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Best Overall One Page Dungeon
- Will Doyle – “The Temple of the Moon Priests”
Winners
- Luka Rejec – “Teleportation Administration Substation ‘Big Pineapple’”
- Ben Green – “Chambers of Chaos and Madness”
- Thom Wilson & Glynn Seal – “The Color of Fungi”
- Michael Prescott – “The Mermaids’ Knot”
- Jan Rippstein & Tobias Böttger – “Rapta In Pace”
- Vance Atkins – “Ruined Tower”
- Steven Gordon – “Dead Quiet”
- Derek Ruiz – “Where are the Villagers?”
- Mathew and Michael Iantorno – “Of No Small Power”
- Caroline Berg – “How to Survive a Fire Swamp”
Honorable Mentions
- Grant Lambe and Adam Chafe – “Escape the Kraken!”
- Scott Marcley – “Rescuing Emelia”
- James Snake – “Stop Stealing My Juices”
- Ambika Kirkland – “Circles of Madness”
- Roger SG Sorolla – “Wormhole Scramblers in the Deep Dire Door”
- Chrisopher Mennell – “The Purple Road”
- Jennevieve Schlemmer – “Lair of the Cat Magus”
- Kezle – “Weatherfield Gardens”
- Gus L – “Gravesand Beach”
- Vincent Bettenfeld – “The Burned Library”
- Jeff White and Hyrum Howes – “Rumors”
- Matthew H, Sylvia G, and Katie L – “Caiphon Rising”
- James and Etani di Properzio – “Ymir’s Skull”
- Ian Andrews – “Floating Graveyard”
- D. Hodges – “Grim”
Entries
- Alex Schröder – Darkloch, “A bunch of orcs living in a cave.” blog
- Alex Welk – Grime Dungeon, “The remains of the lair of Klithmnora, a green dragon who failed in her pursuit of eternal life. Squatters have taken up residence…” blog
- Ambika Kirkland – Circles of Madness, “What is the thing that crash landed near the village of Ayerdale? A sign from the gods? A mystical treasure? Or something more sinister?” blog
- Andrew Harshman – Demigod's Grave, “Delve forth into the depths of the tomb of the demigod.” blog
- Andrew and Heleen Durston – One Day Journey, “Adventures are strung together with travel like pearls on a necklace. A day’s journey begins & ends in a town, winding through hill & dale.” blog
- Anton L – Ancient Waterworks, “Two factions of water dwellers have invaded the waterworks, ruining the once profitable lake. Venture into its depths and take care of it.” blog
- Ben Gibson – Secret of Bare Hill, “Someone has disturbed the Bare Hill, exposing the alien black stone structure underneath…but worse, something within has come out.”
- Ben Green – Chambers of Chaos and Madness, “Within the lair of a mad Warlock, a spiral stair leads to this mind-bending structure. Legend tells of a Tome hidden in the central chamber.”
- Brandon Pierce – The Tower of Words Lost, “A mysterious tower rises from the desert sands, but to traverse it requires knowledge of the ancient word of power.”
- Caroline Berg – How To Survive a Fire Swamp, The kingdom of Daric is offering a large reward for any cartographer who is able to map a safe path through their Fire Swamp. blog
- Christopher Mennell – The Purple Road, “The Purple Road, the path of magic. It leads to the Tower of Teeth, where a wizard pulls secrets from the three moons that hang overhead.” blog
- Clark Timmins – Cake Walk, “It’s just outside of town, they said. It’s full of treasure, they said. It’s going to be a cakewalk, they said.” blog
- Clement Poisson – Goblin Defense Ministry, “In a world where goblin-kind are constantly killed for little reason, a hobgoblin establishes a business to protect and defend them”
- Daniel Hodges – Grim, “1500 Nautical miles. 10 Days in Nazi controlled Ocean. If only it was that simple.”
- Daniel Smith – All Roads Lead to the Local Tavern, “The problems at The Local Tavern could be more connected than your players suspect. A classically inspired freestyle dungeon adventure.”
- Derek Ruiz – Where are the villagers?, “Evil wizard Mr. Fuzz has kidnapped a group of townsfolk for an evil ritual. Will someone be brave enough to face this underground challenge?” blog
- Eugene Fasano – The Sunken Temple, “An angry sea goddess one sunk her temple beneath the waves. Now the barnacle encrusted ruins have resurfaced from the roiling depths.” blog
- Evan and Colin – Life and Death in Oturak, “A desert city and its peaceful governor are threatened by a mysterious fertility cult growing more powerful every day.” blog
- Gabriel Perez Gallardi – Crypt of the Lost Hymns, “In the vast windswept plains North of Ur-Hadad, the First City of Men, a lonely barrow is the only landmark for many miles around.”
- Grant Lambe & Adam Chafe – Escape the Kraken!, “Mutiny on the high seas! Magical storms! Eldritch Judgement! Can the adventurers escape the ship? Or will they go to a watery grave?!”
