Greetings,
Iāve got a nice early-morning ritual now. I heat up the kettle and pour out 31g of coffee beans, then while the water heats up, I look over the current work and let it run around my brain as I brew coffee. I sit down, and while I drink that first cup I make some new marks on the paper. Iām done when the cup is empty. Writing short descriptions for rooms has been pretty easy, but itās still really early, like 20ish days out of 365. I have a couple of twists coming up to keep the momentum fresh.
Iām looking for what this structure looks like. Iāve used Midjourney to generate images, and they are sooo close. I may have to do some sketching.
This mega-dungeon will be a depth crawl with a starter map of points representing the collective exploration efforts to date. Thatāll give players some established entry points and locations before they are on their own.
You can catch up on week one here:
I have short descriptors for all 31 rooms for January done. Iāve been spending time working out mapping icons/symbols and what the location table math looks like and generating the details table. Iām using The Stygian Library as a model. For each location, you generate a detail that could result in an event, encounter, or detail. Iāve begun filling in that detail table too.
Iām still working off 11x17 grid paper and a clipboard as I figure out workflow and form. I have a Rustico Travellers journal that Iād like to move this into, but itās good to be messy on the grid paper, a kind of rough draft. Iām not sure I could get anything done straight to the journal. I think each month may be a sheet of grid paper.
Iāll hack Into the Odd RPG for Into the Artefact play. Leaning into my debtpunk genre - Iām thinking about how choosing your debts links to your starter packages.


See you in a couple of weeks when I reveal the first twist -if you havenāt discovered it!
Into The Odd seems quite hackable, but is there enough meat in the rules for b/x style play - in my cursory read throughs it seemed to end up at ādm decidesā an awful lot.
Hi! Stowaway from the AdeptPlay discord here. Have you considered Mothership as a game system?