🐐 The dualistic theocratic underground goat-folk urbancrawl setting you always dreamed of (pics + video)
Maybe I'm projecting a little bit with that title. This is the 4th level of my #dungeon23 megadungeon The Blades of Gixa, which I've gone back and filled in and updated in preparation for eventual publication.
This level is a deep-underground city populated by goat-folk (similar to breggles from Dolmenwood) with a theocratic ruler and strictly stratified society. Their belief system is very inspired by Gnosticism and Catharism in particular, which I was reading about at the time I originally made this.
The 3 levels above this range from very dungeoncrawl-y to a bit more faction-y, but this level in particular is much more geared toward intrigue and politicking. I kept going back and forth on this as I went deeper, not based on any particular plan but more from just my own shifting interests. It's been fun to look back on this as a weird kind of diary of 2023...
Anyway, I also made a video all about it if you'd like to know more: https://youtu.be/9vzjigjrEVI