- Gus L – Gravesand Beach, “Beyond Gravesand Beach the cold green sea, abyss of horrors. On its wrack crumble the remains of an old terror - but the sea is never still.” blog
- Herr Zinnling – Bubble Guble Super Raum, “ Lina (8), Hendrik (6) and Joaquín (4) wrote a dungeon adventure. I hope this is useful or playable or whatever …” blog
- Ian Andrews – The Floating Graveyard, “On a grimy, post-apocalyptic world, battered ships lay clustered together under the watchful eye of a feathered horror.”
- J.M. Abbott – Crypt of the Witch King, “An ancient ruin. A long forgotten crypt. An evil that must be defeated - enter the Crypt of the Witch King if you dare…”
- Jackie Campbell – Lord Shen Anagens Palace, “The local mage school has been cut off from the city for over a week. The city is offering a substantial reward to discover what has happened.”
- James & Etani di Properzio – Ymir's Skull, “When the gods made this world from the corpse of the colossal being Ymir, they left his skull intact, hidden among forbidding peaks…”
- James Hirst – Aerie Assault, “Betrayed! A noble’s daughter has been kidnapped, and the treacherous mage has absconded to his floating island.”
- James Snake – Stop Stealing My Juices, “An extraction site inside a huge magical behemoth is overrun by the beast’s antibodies. Remains of the alchemists were driven mad…” blog
- Jan Rippstein & Tobias Böttger – Rapta in Pace, “There are six weird sepulchres in this cemetery. Dark, ominous, fat with gold and secrets. Tonight is good weather for grave robbing.”
- Jeff McKelley – Cultists In The Keep, “Cultists have taken refuge in an abandoned keep. You must infiltrate their lair and retrieve an Elder Sign.”
- Jeff White and Hyrum Howes – Rumors, “Rumor ONE: The Fountain of Youth’s been found. TWO: A Demon requires human sacrifice – Now! THREE: A princess is captive in an island tower.”
- Jon Smejkal – The Elemental Gauntlet, “Who would have need of such a brutal shifting thing? A trial by fire! And ice. And earth. And water… There’s no going back—only forward!” blog
- Justin Blair – Cultist Hideout, “Cultists plague the surrounding area of their hideout by stealing helpless creatures including children for sacrificial rituals of darkness.”
- Kevin Worth – White Knuckles, “ Board an airship and race against time to collect legendary mage rings from snowy mountain peaks before they fall into the wrong hands!” blog
- Kezle – Weatherfield Gardens, “Embark on an eccentric tour of death of the Weatherfield estate featuring necromantic fauna, the flooded realm, and a deed to Immortality.” blog
- Khelren – The Song of the Faeries, “Once upon a time, a woodcutter had to leave his children into the woods where they had to survive and discover who they truly were.” blog
- L K Scott – Secret of Ruby Village, “A secret lies beneath a small village. Mystery and traps await those who find their way in, but perhaps the treasure is worth the risk.”
- Larry Z Pennyworth – The Forgotten Isles, “Rhapsody the Sea Witch created a mist barrier around a group of islands. The adventurers must stop her to escape.”
- Luka Rejec – Teleportation Administration Substation 'Big Pineapple', “Teleport went wrong? Put your feet up at our luxury substations while your magitravel woes are solved by our friendly metaversal personnel!” blog
- Matthew H, Sylvia G, & Katie L – Caiphon Rising, “In the small mountain town of Alminde, a strange cult works to resurrect a horror from beyond the stars.”
- McGravin – Halls of the Sasquatch King, “In the heart of a rain-soaked, mossy forest full of towering, primal trees, the Sasquatch King has claimed a forgotten fortress as his lair.” blog
- Michael Prescott – The Mermaid's Knot, “Magda village owes its enduring prosperity to the horrid mermaids in its pond. But soon, the mermaids’ gruesome project will endanger everyone.” blog
- Michael Raston – The Inverse Tower, “The cursed trudge backwards from there, doomed to babble in reverse. What’s to be found in a tower that spirals against reality itself?” blog
- Mister Rees – Procyon Gate Report, “This is the recon report for the Procyon dimensional gate monitoring station. Special Forces incursion team is ready to go.”
- Moorguard Studios – Hettie's Crag, “The villagers fear Hettie the witch, and warn travelers away from her cave. What dire purpose draws the heroes to the crone’s lair?”
- Morgan Long – The Great Pyramid of Water, “The party is sent to deal with a water problem inside a pyramid, and discovers devious undead.”
- Nathan Hare – Mega Dragon Turtle, “Golram, the dragon turtle, has discovered a long lost crystal of enlargement. Stop Golram before he destroys everything!” blog
- Nical – Search For the Ape Civilization, “The adventurers leave to search the legendary ape civilization in the jungle. Will they be able to find out the ape civilization?” blog
- Philadelphia Hanson-Viney & Hamish McIntyre – Mavira the Magnificent's Mega Mart!, “The magnificent wizard Mavira created a store in a demiplane, but the magical energy gave it a life of its own.” blog
- PixietheDM – The Underchurch, “The town of Twowells is under the dominion of a priest who works away below the graveyard, in an ancient complex known as the Underchurch.” blog
- R.A. Mc Reynolds – Cursed Monolith and the Caves of the Eyeless, “An underground missile silo holds a dark tribe who feeds upon men and worships an ancient item that can destroy the remains of civilization.”
