Design A Dungeon Room Contest Winners

5 March 2010 11 Comments

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Thanks to everyone who entered our Design A Dungeon Room Contest, and a special thanks to all the people who helped out with the judging!

It was a lot of fun seeing the different entries come in, and the wide variety of approaches to a “Dungeon” adventure that they represent. Some people focused on Traps & Tricks, others interesting NPCS, and some on challenging combat scenarios. We had entries for a range of different types of games from “Old School” D&D and Tunnels & Trolls, to 4th Edition D&D.

With more space to focus on describing a single room it was easier to get a sense for the entrants approaches to running a dungeon as well. Some preferred a simple situation and relied on the players and game system to make something interesting happen, while others had more customized and pre-scripted surprises to unleash on their players.

Having multiple judges was great as our individual “top 10″ choices all reflected our own unique approaches to Dungeon Adventures as well.

I think the best part of the contest was the diversity of ways people can get creative with the game and make something fun and original.

And now… here are the winners of our 2010 Design a Dungeon Room Contest!

1st Place

The Demon Fountain, by Tom Livak

2nd Place

Freamon’s Map Room, by Chris Weller

3rd Place

I Hope You Brought A Towel, by Zzarchov

Runners Up

The Goldilocks Room, by Paul Jessup
Vault of the Clay Medusa, by Scott Murray

More Awesome Entries

Chamber of the Alectromancer, by Alec Robertson
Triple Fire Trap Room, by Carter Soles
As Through Fetal Hell, by Duane O’Brien
Uushalla’s Fury, by Heron Prior
The Greenhouse Room, by James Mullen
Necromancers Workroom, by Jason Withrow
Diminutive Disciples, by Jerry C
Shrine to Tych, by Ken Breeze
Salt and a Battery Room, by Ken St. Andre
The Garrison of Bynia Min, by Knaight
The Devious Save vs. Conga Trap, by Michael Curtis
The Rotating Room of Confusion, by R.D. Bedard
Guardian of the Red Herring, by Rob Northrup
The Gold Sink, by Robert Sandlan
Kobald Den, by Shane Knysh

Download all the 2010 Dungeon Room Entries and add one to your next dungeon!

11 Comments »

chgowiz said:

Congratulations to the winners!

# 5 March 2010 at 2:39 pm

A Terrible Idea said:

Thanks for running the contest. That was fun!

# 5 March 2010 at 4:35 pm

Paul Jessup said:

Yeah, I usually don’t enter these sort of things It was a blast!

# 5 March 2010 at 5:02 pm

Sersa V said:

So much fun!

# 5 March 2010 at 5:20 pm

Zzarchov said:

I get corruption errors when attempting to download and open the file. Is there another mirror I could attempt to download from?

# 5 March 2010 at 11:10 pm

Stuart (author) said:

I just downloaded it again and it worked okay for me… not sure what to suggest. Any other link will be the same file.

# 5 March 2010 at 11:46 pm

Zzarchov said:

My apologies, seems I just needed to use a different PDF reader.

# 6 March 2010 at 1:11 am

Mike(aka kaeosdad) said:

Awesome, thank you for this. Very great idea and an excellent collection of dungeon rooms. Congrats to the winners, and hell, everyone wins really !

# 7 March 2010 at 1:11 am

4E Vault of the Clay Medusa « Save Versus Death said:

[...] Vault of the Clay Medusa This past week, the winners of the Design a Dungeon Room contest were announced, and my entry – Vault of the Clay Medusa – earned a runner-up [...]

# 7 March 2010 at 1:52 am

Moonlapse Vertigo said:

Do you care what we do with these, now that the contest is over? I was thinking of fleshing mine out a bit more as a sort of mini-adventure, since I cut a lot of detail. I don’t recall the terms of the contest, though.

# 16 March 2010 at 11:51 am

Freamon’s Map Room « Rolang's Creeping Doom said:

[...] Map Room This was my submission to the Design a Dungeon Room 2010 Contest. It got second prize, so it has that going for it. It’s released under creative commons, so [...]

# 5 May 2010 at 11:27 pm