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One Page Dungeon Contest 2012!

Dates: Submission deadline is April 30, 0:00 GMT (Monday evening). If you live West of Greenwich, you will have to send in your submission a few hours before the end of the month! Winners will be announced June 1.

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

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.
  
• 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 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 the One Page Dungeon Contest page.
  

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.
  

Remember last year? :D

Dates: Submission deadline is April 1, 0:00 GMT. Based on last year's experience, judges will have one month to read all the submissions and another two weeks to discuss the result. Winners will be announced May 16, 0:00 GMT.

Judges: I'm still looking judges! Interested? Let me know → kensanata@gmail.com!

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

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 the One Page Dungeon Contest page.
  

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.
  

Remember the One Page Dungeon Contest 2009? Good times! :)

Dates: Submission deadline is March 1, 0:00 GMT. Based on last year's experience, judges will have one month to read all the submissions and another two weeks to discuss the result. Winners will be announced April 18, 0:00 GMT. A pitty this will be too late for International Traditional Gaming Week 2010!

Judges: I'm still looking for judges! Five to seven would be a good number, I think. Last year we got a bit under 120 submissions. If you read four submissions every day, you will still need thirty days to read them all. Or looking at it another way, if you need ten minutes for each submission, you will spend a total of twenty hours reading. Last year we had less time, so I'm not worried. Interested? Let me know: kensanata@gmail.com!

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

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're also hosting your submission elsewhere, you're welcome to link to it from the One Page Dungeon Contest page.
  
• If you're not hosting your submission elsewhere, your entry may be hosted on the contest site.
  

Process: 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! :)
  
• 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!
  
• 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.
  

I will be starting a GameMaster module right now and wanted to print out the "Meet the Iconics" pages for each of the pregen characters. It turns out they're not easy to find on the site. Can we have them all together somewhere, easy to find and print? These blog posts add a paragraph or two of fluff which is always nice.

Too bad Amazon Germany is telling me that the book is being delayed. New estimated shipping date: 05.11.2007 - 07.11.2007. I hope for you that it means its really selling well elsewhere. ;)

Meh! I wanted this issue as part of my Dungeon to Pathfinder transition deal -- and it is no longer available! :'(

Will there be a PDF version eventually?

My party of six level 3 characters just fought Nughoak and three hyenas in The Distraction and barely survived it. I added the hyenas because the text mentioned an unspecified number of hyenas charging the characters. Nughoak escaped with 6 hp left. The main problem was that Nughoak managed to cast Darkness on himself, negating the party's Light spell they had cast on a stone. The effect was the he was fighting in Darkness, while they were fighting in a pitch-black cavern.

Nughoak: 20% miss chance.

Party: 50% miss chance, no Dex bonus to AC, and additional -2 to AC, moving at half speed, no line of sight and thus no spells requiring a line of sight such as Magic Missiles.

This basically condemned the Enchanter and the Sorcerer to stand by idly, and the Monk had been standing guard at the top of the rope and took more than ten rounds to come down.

It was tough. I cannot imagine what would have happened if only four characters attempted the fight, and Nughoak had attacked when half the party was still climbing down the rope.

Regarding the stats: I felt that Nughoak should have AC 19 (+1 natural, +3 studded leather, +3 magic shield) instead of AC 20.

Afterwards my party commented on the lack of warning. I guess I should allowed them a listen check to hear Nughoak casting Bull Strenth; I'm not sure.