World of Dungeons (Roleplaying Game)

This is a “minimalist” version of OD&D that came in a bundle of similar one-page or four-page games that I downloaded. It’s listed as copyright 1979; I have no idea if that’s accurate. It’s six pages long, though two of those pages are the character sheet printed twice, and one is just list of true names to choose from. And half of one page is an illustration. So really, there’s two and a half pages of rules.

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Overall: This made for an entertaining evening, but it’s a lousy game. It doesn’t actually provide the rules it needs for the game it purports to be.

One Page Dungeons by Geoffrey Cullop (Roleplaying Game)

On a related note, I used the first of these as my test dungeon for World of Dungeons, and that worked pretty nicely. You can’t just use them right out of the box unless you’re really good at improvising, because there’s only so much detail and context you can cram onto a single page, but they’re an excellent starting point that you can flesh out a full evening’s gaming out of. They’re intended for D&D5E use, but I plan to use them when I try out some other simplified dungeon crawl system.