Reverse Dungeon

by John D. Rateliff, Bruce R. Cordell

Crawling through dungeons and combating powerful monsters are at the heart of the D&D experience. Players and Dungeon Masters alike love monsters, and Reverse Dungeon allows them to actually play these monsters, intent on defending their lairs from pesky adventurers out to steal their treasure. This unique focus creates a whole new dimension in D&D gaming. And Reverse Dungeon contains a pregenerated adventure that Dungeon Masters can use immediately to give their players a brand-new D&D experience.

Genres: Dungeons and Dragons, Role Playing Games, Gaming

96 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2000

About the author

JOHN D. RATELIFFmoved to Wisconsin in 1981 in order to work with the Tolkien manuscripts at Marquette University. He has been active in Tolkien scholarship for many years, delivering papers on Tolkien and the Inklings. While at Marquette, he assisted in the collation of their holdings with those Christopher Tolkien was editing for his History of Middle-earth series. A professional editor, he lives in the Seattle area with his wife and three cats, only one of whom is named after a Tolkien character.

Reviews

[Juho Pohjalainen · Rating 3 out of 5]

The idea of playing the bad guy may not have been terribly original even back when this book first came out, but it does put a new spin on it, with a spot of clever writing and solid dungeon design and some good treasure. It may not be the essential read for villainous play, but I did not regret looking through it myself.

Rather wordy at places, as was the style at the time. Good art, though.

[Abraham Ray · Rating 5 out of 5]

nice rpg book about the opposite side of the adventuring coin!