2010-03-21 My One Page Dungeon Contest Nominations

Sunday, March 21 was the deadline the judges set themselves for their nominations. Here are mine, at last. Here’s how I worked: First, I read through all the entries and noted some keywords. I would also write a really big keyword if I thought I might end up nominating the entry so that I new what I’d nominate it for, eg. lava, lair, or levers. This took a long time.

deadline the judges set themselves

Then I went through the entire stack and picked the ones I liked. I had three piles in front of me:

1. entries I wanted to win

2. entries I really liked

3. entries that had an idea I liked

I knew I was looking for about twenty nominations. I was lucky and the first two piles would do. I have nineteen nominations.

(You can find links to all of these on the One Page Dungeon Contest 2010 page!)

One Page Dungeon Contest 2010

These are the ones I nominate with all my heart. I really want these to be winners.

• Antti Hulkkonen – Den of Villainy – Best Pirates
• Corwin Riddle – City of Traitors – Best City
• Heron Prior – Trolls will be Trolls – Best Lair
• Shane Mangus – Raid on Black Goat Wood – Best Cthulhu
• Simon Bull – The Ruination Of Tenamen – Best Monster
• Stuart Robertson – Dungeon From A Distant Star – Best Genre Breaker

Other dungeons I really liked and whose nominations I will support:

• DeForest Piper – Smugglers Chantry – Best Smugglers
• Fabien Deneuville – Sewers of Victorian London – Best Riddle
• Gottfried Neuner – Under Oak Hill – Best Bandits
• Lord Kilgore – Heart of Darkness – Best Mini Campaign
• Michael K. Tumey – Necromancer’s Crypt – Best Crypt
• Paul Siegel – Four Corners – Best Factions
• Peter A. Mullen – Laboratory of the Asmodean Techno-Mage – Best Old School Inspiration
• Philippe Tromeur – The Laughing Mausoleum – Best Necromancer
• Shawn Harris – The Horrible Hermitage – Best Fortress
• Tim Hartin – Under the Blood Moon Banner – Best Ogre Mage
• Tim Morgan – The Village of Fairfen – Best Dilemma
• Tim Shorts – Where is Margesh Blackblood – Best Multi Part
• Tom Holmes – The Bone Harvest Horror – Best Visual Map

Unfortunately the following entries all have an idea I really like, something I’d love to use in a session of mine, but the entries above just had more stuff I liked:

• Aaron Schneider – Tower of Light, Tunnel of Stone – a nice riddle
• Adam Thornton – Central New Jersey After the “Big Whoops” – weird mutant future
• Brenton Haerr – The House of Lost and Found – Cthulhu atmosphere
• Craig Brasco – The Vault of Zerduzan – the slaad demonologist
• Darcy Stratton – The Sage’s Tower – the naga sage
• David Bedell – Under-desert of Qualorm – mini campaign with various factions
• Dennis Carter – The Order of the White Wick – a caged manticore kept by wererats
• Herwin Wielink – The Crypt of Luân Phiên – a dungeon built into rotating wheels
• James D. Jarvis – Gas-n-Die – piranha-roaches and mutant bikers
• Jesse Rothacher – Arena of Bloodlust – a number of interesting patrons to talk to
• Jimm Johnson and Jeff Lynk – The Contemptible Cube of Quazar – a map on the inside of a cube
• John Laviolette – Triune Labyrinth of Insane Mutations – another map on multiple levels
• Michael Wiemholt – Last Priest Argentscale – fight near lava
• Moritz Mehlem – Prisoners of the Mountain King – start as prisoner without equipment
• Onno Tasler – Sunken Pegasus – underwater adventure, water weird
• Patrice Crespy – Halls of Ksarnia Dungeon – the promise of lost world adventures
• Paul Fini – Tomb of the Warrior King – tunnels on different levels all on the same map
• Rich Lee – Maddam Lila’s Speakeasy, Bath, and Brothel – map of a luxurious brothel
• Ron Parker – Squatters – floating into the cage in front of the chief
• Samuel Dennler – The Secret Lab of the Mages – the Cthulhu embroidery on the cloaks
• Todd Hughes – The Haunted Shrine – the doppelgänger
• Tom Livak – The Illusionist’s Tomb – many traps and illusions

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