DIE in a Dungeon is a card-based dungeon crawl for one or more players by ROLLINKUNZ! The Kickstarter has hit the target, and with ease, with a while until the November 9th closing date.
There’s some doom in the dungeon, and my “nigh-infinite comes from the game’s parent, The Dungenerator dungeon generator, which is from the same illustrator. DIE in a Dungeon is an evolution, bringing the game to the cards and perhaps giving an overworked DM an alternative game for a week. You can see progress on the pitch page.
Your gamer dice are the characters in DIE in a Dungeon, one meaning of the name, who are adventurers trying to rescue a village on the edge of the horrible place. The other meaning of the name comes from the likely death.
You do need a copy of The Dungenerator to play.
There are different playing styles;
- The narrative dungeon crawler – in which player’s decks contain actions/verbs to generate a story.
- Rogue-lite dungeon – which lasts several sessions while characters build their resources to take on the big bad.
- Filler-game – in which the DM can swap in this game for whatever reason and at short notice.
The table is set with carefully arranged pencils, minis, and dice. The adventure is penned; the dungeon is designed. The party’s bard has already arrived with snacks in hand and song in heart. Tonight, your players will meet your campaign’s diabolical villain in an epic showdown for the ages!
But alas: Your paladin is out sick, and your rogue is going to be an hour late (cat trouble). Do you cancel this month’s evening of tabletop shenanigans? Try to run another impromptu one-player shopping adventure?
Nay, dear adventurer! Instead, you and your faithful bard prepare to…
The digital deck of Dungenerator is the reward gift for gamers who pledge $5 or more to the project’s success. These backers also get all digital stretch goals.
There’s a second version of Dungenerator. At $10, backers get both digital versions.
Only when pledges hit $15 that DIE in a Dungeon unlocks as a gift. It comes with digital Dungenerator decks. There’s a lot of alliteration in here.
There are early bird printed Dungenerator decks available as rewards for people who pledge $15, too; these come with digital editions.
A physical DIE in a Dungeon deck unlocks at $25. Early birds can get all three physical decks at $43, and there are tiers in between with different combinations.
The pledge tiers climb to $333 and beyond as ROLLINKUNZ! offers customers illustrations to big backers.
DIE in a Dungeon is due out in May, but people getting only Dungenerator decks should get those before the year is out.
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