Rogue Dungeon

Rogue Dungeon is a loot-management game in which you choose a Rogue, set starting stats and skills, take starting loot, then navigate a dungeon by choosing rooms from mini-maps. Across five dungeon levels, you trade, fight monsters, deal with traps and gather equipment and experience. The dungeon ends with a boss fight, and your Rogue can die along the way.

Choose your route

Rooms fall into three types:

• Traders: exchange loot or stats for other loot, stats or henchmen. Some trades require a stat test or a lucky die roll. Loot traders usually offer one item for two of yours, but make exceptions for shiny items and trade any item for a single treasure.
• Combat: most combat rooms draw one to three monsters from a deck, with the monsters’ strength set by the dungeon level. You roll a D10 and add your Rogue’s primary stat: a higher total than a monster’s combat stat hits it, a lower total means it hits you, and a tie means both are hit. You can negate damage by discarding armor or using a skill or magical item; potions and food can be consumed at any time to restore health and prevent death. Some monsters are instantly defeated by thematically appropriate loot, such as a Medusa seeing her reflection in a mirror. Defeating a monster earns one loot item and XP equal to the dungeon level.
• Traps: try to disarm or bypass traps with suitable equipment, or pass a Strength, Agility or Intelligence test to avoid damage. Passing a test also earns XP.

Develop your Rogue

You can level up whenever you have enough XP. Luck lets you adjust a die result by one point in either direction or reroll it completely; these options apply to all rolls. Staircases separate the five dungeon levels, and you can camp at them without risking interruption by a wandering monster.

Face the monsters

Many monsters have special abilities that trigger according to your attack roll. They may summon additional monsters, drain your level or heal themselves. In the final room, you draw and fight a boss monster.