I thought I’d share with you today a couple of 5 Room Dungeon ideas that I’ve had floating around in my noggin for the past week or so.

This first idea was inspired by the Slaad and the Slaad tadpole inparticular, and the movie Alien.

I have a name for the dungeon Temple of the Slaad.

The scenario will start out with the party standing in front of a rather large statue of a Slaad, the doors behind them locked. They hear screams of agony coming from the altar area at the back of the temple. When they get there there is a monk writhing in immense pain on the altar. Imagine that John Hurt scene from Alien when the chestburster popped out. Except it’s a Slaad tadpole.

That’s as far as I’ve got with it in my mind. I’ve not worked out what the rest of the rooms are, and how I’m going to recreate that intense suspense for the dungeon yet.

This second idea only clicked last night while I was drifting in and out of sleep. It’s a dungeon inspired by the classic video game Doom, entitled Meet Thy Doom.

It is definitely going to be a meat grinder of a dungeon. Players will need to get the coloured key to unlock the door of the same colour. But like Doom there will be a crap load of monsters, and a healthy supply of healing potions.