Dungeons Are Half the Game.
You can’t control what players are going to do. That’s half the fun. But you can control where they do it. That’s a whole other half!
The Kobold Guide to Dungeons gives both new and experienced Game Masters over 100 pages of insight and ideas into making dungeons great. In-depth essays from industry luminaries teach you to think outside your own boxes, and into a larger realm of challenge, discovery, and good old monster bashing.
Practical essays gives you insider tips and tricks to:
-Design non-linear dungeons to explore-Think in 3D to make amazing spaces-Make every room count, even when there’s no monster-Create solutions in addition to combat-Dole out treasure—without blowing the bank
The Kobold Guide to Dungeons features essays from classic voices of the RPG canon such as David “Zeb” Cook, Frank Mentzer, and Lawrence Schick. It also includes newer voices including Dominique Dickey, Sadie Lowry, and Erin Roberts.
Open this book and level up your half of the game!
Keith Ammann has been a Dungeons & Dragons player and DM for more than thirty years. He has been writing the fifth edition D&D-focused blog The Monsters Know What They're Doing since 2016. He lives in Chicago.
Keith Baker is the author-illustrator of many beloved picture books, including Little Green, Hide and Snake, and Quack and Count. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
Wolfgang Bauer works for the leading weekly German newspaper Die Zeit. For his reportage he won the Katholischer Medienpreis (Catholic Media Prize) and the Prix Bayeux-Calvados des Correspondants de Guerre. He lives in Berlin.
JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS is the series editor of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and the editor of the Hugo Award-winning Lightspeed, and of more than forty anthologies, including Lost Worlds & Mythological Kingdoms, The Far Reaches, and Out There Screaming (coedited with Jordan Peele).
Ray Greenley is an in-demand narrator with a background in film and stage acting.