- Richard Grzela – Fates Enigma, “ One’s ability to test mind over matter with intellect and valor leads to true rewards. Enter the dungeon Fates Enigma.” blog
- Roger SG Sorolla – Wormhole Scramblers in the Deep Dire Door, “Explore wormholes, beasties, and mechanisms that run inside a colossal dungeon door. Can you get to the other side or better yet, open it?” blog
- Sadhbh Brennan – The Cyclopse's Eye!, “An ancient layer fashioned in the image of a cyclops’s eye”
- Scott Marcley – Rescuing Emelia, “Bandits from the Gloomy Forest have captured the lord’s daughter. It’s up to the novice heroes to rescue her in this trope-filled adventure.”
- Sean Smith – Suburban Cathedral, “Fissures lead to a cavern five stories deep beneath the city: in its centre rises a grand cathedral-like building of ruddy stone and marble.”
- Serge Pécaud – La Necropole Des Rois, “A giant worm crosses through a necropolis and brings back to life four dead kings who develop necrotic powers. People are missing.”
- Simone Biagini – Temple of the Albino God, “For a few months, the corpses have disappeared from the cemetery. Temple priests fear that it is a sign of necromantic activities… “ blog
- Stephen Scott – Mayhem at the Elixir Emporium, “When the players encounter a frantic alchemist they are tasked with recovering his recipes and his wayward apprentice from his burning shop.”
- Steven Gordon – Dead Quiet, “A nest of banshees, an aura of magical silence, and a necromancer’s curse. What could go wrong?” blog
- Terra Frank – Dance in the Dark Night, “A mood piece about a church in the mist on the edge of death itself, and the spirits you will meet there.”
- Theo Olsen – The Shard of Akon, “Prove your purity to a god of justice to wield a shard of his spear. Sacrifices must be made.”
- Thom Wilson and Glynn Seal – The Color of Fungi, “Having contracted a strange disease, the characters have to search a deadly swamp for rare ingredients to craft the only known antidote.” blog and blog
- Tony Alexander – Kazeem's Odd Library, “Was that hut there before? Explore the vast halls that shouldn’t be inside, but leave the banned books where they are.”
- Ülo Leppik – The Great Levitation, “A notorious medium has purportedly levitated out of the window, leaving behind three eyewitnesses and an apartment full of riddles.”
- Vance Atkins – Ruined Tower, “The ‘deed to a ruined tower’ shows up in random pickpocket loot tables and I was always curious about its story. So I wrote one.” blog
- Will Doyle – Temple of the Moon Priests, “Deep in the forest, a flooded temple holds the secret to a dying king’s life. Can you untangle its mysteries before your rivals?” blog
- Willow Palecek – The Labyrinthine Lair of Lagnarx the Lich, “Deadly traps, fiendish curses, bewildering puzzles and more lurk in the Labyrinthine Lair of Lagnarx, the Legendary Lich Lord.” blog
- Vincent Bettenfeld – The Burned Library, “Under a volcanic mount rests a formidable library of a bygone age. Since it was buried for decades, it should be free of any foes, right?”
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This page collects all information regarding the One Page Dungeon Contest 2013. The results of previous contests are also available (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009).
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Dates: Submission deadline was April 30, 0:00 GMT (Tuesday evening). If you live West of Greenwich, you had to send in your submission a few hours before the end of the month. Winners were announced May 25.
Winners:
| Author | Dungeon Name | Category |
|---|
| Andrew and Heleen Durston | Only Acrobats Need Apply | Best Swashbuckling |
| bygrinstow | Arena of Blood | Most Macabre |
| Caelum Roberts | Iron Cloud | Best Sci-Fi |
| Daniel O’Donnell | Down Among the Dead Men | Best Undead |
| Gus L. | The Brittlestone Parapets | Best Wizard Duel |
| Jens Thuresson | The Giant’s Dollhouse | Best Fairy-Tale |
| Jobe Bittman | Into The Demon Idol | Best Homage |
| Josh Burnett | The Burial Mound of Gilliard Wolfclan | Best One Shot |
| Kaylee Thumann | Girly Girl Dungeon | Most Original |
| LSF | A Stolen Spring | Best Fantasy Mystery |
| Matthew W. Schmeer | Wizard in the Woods | Best Non-Traditional Map |
| Misha Favorov | Court of the King of No Men | Best Beastmen |
| Ramsey Hong | Something Happened At The Temple Near Glourm | Best Map |
| Rob S | Citadel of the Severed Hand | Best Myconids |
| Roger SG Sorolla | Devil’s Acre | Best Single Location |
| S. J. Harris | The Baleful Spring | Best Tower |
| Simon Forster | Church of Consumption | Best Religion |
All Submissions:
Prizes & Sponsors: Do you have prizes to donate? Let me know → kensanata@gmail.com!
