Ten Words to Victory, Winners and Runner Ups All Together!

Well it’s done, what started as a lunch-time idea exploded in the biggest thing we ever tackled here.

With the help of fellow bloggers Dave The Game and Jeff Rients we whittled down 21 pages of entries filled with several hundreds of 10 word adventure concepts.

As indicated, the entries were so numerous and so good that we decided to create 3 categories:

• Best Adventure Concept (The one that made us go ‘I want to play this!’)
• Funniest Entry
• Best Pop/Geek culture reference.

As mentionned earlier, the author of the Best Adventure concept will get his choice of a D&D Mini Dungeons of Dread Booster pack (or 15$ Gift Certificate of your choice of PDF shop) and a PDF copy of Kobold Quarterly.

The winners of the other two categories will get a copy of KQ.

So without further ado, here’s the results and the runner ups of each category:

Best Pop/Geek Culture Reference Runner Ups:

• Parrot is definitely deceased. And now for something completely different.
• Horses have disappeared, replaced by coconuts. Furious paladins blame swallows.
• It’s the Plane of Snakes, what did you expect Samuel?
• Dimensional travel to a popular setting from another game/movie.
• Sorry for your loss. The Princess is in another castle.
• It is dark. You might be eaten by a grue.
• LG hamlet has little crime, many accidents. Investigate, guns blazing.
• Wizards live on the coast. Everyone argues about their alignment.
• Five Elemental Rings awarded by Wizard. You’re stuck with Heart.
• I for one do NOT welcome our new martian overlords!
• Drizz’t Dourden brutally slain; Elminster eviscerated; Simbul disintegrated; adventurers rejoice.

Best Pop/Geek Culture Reference Winner:

• Orc has pie. Kill orc. Eat pie. Find another orc
  • Bob Younce.
  • With apologies to Monte Cook 🙂

Funniest Entry Runner Ups:

• Liberate abused Bulettes being used as ogre mage polo mounts.
• Say nothing. This tomb has ears. Hands too. Also: teeth.
• I’ll give you ten gold if you pull this lever.
• Boy saves his city from disaster by fingering a dike.
• Tarrasque spontaneously starts reproducing asexually. World seeks Tarrasque birth control.
• You’re infected with memory poison. Retrieve cure from… uh… hmmm…
• The Round Knights of the Table: defenders of the Shire.
• Why is everything on fire? I hate PCs so much.
• Necromancer steals the king’s crown jewels. No, the other ones.
• Anvils, dynamite, etc. are suddenly fatal. Toons are dying out.
• Three swordsmen fighting the Isle of Wights REALLY need cleric.
• Aliens invade from hovering castle; cast Fly, hijack that shit!
• Dinosaur Escape: Washington DC. All agree, the best filibuster ever.

Funniest Entry Winner

• What happens when you crossbreed red and white dragons? Science!
  • Bjorn

Best Adventure Concept Runner Ups:

• Long-awaited crackdown on crime arrives. Pity you’re a thief
• Albino Minotaur rules cannibal cult of children in the sewers.
• PCs, dwarves, goblins – in Carceri, each with 1/4 way out.
• H. G. Wells is hiring ghostbusters; specialized equipment provided.
• Get kiss from lost faerie queen to save dying boy.
• Strange disease turns flesh to gold. Who gets the vaccine?
• Frost giant shaman steals Drum of Winter – will spring arrive?
• Cunning were-rats are mining plague-steel, stop them before it spreads.
• Dragon seeks love, requests adventurers carry presents to distant penpal.
• Steal Wand of Orcus. Survive interplanar chase to Mount Celestia.
• Clockwork gorilla has a map in heart, murder on mind.
• Slaver raid, airship chase, cult volcanic sacrifice, demon unleashed!
• Idiot king’s intelligent sword advisor stolen. Recover before kingdom crumbles.

And here’s the winning entry!

Best Adventure Concept winner

• The Sunkiller seeks its divinity through a dead god’s remains.
  • nw_meyer

Congratulations to our winners, please contact me at chattydm@chattydm.net so we can arrange prize distribution.

As an added extra bonus, I made a quick and dirty PDF of all the combined entries that you can download for free:

Combined contest entries PDF

(Please don’t break my bandwidth!)

This has been awesome! I wish to send my heartfelt thanks to everyone who participated. There will be other contests in the future.

But for now, I must rest! 🙂

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