[Friday Map] Hamel’s Well
Many parts of the city are built up over the ruins of civilizations that claimed these lands in ages past. While some forget the roots of the city, others are forced to confront them on a daily basis....
View Article[Tuesday Map] The Dellorfano Protocols Map 1
About a month ago, Stacy Dellorfano of ConTessa (who also happens to be one of my very generous Patreon supporters) posted a set of random dungeon generation procedures that I went on to dub “The...
View Article[Friday Map] Mapper’s Challenge II – The Deep Halls
Built by priests of Amon-Gorloth, this dungeon was constructed and adapted from existing caverns following their dreams channeled from Amon-Gorloth itself – making them a twisted and nightmarish...
View ArticleHamel’s Well Revisited
Something was really off about the elevations of Hamel’s Well – the map I posted on July 3rd. I had intended to add stairs in a few specifics, but forgot to put them in before I scanned the map and...
View Article[Tuesday Map] Lady White’s Ruins
I often feel that dungeons should be damp, deserted, half-collapsed things. Thus we have Lady White’s Ruins – an old hillside structure, long ago razed by the marching forest army, and the structures...
View Article[Tuesday Map] The Ledge Tower
When it was built, it probably bore some fancy elven name that translated into “Spire that reaches from the soil to the stars” or similar nonsense, today this tower on a hard stone escarpment is merely...
View Article[Friday Map] The Dawnflow Bridges (with time lapse video)
Small and simple maps can often produce about one evening of play when you incorporate travel times, investigation and research and a few good twists and encounters once at the location in question....
View Article[Tuesday Map] Floridungeon
A while back someone commented on how many of my recent dungeon maps were distinctly bound by the limits of the page (that is to say, they were quite square or rectangular in overall design). So I...
View Article[Tuesday Map] Scart’s Hall
In a departure from the norms of dungeon development (where foul goblinoids and monsters invade the subterranean works of other races), Lord Scart of the Hemron Coalition took over a series of...
View Article[Friday Map] Scart’s Descent
Introduced earlier this week, Lord Scart of the Hemron Coalition was a name-level fighter who took over a series of insanely meandering and twisting goblin warrens and converted them into his base of...
View Article[Tuesday Map] ReQuasqueton
Sometimes you find inspiration in another map. Initially I started drawing this map based only on three corridors, and somewhere along the way I realized that it was starting to feel like Quasqueton –...
View Article[Friday Map] The Lost Base
Sir James sought out an underground military headquarters from which he could command troops and maintain an eye on logistics but also be out of sight when needed. In the end he commissioned a pair of...
View Article[Tuesday Map] The Architect’s Dungeon (working with the Dungeon Architect Cards)
In March of this year I backed a Kickstarter for “Dungeon Architect Cards” because I was in the consideration phase for the Dyson’s Deck of Delves project. The cards arrived in the mail in the...
View Article[Friday Map] The Architect’s Isometric Delve
This is another map drawn using the Dungeon Architect Cards as the baseline for the design and structure. But I wanted it smaller than the last map, and since I had a new pad of isometric paper that I...
View Article[Tuesday Map] Crypt of the Child Kings
This is the real meat and potatoes of my fantasy games – small underground maps of caves that have been modified for human or subhuman occupation or use. In this case, the cave has been converted into...
View Article[Friday Map] The Giants’ Halls (part 1)
I don’t normally spread a big map release over several months, but this one I seem to be taking my damned sweet time at. The goal is to draw up a dungeon based upon unreasonably large hallways. The...
View Article[Tuesday Map] The Coot’s Egg
Obviously the name of this is a bit of a joke referencing the “Egg of Coot” from Arneson’s “The First Fantasy Campaign” (which some people take to be an attack on Mr Gygax, but was in fact aimed at...
View Article[Friday Map] Rhinoceros Containment Caves of the Iron Overlord
In late September, Billy Longino asked for some mapping ideas over on google+, so I threw him a title I was working on at the time – Rhinoceros Containment Caves of the Iron Overlord. He thought it was...
View Article[Tuesday Map] Scart’s Hall
In a departure from the norms of dungeon development (where foul goblinoids and monsters invade the subterranean works of other races), Lord Scart of the Hemron Coalition took over a series of...
View Article[Friday Map] Scart’s Descent
Introduced earlier this week, Lord Scart of the Hemron Coalition was a name-level fighter who took over a series of insanely meandering and twisting goblin warrens and converted them into his base of...
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