- an anonymous sponsor with $300 via Paypal
- a PDF copy of Clockwork Drama by Blasphemy Press
- a PDF copy of Blasphemous Cocktails by Blasphemy Press
- a PDF copy of Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters by Engine Publishing
- a PDF copy of Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game by Engine Publishing
- a PDF copy of Never Unprepared: The Complete Game Master’s Guide to Session Prep by Engine Publishing
- a set of Go First Dice by Eric Harshbarger
- 10 prizes: a PDF of choice from the Goblinoid Games catalog (including Labyrinth Lord, or any of its supplements; Mutant Future; Starships & Spacemen; Star Explorer; Wizards' World; Rotworld; Sandman; Timemaster, or any of its supplements; or any other PDF file from their catalog)
- a PDF copy of DCC #76: Colossus, Arise! by Goodman Games
- a PDF copy of DCC #77: The Croaking Fane by Goodman Games
- a PDF copy of the complete run of Fight On! Magazine by Ignatius Ümlaut
- a PDF copy of Book of Dumb Tables, Book of Dumb Tables 2, Tell Me About Your Character and the QAGS core rules by Hex Games
- a PDF copy of Gilgamesh and the QAGS core rules by Hex Games
- a PDF copy of Laser Ponies and the QAGS core rules by Hex Games
- a PDF copy of Sex, Lies, & Ultra-Spies, Spy Racers and the QAGS core rules by Hex Games
- a PDF copy of the Sindbad Bundle: The Adventures of Sindbad, The Mountains of the Moon: Sindbad in East Africa, Sindbad and the Demon Pumpkin, Sindbad and the Sword of Kingship and the QAGS core rules by Hex Games
- a PDF copy of the complete run of NOD by John Stater
- a bundle of every available LotFP PDF as of June 1 2013, by Lamentations of the Flame Princess
- a year of free Ascendant Membership by Obsidian Portal
- a PDF copy of the complete run of Oubliette by Peter Regan (issues 1-8 and issue 9 when it comes out)
- a pack of goodies from the Pad of Geomorphic Intent Kickstarter including delivery to anywhere in the world by Peter Regan
- a PDF copy of Lords of Olympus by Precis Intermedia
- a PDF copy of Two-Fisted Tales by Precis Intermedia
- a PDF copy of Teratic Tome by Rafael Chandler
- a PDF copy of Take on Dragons by TakeOnRules
- a PDF copy of Take on Establishments by TakeOnRules
- a PDF copy of Take on Magic Items by TakeOnRules
- a PDF copy of Take on the Lower Depths by TakeOnRules
- a printed copy of the TSRS Guidelines by Thom Wilson
- a PDF copy of Dungeon Map Classics by UnderCity Games
- a PDF copy of Classic Campaign Maps by UnderCity Games
- a PDF copy of the three books by VSCA: Diaspora: hard science-fiction role-playing with Fate, Deluge and Hollowpoint
- a PDF copy of The Daughters of Verona and While the World Ends from Wilhelm's Games
Submissions: Here’s how to submit your entry.
- Create a One Page Dungeon.
- Submitting a dungeon to the contest releases it under the Creative Common Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license with credit to the contest participant.
- The submission must have a name, an author, and a link to the license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
- The judges and readers play a variety of systems. Don’t waste valuable space with a lot of system-specific stats.
- A link to extra material on your blog such as wandering monsters, random events, adventure background, introduction, descriptions of tricks or traps are welcome for readers but will not be considered part of your submission.
- One entry per participant. Participants may revise/replace their entries up until the end of contest, with the last revision counting as their official entry.
- If your font size is too small to read, you will most probably not win.
- Many people will print your submission as a black and white document. Adding colors is no problem as long as the black and white printed copy is still good enough.
- Help us keep file size in check. A single page should not take more than an image with 3000x2000 pixels (1-2MB is cool, 5MB still works, 10MB is too much).
- Submission must be mailed in PDF format to Alex Schroeder → kensanata@gmail.com. Usually we can help you convert your Open Office and Microsoft Word documents to PDF.
- If you have a blog article talking about your submission, send us the link. We’d love to link to it from the One Page Dungeon Contest page.
Judges: Alex Schroeder, Erik Jensen, Brett Slocum, Clinton Dreisbach, Thom Wilson, Brennan O’Brien.
Process: Here’s how we’ll determine the winners.
- Every judge nominates their favorite entries and proposes a category for each.
- We try to make sure that every judge has at least three of their nominations in the final list. The idea is to not only reflect popular opinion but to also capture some of the more eclectic entries out there. We’ll make sure that every judge is well represented with three entries each.
- Based on the categories proposed in the first step, we try to assign a category to each entry on the list.
- Judges gets to check whether their favorites are still on the list.
- We fix omissions and rename categories until we’re happy.
- We publish our list of winners!
- We will ask each winner for three items they’d prefer to win and any items they prefer not to win. Then we try to do a best match, giving precedence to those winners that got more nominations in the first step.
- All the entries and a special PDF with all the winners will be available for download at no cost.
