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2011

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.
Here’s what happens next:
- Alex sends an email to all the winners
- Winners reply back with the three things they’d prefer to get and the things they’d rather not get
- Alex then tries to figure out how to distribute prizes for maximum happiness with preferences given to those contestants who gathered more nominations in the first round, if necessary
- Alex contacts sponsors by email with CC sent to the winners, such that winners can tell sponsors where to send the
loot prizes
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.
2010
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.

2009
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: