Dungeons--dangerous labyrinths filled with both monster and treasure. Hundreds of them litter the world. Some filled only with goblins and small amounts of gold. Others with dragons and ancient magical artifacts. The world has always known these dungeons. With these treasures come adventurers--those willing to delve inside for strength, wealth, to serve their god, or to solve the mystery of the dungeons. They venture within slaying all manner of beasts throughout the floors. Time and time again, with the god of the cycle at their side, they return to the dungeon. Again and again, they march deeper and deeper. Their goal?

To face the dungeon master and shatter the dungeon's core. The heart of the dungeon--the crystal that represents the ever expanding influence of the god of fate.

This is where you have awoken. But wait... where's the dungeon master?

It appears that the god of fate had loved your master a little too much. The god had allowed them to burn their life to summon you. Now without a master, the core had decided its new master...

Wait, it selected all of you?

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Welcome to An Idiot's Dungeon Union--a slice of life inverse dungeon adventure where the players aim to defend their home (and lives) from an ever growing invasion of respawning adventurers. Players will play the role of an intelligent monster who had been summoned to defend the dungeon, but has stumbled into the position of leading the dungeon. Together, the monsters will somehow have to politic and negotiate with their allies to best develop their newly-created dungeon to ensure that they don't end up as materials for someone's shoes.

Inspired by the plethora of the more pleasant dungeon master manga/manhwa, a few slice of life series, and the mundanity of life and gainful employment, this RP is one that embraces the microdrama of workplace politik. And as a monster, you have your own desires which you wish to fulfill above the wants of the many.

In terms of how the RP will function, it will more or less be a mixture of short expeditions into the world outside of the dungeon to learn about the world, decision-making sessions with your fellow monsters, the occasional fight to defend your dungeon, and the meta-game around gacha pulling for mooks and traps to design dungeon floors for the purpose of watching numbers go up. Maybe you'll even encounter other dungeons which are vying for survival and/or making their funny number go up more than yours.

Can’t believe I’m going to be overemployed now. Dap me up.

If there's one thing I've picked up from the anime That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime and So I'm a Spider, So What? is you shouldn't go around killing humans - they're vicious creatures. And then there's the bit for this game that we used to be human....

Sounds fun.

Are we reborn understanding both the common languages of monsters and of humans?

You know what, I’m game

The player characters were taken from the same world - not isekaied, but reincarnated into monsters in the dungeon, yeah? Any limits on the PC monster species? Could they be humanoid, too? E.g elf, rogue mage, some sort of vampire, half orc etc. etc..

This seems fun. Hearkening back to the old Dungeon Keeper RPs I enjoyed way back when, but from a less authoritative perspective. I'm interested.

OGRE THINK YUNYUNS EEKWALLY CORRUPT AS CORE-PRAYCHUNS! STRONG-ARM OGRE INTO S'PORTING POLY-CEES DAT ONLY BENEFIT YUNYUN AS WHOLE, NOT NESSIE-SURLY OGRE AS INDIVIDUAL! FORCE OGRE PAY YUNYUN DOOS AND BAR OGRE WORK IN INDUSTREE IF OGRE NOT PART OF ECKS-CLOOSIVE CLUB! OGRE HAVE RIGHT TO WORK!

Alternatively, could a particularly enterprising goblin offer a "gold banking service," so that when our fellow monsters are killed, those filthy adventurers can't get my---I mean, our loot?

And then there's the bit for this game that we used to be human....

Are we reborn understanding both the common languages of monsters and of humans?

The monsters in this game are tabula rasa, unlike those series. Legally not an isekai. It's more or less the same language--mooks don't understand human speech, but they understand monsters speaking.

The player characters were taken from the same world - not isekaied, but reincarnated into monsters in the dungeon, yeah? Any limits on the PC monster species? Could they be humanoid, too? E.g elf, rogue mage, some sort of vampire, half orc etc. etc..