Submissions Received:
- Aaron Frost and Mundi King, Old Guard Tower
- Adam Taylor, Key of Dissension
- Alex Cirsova, The Revelry at Pickett Castle (blog post)
- Andreas Folkesten, Temple of the Demon Speakers
- Andrew and Heleen Durston, Only Acrobats Need Apply
- Barry Pace, Vault of Vintage (blog post)
- bygrinstow, Arena of Blood (blog post)
- C. Martins, Kibhur's Dungeon
- Caelum Roberts, Iron Cloud
- Christian Hollnbuchner, The Mad Riddlers Halls (blog post)
- Cristian Aviles, A Living-Dead Nightmare
- Dan Roy aka Bogie, The Jester's Tomb (large full scale copy of the map)
- Daniel O'Donnell, Down Among the Dead Men
- Doc Brewer, Brewer's Backwoods
- Donny Sanchez, Ten Minute Dungeon
- Dustin Brandt, Clown Robot Doctor Apocalypse
- Dylan Hartwell, Golden Triangle (blog post)
- Dyson Logos, By Esophagus Brood
- Ed Nicholson, Escape from the City of Madness
- Eero Tuovinen, Miscegenation of the Ancients
- Eric Harshbarger, Games People Play
- Erik-Karl Read, The Issue of Blipdoolpoolp (blog post)
- Fco. Javier Barrera, The Black School
- Fraser Nelund, Trouble's Root
- Giuseppe Rotondo, Island Grave of Alsiaurignis
- Greg Haugh, Dragon's Den
- Gus L., The Brittlestone Parapets (blog post)
- Heikki Hallamaa, The Diamond of Hishep-Ratep
- Intrepid Eddie, The Parched Throat (blog post)
- Jacob Wood, Prehistoric Kickboxing Killer Turkeys (blog post)
- Jason Morningstar, La Bassee
- Jim McGarva, Dinner at the In-Laws
- Jim Pacek, The Tavern at the Edge of the World
- Jobe Bittman, Into The Demon Idol (blog post)
- Jeff McKelley, Memento Mori
- John Hazen, Tower of the Toad Lord
- Jens Thuresson, The Giant's Dollhouse (blog post)
- Joe Pruitt, Echoes of Empire
- Jon Picardi, Combat Duality
- Josh Burnett, The Burial Mound of Gilliard Wolfclan
- Joshua J. Laboskie, The Lost Temple of Tyrandraxu (blog post)
- Justin Peeples, Hall of Five Elements (blog post)
- Kaylee Thumann, Girly Girl Dungeon
- Ken Gatzemeyer, The Eternal Maze of the Minotaur
- Kevin Flynn, The Witch's Hut (blog post)
- Lee Mohnkern, Hobrock
- Leicester, Thoorsten's Treasure
- Leslie J. Furlong, Surface
- LSF, A Stolen Spring
- Marten Zabel, Midnight At Halcyons Coven
- Matt Mueller, The Devil's Cell
- Matthew W. Schmeer, Wizard in the Woods (blog post)
- Michael Getridge, The Halls of Power
- Michael Llaneza, The Broken Ring
- Mike Monaco, The Misty Pond (blog post)
- Misha Favorov, Court of the King of No Men
- Nick Wedig, Kingfisher
- Nicolas Senac, The Subterranean Maze of Aarthal (blog post)
- Paul Gorman, Faery Ring to Alpha Ari
- Philipp Hajek, Lost Banner
- ProBono, Great Library Of Hypatia
- Ramsey Hong, Something Happened At The Temple Near Glourm
- Rob S, Citadel of the Severed Hand (blog post)
- Robert Render, Techno Bandit HQ
- Rodney Sloan, Vertigo (blog post)
- Roger SG Sorolla, Devil's Acre (blog post series)
- Roland Volz, The Blackacre Heist
- S. J. Harris, The Baleful Spring
- Scott Slomiany, Assault on the Goblin Hold (blog post)
- Scott W Roberts, The Sea Tower
- Simon Forster, Church of Consumption
- Steve Johnson, Bloodbath at Camp Terrahorra
This page collects all information regarding the One Page Dungeon Contest 2012. The results of previous contests are also available (2011, 2010, 2009).
Check out the Google+ Page, the Facebook Page, or Twitter posts tagged #1pdc.
Dates: Submission deadline was April 30, 0:00 UTC (Monday evening).
All the winners and sponsors have been contacted. That was it! Thank you all. 
All Submissions:
Winners:
Judges:
Prizes & Sponsors: Do you have prizes to donate? Let me know → kensanata@gmail.com!
Current sponsors, in alphabetical order:
- an anonymous sponsor with $300 via Paypal
- Bully Pulpit Games with a copy of Fiasco and the Fiasco Companion
- Calithena with two complete run of Fight On! in PDF and a PDF copy of Roll the Bones
- Chaotic Shiny with three collections: winners get to pick any five products from the current list of products
- DD Art Studio with a 8½ x 11 pen & ink personalized, character drawing on bristol board
- Engine Publishing with three PDF copies of Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters and three PDF copies of Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game
- Eric Harshbarger with a set of four Go First dice
- Gerald of D&D Revival with a copy of Diablo III for PC
- Goblinoid Games with a perfect bound copy of TIMEMASTER core rules, ROTWORLD core rules, Labyrinth Lord, Advanced Edition Companion and Realms of Crawling Chaos
- Hex Games with two QAGS PDFs and two copies of their 2011 Bundle (everything they released last year)
- Jason Morningstar with Love in the Time of Seið and METAL SHOWCASE 11PM (one package)
- John Stater with PDF copies of the complete run of NOD
- Lamentations of the Flame Princess with a copy each of LotFP Grindhouse Edition, Vornheim, Carcosa, Isle of the Unknown, The Monolith from beyond Space and Time, and The God that Crawls (both adventures on indiegogo)
- Obsidian Portal with a year of free Ascendant Membership including an OP T-shirt and some custom OP d6 dice (one package)
- Peter Regan with PDF copies of two complete runs of Oubliette Magazine (issues #1 to #8) plus—if the prize winner is interested—their entry printed in the following issue of Oubliette (#9) with a copy of that issue in print and as a PDF
- Porky’s Polycosm Publishing with a PDF copy of Triffles: Abandoned Space for every winner
- Precis Intermedia with Ancient Odysseys: Treasure Awaits! Pocket Softcover, The genreDiversion 3E Manual and Story Engine Plus Edition
- RPG Character Illustrations with a custom black and white character illustration by the artist of the winner’s choice
- RPGOrbit with a free store for life (transferable to a friend)
- Scratch Factory with a PDF copy of Dino-Pirates of Ninja Island
Submissions: Here’s how to submit your entry.
