FYI: I'm talking about the video games.
Now I don't want to a actually give the players a portal gun. I just like the idea of a sassy intelligent artifact(or perhaps mad wizard in a control room) that likes to test players.
This could work as either a one shot or as part of an ongoing campaign.
What I'm looking for are general thoughts on conversion,plot,puzzle rooms,etc.
I'm thinking about this as a high level trial of some kind, but it could be scaled.
it sounds like it would be fun.
That's the plan. :-) if I can get it together anyway.
At the moment I'm thinking its just a species dungeon, but I'm hoping for more creative input here
That would be a plot that actually explains dungeon crawl in the first place. Heck, it even explains presence of weird puzzles, ridiculous architecture and all that unplausible dungeon stuff.
It also sounds very much like Halaster's Undermountain and Zagyg's Castle Greyhawk :P
I think it might be really interesting to create a dungeon that focused on mobility and 'platforming'. Where jump becomes a life or death skill, and abilities like a teleportation wizards shift. Maybe bring in 3.5 spells like benign and baelful transposition and greater slide. I've done things like attack players as they tried to cross a casm before with more mobile enemies. Might be interesting to see how that works out when players know going in that is a theme, and it happens often. Would give me a reason to make more use of the elevation and flight stands i have for the table.
Something you could use to enhance this would be little 1inx1in cubes that represented 5ft blocks of height.the players would be able to look at the map and know exactly how high something instead of asking "And how high up is that?" every other minute.