Spread the word…ADVENTURE SITE CONTEST

The success of recent reviewer-hosted contests had me thinking that there's a lot of potential talent hungry for feedback; more than a monetary reward or a physical copy of a module, the primary motivator for me at least was the critical reviewing. There's no real shortage of opinionated old designers here, as I am thinking of a contest where potential writers submit adventure sites:

• Small enough to stumble on in a hexcrawl or in a city, call it 4-12 keyed locations.
• The location nonetheless has a story to it, with potential hooks/rumors, and would make a satisfying night's D&D session.
• Page limit of 2 pages excluding map(s).
• At least one map; if using someone else's, must be legal to use in a publication.
• Must be compatible with TSR-era D&D (So B/X, OD&D, AD&D or a very close retroclone).
• The focus is for something that is usable at the table. A harried dungeon master needs to plausibly be able to seize your site and reasonably present it to his table of 3-6 over-caffeinated (or slightly drunk) murderous vagrants for all of them to have a great time.

 
These submissions would be judged and most importantly reviewed with at least a solid page of reviewing, like Bryce or Prince or Melan manage. A pool of interested volunteer judge reviewers are engaged, notably myself, EOTB, Owen Edwards, (possibly) Grützi, and Malrex. Judges are welcome to submit to the contest as well, but they obviously can't judge their own work. Selection of the top 8 adventures would be ranked choice, which then get bundled into a free product on DriveThru, published under a creative commons attribution license (so it can be shared, but credit to writers). This is similar to how the One Page Dungeon did it.
 
Malerex of the Merciless Merchants, in addition to offering services as a judge, has said he'll offer Merciless Merchants adventures for the prize pool. Josh/Gus from the Classic Adventure Gaming podcast have advertised this, and anyone involved should definitely blog about it. And you should get involved too…submit, read, or at the very least give us a shout-out…I’d love for as many contestants as possible to hear about this.
 
Submissions will open starting in December through Jan 31st, with judging aiming to be done by the end of February. It’s been organized via the CAG podcast’s Discord, but submissions can be made to my own email here. If you have a blog and a desire to join in the judges, drop me a line; feedback is the value that every contestant will be getting out of this.

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