprietary interest in that wealth--many others.
 

5. Betrayal by Moonlight (1200 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
Before the PCs arrived, there was an established hierarchy among the treasure-hunters. Applying the group's adventuring skills to excavating the dungeon has upset that hierarchy--and that's got some people up in arms.
 

4. Dire Residents (810 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
What was once clearly a grand reception hall is now filled with nothing but refuse. That, and an odd chittering sound.
 

3. The Restless Dead (600 XP)
Not all of the cult members escaped the devastation of their temple city, and not all of their bodies were destroyed. Some have been trapped down here for a century--and they very hungry.
 

2. A New Opportunity (800 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
This stretch of dungeon has never been explored--closed off for a century or more, who knows what it contains ... or what is guarding it?
 

1. A Run of Bad Luck (800 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
There's a great sense of comradery among the treasure hunter at the halfling camp. In order to fit in, the PCs might have to face a little bit of friendly hazing--or a series of deadly traps.
 

R5. The Last Knot (varies, see Reward Note)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
When you come across a lynching in progress, the right thing to do is stop it. But that doesn't necessarily mean that justice has been fully served.
 

R4. The Onyx Eye (800 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
Something's in the woods surrounding the temple complex--something that doesn't like all these townsfolk spoiling the primeval peace of the ruins. Can the PCs escape being this forest spirit's next victims?
 

R3. Night Rangers (600 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
It's never safe to take orcs for granted. A gang of orc rangers scouts the valley floor at night--the vanguard for a larger band. But these raiders possess skills and capabilities beyond those of typical orcs.
 

R2. Skullface Ambush (800 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
The PCs hunt "lions" in the tall grass of the valley floor ... or are the lions hunting them?
 

Ruined Temple City

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
At the opposite end of the valley from Cold Comfort Ford stand the ruins of a temple city built by a cult of Asmodeus.
 

R1. Hunter and Prey (600 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
More than just an encounter, this is a mini-detective story in which the PCs start from evidence of savage mutilation of livestock, and must work through their fears in order to find who--or what--is killing the town's food.
 

Temple of the Black Goat Maps

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
Maps for the Temple of the Black Goat standalone dungeon.
 

T5. On The Road (600 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
A ten-mile stretch of cart trail runs between Cold Comfort Ford and the ruins of the temple city. That road is critical to the future of the whole valley. The Town Council will not allow anything to disrupt travel on it.
 

T4: The Fearsome Stork (800 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
The Fearsome Stork is the only inn in Cold Comfort Ford. It's a two-story, half-timber, building just beyond the stockyard and livery stable from the bridge out of town.
 

T3. Chapel of Paranoia (12800 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
The chapel of Cold Comfort Ford is an old, stone, structure on the far side of town. It's also home to Oloice Droversdottir, a paranoid cleric who's the sole source of healing for miles around.
 

T2. Essential Shopping (1600 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
The General Store is where everyone in town buys or trades for the basic goods they need. It's also the only place in Cold Comfort Ford where you can buy magic items.
 

The Halfling Cabal

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
This group of halfling explorers aren't really explorers, nor are they entirely halflings.
 

Cold Comfort Ford

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
The watermill and the chapel roof are the first things you notice about the skyline of the small town. As you get closer, you notice the unpaved streets and half-timber buildings.
 

T1. Market Days (1200 XP)

 (in: Temple of the Black Goat)
Two hunters visit Cold Comfort Ford and lose control of their lycanthropy under minor provocation from the town guards.
 
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