Thursday, April 1, 2021

Twenty Minute Dungeon Challenge: The First Batch

Make a dungeon in twenty minutes. Try to make it not completely suck. Simple enough:

https://velvetinks.blogspot.com/2021/03/20-minute-dungeon-trolls-tower.html

This post's got three of them, if anyone's interested I can make cleaned-up versions:

1. Play-Palace of the Deposed Prince

The previous monarch spoiled his sole heir rotten, emptying his treasury to commission a wondrous hide-away full of toys and wonders for the child. That's not the only reason he was overthrown, but it was a big one. The play-palace and the prince were lost in the chaos of the rebellion, its treasures ripe for the taking, if only you can find it...

2. Perplexing Problem of the Prize-Winning Pumpkin

That is not dead which can eternal lie... in the pumpkin patch. Farmer Portman thought he'd struck orange gold when his pumpkin won the village's biggest produce competition by a landslide, but then it just kept growing, and growing, and growing! Turns out some nameless sorcerer in league with dark powers was killed and buried on the land his fields now occupy, and the lingering dregs of their spirit had finally managed to seize a new, unconventional host. Many of the village's inhabitants have now fallen under the pumpkin's dread influence. Are you a bad enough dude to get this gourd to give up the ghost once again?

3. Crawling Cannibal's Creepy Cabin (more of a lair than a dungeon really)

It's kind of like The People Under the Stairs (kino flick). This cozy-seeming cabin turns out to be the honeyed web of an invertebrate killer!

Thoughts:
-Twenty minutes is not a long time for much besides being on fire
-Coming up with decent puzzles quickly is hard
-Twenty minute hexcrawl? Possible, maybe even more feasible than a dungeon
-Favourite is the Play-Palace, did not have nearly enough time to put to paper what I had in my head for it
-This was a fun challenge and I encourage bored people everywhere to try their hand at it

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