DINKWELL'S DUNGEON

A Crawler for the Discerning Degenerate

The dank elf city under the mountain went silent in a single night. Nobody mourns it — they bid on it. A tent-camp boiled up at its mouth overnight: a gold-rush pitched over a graveyard, and the winch-crews lower anyone who signs the waiver. Five floors down, the legend says, the dank elf left their treasure. Most who descend don't come back. The ones who do are usually worse.

LEGO Engine Build — Wave 3 (modular engine + content pack, snapped together)

Choose Your World

The same engine; a different descent. Switch any time before you begin.

Choose the Look

Drop a different skin on the same game.

⟡ 0 Echoes

⚙ Options

Off — equipment has no weight (classic). Turn on to play with encumbrance.

Off — the town keeps a wholesome inn. Turn on for the bawdy house (suggestive & witty, never explicit).

⚔ Play by 5E Rules (SRD) — the Dank Elf Descent

A faithful fifth-edition-compatible character: racial ASI, proficiency bonus, HP by hit die, saving throws, a starting kit, and spells for casters. Fights real SRD monsters. (SRD 5.2.1, CC-BY-4.0 — not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.)

Race Class Level

✦ Load a Certified Hero — the Travel Door

Built a hero in DinkelForge? Send it down into the dungeon. Paste its DDCHAR1 travel-code or load its .char file. Only a certified hero may pass — the dungeon verifies the seal and rebuilds HP & AC from its own tables. (Unsigned or tampered heroes are turned away at the door.)

Load .char file…

I. Choose Your Ancestry

Each ancestry modifies base stats, HP, and Substrate susceptibility.

II. Choose Your Class

Determines HP, resource pool, primary stats, base damage.

III. Choose Your Kit

Kits specialize your class. Pick a class first.

IV. Choose Your Background

Your life before the dungeon. Sets starting MM.

V. Roll Your Stats

4d6 drop lowest ×6, ancestry bonuses applied. Re-roll freely.

VI. Name Your Corpse

Gravemouth — the Winch-Yard

The tent-camp crammed against the mouth of the silent city. Everything smells like lamp-oil, winch-grease, old blood, and bad decisions.

The Brass Winch

Dinkwell serves rotgut and unwanted advice. 50 MM for a bed, a meal, and a functioning immune system.

Grindstone's Forge

Buy supplies, sell loot. Grindstone doesn't haggle. Grindstone doesn't smile.

The Claims Board

Contracts from the Ruin Divers Guild, the Debt Ledger, and worse. Get paid (if you survive).

The Lantern-Tent — the Settled Light

Mother Vellum lifts curses, casts out corruption, mends the body, and gives holy work. Grace is not free — but it is real.

The Weary Traveller

A clean bed and a hot pot. Rest fully and settle your nerves.

The Hold

The town gaol. Old stones, honest locks. Warden Cobb keeps whoever the town cannot.

The Lord's Hall

Banners of the High Vale. Lord Aldric watches the road for something he has not named.

The Graveyard

Rows of patient stone behind a low wall. Mercer buys what the dungeon makes and plants what the town loses.

The Low Stable

Straw, tack, and one long-suffering mule. Rented by the descent; returned by luck.

The Rookery

Black birds and a locked iron coffer. Send parcels home from the dark; the box keeps them, past your death.

The Cartographer's Table

Half-finished maps and one man who pays for finished ones. Survey every chamber of a floor and he will buy the page.

Tempest's Table

A card table at the back of the bar tent, lit only after dark. The dealer is never seen by day.

The Black Chapel

A cult-tent of the Settled Soul, come up to bless the pit's dead. Mother Black heals the body and draws out curses. She takes NO gold — only favors, and the peculiar things she asks.

The Armory — Equip & Ready

Lay out your gear before the descent. Fit each slot, weigh the trade, ready the body for the silent city.

The Foyer — Dungeon Entrance

The mouth of the silent city. The winch lowers you into the dark. No refunds.

The Stratum — step through the node-map · lit nodes are reachable

Round 1

Your Party

Enemies

DINKWELL'S DUNGEON

Gravemouth — the Winch-Yard

DEAD

THE SETTLED DARK RECEDES