Map-a-Monday 2011 - completed

[Kris]

Hello all

A while back I created a simple dungeon map every day for an entire month (the original thread is still around here someplace) - and despite it being a little time consuming, I kinda enjoyed the process.

Anyway, this year I've decided to do something similar - except that I plan on drawing a new map each week (similar in design to the previous ones), and see if I can manage to keep it up for an entire year.

So without further ado here are the first 5 maps that I've completed during January (I'm actually posting them, one each Monday, on my blog - but I figured I'd do a monthly update here too):

WEEK 1

WEEK 2

WEEK 3

WEEK 4

WEEK 5

Battlemat versions are also available on the Blog if anyone needs them.

 

[TheClone]

That's cool. I read something about geomorphs, recently. Dungeon segments you can attach to each other as you like. And yours look the same, because the same position of the hallway on each map. And they're much more interesting than the ones I saw before. If you continue like that one can print them on cardboard and reuse them for random dungeon every now and then. That's pretty awesome!

P.S.: Will you publish further maps in this thread or separate ones?

 

[Kris]

I read something about geomorphs, recently. Dungeon segments you can attach to each other as you like. And yours look the same...

Yeah, that's pretty much what I had in mind (as a slight aside, the ones I did back in 2009 can be found HERE).

...Will you publish further maps in this thread or separate ones?

For these new maps, the plan is to add them to this thread (roughly once a month) - just to collect all the maps on my Blog into one place (as it's fairly obvious that a hell of a lot more people use these forums, and as such, more people might be able to get some use out of them this way ).

 

[TheClone]

Got bookmarked! I guess I have to start a fantasy camapign with some heavy dungoeneering soon A random trap list, a random encounter list and of we go. Just have to check wheter 4e is still alive

And someday it'll look like this:

from here

Edit: Has anybody ever though about making geomorphs for wilderness or cities? Over-the-ground-dungeon so to say. We usually play seldom in dungeon and this would be really cool for encounter maps or some exploration thing.

 

[Kris]

And someday it'll look like this:

That really is quite insane...

...but in a good way

 

[Kris]

(I've updated the original post, and added today's map to the list - so that all of January's maps appear in one place)

 

[Klaus]

Got bookmarked! I guess I have to start a fantasy camapign with some heavy dungoeneering soon A random trap list, a random encounter list and of we go. Just have to check wheter 4e is still alive

And someday it'll look like this:

from here

Edit: Has anybody ever though about making geomorphs for wilderness or cities? Over-the-ground-dungeon so to say. We usually play seldom in dungeon and this would be really cool for encounter maps or some exploration thing.

The Lankhmar boxed set had geomorphs for the city.

 

[Redrobes]

I have mentioned them before but over at the Cartographers Guild there was a compo to make tilable images. Some made dungeons and others like me made terrain.

Thumbs are here.

There is an alternative method which is not to use a set of tiles but to draw the map in simple two color black and white and get a script in Gimp to nicify it up to table top printed quality. Several of us have made scripts but the popular one integrated into Gimp is by Rob here.

With that or a variant you can do terrain or other types of landscape.

Ravi has been making a city street font which you can use to quickly populate a city. You can grab that from here too.

Theres loads more threads and posts about similar stuff over there as well.

 

[Kris]

Here's a look at all of February's maps:

WEEK 6

WEEK 7

WEEK 8

WEEK 9

As before, battlemat versions can be downloaded via the blog.

 

[Mark CMG]

Always brining the goods, Kris!