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The newest Judge Dredd (Dredd 3D) is actually a boss dungeon crawl that goes upwards instead of downwards :D Great underappreciated movie btw

"If you haven't seen a studio ghibili movie by now, then shame. Shame on you" -ancient proverb

Bioshock seems like good inspiration for a dungeon, with different factions and regions which have their own vibe, but unified by an overall theme, also NPC's who can communicate with the party without being interrupted by murder hobo-ism

Good lord the enthusiasm in your voices when you re-tell portions of your past adventures. When the heck are you guys going to do some Dungeon diary episodes?

"I have found that reading to someone kills the mood" Jim's sex tips

That look on Jim's Face after the intro, man... Priceless. :]

Jim that face you made at 0:13 was easily the most delightful thing I've seen this week.

Jim at 0:14 is everything I love about this channel (other than maybe the look of love and adoration that Pruitt gives him sometimes).

I love the bit about presenting characters with moral conundrums as a dungeon "hook", so to speak. As a DM, I love seeing my characters battle their murder-hobo instincts and try to create real solutions to complex problems.

Cube (1997) is another good one to watch for ridiculous trap inspiration.

The beards are looking great guys

Now I want to take Blighttown from Dark Souls and convert it into a D&D dungeon. A 3D maze of rickety narrow catwalks with enemies that poison you...

White Plume Mountain is one of the most fun adventures I have ever run.

Now I require a WebDM just about the Muppet Babies. What is Gonzo's AC? Does Miss Piggy's pig nose give her bonuses to perception checks using scent? How much health can I gain from eating Kermit's magical frog legs?

My group started White Plume Mountain for the first time this past weekend. I'm trying a paladin for the first time and went very group leader-esque in build (inspiring leader feat is amazing!). I am having so much fun with it! We just passed the inverted ziggurat. I can't believe how useful that 10 foot ladder I bought is proving. Worth its weight in gold!

The dragon went in the cave as a child dragon, and then took a nap and woke up too big to get out. If a party member has enlarge/reduce, they can use it to get the dragon out and the dragon becomes a friend who will help the party in a time of need, or prevents a TPK because an ancient dragon turns out to be this dragon's grandmother and is willing to not eat you because you saved her grandson so she gives you roast guard and sends you on your way

I didn't realise how much I needed this until it ended up on my subscription feed, bless you guys

Jim is the coolest, balls of steel, "I will crush you all DM"! :D

Just wanna say that this is a very coherent video with a bunch of really good things that will make any dungeon much better. One of the best "how to"-videos I've seen on the subject to be honest. Good job!

I'm always so excited for Wednesdays to see a new episode of you guys.

Man! I’m going back and reviewing some of these resource vids... and I LOVE your end scenes! I never thought I would see you guys comment on Muppet Babbies but surprisingly I’m 100% hooked on the discussion! Lol I could watch a whole vid on it :p

Snowpiercer is a great dungeon crawl movie!

Just started the video (which is sure to be great as always) but I just wanted to say how cool it is to see your subscribers going up. I don't know the exact, but it's almost twice as many now!

22:16 the resting shrine idea is genius! I had never heard of it before, thanks :)

You guys really, really need to post the audio of this as a podcast.

I'm about to run my first campaign. The advice you've given for actual dungeons has inspired pages of ideas for my eventual megadungeon. I appreciate your videos and have shown them to my fellow players

Rope Trick and Mordenkainen's magnificent mansion are great for resting in dangerous places like dungeons. Speaking of Mega Dungeons, I used to buy these huge graph paper pads from Office Depot. Each square was big enough for a mini to fit in. I would just draw out the dungeons on these things and use them as a playground for players to play in. I was heavily inspired by the Undermountain box set, as well as Dragon Mountain. Some dungeons would be big enough to hold small towns. Inside them were various creatures, the kind that wouldn't be accepted in the "above" world, would live their lives and go about their business. The Goblin market in Hellboy and The monster world in the movie Little Monsters are great examples of places that are connected to the world in some way but have its own ecology.

