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Black Fang's Dungeon: A Masterclass of Design

I'd like to talk to you today about my favorite dungeon. It's not some sprawling multi-layered thing like Arden Vul, or the old 3.X era delves like Rappan Athuk or Slumbering Tsar, or even an old-school classic like  the Tomb of Horrors . Instead, I'm gonna be extolling the virtues of Black Fang's Dungeon , which comes with the Pathfinder First Edition Beginner's Box . Now, I love this box to hell and back-I grew up on Pathfinder-but as I grow older I appreciate how it functions both as just damn good game design, but also as a really good teaching tool for making dungeons for a group of Elfkissers. Its fundamentals are strong enough that I would recommend doing the porting work to 5th Edition or Draw Steel or whatever.  With that in mind, I'm gonna go through the entire thing, so spoilers for Black Fang's Dungeon . It's great, you should buy the Beginner's Box and bug someone else to at least run the dungeon for you. (I don't make any money from...

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