Dungeon Crawl where combat isn't Peramount

Getting lost is an interesting idea, maybe hard to implement but I will think about it.... I thought about it and know how to do it! Where a door is in a normal dungeon crawl the next room is right next to it. I am going to have it that a player makes a roll when leaving a room and has the chance of finding a side tunnel and coming out either where it lead originally, a different explored room, or somewhere else all together.

If they end up somewhere else they may lose a turn or two before they come out right. Characters with higher intelligence will be able to navigate better.

Also if the group stays together then I will let them add to each others roll when navigating. Hence making them want to stay together.

Monsters wont get lost, but may sacrifice a turn or two to "warp" from door to door. This will be equivalent as to using their many short cuts.

There will also be doors with intended confusing tunnels which will force the characters to roll higher when navigating.

I love the idea, you don't mind me using it right?

Now on to Simons comment:
I think making other situations just as dangerous as combat is the way to make it more strategic indeed. I am going to make finding light extremely important. If you can't see I am going to make it so that even the toughest warrior will just be stabbed in the back and die easy enough. Hence a wizard with a spell of light is more important than a wizard with a fireball spell.

Swimming important. You have too much armor on... well better take it off so you don't drown. Hence making weapon beefs something hard to do.

Eating... I don't know, hard to manage sometimes. Just one more thing you have to keep track of and the game play isn't suppose to represent more than a 3 hour period of time in real life. How much do you need to eat in 3 hours?

There are already traps in the game that focus on killing strong dumb characters easier than quick smart characters as well, so unlike most dungeon crawl games the traps are extremely troublesome and will have characters wondering whether or not there are traps. So the warrior character will never want to just rush into a room because he is afraid of getting hit by poison darts and the rouge is afraid of rushing into a room because it is dark and the wizard is afraid of rushing into a room because of the monsters.

Any other ideas? You have given me a lot of food for the fire! Thanks!!!

Agreed with the skills and the nullifying of obsticles and the memorization of required skills, my game is a little different however.

So quickly how this game is unique is that the DM laying the tiles isn't looking at a mission book, rather the DM himself has skills that change along with the players. So he may start with the skill to lay pit traps for X amount of points, but if ever a character got the fly spell the DM would have to adapt and vice versa or just try to lay pit spells where the character with fly wouldn't be hitting them. So Say the DM keeps using poison traps, well you will see characters (when opportunity permits) start choosing anti-poison spells and skills. The skill of the player will not be in memorizing the levels, but rather how fast they can adapt their style of play and their characters.

Also I have actually implemented a system like you said where certain classes get certain types of spells and skills. So you won't see a warrior with fly spell, poison resistance, and bash ability. So it goes to playing to your strengths.

So I love your feedback, and strangely enough already had most of your points planned for. So what I am looking for is unique ideas like the spinning room, or other skills that might go under appreciated that I can make important and fun to use.

Final Note* I just gave you a very complicated and detailed game mechanic in about 2 sentences, so if you see any flaws in the mechanic realize I didn't spell out all the subtleties. Still looking for more feedback on creative non combative (or maybe combative) skill ideas . :)