tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post2328384097995070391..comments2024-03-27T22:32:17.055-05:00Comments on Jeffs Gameblog: good bookJeff Rientshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17493878980535235896noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-28314963795486535622007-10-18T07:58:00.000-05:002007-10-18T07:58:00.000-05:00I used Minoan architecture as the basis for a dung...I used Minoan architecture as the basis for a dungeon I wrote for a con tournament 10 or more years ago. The palace had been built too close to the coastline and was slowing sliding into the sea. About a third of the rooms were at least partially submerged, some containing sea-critters. The rest of the place was occupied by the descendants of a degenerate king and his harem and over the centuries they had metamorphosed into grimlocks. Good times.Jeff Rientshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17493878980535235896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-65703715494661671552007-10-18T01:38:00.000-05:002007-10-18T01:38:00.000-05:00Great Stuff, Jeff!I myself, am going back in time,...Great Stuff, Jeff!<BR/><BR/>I myself, am going back in time, too:<BR/>The ultimate, the real, the Labyrinth that started it all: the palace at Knossos!<BR/><BR/>It´s pretty large in reality, when compared to the usual ten-foot corridor-dungeon.<BR/><BR/>I turn it up to eleven: double all measures, and populate it with archaic Troll-Giants, who were banished by the Gods to their own demi-plane, for worshipping the Unspeakable One. Even the Evil Gods banned them, that´s how Unspeakable their Cult was.<BR/><BR/>Populating the Palace of Knossos is in itself educational, learning a lot about minoan architecture and actual usage of rooms in palaces.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-22249061768964670212007-10-17T16:50:00.000-05:002007-10-17T16:50:00.000-05:00So what you're saying is that we should all go out...So what you're saying is that we should all go out and dig massive tunnels networks? Please say yes, because I <I>really</I> want to dig massive tunnels networks...Infamous Jumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17325095907854089585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-34959029880077793882007-10-17T15:01:00.000-05:002007-10-17T15:01:00.000-05:00Man, now I wanna play Recon 1st Edition.I don't wa...Man, now I wanna play Recon 1st Edition.<BR/><BR/>I don't wanna run it or anything, but I wanna play :)<BR/><BR/>My favorite real-life dungeon is the series of (in some cases only barely related) tunnels beneath Moscow, which have been added to, lost, re-added to, explored, destroyed, lost, re-added to and so on for centuries. In recent years a group of youngsters gained notoriety for exploring them, and finding portions nobody - not even the authorities - had any ideas about.<BR/><BR/>Every city has forgotten tunnels (when I lived in Austin, they discovered some nifty ones right in the heart of downtown that nobody'd known about for decades) but Moscow's got it GOOD ...S. John Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12284417121877141161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-31034565188043917532007-10-17T12:07:00.000-05:002007-10-17T12:07:00.000-05:00Osprey books also has a book on Vietnam fortificat...Osprey books also has a book on <A HREF="http://www.ospreypublishing.com/title_detail.php/title=T003X~ser=FOR" REL="nofollow">Vietnam fortifications</A> (i.e. tunnel complexes) and they also have one on <A HREF="http://www.ospreypublishing.com/title_detail.php/title=S4280~ser=FOR" REL="nofollow">Japanese Island defenses</A> in WWII. Both are pretty good and may give ideas for dungeons.Blue Gargantuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618900463012449196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-90096121621559738842007-10-17T11:03:00.000-05:002007-10-17T11:03:00.000-05:00Thanks for the Tucker's Kobolds link. Very cool s...Thanks for the Tucker's Kobolds link. Very cool stuffAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com