[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 Article[Tuesday Maps] The Seven Secret Maps
A while back I put together a set of funky dungeon bits that I mailed off to an unsuspecting Badger. They looked something like this: Secret Map 1 Secret Map 2 Secret Map 3 Secret Map 4 Secret Map 5...
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 ArticleContest Geomorphs
Joe Wetzel of Inkwell Ideas is running a geomorph contest every two weeks. Each contest has a different secret ingredient – and the winner gets a set of DungeonMorph Dice! Last contest was thrones, and...
View Article[Friday Map] Chainspire Fortress
With a name like “Chainspire”, you know something dark and evil has made its home here. Chainspire Fortress The map of Chainspire Fortress was inspired by this illustration from “Our Native Land: a...
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 Article[Friday Map] Still Grotto
Still Grotto Today’s map was inspired by this out-of-copyright piece from “Autour de la Méditerranée … Illustrations par A. Chapon, etc” published in 1892. Still Grotto (with grid and water) From the...
View Article[Sunday Map] Kevin Campbell’s Village Card 1
This next set of maps from Kevin Campbell are village bits and pieces that can be stuck together in a variety of ways (like crooked geomorphs) and were drawn on index cards. Village Card 1 As always, I...
View Article[Tuesday Map] Kabus’ Retreat – The Monastery in the Mists
A couple of months ago this photoshopped image showed up on google+ with a challenge for the mappers present to take a try at it. It’s a bad photoshop of the beautiful Phuktal Monastery in India with a...
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 ArticleFutzing around with the Six Mile Hex
By now you probably realized that I generally don’t work with a set scale when I draw my maps. Most of them aren’t precisely “to” a scale at all, and are more representational of how things fit...
View Article[Friday Map] The Spiral Temple
The Spiral Temple (with grid) Inspired by some recent dungeon designs and geomorphs by Nate McD over on Google+ along with some of the odd-shaped buildings on the original map from the AD&D1e...
View Article[Sunday Map] Kevin Campbell’s Village Card 2
Another lovely village segment by master cartographer Kevin Campbell. Village Card 2 As with all of Kevin’s maps presented here, this remains the copyright of Kevin Campbell and is reproduced here with...
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] Further Explorations into Castle Gargantua
Last month I indicated that I was drawing maps for Kabuki Kaiser’s next book – Castle Gargantua. The trick about these maps is not only are they gridded, they represent areas where the squares are 60...
View Article[Sunday Map] Kevin Campbell’s Village Card 3
Kevin Campbell brings us another brilliant village card this week – with a river and dock, and roads as well as a small track off to some other farmer’s place. Village Card 3 Again, this begs to be...
View Article[Tuesday Map] Final Forays into Castle Gargantua
And we come to the end of my adventures mapping out the interior of Castle Gargantua. From here I will have to leave it in your hands – once Kabuki Kaiser releases the Castle Gargantua book you will be...
View Article[Sunday Map] Kevin Campbell’s Village Card 4
Breaking away from the multiple entrances / exits of the other village cards, this one presents a small keep or fortress with a dirt moat that is linked in to the village by a single road. Village Card...
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