Delightful Dungeons

  Timing things out great for Adventure Sites II (coming soon), Olle Skogen has just wrapped up his own Delightful Dungeons Contest, which will end with an all-entry compilation put out for free in pdf. I put in my own little dungeon (a smaller part of an incoming hexcrawl project), which didn't win, but the competition was strong and I'm glad to support it. The page limits in his competition were tighter than in the Adventure Sites, just two pages including maps, but it looks like a lot of good work still went into them and I personally will be using several. 
  In addition to the winners, there were some very interesting offerings that I personally would highlight.
-The premise of Forgotten Treasure is genius, a low-level adventure about a pair of villages fighting over the hundreds of thousands of copper pieces left behind by adventurers after they killed a dragon.

-My favorite aesthetic map of a little site I've seen in a long while was in Widow's Keep, where the standard Monster Mash of grieving goth widow, vampire, ghouls, zombies, and a werewolf because of tropes is massively elevated by how clean and interesting the site's map is.
​-I've put Mussayad's Tomb in my map very near some other nasty barrow shrines...it's an incredible level-1 newbie tomb, nasty left hooks in some cases, huge rewards in others. I like stuff like this for onboarding a table of newish PCs in the big open table games, plus it's great for the more 2-3 hour slots that sometimes occur. 
  My personal review standards haven't changed a lot over the past year and I think with at least one review a week it's pretty obvious what I like and dislike. I'm not going to be the only judge either, of course. But if you're thinking about submitting to ASCII, you should definitely check out these for inspiration and tips. And then luxuriate in twice​ the page count.