A new dungeon map every day (throughout May)

[Kris]

Thanks

It actually turned out to be a fun little project to work on.

Anyway, I've got everything ready for my website's (monthly) update tomorrow - so the battlemat versions (and a pdf file containing all the above maps as one download) will be available then.

(and, just as a side note, if anyone does ever print them all out, and has a big enough gaming table to piece them all together as a huge battlematt, then it would be great to see a photograph of that )

 

[Kris]

As promised, I've updated my website - and all the above maps can now be downloaded (at battlemat scale) on the following page:

generic_dungeons

As I have previously said, they don't look great when blown up to such an extent - but I kinda figured that they are not really something that can be used over and over again ...and as such folks are not gonna want to waste a lot of ink (or glossy paper) to print them out.

So as a quick battlematt (printed in B&W and possibly 'draft' or some form of 'ink saving' quality on normal paper) they should look OK ...and they might even save a bit of 'drawing the map out' time come game night

So if anyone does use them, I'd love to hear how good/bad they were received by your players.

 

[Michael Silverbane]

I'm going to be using some of these maps this weekend for a D&D4 one-shot. I've printed out and pieced together four or five of them for an impromptu dungeon and will be populating them with various critters.

Hopefully I'll be able to post pics afterwards.

Also, I'd love some natural cavern pieces done in the same size and style if you get he urge to work on a similar project in the future.

 

[rebaccawood911]

Hello

Thats very very pretty cool man,,,,,

 

[Kris]

I'm going to be using some of these maps this weekend for a D&D4 one-shot...

Sounds good - and although the maps have took a little time to prepare, hopefully they'll speed up the game come game night by eliminating the 'just let me draw it out' factor before each battle.

Hopefully I'll be able to post pics afterwards.

That would be really cool

Also, I'd love some natural cavern pieces done in the same size and style...

I've got no plans to try that yet ...but I have done one prototype just to see how it might look - so I'll probably get round to it eventually.

 

[Wenin]

Have you considered doing a video of you making one of these maps and publishing that on your website? For you to make them one a day, you must be fast! I'd like to learn how to make maps fast.

 

[Kris]

Have you considered doing a video of you making one of these maps and publishing that on your website? For you to make them one a day, you must be fast! I'd like to learn how to make maps fast.

Never really thought about it to be honest, but in truth, drawing a plain, empty, dungeon isn't all that time consuming once you have got all your textures and stuff worked out (as it's getting those done and settling on a style, that can take some time).

Maybe in the future I'll download the free 'inkscape' and 'GIMP' software packages and try my hand a dungeon maps with those. That way I could possibly do a tutorial that anyone could follow (as they are free art programs after all) and we could all settle on a particular style/look ...and then any number of people could start making dungeon tiles that look exactly the same (style wise) - thus creating a huge library for folks to use/piece together.

I dunno if it would work (or if someone else would like to do something similar), but I think it might be worth considering.

 

[buddhafrog]

wow, this is so helpful. I'm sure most people know about these maps but this is the first I've seen.... Just wanted to say thanks and bump this in case there were other new folks like myself who could use these.

 

[Kris]

Glad you like the maps

There is also another thread around here where I did a similar thing with a few sci-fi maps (though I only ever got around to doing 6).

Anyway, I hope you get some good use out of them ...and if you ever get chance to post how well/bad the maps were received by your players, then that would be good to hear

 

[Kris]

Since this thread got bumped recently I figured I'd post this here...

...while I doubt I'll ever attempt a dungeon map every day again (I don't know what I was thinking at the time ), I was however considering doing something similar (with the same style of maps) over on my shiny new blog once every week (assuming time allows).

So I just thought I would ask if folks would be interested in me doing something like this?