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2010

Track 1PDC Changes This page collects all information regarding the One Page Dungeon Contest 2010.

Dates

  1. Submission deadline was March 1, 0:00 GMT. Thank you all for your submissions! :)
  2. Winners will be announced April 18, 0:00 GMT.

Submissions

One Page Dungeon submissions will be linked from here. If possible, we’ll link to a blog post so that people can comment on the submission. Currently all submissions are hosted on a Dropbox account. There’s also a zip file containing all the entries (74MB).

warning That’s it! Submission process is officially closed. We have 63 entries!

Prizes & Sponsors

Do you have prizes to donate? Let me know → kensanata@gmail.com!

Current sponsors, in alphabetical order:

Thank you very much!

See also:

Judges

Judging

Judges will have one month to read all the submissions and another two weeks to discuss the result.

Here’s how we’ll determine the winners:

  • Every judge nominates twenty entries and proposes a category for each.
  • We prepare a list of the entries that get three or more nominations. These are the nominations.
  • Every judge again nominates five entries from this smaller list.
  • All entries getting three nominations or more are the judge’s picks.
  • We try to make sure that every judge has at least three of his picks in the final list. Judge with an eclectic taste may find that not many of their nominations made it into this list. As the idea is to not only reflect popular opinion but to also capture some of the more eclectic entries out there, judges may add additional submission to the judge’s picks until we feel that every judge is well represented. We’ll try to aim for three entries per judge.
  • Based on the categories proposed in the first step, we try to assign a category to each entry on the list.
  • The result is our release candidate 1. Judges gets to check whether their favorites are still on the list.
  • We fix omissions and rename categories until we’re happy. This is our release candidate 2.
  • We revise everything until we’re happy. We have our list of winners! :)
  • Each judge gets to nominate their favorite entry for a prize.
  • We publish our list of winners!
  • Somebody puts together a PDF of all the entries and a PDF of all the winners. We’ll make these PDFs available for download at no cost.

2009

The first One Page Dungeon Contest was announced by ChattyDM and Chgowiz in 2009.

Judges:

Where possible we’re linking to the author’s blog posts about their own entry so that you can leave comments on their blogs. You can get the PDFs of the winners or of all entries.

See also the original list of participants.

★ The list of winners:

Honorable Mentions:

  • Best Aquatic Entry: The Barnacle Caves – Sam Kisko
  • Best Classic: Ruffthroat’s Rathskeller – Lee Barber
  • Best Dungeon Circa 1974: The Crumbling Dungeon – Lord Kilgore
  • Best Dungeon Crawl: Shrine of the Savage Jungle – John Laviolette
  • Most Elegant: Clockwork Crypt – Gary S. Watkins
  • Funniest: The Vareh’gra Depths – Gary McCammon
  • Best Geometry: Halls of the Mad Mage – Justin Alexander
  • Best Homage: The Omenous Portent of the Highlands Meteor – Tim Hensley
  • Best Introductory One-Shot: The Tomb of Durhan Oakenshield – Dyson Logos
  • Best Non-Dungeon: The Great Cloud Caper – Jonathan Lee
  • Best Unconventional: Traps-R-Us – Chris Torrence
  • Best Use of Tables: Mountain Lair of the Misanthropic Magus – Sean Wills

Runner Ups:

  • Best Hack-n-Slash: The Gray Goblin Warrens – Christopher Brackett
  • Best Non-Fantasy Entry: The Horror of Leatherbury House – Michael Wolf
  • Best Pub: Arendt’s Old Peculiar- Antti Hulkkonen
  • Best Replayable Entry: The Infinite Tower – James E. Raggi IV
  • Best Retro Use of 30×30 Space: Megadungeon of the Mad Archmage Gary Stu – Adam Thornton
  • Best Silly Dungeon: Maze of NAMCAP – Patrick Riley

Winners:

  • Best New School Dungeon: Cry of the Gravegod by Heron Prior
  • Best Old School Dungeon: Valley of the Necromancer Kings by Andrew Gale
  • Best Overall One Page Dungeon: Secrets of the Old City by Simon Bull

Other One Page Dungeons that didn’t enter: