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Old 05-07-2016, 12:02 PM   #762
Abe Sargent
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Let me give you a sample room description from the 2nd floor to show what I mean. These are all full description, not excerpts.


“ A few bones and a dried up giant any body lie in the corner”

“Nine long-sword armed skeletons stand in wait in these two rooms. They will trap any group that wanders between the two portcullises. If the trapped group escapes, they will ambush from the rear once they pass the secret door.” - No room, just the foe and the basic tactics

“All of these corridors and rooms are at such a stage of stone work in which the walls only need to be smoothed. The construction stopped many years ago.”


With abbreviated descriptors for many of these, it’s hard to flesh them out here.

Descriptions usually merit traps, enemies, treasures, and anything unusual very old school D&D. And as you can see, very few, “this is what the room used to be” notations. It’s more like HeroQuest than D&D!
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