Five Room Dungeon: Bottom of the Oasis

I've actually been there before.

I haven't done one of these in a while, so let's do one of these! I want to do some underwater hi-jinx because it's a bit exotic. I'm not sure if it comes up often/too much/not enough or whatever, but it's new to me! And there is a lot of support for such an idea in the raw materials, so it seems like an untapped well. Ha, untapped. It's like a pun. How devastatingly hilarious. Let's see where this goes, my friends.

Five Room Dungeon: Birthday Bash!

These are kids having a birthday party.
They are at a gym.

So wracking my brain and trying to think of something that breaks the mold, I think I got an idea. This scenario requires the metric starting 4 member 160 CER, and a relationship with a dicey customer with good social connections. A mobster, a crooked politician, that kinda thing. You see, this guy's goons were to deliver two special presents. One is a toy for the son or daughter of his esteemed colleague, one is a anti-personnel explosive (or whatever cool thing can take someone out of the picture) for a not so esteemed colleague. Wouldn't you know it, the boxes somehow got mixed up. Somehow, the party is the most capable to fix this mistake. Are they bad enough dudes to break into the Dungeon Fantasy equivalent of Chuck - e - Cheese, switch the presents, and come out ok? Find out!

Five Room Dungeon: Purify The Altar to The God of Zero

Rude, Antiochus.

I've written two of these types of posts so far, and taking a step back and looking at ur-examples of the original formula, I've realized I lost something in the mix. A real Five Room Dungeon should be a bit more vague, leaving details and the like to the GM. I mean, I wasn't writing a completely fleshed-out top-to-bottom dungeon with maps and stats and all that, but the platonic ideal is meant to fit on a single page and spark ideas. I think I'm gonna go with a compromise this time and try starting off with the abbreviated format first, and then some suggested details afterwards. So, let's give this idea a test run.

Five Room Dungeon: Runaway Spider

Hey, friend!

I am going to attempt today to do a more fully-fledged, fleshed out Five Room Dungeon experience today.
Today's story is about an NPC Druid/Conservationist animal lover type who is doing his best to help restore dwindling populations of a commercially important Giant Spider variety (go ahead and come up with a cool name if you like, but I'll refer to it as the "Eastern Variety", just for naming purposes. Unfortunately, one of the important breeding spiders got lost in a little bumbling accident when its three-dimensional pin wasn't secured exactly right.
A Wizard friend of this Druid has tracked the Spider by using a Detect (Tag) spell to a location well known for its swampy terrain, and more importantly, a wild Western Variety spider burrow. The party's mission for this Five Room Dungeon is to trek the dangerous swamp area, and bring back the prized breeding stock unscathed.

Five Room Dungeon: Let's Take it Easy With an Easy Dungeon!

What'd I say?

A Five Room Dungeon is this idea that's been floating around in which a dungeon is boiled down to its most base components. Some guy named Strolen dreamed the idea up almost 10 years ago, and though it's not new, it's new to me! Let's see if we can handle this!