Excellent outro. Sell! Sell everything! :D The video topic was terrific too. It's awesome that there are so many gamers these days and folks like yourselves helping to demystify RPGs.

Congratulations Web DM you just released your 💯 th episode!

11:20 🎼 Goblin babies, we make our dreams come truuuue 🎶

rescue of Leia from the Death Star is a corporate dungeon

I think I'm making a tower dungeon in a time loop. ultra hard puzzles and traps that kill indiscriminately, but when everyone dies they start at the beginning 😀

Love the shrine where short rest = long rest. Also need some Web DM Babies fanart now.

I ran my players through a custom one off called 'Mindartis the Mads Mausoleum of Mirages', where the Illusionist wizard Mindartis Galanodel is rumored to have an ancient tome called the Cerebronomicon. The tome allows a rouge illithid to become an elder brain, but normal humanoids would gain access to psionic powers. His tower appeared over night outside of Goldenfields, and used his Mirage Arcane to create heavy thunderstorms around the tower, flooding the crops of the nearby settlement. All through the tower were traps that had a chance of being illusions, and if it was an illusion, there was a risk of madness. At the very end, it turned out that the book was just an ordinary book, and the top floor is an observatory to track the stars (and those who live among them). Mindartis himself was in full insanity. Fun times, I can give you guys a link to the document if you want it

I've been avoiding making a mega dungeon campaign for some time and now i think I'mma try and make one. gunna be up till 3-4 am woot!

Die hard dungeon crawl! Amazing. Love your passion for the game and talking about it.

I had a dungeon where a lost Orc Warlord had taken over a Goblin band and holed up in an abandoned Dwarven mine, and in there I did have a room with Goblin children and non-combatants and adherents to the old god who rejected the Orc Warlord's rule, but also a small room with bags of holding which turned out to be their toilets. The players found the conundrum of whether or not to kill Goblin children an interesting one, so I do recommend that element.... Also the reveal of a bag of holding being full of 250 lbs. of Goblin poo.

YESSSS the perfect video to be released 3 days before I run my first dungeon!

Pruitt is wearing a Sword shirt. He's my new favorite D&D KZfaqr.

When do you sell out and we get the Baby Web DM show?

the muppet babies convo deserves its own video

I had the same idea as their Shrine (short rest = long rest) idea, My party is going to start on the first level of a five level dungeon and at the end of each floor there is a fire pit with one magical log that will give them a long rest in an hour if they light it.. not sure if i will make the fire pit the magical part or the logs, I think giving them the chance to skip the long rest after a tough floor and save the log for later would be a good risk reward for them!

first off, salutations jim and jon. and on to my input, if you for instance have a cleric you might decide that the cleric could say pray to his/her deity once per day/week and place their holy symbol at the center of an area and resting there counts as a long rest. sort of a shrine mechanic that could be added. also want to point out that i love to add twists into a campaign. for instance unbeknownst to the players, a faction in the the city used polymorph on some henchmen and had them attack another faction in the city, the faction that was attacked sends the party off to defeat the "goblins" and so your delving into their city "dungeon" and at first you only run into a few but as you delve deeper the opposition gets more and more intense culminating in a pretty harsh throw down in this hallway and as you are about to strike the killing blow one of the goblins screams out in broken common "please spare the younglings" and you find out that this chamber beyond is the nursery or leads to the housing area of the city. and the only reason they fought was because you invaded their home and they wanted to protect their families. now the players have a dilemma, have they been tricked? are they the villains? who are the true masterminds? and did they almost cause a genocide? this could have far reaching implications, maybe a messenger escaped to beg aid from their sister city and now there is a much larger and stronger force of goblinoids marching on toward the city demanding the heads of the party.