- Create a One Page Dungeon.
- Submitting a dungeon to the contest releases it under the Creative Common Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license with credit to the contest participant (see FAQ).
- The submission must have a name, an author, and a link to the license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
- The judges and readers play a variety of systems. Don’t waste valuable space with a lot of system-specific stats.
- A link to extra material on your blog such as wandering monsters, random events, adventure background, introduction, descriptions of tricks or traps are welcome for readers but will not be considered part of your submission.
- One entry per participant. Participants may revise and replace their entries up until the end of contest, with the last revision counting as their official entry.
- If your font size is too small to read, you will most probably not win.
- Many people will print your submission as a black and white document. Adding colors is no problem as long as the black and white printed copy is still good enough.
- Help us keep file size in check. A single page should not take more than an image with 3000x2000 pixels (1-2MB is cool, 5MB still works, 10MB is too much).
- Submission must be mailed in PDF format to Alex Schröder → kensanata@gmail.com. Usually we can help you convert your Open Office and Microsoft Word documents to PDF.
- If you have a blog article talking about your submission, send us the link. We’d love to link to it from this page.
Submissions:
- A. A. Bunkerclub55 – Here We Stand, Again (blog post)
- Aaron Bianco – Relaxx Spa
- Aaron Frost & Mundi King – Meckwick’s Pair O’Dice
- Aaron Kavli – The Return of the Hecate Rose
- Aaron Webb – QUARENTINE!
- Alan Brodie – Splashdown in Fiend’s Fen (blog post)
- André Bogaz e Souza – Temork’s Descending Dungeon
- Andrés Cuesta – Hellmarsh Monastery
- Andrew & Heleen Durston – Time-Shear (from the author, blog post)
- Benoit – The Moriah Museum of Dwarven Artistry (blog post)
- Berin Kinsman – The Shimmering Portals (blog post)
- Bill De Franza – Goblin Well
- Boric Glanduum – The Ebony Obilisk of the Snail Demon (blog post)
- C.M. Lebrun – The Ichor of Vercingetorix (blog post)
- Chris Engle – The Plague Years
- Chris Longhurst – Cult of the Tyrant Kings (blog post)
- Chris Olson – Tomb of the Vampire Pricess Sword (blog post)
- Christian Hollnbuchner – Slime In A Bottle
- Clarabelle Chong – Momentum (blog post)
- Clay Thomas McGrew – The Giant Ant Nest
- Dakota Dornbrack – A Hole Lot of Goblins
- Dale Horstman – The Monastery at Dor Amon
- Dan Roy – The Final Battle Ground (hi-res from the author)
- David Brawley – Pearly Spiral of the Endless Hunger (blog post)
- David Dornbrack – The Chaotic Dungeon of Morvant the …
- David Gay – Water Genie vs. Undead Mermaid Gladiator (blog post)
- David Thiel – The Ovens of Ar-Gar (blog post)
- David Van Slyke – Hermit Alchemist Tower (blog post)
- Diogo Nogueira – The Hidden Shrine (Portuguese blog post)
- Dylan Hartwell – The Dutch Oven (blog post)
- Edward Green – Goblinville (blog post)
- Eran Aviram and Aviv Or – One Last Tribute (blog post)
- Eric Harshbarger – In The Dying Light...
