--- title: Build your engineering team like a dungeon party | daily.dev description: A framework for building balanced engineering teams using RPG dungeon party roles as a metaphor. The approach advocates for complementary skills over hiring... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ewnxq3zm4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Build your engineering team like a dungeon party | daily.dev og:description: A framework for building balanced engineering teams using RPG dungeon party roles as a metaphor. The approach advocates for complementary skills over hiring... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ewnxq3zm4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/eWNxq3zM4.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Build your engineering team like a dungeon party **[Engineering Leadership](https://daily.dev/sources/engineeringleadership)** · [@antonzaides](https://daily.dev/antonzaides) · 40 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary A framework for building balanced engineering teams using RPG dungeon party roles as a metaphor. The approach advocates for complementary skills over hiring only top performers, suggesting five archetypes: the warrior (senior problem-solver), the tank (reliable junior executor), the healer (people-focused and business-oriented), the wizard (architect/designer), and the rogue (versatile full-stack developer). Engineering managers should identify team gaps and adapt their own contributions to fill missing roles, whether that's handling small tasks, stakeholder management, or hands-on coding. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@runecreed** · 3 upvotes > back when I was a junior and just starting I had this mental picture of my first team as well, thought we needed a theme song and nicknames lol. > Glad those thoughts were not that far-out there apparently ;D > > Fun article thanks for the read ;') --- Tags: [#leadership](https://daily.dev/tags/leadership) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/ewnxq3zm4) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/ewnxq3zm4","headline":"Build your engineering team like a dungeon party","text":"Shared: Build your engineering team like a dungeon party","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/ewnxq3zm4","datePublished":"2025-12-08T06:18:34.215Z","dateModified":"2025-12-08T06:18:34.216Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Anton Zaides","url":"https://daily.dev/antonzaides","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--klEjD-xU--/f_auto/v1733852096/avatars/avatar_pPJxvEccyBNkDUh4jQy6I","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":3080}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--2-1xRawN--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2011","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":40},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}],"sharedContent":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/mBUab2Qup"},"comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"back when I was a junior and just starting I had this mental picture of my first team as well, thought we needed a theme song and nicknames lol.\nGlad those thoughts were not that far-out there apparently ;D\nFun article thanks for the read ;')","datePublished":"2025-12-09T17:39:07.908Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/eWNxq3zM4#c-aBVrnUn0w","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Kevin","url":"https://daily.dev/runecreed","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--O0TOmw4y--/f_auto/v1715772965/public/noProfile"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}}],"isPartOf":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://daily.dev/squads/engineeringleadership","name":"Engineering Leadership"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Engineering Leadership","item":"https://daily.dev/squads/engineeringleadership"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Build your engineering team like a dungeon party"}]} ```