I think the current plan is to not be an isekai/reincarnation. You're born fully formed as monsters with the necessary self and knowledge, but no memories.

No real limits beyond "theme it vaguely evil". Vampire yes. Half-orc logistically no because for reasons, monsters cannot do that. Rogue mage no, there isn't any sort of defection. Elf, yes but in a dark elf sense. You don't have to do any tropes or charged trappings of typical depictions, but you are forced into having a stink cloud of malevolence that will out you as evil unless disguised in some way. Kinda like Atou the Sludge who is very elf coded but is not a nice elf.

OGRE THINK YUNYUNS EEKWALLY CORRUPT AS CORE-PRAYCHUNS! STRONG-ARM OGRE INTO S'PORTING POLY-CEES DAT ONLY BENEFIT YUNYUN AS WHOLE, NOT NESSIE-SURLY OGRE AS INDIVIDUAL! FORCE OGRE PAY YUNYUN DOOS AND BAR OGRE WORK IN INDUSTREE IF OGRE NOT PART OF ECKS-CLOOSIVE CLUB! OGRE HAVE RIGHT TO WORK!

Alternatively, could a particularly enterprising goblin offer a "gold banking service," so that when our fellow monsters are killed, those filthy adventurers can't get my---I mean, our loot?

Technically yes, but there will be reasons why that's not very efficient. A dungeon without treasure is like a fishing line without a hook or lure.

sounds tones of fun, I'm game

Technically yes, but there will be reasons why that's not very efficient. A dungeon without treasure is like a fishing line without a hook or lure.

What if instead of just giving them the treasure, we issue promissory notes that represent real treasure (that we totally have somewhere)? Better yet, we could offer them a loan for however much treasure they want, and charge a percentage interest on the payback!

Jokes aside is the Politik part of this expected to be more serious, like with some Players aiming to become full-fledged Overlords by competing with/betraying one another, potentially waging war (or making alliances) on human/elf/etc settlements if the dungeon becomes powerful enough, and so forth? Or is the idea going to be a bunch of goobers building Rube-Goldberg devices and throwing waves of fodder bodies at granite-jawed Paladins voiced by Patrick Warburton, while also balkanizing into thinly veiled strawmen of ideology for the funsies?

Also, would we be starting as peons and evolving (Goblin > Hobgoblin, etc) or otherwise getting more powerful? Or would each of us be a Final-Boss/anime-humanoid kind of monster in our own right, with our own minions and whatnot?

After thinking about it, I’ve only got one thing in mind.

Gonna turn the safe zone of the dungeon into a den of vice and rob the adventurers for all they’re worth (before using the gold gained to fill the treasure chests).

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What if instead of just giving them the treasure, we issue promissory notes that represent real treasure (that we totally have somewhere)? Better yet, we could offer them a loan for however much treasure they want, and charge a percentage interest on the payback!

Jokes aside is the Politik part of this expected to be more serious, like with some Players aiming to become full-fledged Overlords by competing with/betraying one another, potentially waging war (or making alliances) on human/elf/etc settlements if the dungeon becomes powerful enough, and so forth? Or is the idea going to be a bunch of goobers building Rube-Goldberg devices and throwing waves of fodder bodies at granite-jawed Paladins voiced by Patrick Warburton, while also balkanizing into thinly veiled strawmen of ideology for the funsies?

Also, would we be starting as peons and evolving (Goblin > Hobgoblin, etc) or otherwise getting more powerful? Or would each of us be a Final-Boss/anime-humanoid kind of monster in our own right, with our own minions and whatnot?

Unserious--less political thriller and more workplace politics where you get HR talking about the dark triad. There's a reason why adventurers throw themselves into the meat grinder

Maybe if it lasts for a few years, it will evolve into something a little more serious, but as it stands, there will be no politicking with adventurers--only your fellows and other dungeons.

