One page dungeon contest 2022
5E (or similar?), no level given.
Premise: The local messed with powers he did not understand brought ruination upon his abbey.
What do we get here?
A single page gives us a map of a dungeon with 8 keyed rooms.
Usability/formatting
If you ever want to know how much information you can reasonably get on a one page dungeon I would say this effort hits about the right mark. Nothing is cluttered or too small and there is more than enough to run this adventure off. The art style is simple black and white, nothing fancy but very clear.
Using a system of random magic portals the author manages to fit in loops to an otherwise simple map making it more interesting or at least chaotic to explore despite the small size. Evocative room descriptions are not really present however you should be able to improvise that on the fly from what information there is about the rooms and how they look on the map, this is one of the sacrifices you have to make for the one page format.
Treasure is present if not remarkable. I think one key magic item, related to the abbot's dark experiments could really kick things up a notch and provide a bit more of a book here. In general I would say the adventure is lacking a bit of lore or texture to really nail things, this is something you can add on to fit your own world though.
Portability
There is nothing really here in the way of details or anything really out there so you can slot this into any campaign world with easy.
Recommendation
I would have no problems picking up this adventure and running it. Yes the adventure does lack a little in flavour but this is something you can easily add in yourself. This is something you can build off and I would like to see what else this author has out there. I am actually surprised this one did not pick up even an honorable mention from the judges.
Definitely a passing grade for this one. A two or three page version would really knock things out of the park.
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https://spielknights.gumroad.com/l/2022opdc
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/410915/One-Page-Dungeon-Compendium-2022-Edition
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