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Architects of the Deep

Created by Dren Productions LLC

A random dungeon generator to create awesome dungeons for your next campaign, featuring 2 full sets of dungeon cards, capable of creating over 1,000,000 different dungeons, along with 4 supplemental 18 card sets, adding more terrains and locations for you to create.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Stretch Goal 3 and More Add-Ons!
almost 4 years ago – Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 03:05:49 PM

Overnight we surpassed our 3rd Stretch Goal! So, congrats everyone! AND THANK YOU!

This means we've unlocked the Potion and Item Packs. Brand new potions and items for your adventurers to discover inside the dungeons you're going to create! Some of these potions and items have some interesting effects that will hopefully lead to some new adventures for your characters. 

So, with this stretch goal, we're adding some new add-ons!

First, of course, as mentioned, we will have the Potions and Item Packs for you. As stated, get 1 for $10, or both for $17.

But, we're also going to offer the 4 pack! Get all of them for $32 ($8/pack), the absolute lowest we can go on these packs and still make a tiny profit. 

Also, while each of these packs comes with the PnP files, it was also requested of us that we do an add-on for JUST the PnP files. We aim to please, so here they are! $15 for the print and play files for all 4 packs. 

And lastly, we passed a stretch goal, so we're adding a new one! Stretch Goal 4, another digital supplement. We're calling it the Book of Cities. We haven't designed a cover for it yet, but essentially this is going to have a few pre-made cities and towns inside, as well as a series of tables for you to create your own city or town. Remember, every dungeon adventure needs to start somewhere, so why not in a city you made? This will be another digital supplement that will go out to EVERYONE getting a reward. 

That's all for this update! Hopefully we'll have another one tonight or tomorrow announcing we've passed this stretch goal and that we have another one for you!


Game on!

2nd Stretch Goal Unlocked
almost 4 years ago – Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 03:42:38 AM

Not only have we passed 100 backers! But we've also passed the $4,000 mark! And that means that our second stretch goal has been unlocked. 

Now you can expect some more pages in The Book of Rooms, for those of you who are getting it, that will be focused on Forest settings. These will be new traps, encounters, other stuff for your players to explore. 

And that leads us to Stretch Goal 3. We have another Add-On for you. These ones will be for some treasures your players can find in your dungeons. These 2 packs will feature 18 Unique Potions, and 18 Unique Magical Items, that your players will have lots of fun with. 

This will unlock when we reach the $4,500 mark!

Be well all! Game on!

Our Design Process
almost 4 years ago – Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 02:35:24 AM

Some of you have been asking about designing the cards. It is actually a laborious process, because each of the cards are actually hand-drawn. Getting the sizes just right isn't always the easiest, which is why our original images don't have the edges going right to the end of the card. 

You can see the stack of papers we have for the original artwork. 

As we said in a comment, we have since fixed that, and if you look below, you'll see what the cards look like now. So, when you get the cards, you can rest assured that the images are going to go right to the edges. 

But what we do is we have the background of the card set, and we place the artwork on it, including the grid, the room numbers, the icons, and everything else. Then we resize the the image so that it fits onto the card template from the printer. 

Now, the template for the printer is a little larger than what you see on the card, so what we send to the printer, looks more like the image below. As you can see, the image has square edges instead of rounded, and the artwork here still doesn't go to edge. But what ends up happening is that that last 1/4 inch (a little less) will be cut off to make the cards look a little more like what you see in the image above. 

This is why on the cards that we have on display in the Kickstarter images have the artwork a little off the edge, because when we're creating our images, we are using this file to create them, and not the actual cards. 

So, that's the process we use. It goes from hand-made drawing to this. Even the new forest and temple cards started off as hand drawn images. However, since these ones were a little more complicated, we created a bunch of assets, and put them together to create the dungeons. 

So, that's it. We hope you enjoyed that. We'll let you in on some more soon. 

1st Stretch Goal Unlocked!
almost 4 years ago – Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 01:20:11 AM

Okay everyone. We've passed our first stretch goal!

So that means the Add-On for the Temple and Forest Packs are now active.

If you choose, just add $10 to your pledge if you want one of the packs, and $17 for both. You'll be asked during our survey which of the add-ons you've chosen. 

The next stretch goal is at $4,000 and will be additions to The Book of Rooms supplement that will fit our new Forest Pack.

Until next update guys! GAME ON!

First Stretch Goals
almost 4 years ago – Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 06:07:57 PM

Okay everyone. We're still going strong and I wanted to throw a couple more things out there for you. 

We wanted to offer you something a little different. We have two small packs that we are going to add to the campaign as add-ons when we hit $3,500. 

At $3,500, we are going to add our Temple  and Forest Pack. Each pack will add an additional 18 double-sided cards to the set, that will allow you to create some dungeons set in old castles, keeps, temples, crypts, and because we all know that a dungeon doesn't have to be underground, also forests. Each pack will be able to make an additional 1,700 combinations for new dungeons. 

The packs will be offered at $10 each, or $17 for both. The add-on will also include the Print-and-Play Files. 

All right people! So when we hit $3,500, we'll put those up. 

In the meantime, I want to talk about the Bounty Hunt, I had mentioned in the first update. If anyone in interested, send me a message, and I'll give you a special link. Any money your link makes you'll get back 10%. 

Thanks again all! You're all awesome! Game on!