Working ledger: Confirmed patterns have strong recurrence across independent works. Serious candidates have persuasive boundaries and multiple examples. Watchlist entries remain provisional and may later be promoted, divided, renamed, or absorbed. Retired terms are omitted from this active index.

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Pattern	Status	Working definition	Scale	Lenses	Planned publication	Occurrences	Related

Status guide

Established: already named and defined by David Tippy.

Confirmed: strong recurrence across independent works.

Serious Candidate: clear provisional boundaries and at least two persuasive implementations.

Watchlist: one strong occurrence or insufficiently independent evidence.

Subtype / Minor: a narrower child pattern or lower-priority configuration.

Family / Compound: a parent category or a configuration produced by stacking patterns.

Site Process: a recurring way a location changes over time rather than a primarily spatial arrangement.

Source abbreviations

`DDP1/DDP2`	David Tippy, Dungeon Design Patterns, Volumes 1–2
`WH`	Ben Milton, The Waking of Willowby Hall
`TSK`	Skerples, Tomb of the Serpent Kings
`PDV`	David Tippy, The Palace of Dread Vorrick
`BFM`	David Tippy, Beneath Fang Mountain
`HOA`	Gavin Norman, The Hole in the Oak
`AV-P`	Richard Barton, The Halls of Arden Vul — Pyramid of Thoth
`AV-T`	Richard Barton, The Halls of Arden Vul — Tower of Scrutiny
`N1`	Douglas Niles, Against the Cult of the Reptile God
`B2`	Gary Gygax, Keep on the Borderlands — Caves of Chaos
`TBK`	Jesse Gerroir, Temple of the Beggar-King
`TDTD`	Felipe Tuller, They Dug Too Deep
`HSI-A`	Jacob Hurst et al., The Dark of Hot Springs Island — Shattered Aquifer
`HSI-L`	Jacob Hurst et al., The Dark of Hot Springs Island — Lapis Observatory