Come dig with me/Halv vätte hos mig

"Come dig with me" is a system agnostic fantasy dungeon created in collaboration. Explore the secrets in these 30+ rooms: What happens in the theatre when the lights go out? What's hiding in the fungi forest? And what does the rat folks chili taste like?

Available in English and Swedish as "Halv vätte hos mig".

 When I had drawn my first isometric role-playing map, I posted it on the web forum Rollspel.nu, a place that has, at times in my life, been a (virtual) second home. It somehow felt natural to gather the collective energy there for a role-playing adventure. The result was “Among Lies and Forgotten Truths.”

A little while ago, I was reminded of it and was asked if it wasn’t time to create a new map in a similar fashion. A bit stiff in the fingers, I picked up my pens and started, a complex that grew and grew, and in just a few days, it became the map we see here. The response was fantastic!

I didn’t want to dictate the descriptions; the ideas I had when I drew the map stayed with me. The interpretations that the observers made were meant to be the guiding ones. What in my mind was the director’s room (with a Danish design armchair) became the formless prima donna’s; the hand and head I thought belonged to the same massive buried body were now divided into two. That’s okay; that’s how it should be.

These presented rooms are suggestions for descriptions, gathered in a collective project. This also means that you, as the reader, are encouraged to come up with your suggestions or ideas, alternative descriptions for the rooms if you wish. Role-playing is a wonderful and creative hobby where associations have the space to flourish (like mushrooms in an underground forest).

Martin Ackerfors
2023