My Dungeon Maps

[Turgenev]

Damn right.

[JPQuinn]

Tim,

I love the maps. We really need to get together sometime and put some story, traps, critters, and stats to some of these dungeon maps. I could chug out 2 or 3 years worth adventure modules with just your maps.

Keep up the great work!!!

[Turgenev]

Thanks for the complements, JP. I have a few adventures I've been slowly writing that I hope to get around to publishing at some point. Unlike my map making, I'm a much slower writer.

Here's the PDF file of the last batch of maps.

[wghost]

Thanks a lot, Turgenev!

[Turgenev]

Here's my latest Dungeon Maps.

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And here's the PDF.

[Steel General]

"k-thunk, k-chunk, k-thunk"

[Turgenev]

Here's a quick dungeon I did as a break from an adventure I've been working on. The grey areas represent lower elevation. The darker the grey area, the lower the elevation.

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[Ascension]

This one might be fav so far. I like to put tunnels on my dungeons like that and your elevations look great.

[Turgenev]

Thanks Ascension. I've finally pulled my Wacom tablet out from storage and I'm now using it to draw my caverns. That dungeon was a quick drawing exercise to take a break from my current project. I'm working on the 11 pages of maps for my Hex Cavern adventure. I'm currently alternating between touching up the caverns that I drew by hand and writing out the details of the adventure.

[monks]

Brings back a lot of pleasant memories this thread Turgenev. Great stuff! Making these places is like time spent in another world. I remember it was a unique kind of fun.

I understand the problem some have with the concept of a gelatinous cube living next door to 1D10 kobolds though. lol But, you've not populated most of these I'm guessing, so you can take them in any direction you like.
I started out creating floor plans in this style- the inspiration being that classic dungeon from the Dungeon Master's Guide, :-D I moved on to using way more sketchy maps. The implementation of them in a gaming session became more important than the presentation to me. I found I could create equally convincing game experiences with minimal maps. I just didn't have the time and it seemed like wasted effort to create something that the players were never going to see.
We played through the G (Against the Giants), D (Descent Into the Depths of the Earth) and Queen of the Demonweb Pits module series. Some of the maps in those are in this style- especially in the D series I recall; Shrine of the Kuo Toa especially -with the submerged areas.. In that series you have the large overview map which details a vast underground realm connecting all of these modules up, subway map style, with the sunless sea, and the illithids, etc. My later maps became more like that.
I remember the trickery of the demonweb, where the "corridoors" were interlacing (like celtic knotwork) but the rise and fall in the corridoors was not apparent to anyone in them. I remember chuckling to myself as the party map maker became extremely dumbfounded by that place.
You can check out some of the last dungeon maps I ever did in the Gundabad thread somewhere on here. I'm still with the maps. (see ME-DEM thread). :-D

monks