Dungeon Scrawler

I woke up today to find that this blog has now generated over 10,000 views, and within the last few days, my first entry in the Dungeon Room Index has gone over 1000 on it's own. I have no idea if that's "a lot" in the grand scheme of things--I couldn't begin to guess how many views the great blogs of the OSR rake in--but it's certainly more than I had imagined! So thank you for tuning in. I'm glad that it's providing value to someone. Have a great day!

Sorry for the long gap; sometimes life has gotta life! Today's subject is Prisons (and company). Jail cells, oubliettes, torture chambers, execution chambers. That sort of thing.  Here are the rooms: "True" Dungeons Considering that the origin of the word "dungeon" comes from a kind of castle prison, it's only appropriate that at some point I should cover this milieu. Prisons are an interesting subject. Given how much of fantasy adventure gaming has grown beyond simple dungeon crawling--especially toward somewhat generic hero-adventure stories--I think they bring to fore a grimy underbelly of assumed medieval-esque fantasy. For that reason, some might avoid such a dungeon (ironically!). I can understand that. Even so, a prison is a deeply evocative kind of space! Using one provokes some questions: What was the purpose of imprisoning people here? Merely to protect victims? To actively punish? To reform? Are/were the prisoners criminal...