- Eric Minton & Joshua Krause – The Vault of Illusion (blog post)
- Evangelos Vafeiadis & Nicolas Kabasele – Zombie Elves
- Fco. Javier Barrera – The River of Stars
- Felbrigg Napoleon Harriot – One Page Dungeon
- Gabriel Perez Gallardi – The Oracle of Pagebrin (blog post)
- Gene Sollows – Holy Sword (blog post)
- Gerardo Tasistro – The Graveyard (blog post)
- Greengoat – Devil Gut Rock (blog post)
- Herwin Wielink – Ankhor Deeps (forum thread)
- Ian Johnson – The Necromancer In The Three Lobed Brain (blog post)
- Jan Pralle – The Lost Temple of Moradin (blog post)
- Jason “Flynn” Kemp – Sell-Swords of Mars
- Jason Shaffer – The First Casualty
- Jasper Polane – Ship of the Lost
- Jeff McKelley – Lair of the Minotaur
- Jeff R. – Baron Fel's Vault (blog post)
- Jeff Shepherd – Four Brothers
- Jens Thuresson – Close the Gates
- Jerry LeNeave – A King With No Crown (blog post, including a color variant)
- Jim “Wilmanric” Pacek – The Tesseract Prison of the Putrescent Lord
- John Bailey – The Wanderers Tomb
- John Geoffrey – Mourning Wight Of Brakhill (blog post)
- Joshua Taylor – Enbeserth’s Island
- Kabuki Kaiser – Shrine and Shield (blog post)
- Katie Simpson – The Maximum Utility Chambers
- Kelvin Green – A Rough Night at the Dog & Bastard (blog post)
- Kevin Heuer and Michael Jones – Tomb Of The Sea Dwarves (blog post)
- Konrad Ferlangen – Collateral Damage
- L. Forrest – Fungal Infection
- L. S. F. – Fungal Infection
- Leslie Furlong – The Faerie Market
- Lester Ward – Seven Spindles and a McGuffin (blog post, source files)
- Luka Rejec – Deep in the Purple Worm (blog post)
- Mark Garringer – Shrine of the Demon-Monkey God (from the author)
- Mark Morrison – Turtle Shell Bandits
- Matthew Schmeer – Lazzer Bears for teh Win
- Matthew Skipper – The Burning Lair
- Matthias Hoefler – All Creatures Great and Small
- Michael Atlin & Michael Prescott – Dungeon Town
- Michael P. Bonet – The Diagnosis (blog post, colorful, printer friendly)
- Michael Woodhead – Dungeon of Doom
- Mike Monaco – The Panopticon of Peril (blog post)
- Nick Wedig – Project Phaeton
- OtspIII – Cave Of The Hunted
- PJ Cunningham – Operation Eagle Eye (blog post)
- Paolo Greco, Dyson Logos & Stonewerks – Axo’s Dungeon (blog post)
- Peter Regan – The Kobold Coalition (blog post)
- Radulf St. Germain – The Forgotten Bath House
- Ramsey Hong – The Cave of Kull Cove
- Ricky Anderson – Fine Art
- Rob S. – Rot Tower (blog post)
- Rodney Sloan – Paranoia Pyramid (blog post)
- Roger Carbol – The Tomb of Oddli Stone-Squarer
- Roger SG Sorolla – Old Bastard’s Barrens (blog posts about the early, intermediate and final entry)
- Roland Volz – The Lanisha Crisis (blog post)
- Ryan Lucas – Raven Ridge Mansion (blog post)
- S. Harlan – Snakes and Chutes and Ladders
- S.D. Hilderbrand – Cave of the Stone Sepulchre (blog post)
- Scott Slomiany – Twilight House
- Sersa Victory – The Tears of Mother Pestilence (blog post)
- Sharang Biswas and Gracie Gage – Bathroom Trouble
- Shawn Harris – Down Draft
- Simon Dale – Beloved of Set (blog post)
- Simon Forster – The Sunken Temple
- The Seven-Sided Die – The Tomb of Nesta the Mischievous
- Tom Denton – The Mage's Prison
- Tony Dowler – Haunted Tower Of Forbidden Gods (blog post)
- Vivian Smith – Evil Experimentation Lab
- Vladislav Volchenko – Night in Al-Farhad's Pearl
- Warren Abox – Will No One Rid Me of The Troublesome Goblins (blog post)
- Wayne Snyder – MakMurdo’s Infinite Sewer
- Will Doyle – Tomb of Snowbite Pass (blog post)
- Xyphon – Tentacle Thing
- Yves Geens – The Biosphere
Process: This section explains the process used by the judges.
- Every judge nominates their favorite entries and proposes a category for each.
- We try to make sure that every judge has at least three of their nominations in the final list. The idea is to not only reflect popular opinion but to also capture some of the more eclectic entries out there. We’ll make sure that every judge is well represented with three entries each.
- Based on the categories proposed in the first step, we try to assign a category to each entry on the list.
- Judges gets to check whether their favorites are still on the list.
- We fix omissions and rename categories until we’re happy.
- We publish our list of winners!
- We will ask each winner for three items they’d prefer to win and any items they prefer not to win. Then we try to do a best match, giving precedence to those winners that got more nominations in the first step.
- All the entries and a special PDF with all the winners will be available for download at no cost.
This page collects all information regarding the One Page Dungeon Contest 2011. The results of previous contests are also available (2010, 2009).
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Dates: Submission deadline was April 1, 0:00 UTC. Winners were announced May 15.
All Submissions:
Winners:
Judges:
Prizes & Sponsors: Do you have prizes to donate? Let me know → kensanata@gmail.com!
