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Advent of Dungeons 2024: Day 21 – DRUMS

Yesterday, I said I would playtest the dice mini-game I came up with for the Advent of Dungeons Day 20. Although we didn’t play Daggerheart because of attendance issues, I did try out the game with the players who made it.

It’s alright. After I wrote it, I adjusted the target from 30 to 21, and it plays fine. The rules are simple, it plays quickly, the naive strategy of honing in on 21 is mostly correct, and picking dice feels like there’s some strategy. It’s not deep, but it doesn’t need to be.

In short, I’m sold on it and am now wondering what other games we can create with polyhedral dice.

But that’s a future problem. Let’s continue the Advent of Dungeons

My Day 21 Content

Today’s prompt was DRUMS. Let’s write an adventure around this.

Quest: The drummer of a traveling minstrels group has lost his drum and needs to find it.

Scene 1: The party investigates and somehow finds out that a man was seen leaving the drummer’s room late that previous night.

Scene 2: The party follows the trail, which leads down into a lair connected to ancient tunnels.

Scene 3: The party finds out that the drum is magical and can synchronize crowds, which is used to assemble a massive rat king.

Scene 4: The party needs to fight and defeat the rat king in the tunnels

Scene 5: The party receives a stirring performance and also royalties for all future performance with a drum solo.

So what’s Day 22?

Tomorrow’s prompt is WOODEN.

Advent of Dungeons 2024 So Far

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