Dungeon Maps?

Insufficient Metal · July 06, 2010, 01:16:49 PM

Jesus, Maw, just show everyone the fuck up why don't you?

Benoist · July 06, 2010, 02:38:21 PM

Sweet cut, Peter.

Premier · July 06, 2010, 03:21:21 PM

Quote from: Dirk Remmecke;387886Melan's Khosura (I'd love to see that one published, maybe as a Knockspell Special...)

Just in case Melan misses this thread and doesn't post: the city was in the recentmost issue of Fight On!, the dungeon will be in the next one.

weem · July 06, 2010, 04:17:45 PM

Here's a few I have done (the first and third were meant to be pretty generic)...

Full versions via my site (see sig)

winkingbishop · July 06, 2010, 06:37:59 PM

Generic or not, do you have a link to your technique for making these maps or would you care to explain?

weem · July 06, 2010, 07:19:10 PM

Quote from: winkingbishop;392175Generic or not, do you have a link to your technique for making these maps or would you care to explain?

I did a very quick tutorial just to give people an idea of how I approach them (for the most part)...

http://www.theweem.com/2010/06/24/weems-quick-map-tutorial/

JasperAK · July 06, 2010, 09:54:17 PM

Quote from: weem;392181I did a very quick tutorial just to give people an idea of how I approach them (for the most part)...

http://www.theweem.com/2010/06/24/weems-quick-map-tutorial/

Nice, thanks for the quick tut.

Dirk Remmecke · July 07, 2010, 05:38:04 AM

Quote from: Premier;392150Just in case Melan misses this thread and doesn't post: the city was in the recentmost issue of Fight On!, the dungeon will be in the next one.

I know; I noticed a few days ago, and I already wept bitterly.

I'd love to order Fight On! but Lulu's European (non-)service is an unsurmountable hindrance... (That's why I specifically wished for Knockspell - that one is in distro and I can get it easily.)

Pelgrane · July 07, 2010, 06:08:09 AM

Made with Dungeon Designer 3 for my 1st Ed AD&D campaign. It's a section of a massive dwarven city.

Benoist · July 07, 2010, 03:31:19 PM

Looking at Melan's maps, I was surprised to see a clear parallel between his style of organizational diagrams relating different dungeon areas with each other and mine, so I'm gonna go ahead and post it here too.

This shows different areas of a huge dungeon I was using during my D&D/Arcana Evolved game some time ago. It basically shows the position of different areas (notice the different parts coming from different modules like Cook's Demon God Fane or Paizo's (tweaked) Whispering Vault) and how they connect with each other. Then each area is fully mapped out. That's a process I'm using with the Black Abbey too.

Melan · July 08, 2010, 04:54:19 AM

Quote from: Dirk Remmecke;392275I know; I noticed a few days ago, and I already wept bitterly.

I'd love to order Fight On! but Lulu's European (non-)service is an unsurmountable hindrance... (That's why I specifically wished for Knockspell - that one is in distro and I can get it easily.)

I have had good experiences with Lulu in the last eight or nine months. On the other hand, if you absolutely do not want to do business with them, send me a PM with an e-mail address that can take large files (the largest is at 10 MB), and I will send you a copy.

And yeah, I am happy to have gathered the willpower to tackle such a huge project. It took a lot of convincing myself that it was feasible.

Promo image, created in glorious, glorious AutoREALM:

Abyssal Maw · July 08, 2010, 06:42:59 AM

Quote from: Melan;392526

Well, now we have empirical evidence that slightly under 50% of the population of Hungary is guys named "Gabor"...

Dirk Remmecke · July 08, 2010, 08:49:18 AM

Quote from: Melan;392526On the other hand, if you absolutely do not want to do business with them, (...) I will send you a copy.

That's awfully kind of you, and maybe I'll come back to that offer, but right now I am opening a last line of communication with them, my last try.

I'll be in England next week and I intend to have a few books shipped to me there.

grodog · July 14, 2010, 09:19:05 PM

Quote from: Technomancer;387746I'm sure you'll be able to find something in this thread on Dragonsfoot that you'll like.

In addition to that (excellent) DF thread, there's a mega-dungeons design forum on K&K, which includes several sticky threads with good links to map design threads, examples of maps from various folks, and such: http://knights-n-knaves.com/phpbb3/viewforum.php?f=28

Insufficient Metal · July 14, 2010, 11:06:01 PM

I love some of these maps so much. But it inspires this sort of fond irritation -- because they really make me want to design and annotate a big old megadungeon; thing is, I'd never get a chance to run it. Half my players wouldn't run a dungeon crawl if their life depended on it, and I'm not sure I could even sustain enough interest to run it -- and yet I have this perverse desire to make one. Probably a holdover from my high school days, drawing maps on graph paper when I should have been paying attention in class.