At the blog Musings of the Chatty DM, they recently ran a One-Page Dungeon contest. The challenge was to create a dungeon level and/or simple adventure that could fit on one side of an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. By the time the smoke cleared, they had received 112 entries! Here is a link to a compiled list of the entries they got: One-Page Dungeon Entries.
I clicked on a few of the entries out of curiousity and was stunned by creativity within. You can fit a LOT of gaming goodness in 93.5 square inches! As I perused the entries, one entry caught me completely by surprise. "Walkerp/Conan" entered a one-page adventure titled MineCo 3000 Uranium Ore Extraction Complex, which is based in the Mutant Future! No mere dungeon crawl here, as the party must investigate an ancient mining facility long since abandoned - or is it? (No spoilers here, but our favorite web-spinning ibex makes an appearance.)
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Thanks for spotting it. Certainly going to be able to get some use out of it.
ReplyDeletelove the little "Tuan" pic on that map. ;)
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting to note that Walkerp didn't want to enter the contest because he didn't play D&D. I told them that he was free to make any one-page adventure as long as it was stat-less.
ReplyDeleteRecalling that he GMed a Mutant Future game at a Con we were both in, I mentionned that he should do a Mutant Future one. This inspired him to do so.
Thanks for the link.
Chatty does deserve the credit for giving me the inspiration. I really love the one-page dungeon concept, but didn't really know how to fit my current gaming interests into it. You see the results. I ran that actual game at a con, though it wasn't planned anywhere as tight as the one in the one-page dungeon. I got a TPK in the first hour thanks to a Mummy Vine they pitched their camp next to. I took great enjoyment in narrating how their characters spent the rest of their lives on that hillside, slowly rotting away, kept alive by the mind-controlling plant.
ReplyDeleteI did the Tuan pic. The original is hardly bigger than a postage stamp. The cool thing was it started a little rash of drawings at the table. Everyone was doing micro-doodles of their characters.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by and telling us more about the background behind the adventure! I always get a kick out of well-thought-out one-shots. (Check out my one-shot, Last Chance for Gas post June 22.)
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