Current sponsors, in alphabetical order:
- a copy of Martial Power donated by Adrian Shieh
- a printed copy of Medusa’s Hunger donated by Alex Schroeder
- a printed copy of Sword & Wizardry Core Rules (First Printing with Pete Mullen cover) donated by Alex Schroeder
- a printed copy of Sword & Wizardry White Box (First Print Edition with Pete Mullen cover) donated by Alex Schroeder
- a printed copy of The Ruins of Ramat donated by Alex Schroeder
- $200 donated by an anonymous sponsor (sent via Paypal)
- a printed copy of Psionics Unleashed for the Pathfinder RPG by Dreamscarred Press donated by an anonymous sponsor
- a lifetime PDF subscription to the Maelstrom RPG (all existing and future Maelstrom products) by Arion Games
- a PDF copy of the Big Labyrinth Lord Bundle by Brave Halfling Publishing
- a digital copy of Kingdom Builder Generator Pack by Chaotic Shiny Productions for each of the winners
- a digital copy of Kingdom Builder Generator Pack II by Chaotic Shiny Productions
- a 9×12 pen & ink personalized character drawing on bristol board by David Dodson
- various copies of Fight On! PDF issues
- a hard copy 6 month Endless Terrain Map Tile subscription by Free RPG Maps
- a printed copy Hex Crawl Classics 1: The Winter Woods by Frog God Games
- a copy of The Northlands Saga 1: Vengeance of the Long Serpent by Frog God Games – winner’s choice of Pathfinder or Swords and Wizardry edition, and winner’s choice of softcover book or PDF
- a copy of Splinters of Faith 1: It Started With A Chicken by Frog God Games – winner’s choice of Pathfinder or Swords and Wizardry edition, and winner’s choice of softcover book or PDF
- a printed copy of Labyrinth Lord by Goblinoid Games
- a printed copy of Advanced Edition Companion by Goblinoid Games
- a printed copy of Mutant Future by Goblinoid Games
- a printed copy of Realms of Crawling Chaos by Goblinoid Games
- a copy of the Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game when it is available (November) by Goodman Games
- winner’s choice of a PDF by Hex Games
- winner’s choice of another PDF by Hex Games
- winner’s choice of a third PDF by Hex Games
- winner’s choice of a fourth PDF by Hex Games
- winner’s choice of a fifth PDF by Hex Games
- winner’s choice of a sixth PDF by Hex Games
- a one year PDF subscription to Kobold Quarterly
- a Midgard standard patronage by Kobold Quarterly and the opportunity to pitch a Midgard adventure
- a printed copy of Vornheim: The Complete City Kit by Lamentations of the Flame Princess
- another printed copy of Vornheim: The Complete City Kit by Lamentations of the Flame Princess
- a PDF copy of The Sanctuary Ruin by Ludibrium Games
- a $50 voucher for the winner by Otherworld Miniatures
- a $30 voucher for second place by Otherworld Miniatures
- a $20 voucher for third place by Otherworld Miniatures
- a $15 voucher for fourth place by Otherworld Miniatures
- a full set of all five issues of Oubliette Magazine in PDF form
- another full set of all five issues of Oubliette Magazine in PDF form
a first print of C1 Circle of Fire (numbered and signed) by Pacesetter Games & Simulationsa copy of T1 The Thing in the Valley by Pacesetter Games & Simulationsa copy of Q1 The Screaming Temple by Pacesetter Games & Simulations- a copy of Disposable Heroes Printed Paper Miniatures: 4E Core Figures by Precis Intermedia
- a copy of Fantasy Monsters by Precis Intermedia
- a free PDF of the winners choice by Rite Publishing
- a printed copy of the Majestic Wilderlands by Rob Conley
- a PDF copy of the Majestic Wilderlands by Rob Conley
- a second PDF copy of the Majestic Wilderlands by Rob Conley
- a print copy of Roll the Bones
- a custom black and white character illustration by the RPG Character Illustrations artist of the winner’s choice
- a PDF copy of Slave Queen Of The Ruined City by Scratch Factory
- a PDF copy of Knowledge Illuminates by Tim Shorts
- a second PDF copy of Knowledge Illuminates by Tim Shorts
- a third PDF copy of Knowledge Illuminates by Tim Shorts
Submissions: Here’s how to submit your entry.
- Participants create a One Page Dungeon.
- Submitting a dungeon to the contest releases it under the Creative Common Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license with credit to the contest participant.
- The submission must have a name, an author, a map, a key, a link to the license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) and no game stats.
- A link to your blog, wandering monsters, random events, adventure background or introduction, and descriptions of tricks or traps are all optional.
- One entry per participant. Participants may revise/replace their entries up until the end of contest, with the last revision counting as their official entry.
- Submission must be mailed in PDF, Open Office, or Microsoft Word format to Alex Schröder → kensanata@gmail.com.
- If you have a blog article talking about your submission, I’d love to link to it from this page.
Current Submissions: If there is a link to a blog article or forum post talking about your submission, we’ll link to it. When the submission period ends, we’ll put up links to to all the entries. There is still time! 
Process: Here’s how we’ll determine the winners.
- Every judge nominates their favorite entries and proposes a category for each.
- We try to make sure that every judge has at least three of their nominations in the final list. The idea is to not only reflect popular opinion but to also capture some of the more eclectic entries out there. We’ll make sure that every judge is well represented with three entries each.
- 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!
- If we have prizes (we currently don’t) each judge gets to nominate their favorite entry for a prize.
- We publish our list of winners!
- Harald 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.
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 and the One Page Dungeon Contest 2011!
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:
Some notes for future organizers of the contest: 1PDC 2014 Notes
– Alex 2013-05-27 21:27 UTC
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