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My initial thoughts were to start mapping a single side of a cube as a dungeon layout, adding in a good amount of pitfalls, some with trap doors and shom without. The trap doors, if noticed, will appear to be just doors do though knobs, but can easily be opened. This will be the "top". Then map out the right side, using the grid locations of the pit falls to properly place hallways. Repeat this for all 4 "sides" of the dungeon keeping in mode proper placement for hallways/pits. Then the bottom will be more or less fill in the blanks. From there I can decide if I want to add more smaller floors going down/center of the cube. But I feel more floors will make the hallways shifting into pitfalls significantly less dangerous, and the entire dungeon highly confusing.

I'll track each side as a map designator, like a1 or something. To keep track of everything I'll have a copy of the map for my self to look at at all time. This will also help keep track of when traps that were on the wall switch to being on the floor or ceiling.

The idea of hallways on a hinge will defiantly be added. Forcing the Pc's to find and use a few rooms that offer a rotation of the dungeon in a predetermined direction. To make things simple I'll only add 3 or 4, so the combination will be 3214 or the like.

I've had a few ideas how To spice it up. Adding a room half filled with liquid, the room is longer than it is wide. So the dungeon being in the wrong orientation will have the room be impassable if it's acid when coming from above or below. This will deter pc's from just flying or climbing there way to complete victory.

The old Grimtooth's Traps book had some traps with a similar premise. The one that comes to mind is a hallway on a hinge that supports a certain amount of weight before it falls/tilts (90 degrees) down.

edit: Google search reminded me of the ball-bearing rotating hallway into a pit. Heh heh, good ol' Grimtooth's.

That's a pretty good idea, if I add two or three of those hallways, and eventually give the PC's control of the dungeon rotation, I could turn the entire dungeon into a combination lock to reach the goal. At first glance it will be a trap, but after some testing they find out that moving the dungeon in a certain pattern opens up new areas by putting the hallways in a certain arrangement

I'm planning on making a rotating dungeon, not in the sense that it or parts of it spin, the whole thing will rotate. Hallways are now pit falls and vice versa. The only hint that this is going to happen before hand is a set of spikes on a wall near the entrance. A rogue might notice a trip wire in a strange place like 4 inches off the wall going vertically from ceiling to floor, but that could be chalked up to bad trap design.

My question is if this has been done, so I can use it as a good frame work for my dungeon. I can't find anything close to what I want, just layouts that have spinning sections of dungeon. I'm also open to ideas to spice the dungeon up a bit in clever ways that factor in the rotating nature of it