A dungeon which is an abandoned Castle in a swamp, which was built on the ruins of a castle which burned down and sunk into the swamp, which was built on a castle which sunk into the swamp

hey you should make a show on your favourite weiirrrd monsters from all of the editions

The Muppet Babies cartoon was based off a dream sequence in one of the Muppet movies where the Muppets were babies.

I loved the muppet babies. lol

Pruitt, as many have said, the sword shirt rules. Honestly you guys could easily handle a tshirt sponsor on the show ;)

I've used that resting shrine idea before, during a siege when taking even a short rest was risky and a lot of people could die.

i could see doing The Cell. especially of mind flayers were a theme for your campaign.

Touching on the question of resources, perhaps the best dungeon that deals with that question is In the Dungeons of the Slavelords (A4 of the series). A truly challenging scenario that forced players to think outside the box due to the fact that they wake up at the beginning of the scenario with no access to their gear or spells. All they have are their wits and whatever food/water/items they can cobble together from their immediate environment.

About torches : thinking about lighting implies thinking about ventilation. There are no modern petrochemicals in medieval fantasy; the smoke from a medieval torch can and will suffocate everyone if you put it indoors without proper ventilation (like, any dungeon). Hence why people used candles and lanterns, never torches, for lighting indoors.

I remember white plume... my copy is a first printing, from way back when! Lol

Always appreciate Pruitt's The Sword shirts.

The leviathan thing reminded me of the giant worm in gears of war 2

One idea I just came up with is for a large prison. The normal methods of moving around the place are limited, because the guards have checkpoints everywhere, and may lock down cellblocks if the party tries to force their way through. They still _can_ try violence, but it should be a last resort, or something the party needs to prepare in advance for. Instead, they might need to get a writ of some kind from the local governor, so the guards allow the party to pass checkpoints and talk to prisoners. But, depending on what the party needs to do in this place, they might not be able to obey all the rules they're under during their official business. Not if they want to accomplish their goals. Then you have the prisoners themselves, who don't recognize official authority. And if the party have been incarcerated themselves, they'll have to deal with the inmates directly. I'm imagining that the inmates have secretly created a network of holes or secret doors, that connect cells and other important rooms. My idea is that one of the prisoners is a wizard, and has secretly used Fabricate (requires no material components) to turn the cobblestone walls into cobblestone secret doors. And slowly, over time, he's just been making this network. The other inmates allow this, both because it's just practical being able to move around, and because they're intent on staging a breakout. The wizard himself wasn't confident he'd be able to make his escape alone, and so is working with others to create maximum chaos when the actual jailbreak happens. This deal with the wizard - this guy who is key to effecting everyone's egress - is the only reason all the various factions within the prison population aren't actively at war. Because prisons form gangs all the time. You've got the human supremecists over here, the orcs and goblinoids over there, the small clutch of secret infernalists in the corner (headed by a Tiefling Warlock), a loose web of thieves guild members secretly conspiring together, and the members of a tight-knit mercenary group that were survivors of some old army (who are loyal to each other, and are too badass for anyone to mess with). Of course, some dealing with the guards is going on. Corrupt ones are facilitating trade with the outside, or making deals with the prisoners in exchange for favors or future consideration. One guards might despise a coworker, and will help the jailbreak happen if it means setting up that bastard to die. Another has been promised a handsome reward from a prisoner who is the son of nobility. Another is dealing directly with the wizard, helping him out in exchange for wizardry training. The majority of the guards, however, are not in on the escape plan, and obviously would rather it didn't go down. This making the adventuring party choose between whether they work to keep the plan a secret, and rat out the prison pop (either to get something out of the warden or a specific prisoner, or simply out of a desire not to see violent criminals run free).

Madness on 259pg of the dmg is so much fun in a dungeon where you don't want your PCs to rest for free.

I always thought Pitch Black was a good dungeon crawl example

The clash knew it all along!

I always tried to connect the creatures encountered to the story line and to the area the characters were exploring. The hardest part was developing a semi-"realistic" weather system.

