06.05.09
1 Page Dungeon Contest Entry
My entry for the OPD contest is called Tomb of the Sea Wraith and can be found below. the list of entries, many linked, can be found here.
I was really excited to work on this–a project whose scope I can handle! I even started working on a Temple of the Croc Gods. Crocs are my personal GMing trope. Nearly every campaign I have run with my current group has a croc somewhere. Even my Deadlands game had a friendly lady werecroc.
But then I realized I was making a very cliched dungeon-no way to win a contest. So I scrapped it and started from scratch. I asked myself what would make an interesting scenario. How about an combining things that don’t belong together..like ships…and dungeons. Oh and a giant squid monster.
So we’ve got an underground ship, the titular Sea Wraith, and a giant squid monster trapped together underground.
The other thing I did was to use a diamond grid (or whatever the technical term is) for a 3-D look. I think it works better for a ship, and gives me more real estate to add some flavor text and a picture.
Have fun!
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June 5, 2009 at
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walkerp said,
June 5, 2009 at
Wow! Just gorgeous. I’m envious of you graphically-skilled types! And you did an excellent job of capturing an entire adventure on that single page, like a ship in a bottle. Good luck!