The Baatezu in the Details: Make Believable Dungeons – LITE

This is the free version of The Baatezu in the Details: Make Believable Dungeons. This version contains all the explanations, but lacks all the monster tables. For the complete monster tables get the full version.

Let's say

• you create a dungeon, and
• you want to populate it with monsters.

Chapter One: Choose your monsters.

Your monsters can be

• either native to the dungeon,
• or guests in the dungeon,
• or uniquely explained by the story/quest.

Chapter Two: Find more monsters.

Your chosen monster might have

• a boss,
• some friends,
• or some minions

in the dungeon. Look up your monster in the table and find more monsters.

Chapter Three: Place physical clues in your dungeon.

The monsters can leave clues behind thanks to

• their bodily functions,
• their technology,
• their prey.

Look up your monster in the table to find clues to place in the environment.

Chapter Four: Place news in your quest.

The news of the monsters can travel

• through their actions in society,
• through the behavior of their neighboring monsters,
• through the retelling of survivors of their attacks.

Helpful monsters might even rat out other monsters. Look up your monster in the table to place news of your monster in your quest.

Still not sure?

• In the complete version these explanations are followed by tables that include every monster from the Monster Manual.
• If this becomes successful, I'll add more monsters from other publications.