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This page collects all information regarding the One Page Dungeon Contest 2010.
Dates
- Submission deadline was March 1. Thank you all for your submissions!
- Winners were announced April 18. Congratulations!

Collections
Want more? Check out the One Page Dungeon Contest 2009!
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 Wuala account. Feel free to host copies! All entries are published under the Creative Common Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.
That’s it! Submission process is officially closed. We have 63 entries!
Prizes & Sponsors
Current sponsors, in alphabetical order:
Thank you very much!
See also:
Judges
Judging
Judges had one month to read all the submissions and another two weeks to discuss the result.
Here’s how we determined the winners:
- Every judge nominated twenty entries and proposed a category or tag for each.
- We prepared a list of the entries that got three or more nominations. These are the nominations.
- Every judge again picked five entries from this smaller list.
- All entries getting three or more votes are the judge’s picks.
- We tried to make sure that every judge had 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 assigned a category to each entry on the list.
- The result was our release candidate 1. Judges got 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.
Winners
The results are in!
| Entry | Winning Category |
|---|
| Adam Thornton – Central New Jersey After the “Big Whoops” | Best Post Apocalyptic Goodness |
| Antti Hulkkonen – Den of Villainy | Best Pirates |
| Chris Gonzales – The Tunnels of Turrack the Terrible | Best Sound Effects |
| Clarabelle Chong – Time for Tea | Best Victorian Sci-Fi |
| Corwin Riddle – City of Traitors | Best Lost City |
| Craig Brasco – The Vault of Zerduzan | Best Evil Cultist Hangout |
| Heron Prior – Trolls will be Trolls | Best Lair |
| Herwin Wielink – The Crypt of Luân Phiên | Best Architectural Design |
| Jimm Johnson and Jeff Lynk – The Contemptible Cube of Quazar | Craziest Map Award |
| Lord Kilgore – Heart of Darkness | Best Mini Campaign |
| Paul Siegel – Four Corners | Best Fitness Center |
| Peter A. Mullen – Laboratory of the Asmodean Techno-Mage | Snazziest Way to Push the Envelope |
| Rob Antonishen – Mine! Not Yours? | Best Mine Crawl |
| Shane Mangus – Raid on Black Goat Wood | Best Cthulhu |
| Simon Bull – The Ruination Of Tenamen | Best Monsters |
| Stuart Robertson – Dungeon From A Distant Star | Best Mixing of Genres |
| Tim Shorts – Where is Margesh Blackblood | Most Hideouts for the Head Bad Guy |
| Tom Holmes – The Bone Harvest Horror | Best Cartography |
Get the PDF collecting the winners and take a look.

The first One Page Dungeon Contest was announced by ChattyDM and Chgowiz in 2009.
All entries are available under the Creative Common Share-alike license (US 2008).
Judges:
Collections:
Need more? Check out the One Page Dungeon Contest 2010!
Where possible we’re linking to the author’s blog posts about their own entry so that you can leave comments on their blogs.
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: