Where can you crawl other than a dungeon?

DevP · August 27, 2007, 02:04:13 PM

So on the front page there's threads about the elements of old-school dungeons and space dungeons. What other kinds of places can you have a quest that has a "dungeon crawl" atmosphere?

Drew · August 27, 2007, 02:10:59 PM

Shopping centres. I'm talking about the ones that cover several acres and have big, colourful maps every 50' to orientate customers. Both film versions of Dawn of the Dead and the PS2 game Silent Hill 3 show how you can have modern day "Dungeon Mall" adventures every bit as good as the subterreanean fantasy stuff.

jrients · August 27, 2007, 02:11:54 PM

Steam tunnels.

Drew · August 27, 2007, 02:13:22 PM

Old abandoned cargo ships and pleasure cruisers. The QEII is a like a small city on it's interior.

One Horse Town · August 27, 2007, 02:18:30 PM

The canyons of my mind.

or a huge hedge maze.

DevP · August 27, 2007, 02:20:12 PM

Quote from: jrientsSteam tunnels.

Ah, college.

Abyssal Maw · August 27, 2007, 02:21:07 PM

Hedge maze! Thats what I was going to say.

Most of the Harry Potter books have dungeon crawls in them.

There's the first one which even has traps like the chess piece one and the flying keys. There's the bank vaults. There's the tunnels that lead from the bathroom to the basilisks lair. There's the tunnels of the ministry of magics special prophecy warehouse area. There's the hedge-maze in book 4 with the blast-ended skrewts.

JK Rowling. Dungeonmaster!

Drew · August 27, 2007, 02:21:18 PM

An abandoned airport would also be quite nifty as a setting.

DevP · August 27, 2007, 02:22:58 PM

Libraries, goverment buildings, hospitals, airports. Add in a post-apoc setting and you'll have the fun time.

Drew · August 27, 2007, 02:26:35 PM

Quote from: DevPLibraries, goverment buildings, hospitals, airports. Add in a post-apoc setting and you'll have the fun time.

Also primary schools. Nothing more creepy than the detritus of long dead children.

Hotels are also good, as The Shining proved.

Nicephorus · August 27, 2007, 02:28:14 PM

Some 3rd world cities are closely packed with maze like streets. I imagine ancient cities would often be similar. If a city was largely abandoned, it would be a mega dungeon.

Here's a pic of modern Ibadan Nigeria.

jrients · August 27, 2007, 02:28:52 PM

Irradiated, abandoned, mutant-infested Disney World would be a helluva romp.

Drew · August 27, 2007, 02:30:36 PM

Quote from: jrientsIrradiated, abandoned, mutant-infested Disney World would be a helluva romp.

The Neverland Ranch equally so. You wouldn't even need to go post-apoc.

Cab · August 27, 2007, 03:42:54 PM

Quote from: NicephorusSome 3rd world cities are closely packed with maze like streets. I imagine ancient cities would often be similar. If a city was largely abandoned, it would be a mega dungeon.

Some English towns still retain elements of that, giving you a glimpse of what it would have been like. The Lanes in Brighton, and The Shambles in York spring to mind.

You can also have cracking little 'dungeon' crawls through dense woods, sewers, castle complexes, mines... Loads of places for adventurers to romp through rooms/clearings

J Arcane · August 27, 2007, 03:50:20 PM

Office buildings.

I mean really, Rainbow Six style floor-clearing anti-terrorist fun is basically just a dungeon, but with cool guns and grenades in place of swords and fireballs, but at a much faster pace.

I mean, if you read the detailed reports of the SAS raid on the Iranian embassy in 1980, it's basically a dungeon crawl at extreme speed.