Building Epic Campaigns with Tenfold Dungeon

The torches flicker as your players step into the ancient ruin. The stone walls shift behind them, sealing their only exit. Before them, a maze of twisting corridors stretches into the darkness. With Tenfold Dungeon, you can bring this world to life, crafting dynamic, ever-changing adventures with ease.

Start with a Strong Narrative Hook

Once you’ve decided on which set/sets you’ll be crafting your story within, there are eight fantasy and four sci-fi options to choose from, you can begin to lay out your rooms and corridors. But make sure you use the core story you’re going to tell to shape the world your players will be adventuring through, creating an immersive experience for everyone at the table such as: 

The Castle: A cursed castle that rearranges itself every time the players enter a room. Tenfold Dungeon’s modular system makes this easy!

The Wizard’s Sanctum: A multi-level fortress where each floor presents a new, deadly challenge before confronting the BBEG on the top floor.

The Temple: Players must delve deep into an ancient ruin, overcoming both enemies and traps, to recover a legendary artifact. 

Your hook should shape the dungeon itself, ensuring the world feels alive and reactive to the story.
 

Design Your Dungeon Like a Living, Breathing World

Tenfold Dungeon allows you to create multi-room layouts, so don’t just make it a sequence of fights. Instead, bring the setting to life: 

Dynamic Environments: Use doors, secret passages, and elevation to create tactical depth. Imagine a crumbling bridge room in the Mines of Khazad, a pit trap leading to another level in The Temple, or a magically shifting corridor in Ravenhold Castle.

Interactive Elements: Add puzzles, hidden levers, or destructible objects to make the space feel real. The Wizard’s Sanctum even has a Portal Room, you could use that to transport the party to a new Tenfold Dungeon set all together!

Faction Conflicts: Maybe rival groups inhabit different sections of the dungeon, and players can manipulate alliances (or trigger all-out war) for their own benefit - take The Town for example, maybe one group has taken over the Clock Tower and another the Inn. 

Don’t forget, it’s your world so it plays by your rules. Tenfold Dungeon provides the backdrop and brings it to life, but you decide who and what is where!

Make Exploration Rewarding

Nothing is worse than a dungeon that feels like a straight-line grind. Give your players a reason to explore every inch of every room by incorporating: 

Unique Loot: Special items tied to your world’s lore (not just generic gold and potions), what you reward players with in The Town shouldn’t be the same as the rewards from The Underdark.

Lore Clues: Scraps of notes, murals, or relics that hint at the dungeon’s history - you choose where these pieces of lore live in the world and it’s up to your players to explore each room and find them, the discreet 1” by 1” grid system means you can place these clues exactly where you want them.

Dangerous Side Paths: Let players risk extra encounters for greater rewards, whilst they’re in Ravenhold Castle’s laboratory maybe they notice an eerie glow from the graveyard - provided you placed it within view of the windows when you laid out your adventure. 

With Tenfold Dungeon’s detailed room artwork, you can describe clues that visually match the environment—making investigations and even general exploration all the more immersive.

Use Tenfold Dungeon for Cinematic Set Pieces

A great dungeon isn’t just a series of rooms, it’s memorable moments that you’ll talk about again and again. Consider these: 

A Chase Scene:The walls tremble as the ground cracks beneath the party’s feet. Dust fills the air as ancient stone pillars collapse in a deafening roar. The only way forward? A desperate sprint across a crumbling bridge inside the Mines of Khazad, one misstep away from the abyss.

A Boss Fight with Changing Terrain: Start in the Chapel of Ravenhold Castle, but once the villain’s health drops, the floor collapses and the party now finds themselves in The Underdark (swap out the tiles for effect as Tenfold Dungeon sets are compatible).

A Torch Puzzle: A network of torches line the walls of the corridors in Dungeons and Sewers and the party has to work out how to activate them to light their way, meaning they’re less likely to fall for any hidden traps. 

The modularity of Tenfold Dungeon means that rooms can be swapped out easily, allowing you to reveal twists mid-game without missing a beat or breaking the immersion!

Bring It All Together: A Sample Dungeon Layout

Here’s a quick blueprint for a mystical, shifting dungeon using Tenfold Dungeon’s Wizard’s Sanctum set:

Portal Room: The party is suddenly transported into the adventure and finds themselves in the Portal Room, surrounded by stone walls and still air they must venture forth to find out who transported them here and why.

The Shadow Maze: Stone corridors that move when no one is looking (you physically rearrange the pieces between turns!).

The Library: Holds forbidden knowledge but is guarded by sentient books or a magical construct, if your party looks in the right places they may uncover long lost tomes granting them boons and knowledge beyond their imagination.

The Conservatory: The final confrontation, your party meets the Wizard who brought the party to his Sanctum, but why? You’re the DM that’s for you to decide! 

Keeping your adventure unpredictable and engaging for your players and yourself is a huge part of a successful campaign, and Tenfold Dungeon is the aide that empowers you to provide both of those elements to your table.

Elevate Your Dungeon Experience

Tenfold Dungeon is more than just terrain,it’s a storytelling tool. Allowing you to craft unforgettable adventures, where every twist, turn, and battle feels larger than life. 

Whether you’re delving into Ravenhold Castle, exploring the Wizard’s Sanctum, or forging your own legendary dungeon by combining sets, Tenfold Dungeon is your gateway to unforgettable stories. Are you ready to build your next adventure?