All right, this isn't a dungeon map, but it's the only map I still have from my heyday of running a D&D campaign. I wanted a halfling Shire, but I also wanted to tailor it to my own needs and taste. So I decided to not simply use Tolkien's map, but to draw my own. It was never meant to be seen by anyone but me, so it's a bit dodgy.

I know I wrote up some background for it; the halflings in my campaign world were, and are, a more worldly, less bumpkin-ish version of Tolkien's Hobbits. I also recall wanting the Shire to be roughly the size of the state of Ohio. It was meant to be both a homebase for the PCs, where they could rest and equip themselves, and a source of adventure itself. The adventures I had in mind for the Shire itself were more in the nature of mystery and intrigue, but there were some other opportunities that would be more action-oriented.

EDIT: I suck at resizing pics, so these may not be very easy to see.

Quote from: Insufficient Metal;393970I 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.

You could try sneaking them in as non-stereotypical dungeons. Frex, a "dungeon" map could actually be a castle or town map with keyed encounters. I drew some maps for Civil War in Kaddish & Escape from Kaddish that are functionally identical to dungeon maps but the action takes place in the rats nest of back alleys and medieval streets of a metropolis in my Dawnlands setting. They're currently in someone else's possession, but if I can get them back / recreate them, I'll toss them up.