Fiddly Little Dungeon Bits
Like the other day when I was doodling the little hexmap vignette, I decided to do another one last night – but a little dungeon vignette. The goal was something I could use to touch up the graphical...
View Article[Tuesday Map] Beneath Crovet’s Tower
Not much is left of Crovet’s Tower. But the stairwell to the dungeons beneath was cleared of rubble by holy templars of the church seeking stolen relics a decade ago, and since then who knows what...
View Article[MegaDelve] The Necropolis of Bryn Mynnyd
And we are back to the Dyson Mega Delve for those two last maps to complete “The Upper Levels”. This is map number 30 of 31 in the set, and once the last one goes up I’ll put together a page here on...
View Article[MegaDelve] The Harpy Tower
And here we are with the final map of “The Upper Levels” of the Dyson Mega Delve. Added in on a whim when I was working on the Dwarven City levels, the Harpy Tower climbs up above the rest of the...
View ArticleGeomorph Contest! Win Dice!
On Hallowe’en of 2009 I set myself a challenge to keep me blogging and to practice drawing maps. The challenge was to draw 100 maps using a new geomorph style I had created that day. The geomorphs...
View Article[Tuesday Map] Dark Spire through Salted Lands
Black Spire through Salted Lands (with grid) Cratered plains of salt cover the land to the alkali seas, pierced like nipples by spikes of basalt, obsidian and glasslike metamorphic rock. The craters...
View ArticlePaul Longino’s Temple of Nib-Toog
In February I posted a 5th edition version of the classic AD&D Permanent Character Folder put together by Paul Longino aka MexicanTappingWhale over on Reddit. Well, as of this week he has finally...
View Article[Sunday Map] Kevin Campbell’s Dungeon #12
Once upon a time I was keeping up with the awesome cartography of Kevin Campbell on the blog in order to help preserve his works as well as making them available to those who don’t follow him or the...
View Article10 days! One page Dungeon! GO!
There’s only 10 days left to get your adventure together for the 2015 One Page Dungeon Contest. I’ve been a winner and a runner up in past years, but this year instead of entering into the contest I’m...
View Article[Tuesday Map] The Redoubt
The Redoubt (with grid) I drew this weird little cave/dungeon for a friend. I think the best comment on it during production is that it looks like entrails splattered on the ground, ready to be read by...
View Article[Friday Map] A Dungeon in 12 Parts
A Dungeon in 12 Parts It’s been nearly six years since I posted my first geomorph to the blog as part of a series of 100 geomorphic posts (that since increased to who knows how many by the end). In the...
View Article[Sunday Map] Kevin Campbell’s Classic Dungeon Level 1
Another Kevin Campbell piece for this Sunday. My love of Kevin’s work includes his free approach to angles, building maps that are more rounded or triangular than the traditional grid-based dungeon...
View ArticleThe Secret Revealed
Earlier today I posted the Seven Secret Maps that I mailed off at the beginning of the month to an unsuspecting Badger. Now I can tell you that I did this as part of a much larger plan of terror....
View Article[Sunday Map] Kevin Campbell’s Classic Dungeon Level 2
Settling in just below last week’s Kevin Campbell map, we have the second level of his classic-style dungeon drawn on graph paper. Kevin Campbell’s Classic Dungeon Level 2 On this lower level of the...
View Article[Tuesday Map] Chainspire Dungeons
Chainspire Dungeons (with grid) We are beneath the castle […] What are they saying? They talk of a savage beast who prowls these catacombs – with teeth six inches long. Sorry. Sixteen inches long....
View ArticleExquisite Corpse Dungeon
Last month I was tagged into working on an Exquisite Corpse Dungeon, where each artist only got to see the last 1/4″ of the previous artist’s dungeon map and from there we had to draw our section of...
View ArticleThe Complete Exquisite Corpse Dungeon
Last week I showed off my slice of Roger Thorm’s Exquisite Corpse Dungeon project. (shown again below) Exquisite Corpse Dungeon Slice But now the whole thing has been revealed in all its glory! The...
View Article[Friday Map] The Dungeons Under Ettin Manor
Ettin Manor Dungeons (with grid) The overlord (now long deposed and deceased) of Ettin Manor kept his most precious of treasures down in the secret chambers underneath the manor. Further, he defended...
View Article[Friday Map] The Asymmetric Temple (underground)
Asymmetric Temple – Underground (with grid) Part two of this week’s Asymmetric Temple map, these are the two underground levels of the temple where most of the actual service work of the temple takes...
View Article[Tuesday Map] Sparrow’s Fort
Some of the most “classic” maps on the blog that really defined the “Dyson style” were fairly small dungeons spread over multiple levels with a side view map to indicate how they connected. Sparrow’s...
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