{"id":211,"date":"2018-05-29T06:30:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T11:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/?p=211"},"modified":"2018-05-29T06:30:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T11:30:43","slug":"dungeon-alphabet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/2018\/05\/29\/dungeon-alphabet\/","title":{"rendered":"Dungeon Alphabet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dungeon-alpha-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Dungeon Alphabet\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-210 size-medium\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dungeon-alpha-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/dungeon-alpha.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week I finished The Dungeon Alphabet by Michael Curtis.\u00a0 The 4th printing of this book was released not long ago.\u00a0 This book is a system-free book of ideas for people running players through dungeons in OSR fantasy roleplaying games.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a marvelous book and I recommend it to game masters.\u00a0 At 80 pages it&#8217;s a light read.<\/p>\n<p>Each letter of the alphabet has one or two entries for things that traditionally are a part of a dungeon crawl (&#8220;gold&#8221; or &#8220;stairs&#8221;).\u00a0 Each entry has some text discussing the topic and one or more tables to roll on or choose from.\u00a0 Each table is rich with ideas that add the unexpected and strange to your game.\u00a0 I had assumed a game master should focus on an interesting main villain or set of enemy factions within a dungeon but I had never thought about how fun a set of stairs or a hallway can become with the right ideas fueling them.\u00a0 When planning to run your players through a dungeon you have a lot to gain from reading The Dungeon Alphabet and taking some notes.\u00a0 This a book you will want to keep on your shelf to use again and again.\u00a0 Goodman Games has provided all fantasy gamers a great resource with this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I finished The Dungeon Alphabet by Michael Curtis.\u00a0 The 4th printing of this book was released not long ago.\u00a0 This book is a system-free book of ideas for people running players through dungeons in OSR fantasy roleplaying games.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a marvelous book and I recommend it to game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6,9,7],"tags":[33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}