You Meet In A Tavern, You Die In A Dungeon

You Meet In A Tavern, You Die In A Dungeon is a procedurally generated dungeon crawler where all the characters are destined to die.

Bringing a party-game mentality to the one-shot RPG session, You Meet In A Tavern, You Die In A Dungeon helps you go from character creation to a violent end in a thrilling dungeon in a time that suits you.

With a rules-light system that's easy to pick up and teach and lets players jump in-and-out as they please, this is a perfect game for beginners, con-games, or your regular RPG night.

All you need to play is 2d6, a d12, and a pack of standard playing cards.

How does it play?

A session of You Meet In A Tavern, You Die In A Dungeon can be played in 2 hours, or longer if your party want to keep adventuring, with mechanics for triggering the end of the session when everyone is ready and support for joining late or leaving early that still provides players with a meaningful RPG experience.

In The Tavern,  players will work out their backstories, receive an ill-fated quest, and get hints at how their Dungeoneer will die. 

In The Dungeon, The Dungeon Keeper will generate Rooms and Hazards with a deck of cards and a few dice rolls, giving players opportunities for wild feats of adventuring and creating spotlight moments for each player's Dungeoneer to die.

What do I get?

You Meet In A Tavern, You Die In A Dungeon is made up of 3 books, allowing players to focus on the rules they need quickly and easily:

The Dungeoneer's Handbook - for anyone controlling a Dungeoneer, with character creation tips & the basic rules for playing the game

The Dungeon Keeper's Guide - for anyone running a session as the Dungeon Keeper, with guidance on how to engage players, run sessions and make your own Dungeons

The Dungeon Manual - a reference for everything the Dungeoneers will encounter in the Dungeon, with rules for Hazards in the form of monsters, traps, and other environmental dangers; and Rooms to help you quickly describe the environment and build a narrative around your Dungeon.

Included in your purchase:

• Fully illustrated PDFs and text-only alternative formats (in .rtf, .txt, and .ePub) of: The Dungeoneer's Handbook, The Dungeon Keeper's Guide, The Dungeon Manual
• Print & Play Dungeon Deck for generating Dungeons on the fly (in A4 & US Letter page format)
• A digital tracker to help you generate Rooms and keep track of Hazards (Google Sheets required to access the Template)

Credits

Writing: Matt Bear Jones (Ursidice) ursidice.com/ [@]ursidice

Art: Hodag RPG (Instagram: @HodagRPG)

Editing: Sean F. Smith

Sensitivity Read: Finn Weldin

Layout: Jean Verne

Suit icons used in the Dungeon Deck come from Dicier, by Speak the Sky, licensed under CC BY 4.0

Die In A Dungeon Games:

You Meet In A Tavern, You Die In a Dungeon is a Die In A Dungeon game. You are actively encouraged to make your own games using this ruleset and describe them as 'Die In A Dungeon' games.

You Meet In A Tavern, You Die In A Dungeon, the Dungeoneer's Handbook, Dungeoneer's Guide and Dungeon Manual are (c) copyright Matt Jones 2023.