Dungeon tropes are a thing to embrace, not to dismiss. It's simple to handwave the storm the orc infested tower to save the princess, evil wizard in a tower, a cult has kidnapped a child, and the one I am addressing is the rats in the cellar trope. This is actually the third micro-adventure using the trope. None of them are alike. I like taking expectations and twisting them. That's what I do with RATS! This is part of my Micro-Adventure series that I write for my Patreon. Please take a look at patreon.com/gothridge and check it out. All my offerings are free.
The best point is the defense of the cliché itself.
ReplyDeleteRats in the cellar only become boring when nothing happens beyond rats in a cellar.
The trope is not the problem.
Lack of imagination is.