Onegeon - Recipe for a Detour

This week's post is my entry into the Onegeon Jam, which was created by Cats Have No Lord after he published his Onegeon Manifesto on his website.
As soon as I saw the post on Bluesky, I knew I had to participate. I've been drafting ideas for adventures and even a whole setting lately, but I've not posted anything finished in quite a while. This is the perfect chance to change that.

In short, the idea is to write a single room of a dungeon that is interesting enough to make the reader want to slot it into a dungeon they're running. Simple and effective. 

In the Manifesto, when it came to possibilities of what to put in the room, one of the options is "a weird little freak living there", and that immediately caught my attention. I thought about it a little to flesh it out (but not too much, I want it to be generic enough that it can fit into any world) and came up with this:

As soon as a PC touches the door to this room, it slowly opens itself, only darkness behind it; no form of light, even magical, can pierce it.
Once the whole party is inside the room the door shuts itself behind them and disappears; suddenly the room is filled with light, revealing an old man sitting behind a desk, writing in a big tome. He is smoking from a comically large pipe and mumbling to himself. Multiple doors are on the wall behind him.
After a few moments, or as soon as a PC tries to talk to him, he looks up at the party and sighs “Another one, uh? Where do you come from?”
He’s quite grumpy and doesn’t like being distracted from his work on the tome, which he refuses to explain to the PCs as “you wouldn’t understand, it’s far beyond your comprehension!”
If any PC tries to sneak a peek at the tome, it seems to be a recipe book about “Goblins’ favorite delicacies”.
After hearing the party’s answer he points to one of the doors “That should lead you back to where you came from. I’d avoid the other doors, if I were you.”
The door he points to brings the party back to the dungeon they were in, the others can lead to wherever the Referee wants within their world...with no way back.

I hope you like it. I also posted it on my itch page here if you want to download it. It's just a simple pdf, nothing fancy, since it's just a single dungeon room.

If you download it and use it in your game, please let me know; I'd love to hear about it!

This is all for this week, see you next Sunday for my next post!

May your dice never betray you,
Kirhon

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