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An Old Kind of Adventure Gaming Magazine

David Gay

21 Oct 2025 — 1 min read

Welcome. What I plan to do here is share high-density information, amateur research, and opinion on 1970s-style adventure gaming.

Dungeon Blaster's chief purpose is educational. What I hear from people is there just isn't enough information on how to actually play these games. "How do you start? How do you draw a good dungeon? How do you place treasure? How do you run a multi-year campaign? Where did you even learn all this stuff? What language is Tékumel? Who's Arduin?" I'm going to help improve that situation.

I also intend to publish:

Rules, table tools for referees and other players, and entire adventure scenarios.
Updates on other projects like Demon Idol.
Other "gameable" content – meaning stuff you can directly apply to a game.

I'll be occasionally tying posts with the new YouTube channel, DungeonBlasterTV, which I will post videos on soon. I see some of you have already subscribed. Welcome!

If you're curious about my old, inactive blog, Caltrops for Breakfast: I'll be posting revised versions of those posts here on Dungeon Blaster. There's some advice I'd change or present differently today.

Door Spikes

In my old blog, I wrote an article called "Dead Simple Door Spikes," which contained something of the opposite. Too many numbers to memorize! Door spikes do not need a custom subsystem, however simple it may be. This is not worth space on your screen, or in your

Quantum Wandering Monsters

Some referees have wandering monsters come from other areas of the dungeon. When the monsters show up, the referee crosses their numbers off from some other section of the dungeon. Another way to do it is have a "patrol list," a pool of wandering monsters to draw from,

News from Gaming Land

It's been a while since I've shared the happenings in my own gaming. This month, I decided to close down the open table campaign that I started three years ago. There had been some growing social issues in the group, and I didn't want

Set Up Your Computer for Dungeon Building

This article is going to show you the only two programs you need to make dungeons on the computer. These are the two programs I'm going to use in my upcoming video. First, you need a mapping program. Xournal++ is my preferred tool. It's also great

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Door Spikes

Quantum Wandering Monsters

News from Gaming Land

Set Up Your Computer for Dungeon Building