We'll see if I can manage this.  

I feel like my dungeon drawing technique falls into repetitive habits.  This is just a lighthearted attempt to put some stream of consciousness dungeon drawing under scrutiny and see if I can't find a few new approaches.  I'd like to see how/if they develop over the 30, and I welcome any and all criticism.  

My aim is for each map to be basically ready for play once a hypothetical DM spends a couple of hours stocking them.

Rules:
-No more than 45 mins per map.
-Any shading for clarity counts towards the time limit.
-All hand drawn in HB pencil on quadrille paper.
-Any on-map descriptions must be at most two words, not including 'of', 'in', 'to' etc.

And I'm going to use elevation symbols e.g. ^50' for a ceiling/arch height of 50 feet.

If you can think of any other constraints for a particular map that you think would help boost creativity, let me know and I might give them a try.

Here's the first.

On one level, I admire this, and your drawings thus far are very nice. On another, I think it might be a more laudable goal to make one really good detailed and stocked dungeon that's truly interesting and unique, in the same time period.

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That's probably true, but each time I've tried to do larger dungeons recently they seem to just be over-familiar, and I find myself falling into bad habits within each smaller section; thought this might be a good exercise to break the mould.

I think it's awesome; I've been checking back every day.

Maybe when they're all done you could combine them in some way to give yourself a mega-dungeon?

I'm subscribed. There's nothing stopping AndrewSFTSN from doing one big one next time, if there is a next time.

I like what I'm seeing; please continue.

Skeleton grinder! :cool:

Cool maps.

I'm thinking some sort of "gamer advent" for myself.

Maybe we could start a thread for people to contribute little bits and bobs useful for gaming throughout December. Encounters, maps, NPCs, etc... Just little spits of creativity to keep things flowing.

Hrm...

A noble endeavor. Some of these might be fun to build on in the future.

However I do see what you mean about repetitive:

-perpetually top-down perspective
- big flowing thing + many scattered perfect boxes + long hallways (Nx) + sprinkled circles
- generally inconvenient floor plan; doesn't have as much "livable space" logic

I wish you success! I'll check in as well. Let's see if you're brainstorm starts upon new patterns.

They look good, but what's in them?

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Quote from: Opaopajr;603126However I do see what you mean about repetitive:

-perpetually top-down perspective
- big flowing thing + many scattered perfect boxes + long hallways (Nx) + sprinkled circles
- generally inconvenient floor plan; doesn't have as much "livable space" logic

Thanks! This is the kind of thing that's handy to read.  I'll post up another couple later along with thoughts about why the current ones have ended up predictable.

Quote from: RPGPundit;603486They look good, but what's in them?

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As yet-nearly nothing.  I'm more aiming to nail layouts potentially conducive to interesting play for now, rather than contents/denizens.