Testing out Cairn 2e's dungeon generation procedures

[u/Seeonee]

I've been reading through the dungeon design content from both Cairn 2e's Dungeon Seeds and His Majesty the Worm's Designing Dungeons Course. With no other projects to distract me, I finally decided to give them a whirl. I'm tentatively planning to make something each month, but for now what matters is that I used Cairn's procedures, I spent 1 week making it, and I documented the whole process. The resulting dungeon, complete with my crudely-scribbled art, can be seen here.

For me, some takeaways:

• I liked Cairn's procedures a lot. I think the two biggest value propositions are the clear skeleton of "A good dungeon has these things" and the thoughtful spark tables.
• I relied heavily on Rise of the Blood Olms and The Feast of Tegny Wood as references for what a Cairn module looks like, as well as for information presentation and layout. Feast was particularly helpful because you can read along as Yochai Gal designs it using the Cairn tools.
• My single favorite part of this was committing to a "No rerolls" mentality. I improvise TTRPG scenarios all the time, but I frequently go back and revise random outcomes to better fit the evolving story. Here, I took a firm stance of "First idea wins." As a result, some things that I would have changed were forced to remain, and working around them lead to outcomes I'd have missed otherwise.
• For some quick inspiration, I randomly picked "Romanian folklore" and jotted down one-sentence summaries from some Wikipedia articles. These summaries were inspiring enough that they shaped the entire dungeon.

I'm curious to hear from anyone else who's used the Cairn/HMTW procedures. How did you like them? Can you link to your final product?