No Room? No Problem!

From time to time, creators will send us their newest products for a no-strings-attached review. We also share back a lot of feedback, which (we think) they find very helpful for their marketing efforts and future releases. Plus, we just really love meeting new amazing folks in this beloved hobby. Welp, we have a great new DnD accessory to share with y’all today!

Even though we’re going to show you a literal working scenario here and give these dynamic dungeon builder cards a true test drive, these cards are darn fun and can be used in many ways. You know us, though. We prefer to share relatable examples that all our fellow dungeon masters and dice rollers can see themselves in whenever we’re showing off new DnD game aids.

So, if you’ve been following along, we built out the TTRPG gameboard for the entire Tresendar Manor mini dungeon crawl inside D&D Beyond’s Acquisitions Incorporated free 5e module. Now, the authors were certainly right that having the players walk into a completely empty room is quite the mind f@ck, but DM Ben felt that saving such an experience was best served in a future crawl.

No room contents, well, no problem thanks to Loke Battlemats and this superb Dungeon Designer’s Deck. Let’s briefly run through what’s stuffed inside the nifty packaging.

• 100 larger, easy-to-read cards in total
• 60 Terrain Feature Cards with 200+ Random Encounters
• 10 Quest Cards
• 10 Room Cards
• 10 Door Cards
• 5 Enemy Generator Cards
• 2 Random Loot Cards
• Double-sided, fold-out Battle Map
• 3 How-to-use Cards and a 50-Page Reference Book

So, plenty of bang for your $25 bucks, and we’re all about adding things to our DnD collection that are stuffed with value and reusability. 😉

Since we only needed to quickly fill our empty room, we simply drew one room card and one door card. Now, here is where these dungeon cards really deliver on their value. Our Door card gives DM Ben its AC and HP, which is super handy. Optionally, you can even roll a d6 for additional details and ideas. The Room card was equally useful as it included a fun description and the option to roll a d6 for additional details. Love it.

So, as you can see from the Dungeon Designer’s cards above, our players have walked into a Blacksmith’s room complete with a working forge! Thankfully, we had all sorts of applicable 3D prints to choose from, and we settled on this forge by Cast n Play and their Terrain Essentials Vol II Blacksmith set.

Now, we also wanted to include a couple more accessories to complement our Forge and really immerse the players, so we leaned on that same Blacksmith set from Cast n Play for the scatter terrain work area and another weapons and armor rack by Infinite Dimensions Games and their Torbridge Furnishings set.

Lastly, our nifty door pick is from WizKids’ WarLock Tiles series and their Accessory Doors & Archways set. These doors are really handy in a DM pinch, and this one looks like both a sturdy metal door and a tough reinforced wooden door. Funny enough, we also participated in Loke BattleMats Box of Dungeon Doors Kickstarter and highly recommend that set too.

Thanks to Loke Battlemats and our handy 3D printer, we just took an empty dungeon room and turned it into an engaging encounter with all the bells and whistles for our players. 3D-printer enthusiasts will especially love this Dungeon Designer’s Deck because it removes all the heavy-lifting and stress for DMs and turns it into a fun, easy room-building experience. Can’t ask for much more than that.

Until next time!