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Jan 18, 2025 26 min

Episode 13: Doors

from Swords Against Madness

Miria, Rayya, Nala, Garland, and Edryk enter the Fane of the All-Knowing: a labyrinth of traps, illusions, and deadly guardians. Nothing in their path is what they seem. Especially when the traps force the group apart. This episode discusses solo gaming tools that I use at length, and includes the classic D&D monster, the Piercer, lightly reskinned to fit the dungeon theme. Solo Adventure Gaming Tools I created this dungeon using the AD&D Random Dungeon Generator from Donjon.bin.sh; which creates a complete dungeon based on your specifications and to a theme. Another powerful tool for solo map generation is the game Four Against Darkness; a lightweight solo dungeon crawler that makes exceptional maps. Read my review of it here. A faster, and extremely light solo adventure tool that I have also used for solo adventuring is Tale of the Manticore’s very own One Shot in the Dark, that combines solo card game and old-school dungeon crawl. Read my review of it here. Great game, and my favourite podcast! I also occasionally use a random d20 or d66 encounter table of monsters, traps, and encounters based on a Dungeon theme, connected to a clock system similar to that used in Fabula Ultima or Blades in the Dark. you can see one of my earliest versions of that method in my three-part review of Salamandur Household for Pacts & Blades: part one, part two, part three. One Shot in the Dark Four Against Darkness Donjon

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Episode 13: Doors

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  1. 0:00 A Cosmic Journey
  2. 2:08 Intro
  3. 3:33 The Fane of the All-Knowing
  4. 8:18 \"Look What they Did to Me!\"
  5. 10:52 Creating Solo Dungeons
  6. 14:06 Our Sponsor: Soul Operator
  7. 15:07 The Piercer
  8. 17:40 Doors
  9. 20:55 He Caught Himself in a Moment of Self-Deception
  10. 22:39 Edgelord
  11. 23:41 Keep Looking...
  12. 25:05 Outro & Credits

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