Ray Winninger's articles were definitely a classic. They were extremely helpful to me in understanding how to make adventures as a DM (something I have found WOTC to be useless with. The MM gives a lot of monsters, DMG gives a lot of dungeon features. Nowehere does it help with actually designing dungeons, or worlds for that matter). If the articles were turned into their own sourcebook, I would be the first to go out and buy them. Monte Cook's articles aren't bad, but focuses on different things than Winninger. And seeing as dungeon and dragon's reformatting eliminated any other kind of DM advice article, Winninger's articles are needed now more than ever. Together they're over 150 pages, which means that once pictures and "the scar" and whatnot are added, it's long enough for a full sourcebook.
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Ray Winninger's articles were definitely a classic. They were extremely helpful to me in understanding how to make adventures as a DM (something I have found WOTC to be useless with. The MM gives a lot of monsters, DMG gives a lot of dungeon features. Nowehere does it help with actually designing dungeons, or worlds for that matter). If the articles were turned into their own sourcebook, I would be the first to go out and buy them. Monte Cook's articles aren't bad, but focuses on different things than Winninger. And seeing as dungeon and dragon's reformatting eliminated any other kind of DM advice article, Winninger's articles are needed now more than ever. Together they're over 150 pages, which means that once pictures and "the scar" and whatnot are added, it's long enough for a full sourcebook.
Where would i find said articles?
Thoth-Amon
I'm not sure if it's legal to distribute them freely, due to copyright problems. On one hand, I'm told they were at one point available online for free. On the other hand, they were taken down (due to a change of website, I'm told), and I'm not a lawyer and therefore don't know whether it's now okay to distribute them.
Not that this helps, but I want to add this for a point of historical reference:
The Wizards of the Coast site used to have the older Dungeoncraft articles archived, but they were taken down about a year ago.
Try doing a Google search...
--Fang
They should add the adventure from Dungeon. One of the best things about those articles was the concrete examples he made for each point. Nothing better to show how to design an adventure than the adventure so designed....
Seeing as nobody has shown up on this thread mentioning copyright laws, and seeing as the chances of a dungeoncraft sourcebook actually being made are small, here are links to where it can be found online.
In html, seperated into articles: http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/dnd/dungeoncraft/
In MsWord format, all one document:
http://gemini.esmartdesign.com/dungeoncraft.doc
Got this off Google:
http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/dnd/dungeoncraft/
I think someone here mentioned making a PDF of them, but was asked nicely by the staff not to redistribute them.