Dungeon Scrawler

Today we're looking at animal rooms: stables, zoos, aviaries, apiaries , hatcheries, and so on. Here are the rooms: Life finds a way Animals are one of those touches that breathe life into a fantasy world. After all, if the only things alive in this world you've imagined are the people , how "living" and "breathing" is this world really? We'll address that  a little more at the end, but for now it's enough to say put some animal rooms in your dungeon. Animals are all around us, and we thinking-beings do a lot to keep and cultivate them. Just think of all the different reasons to keep animals: For labor. Whether to ride them, or to pull a cart or plow. For study. To learn their behaviors, to glean some insight into or from their survival mechanisms or biology. For testing. To test human remedies without risking human lives. For harvesting. Whether it be gathering their fur or milk, or their silk or honey. For companionship. Some people gotta have...

Sewers! And other watery places. At the very beginning of this series I specifically called out water and how I think it can elevate a dungeon. Today, I hope to vindicate that idea. Here are the rooms: ...and this sneaky devil that I missed on my first pass transcribing my rough notes Sewers as a category I  love  sewer dungeons.  I think there are a few broad archetypes for dungeons out there: "cave" , "prison" , "tomb" --many of the room types I've covered so far can readily be expanded into a whole dungeon concept. (Some more readily than others--I'll be impressed if you can make "kitchens" into an entire megadungeon.) For many of those, I think when you pick the broad archetype you can readily come up with actual rooms  to stitch together (even if there are just a lot of rooms with more coffins in them).  I think sewers, on the other hand, are kind of the opposite: I don't really think of a "room" when I think of sewer...