THE SPARK COLLAGE FOR DUNGON STOCKING: When You Got Vibes But Need Definitive

 

I am trying to quickly key the last dungeon level for my Tropics of Cancer campaign so I can start running it for friends and family. I'd like to do this quickly and often that means being a little more loose with the "rules" of good dungeon design and more needing tables of, I dunno, "organized vibes" to round things out. 

Now, this will result in weaker dungeons than those more clearly thought out with a purpose, room placement, and enemy design but with this campaign, I am aiming for the dungeon-building equivalent of slapchop. So I have the vibes for this dungeon stated in my last post, with an associated small collection of pictures that I've found that match the setting.

I decided a solution might be turning those pictures into a collage with a grid overlay so I could create rollable segmentation: part oracle, part die-drop table, part spark table, but all dungeon stocking goodness. Now I have something that complements my existing monster, trap, and treasure table and can help me fill in more details. A d66 table (1d6 x 1d6) seemed to give me pretty good division but you can make each box smaller if needed. But I would stick to a standard die size that could be read in a glance.

So I could ask for a room's contents, roll d66, and interpret what's in the square. I could also do the same for the color of a room or object- roll d66, interpret either by general color or pick among objects in that square. Since the pictures that make up the collage ARE things that remind me of the dungeon the overall composition should approach some cohesion that players won't notice unless they look super close-- much like slapchop.

And again, much like slapchop, the goal is to get it good enough to the table for play, not to win painting or dungeon design contests. Just trying to have fun!