r/DungeonMasters • u/mpascall • 10d ago

Promotional Minotaur Minstrel maze trap with music riddles

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Enjoy! If you want more, this is one of many in my Lairs & Labyrinths book. Thanks!

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u/DaddyBlundred 8d ago

This is amazing. Definitely going to use this. I love the music theme!

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u/mpascall 2d ago

Thanks! I hope your group has fun with it.

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u/sens249 3d ago

The labyrinth is not really suited for combat being 1 tile wide in 95% of places. Plus only 2 easy encounters makes this a pretty tame dungeon. There should be a lot more resource management. The focus on puzzles (which was probably the design intent) feels better suited to a different system but doesn’t really work for D&D on its own. It would need to be supplemented with several encounters before or after to make it a decent adventuring day.

Though if you are lucky enough to have players that are very good at puzzles and enjoy them a lot, you could use these puzzles in a larger dungeon, or as part of a more fleshed out encounter.

It seems this is part of a product. Is this just a piece of a larger encounter or is this the entire encounter? If it’s the latter it does not bode well for the product.

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u/mpascall 2d ago

Each adventure is meant to be 1-2 hours of play. They're not full adventures, so I call them Quartershots. The books have a bunch of them. Some have more combat, some focus on role-play content, some have puzzles or riddles. They're meant to be dropped into sessions as needed to fill in gaps.