5 room dungeons fucking suck. This might seem weird coming from me, as the only tRPG content I have ever published on my
itch at this point is a 5 room dungeon (the one from
this blog post), but I honestly believe they do. To me, 5-room dungeons are trash and I think this for three simple reasons:
- They enforce a narrative structure that I think oversaturates contemporary fiction, has thus become incredibly predictable and worst of all, gets presented as 'the one true way' of writing a 'good' story by people who seem to think every movie should be like the original star wars trilogy.
- Enforcing a narrative structure of any kind on your players is antithetical to what I enjoy about tRPGs.
- Writing enjoyable stories, even when using prepackaged narrative sturctures, is difficult.
