One Page Adventure Sizing

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Working on a Size L project that I’d like to split into pieces for my own sanity and for the sake of having some material benchmarks.

I’ve seen plenty of the 1-pg Dungeon notions, and’ve intuited the majority (?) consensus that having everything needed to play on a single spread is more ideal than not.

What I’m wondering is, as a printed object and as an ‘enpixeled’ or digital object, are there any frame-sizes that seem more apt than others?

e.g. are people still using three-ring binders? that would make an 8 1/2" x 11" a nice size, paper-wise. I’m pretty sure a broadsheet would be embarassing to whip out at the table, but exciting to receive in the mail. I know my GM space gets awful cluttered but I’m a mob of one. I tend to keep all my notes in a notebook and use a single spread…

Then there’s digital, which, well: do people bring their laptops to the table? That’d be a horizontal spread, and you could theoretically pack it pretty tight because of zoom functionality on a screen… or are folks tablet users where a vertical layout is going to be more beneficial?

General survey: what’s worked, what hasn’t, blah blah blah. Help a design-kid out.

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I think sticking with letter or a4 is generally a good idea for anyone who is likely to print it out and take it to a session.

I think if you start getting bigger than that, you’re starting to defeat the purpose of a 1 page adventure, imo.

I use a three ring binder and know other referees who do, but I also know plenty of people who use digital only.

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In the last year, I have gotten back into the analog- binder, physical timer, hex and grid paper. Funny since I do all my gaming online but found that digital allows too much freedom and what starts as reasonable can become overwrought or too expansive.

I will say from my experience, love a nice Letter sized print dungeon!!

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If it’s on more than one page it’s not a one pager adventure :wink:

The constraint of “everything on one page” is the formats strength. There’s not much to read or reference and thus they are typically pretty low prep.

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Yes, thanks for the light cheek, C: the confounding aspect to the problem is that a page can be many sizes. One glance at a bookshelf will show paper in a mixture of measurements. The same as one might consider printing a horrible 3rd grade photo as wallet sixe or the expensive 8x10 that hangs on Grandmas wall, I’m wondering whats useful & serves the everyday GM.

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I agree with others on here. Most printers are set up to to Letter or A4, that’s going to be the most accessible size for the average person to print out. Often if I’m printing a smaller size I just I just do it scaled to a letter page, because it’s too much of a hassle to switch out the paper in the printer.

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Like most people I go for 8 1/2 " x 11" but the idea of something published in a broadsheet format has seriously piqued my interest.

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NOT A ONE PAGE DUNGEON:

but damn, I would absolutely love an adventure that was based on:

  1. one page of text for GM in US letter.
  2. one page of player facing graphics for players in Tabloid (11x17).

slam that tabloid sheet on the desk… maybe some sort of secret key so that the GM can (HELL MAYBE USE RED FILTER DECODER?) refer to GM one sheet .