Last week, fellow blogger Chgowiz and I launched our most ambitious contest yet. We’re asking people from all over the hobby to submit a system-neutral dungeon whose map, key and any additional info fit one a one page-template.
While entering this contest requires a certain effort, the number of prizes we’ve got for it are tremendous. In fact we’ve got so many that we’ve bundled many of them!
Heck, we even got 3 new sponsors added since we launched:
Goblinoid Games – free PDFs of various Goblinoid Game products (makers of Labyrinth Lord and Mutant Future)
AvatarArt – free portraits to the ‘Best of’ categories
NeonCon (Las Vegas) – free passes to 2009 Neoncon gaming convention
As of today, we only received 12 entries, which means the field is still wide open for your entry! We have many prize categories to cover the wide range of dungeons that we expect.
We’re not looking for works of art (although they can be). What we want is to see your best ideas for a dungeon adventure. It can be a classic gigantic old-school entry, a smaller 5-room type of dungeon or something completely out there.
As long as it fits on one page, we wanna see it!
You have until May 14th to send us your entry at onepage@chattydm.net.
Don’t wait, send us those dungeons!
Coming up next week, Chgowiz and I will be giving out hints and tips on how to use the template!
Contest Rules:
1. Participants create a one page dungeon using the template found here. For a contest entry example see here.
2. The dungeon must have the following features:
- Name of Dungeon
- Map
- Dungeon Key (in an edition-neutral form: Description of monsters, Treasure, Traps, etc… No game stats)
OPTIONAL (If you can fit them on one page…)
- Wandering Monster or Random Event tables or a list of scripted “events” that can occur over the adventure
- Background
- Additional descriptions that add to the dungeon, such as detailed description of trap or trick or unique feature.
3. Only one entry per participant. Participants may revise/replace their entries up till the end of contest, with the last revision counting as their official entry. Entry may win grand prize or one of the runner up prizes, plus any number of alternative prize categories.
4. Participants are allowed to modify the template, provided it remains a one-page entry.
5. Submission must be emailed in PDF, Word or Open Office format at the following address: onepage@chattydm.net
6. Submitting a dungeon to the contest releases it under the Creative Common Share-alike license (US 2008) with credit to the contest participant.
7. Contest closes on May 14th 2009 at Midnight.
The prizes (oh yes, the prizes!)
Grand Prize
- Patron membership of Wolfgang Baur’s Open Design
- Quarterly membership to Monte Cook’s Dungeon a Day
- A full Licence for Smitework’s Fantasy Grounds II
- 1 year membership to Obsidian Portal
- 50$ Gift Certificate from One-Bookshelf
- 4 Badges to Neoncon 2009
Grand Prize Runner-Up: Old School Dungeon Design
- Bundle of Goblinoid Games product
- Bundle of Brave Halfling Production products
- Otherworld Miniatures Demon Idol Miniature
- Bundles of Fight On and Knockspell issues
- Bits of Darkness Bundle from Tabletop Adventures
- 6 month membership Obsidian Portal
- 2 Badges to Neoncon 2009
Grand Prize Runner-Up: New Edition Dungeon Design
- D&D 4e Dungeon Delve & Adventurer’s Vault
- Fantasy Grounds II License
- 6 month membership Obsidian Portal
- 2 Badges to Neoncon 2009
To divide among other Categories
- Open Design’s Kobold’s Guide to Game Design
- Quarterly membership to Monte Cook’s Dungeon-a-Day
- Bundle of Necromancer Games products
- Bundle of Brave Halfling Production PDF products
- Bundle of Knockspell and City Encounter PDFs
- Bundle of Fight On Magazine (issues 1-4 PDFs)
- Tabletop Adventure’s Bits of Darkness Bundle
- Tabletop Adventures’ Deck O’Names Set
- A few D&D 4e Adventures and Hardcovers
- Otherworld Miniatures – Pig Faced Orcs (Or Box of Minis)
- Goodman Games – Random Esoteric Creature Generator
- Badges to Neoncon 2009
Our sponsors!
These prizes have been generously donated by our sponsors – they really are excited about this contest and we hope you are just as excited about their support. Please be sure to show them your support as well.
- Avatar Art
- Brave Halfling Publishings
- DungeonADay
- Fight On Magazine
- Goblinoid Games
- Goodman Games
- Mythmere Games
- Necromancer Games
- NeonCon
- Obsidian Portal
- Open Design
- Otherworld Miniatures
- Smiteworks
- Tabletop Adventure
If you have any questions about the contest, please feel free to contact either of us: Phil (Chattydm@chattydm.net) and/or Michael (chgowiz@gmail.com)
If you haven’t, you might want to pimp this in the RPG.net ads/promo forum.
Wow, disconnected from the world and awesomeness happens. I’ll have to make something for this!
And the prizes look awesome too!
Brians last blog post..Hmmm…. don’t know about this… but ok. I’ll Tweet…
It’s staggering how much publishers got into this contest. The Avatar Art people are pumped up and really are looking forward to provided graphic representations to the “best of” categories.
Yeah, the list is VERY impressive. Lots of actual hard cash worth things.
Brians last blog post..Hmmm…. don’t know about this… but ok. I’ll Tweet…
Ooooh… This is exciting. Time to get my thinking cap on.