Also, I think the after discussion about Muppet Babies and Orc Babies might be as insightful as the rest of it is informative.

Can you guys do a video on upgrading and downgrading monsters?

In the mines of Moriah their able to find rest because the dungeon is huge and not fully occupied

a discussion on Muppet Babies and selling out going straight into my megadungeon

Could you guys just do an episode of random rambling? The end bits are extremely entertaining.

Just watched this for the first time. My main takeaway was “Joe’s Crap Crack”, which will now serve as my shorthand for dungeon ecology considerations. Thank you for this gift!

The Sword! Hell yeah! Amazing band!

Would you make a video about the factions please. Harpers, Emeral Enclave, Zhentarim, Lord's Alliance, and especially the Order of the Gauntlet.

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids! Total dungeon crawl!

Will you guys maybe talk about 'mass combat' someday? I've always wanted to lead an army of the allies I've accumulated.

"Choke holds?" Surely, you mean choke points.

I loved the Muppet Babies

Could you touch on Magic items and crafting?

YAAAAAAAS THE RAID.

Always have a safe word in a dungeon

Anyone who thinks that a dungeon or castle can be lit by torches, I really recommend you check out a couple of videos by Lindybeige. It rapidly becomes obvious that they're next to useless and possibly dangerous.

Ah, I spy the telltale sign of a Crown Royal slip turned dice bag, the coming of age practice of table-toppers everywhere. 😜

lmfao you guys are great ^_^ i love this show

I think your dungeon design depends a lot on the kind of players you have at the table. If your players are more hack&slash, they are not going to care much for nurseries, living quarters and the like other than being 'more rooms to kill and loot in'. Same goes for if the players are avid roleplayers who would questions such things if you were not to include them.

OMG< i want that Carpe DM shirt

It seems to me that, unless it is a module, the dungeon has began to be phased out by players. Always turns into things that happen in the wild or in cities; but, not very common for it to be in doors. I personally used dungeons as set pieces, not all the time. When you go into one of my dungeons, the dungeon has its own story and there will be a part of the plot is revealed.

My personal preference is Last Man Standing > Yojimbo > Fistful of Dollars. I'm sure that there's a PhD there somewhere about which order you prefer.

"How did that dragon get in that tiny room?", "no-one Cary Terry. this place was built by a 25th level wizard. the question should be 'how is it that every tiny room we've come across weren't full of dragons?' "

If you're not working with a safe word? What use is a safe word when you're wearing a ball gag?

talking about living Dungeons, definitely look up Eyes of the Stone Thief.

Here's a question you didn't touch on: PC skills interacting with ecology. How could knowing how an ecology works and finding different parts of said ecology and thereby predicting what comes next in a dungeon or what will be where effect strategy? For example, figuring out a way to piss off the gelatinous cube in the crab crack so it comes out and attacks the goblins for you, or anticipating where a mold or other plant monster might be and avoiding the danger and/or tricking other invading monsters into running into such creatures that you already avoided yourself.

Any tips on how you might do a more horror-themed dungeon? I want to run a dungeon that has a very claustrophobic sort of Aliens feel to it but I'm not sure how to pull it off.

24:48 ...random fan "Jim...let me touch you"

any advice for running dungeon environments with large groups? my group and I always find dungeons satisfying, but it always ends up taking 2 to 4 sessions with my group of 8.

12:15, FOOOOOOOOOOLS ERRAND

I have so many feels, and cannot agree more with @rankerquat

Their views on selling out are exactly mine

Everyone loves Muppet Babies

Where'd you guys get that sweet castle DM screen and is it still available?

Where can I get that castle GM screen?

Jim changed his shirt!!!

What do you think Pruitt is always writing on that pad? Pruitt writes: "monster crap crack + gelatinous^cubed = ecology explained"......

The fact that Y'all know about and sometimes mention the movie 13th Warrior, which is my all time favorite movie, just makes me happy.

How would you run a nature based dungeon.