About One Room Dungeons
One Room Dungeons was created to solve a particular problem: to provide a repository of brief encounters for therapists using table-top role playing games in their practices. The encounters here are system agnostic, so with a little fiddling they can be dropped into any campaign for any ruleset. The intent of this site is for a therapist to be able to look up an encounter, introduce it to players, and play through it within one hour of therapeutic time (taking into account necessary set-up and debrief client times).
We come from a Powered by the Apocalypse-esque background where player agency and narrative collaboration take precedence over tactical combat and clearly defined mechanisms. Because of this, the background information provided for Game Masters in each encounter has more to do with motivations, values, and plans of the obstacles than specific dialog, rewards, or statistics. We also understand that a number of you folks will be coming in from D&D 5e, so we'll do our best to attach game mechanisms and stat blocks available through the SRD (specifically facilitated by the lovely folks over at D&D 5e SRD API).
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5e SRD
This work includes material taken from the System Reference Document 5.1 (“SRD 5.1”) by Wizards of the Coast LLC and available at https://dnd.wizards.com/resources/systems-reference-document. The SRD 5.1 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.
All other original content on this site:
oneroomdungeons by Brendan and Sara Quinn is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Personal Info
Brendan Quinn is a certified Therapeutic Game Master who's been writing and running games for over 30 years. He's currently the president of Tri-City Area Gaming, a non-profit devoted to using tabletop gaming to create safe spaces and promote community collaboration.
Sara Quinn has years of experience running and developing for numerous RPG system. She currently serves as secretary for Tri-City Area Gaming. In addition, Sara has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Oregon and is the editor-in-chief of the progressive newspaper Tumbleweird.