It's your choice to start as a peon or final boss. But don't take that as exactly that. It's a Gacha world. You're always starting from level 1, but you can be a 1 star goblin chief or a 5 star dragon lord. The average adventurer can beat your ass in either case at the start. Different bonuses and such for both cases--but it's aesthetic over mechanic.

You can evolve (see: uprank) with materials.

Minions not directly. Some monsters (see spiders) can create minions, but they're more or less extensions of the self and not real henchmen. Your ass will be pulling your minions on the Gacha, of which they will be shared with the others.

And you should probably politik with them, too. Lest you have bad relations and suffer the dire consequences.

Oh, there’s a Gacha? How much is a ten pull?

Oh, there’s a Gacha? How much is a ten pull?

160 dungeon points for your beginner banners. Of which I give arbitrarily.

One of my ideas is that before there were banks, those with money would build a strongroom to hold their treasure. But others broke into their strongroom and stole some of their treasure, so they got the idea to expand the strongroom into a dungeon, with several strongrooms, some empty rooms, secret doors, traps, and monsters added to the mix.

And something to keep in mind is that monsters are also part of the treasure - bring back goblin ears to the local adventure guild to get a silver piece, hides have value, as do other parts.

I remember a fun story where one of the local girls wanted to catch the eye of the local knight, so posed herself next to an Earth dragon - poor thing never had a chance. But the dragon was piled up in front of this peasant's home, and he wanted to know who was going to clean it up - and the knight dismissed it, saying it was the peasant's job.

The peasant comes to a decision, grabs a knife and crawls into the wound on the dragon and cuts some of the lavender dragon meat and cooks it - and it tastes like liver. But he starts selling it - and when someone spills the beans, people start bragging how much they paid for their dragon meat. Peasant is raking in a fortune, but he's running out of sellable parts. When the knight hears about it, he comes to reclaim the dragon - but instead the peasant gets him to go hunt other dragons.

Or go watch the anime Delicious in Dungeon - congrats, you're an orc but you're on the menu.

Looks interesting.

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160 dungeon points for your beginner banners. Of which I give arbitrarily.

Can we use real money to buy Dungeon Points? Preferably in strange denominations so that we always end up overspending. I also want a 99.99$ "super discount" that gives us a whopping 20% more Dungeon points. I'm also fine with you saying that there are no refunds, even if the game never gets off the ground and you're forced to close the servers first year of development.

This sounds fun.

So, what’s the tech level like in this world? Could a hypothetical slime girl form crazy cool “advanced” weapons like rotary cannons, missile pods, lasers, and that kinda junk out of her slimy body, or just boring melee weapons?

Asking for a friend.

Looks interesting.

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Can we use real money to buy Dungeon Points? Preferably in strange denominations so that we always end up overspending. I also want a 99.99$ "super discount" that gives us a whopping 20% more Dungeon points. I'm also fine with you saying that there are no refunds, even if the game never gets off the ground and you're forced to close the servers first year of development.

yea you can

please attach your payment to your nearest canadian goose and you'll see the points appear in your account within the next 18-65 years

So, what’s the tech level like in this world? Could a hypothetical slime girl form crazy cool “advanced” weapons like rotary cannons, missile pods, lasers, and that kinda junk out of her slimy body, or just boring melee weapons?

Asking for a friend.

Low science, high magic. Anachronistic, lackadaisical, and really more concerned with aesthetic rather than actual technological progression. Think functional toilets and the possibly the existence of live streaming (have not decided yet), but they haven't invented the concept of industrialization. Guns would exist, but since magic outpaces it, it's very much a "the concept of tube + propel projectile" is about as far as it gets.

Rotary cannons, probably not at this stage. Maybe far in the future if I decide that I want cowboy nation at some point, your character can have an idea most brilliant. Missile pods are probably a hard no--the most is trebuchet/catapult/cannon/arbalest for large projectiles. Lasers probably hard no unless you turn yourself into a prism to death ray someone with the power of the sun behind you.

>live streaming

Time to hit em with the TV Crew.