Ex Umbra

Author: Shawn Tomkin (Exalted Funeral) Use Case: Dungeon creation from rumors — the campfire approach to dangerous site generation Role in WH: Dangerous Sites — primary system for Dungeon generation Key Sections: Dungeons, Quest Prep Engine Connection: Lore layer → Quests layer — rumors become realized sites

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Quick Reference

Ex Umbra’s core insight: gather the party’s rumors about a dungeon first, then generate the site from those fragments. Confirms some rumors, contradicts others, ignores the rest. This is the rumor-first approach described in Dungeons.

Key procedures to extract when processing: the campfire rumor procedure, heart turn and tremor turn for mapping, threat tokens, and the reward structure.

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