The Zungeon Jam is happening. It's a game jam where people make zungeons. I will probably be participating.
Step 1 is to come up with a theme for the dungeon, then mix it with 1 or more other themes. "But what," you (I) say, "if I'm creatively bankrupt?"
Roll on this table 1 or more times. Pick whatever result for a given line sounds best or most interesting to you, then combine with whatever other ones you pick from your other rolls. Alternatively, just roll once and read straight across, combining all 3. Or don't. Whatever.
I feel weird making a post without any images, and just a Discord screenshot feels lame. Here's a skeleton with some dice that I found on google images.
"Creature" is a type of living* being (Current inhabitants? Original inhabitants? Worshipped/Venerated? Appears in iconography?).
"Location" is a place (Original purpose? Current purpose? Nearby area of note? What the dungeon looks like it should be, but isn't?).
"Abstract" is generally, but not always, an 'element' of some vague sort (Suffuses the area? Wielded by inhabitants? Overriding decor theme? Part of a Special room or Puzzle the adventurers have to deal with?).
CREATURE/LOCATION/ABSTRACT
1: Mermaid/Waterfall/Slime
2: Vampire/Cenote/Lightning
3: Gargoyle/Clocktower/Shadow
4: Mimic/Organism/Sound
5: Daemon/Grove/Etiquette
6: Werebeast/Shipwreck/Alchemy
7: Giant/Crypt/Mirrors
8: Eye/Church/Gravity
9: Soldier/Natural Cavern/Time
10: Insect/Subway/Gold
11: Kirin/Quarry/Melting
12: Plant/Museum/Smoke
13: Sea Monster/Mine/Crime
14: Crone/Laboratory/Neon
15: Mummy/Spaceship/Fire
16: Psion/Menagerie/Food
17: Dragon/Haunted House/Rainbow
18: Leprechaun/Residence/Earthquake
19: Genie/Lost World/Glyphs
20: Adventurer/Bathhouse/Cursed
Don't like mummies? Choose wights instead. Leprechaun sounds too silly? Then make it a faun. Pick or roll or cut or paste or I don't know, I don't care, I'm not your dad. Like your dad, though, I do crave validation through engagement, so I would politely and humbly request that if you make use of this you tell me or mention it or leave a comment or something.
Nova (the mind behind the Zungeon format and the jam) had this to say:
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