The last time I ran a dungeon, it was with old-school dungeon exploration rules: torches that only last an hour, rations, random encounters, and relatively slow movement.

On top of that, the party was being chased by a squad of angry zombie drow. They’d already burned a bunch of resources, and were fairly hurt, so it was a nail biter.

DM: OMG! A portal at the bottom of the dungeon leads directly back to the inn! How convenient!

I’ve been going with something similar to this approach, with the number of sides on the die representing probability of successful outcomes.

It makes the game a little more random and a little more fun.

where’s the NSFW tag?

technically, it isn’t even murder

(for once)

Cut off my funding?! I cast Molotov Cocktail.