A comprehensive course designed to give adventure writers a vocabulary and framework for designing epic and thought-provoking traps

This course will help demystify traps—to transform them from a nuisance into a dramatic and entertaining essential that no dungeon module should go without.

Traps are a notoriously difficult element that many Game Masters and designers have found challenging to implement in their adventures. 

Each lesson in this course draws on concepts from academic and popular writing about game design and combines them with the instructor's own 15 years of experience in designing deathtrap dungeon modules for tabletop roleplaying games.


Choose your payment option

Pay the one-time fee or in two monthly installments.

This is a self-paced, activity-based course

Here's a brief overview of the curriculum:

    1. Welcome to Dungeon Design Essentials: Traps!

    2. About the Instructor

    3. Get to Know the Storytelling Collective

    1. Course Downloads

    1. Lesson 1. The Role of Traps in Dungeon Adventures

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. Lesson 1. Activity

    1. Lesson 2. Elements of a Trap

    2. Lesson 2. Activity

    1. Lesson 3. Placing Traps

    2. Lesson 3. Activity

    1. Lesson 4. Avoiding "Gotcha" Traps

    2. Lesson 4. Activity

About this course

  • 27 lessons

Plus, your registration includes:

  • Help and support from your instructor

  • Access to a private Discord channel

  • Indefinite access to the course and any future course updates

  • Support, encouragement, and accountability from the StoCo community

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About the Instructor

Sersa Victory

Sersa Victory is a game designer and writer specializing in deathtrap dungeons for TTRPGs. He has published several top-selling adventures, including the ENnie Award-winning Shrine of the Jaguar Princess for the Shadowdark RPG. His other recent work includes the successfully crowdfunded tournament module Temple of the Green Devil, Crater of the Flaying Star for Kobold Press, and Dungeon Design Essentials: Traps for Storytelling Collective. His fiction has been published by DMR Books, Savage Realms Monthly, Scribemind Books, The Harrow, and others. In 2012, Chris Perkins and the D&D community voted him Apprentice of Acererak, the undead architect of the infamous Tomb of Horrors.

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