Welcome back to DM Nasx, the gym for Dungeon Masters to work out their minds.

I'm one of your host, DM Neal, aka Jote Moniac.

And it's me, your other host, DM Celeste, aka Sea Witch.

Today, barrel been built because it's alliteration. It's one of the key methods by which I will

name things. These are, I think it's funny or it's alliteration. And if I could get both together,

wow. That's the sweet treat. That's the

sweetest treat. Yeah. Like the previous one, build a barrow. Oh my. As if to reference build a bear.

Yes. Where DM Derek and I talked about building a barrow and having smaller dungeons. I know we've

started to like elude to that because like I'll be comfortable in a dungeon forever.

Celeste, you know that low enough.

I love me, a mega dungeon.

I can easily do it.

But one of the other key pieces about a mega dungeon is like going in and just exploring a little bit and leaving.

That's 100% okay.

It's how under mountain, the original undermountain was approached Like, you would typically have a quest that you would do. You would go. You would complete that quest and you would leave. Sometimes you would get distracted and die a terrible death. Like, that is also an option. Or you would go on your adventures and find another entrance to another part of Under Mountain. Yeah. And you would go and do those quests.

So, like, building out smaller pieces, I think works really well because you can move

them around.

Oh, yeah.

And then every mega dungeon has, like, those themed sections, right?

Whether you want to divide them by floors or different regions, you know, that's your

opportunity to shake things up in a meaningful way.

So really designing smaller dungeons is really just making pieces that can go together

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