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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 2211732" data-attributes="member: 172">Dungeons of Dooms: A Compendium of Fantasy Maps is a collection of maps of potential adventure locations for fantasy games. The maps are by Ed Bourelle of skeleton key games, whose work has also appeared in a great variety of d20 system books.The book is published by Green Ronin. The book lacks a d20 logo and has no game mechanics or game specific material. However, many maps have grids and scales friendly to d20 system use.                                Dungeons of Doom is printed as an 80-page perfect bound softcover book priced at $19.95.The cover of the book has a colorized version of a map of a similar style to those in the interior, with a textured backdrop.The interior maps are mostly grayscale. Most are detailed in the style that has made Bourelle’s distinctive maps famous. The maps tend to have a grid or a scale, but not both. The maps lack keys, but are generally fairly straightforward, with significant items labeled right on the map.The maps are sorted into thematic sections. The first three such sections are thematic regions, with a large scale gridless map of the general area, and several more detailed maps depicting encounter sites within the larger regions. The major regions include dungeon kingdom, the great cave lake, and fire top peak. The last two sections are an assortment of crypts and tombs and an assortment of labyrinth. Finally, the book has a section of player handouts, depicting rougher sketches of some of the earlier maps for photocopying and handing out to players.The dungeon kingdom region is an underdark-style cavern network with a variety of sites the players might stumble upon, such as a kobold lair, a cave town, more general any mysterious tribal and spirit caves.The great cave lake region is an underground lake with intriguing sites situated along its shore such as a fungus jungle and a city of serpents (perhaps yuan-ti, or other d20 snakelike creatures such as inphidians from the Tome of Horrors I&II or Lion Den’s/Ronin Art’s ophiduan...). The coolest feature is at the center of the lake: the Tower of the Ghoul King, filled with descriptions of undead creatures that are thralls to said ghoul king. Makes me want to dig out my Advanced Bestiary and make a villainous dread ghoul sovereign.The fire top peak is a variety of lairs situated on a volcano, including a dwarven ruin, a fire giant lair, and the temple of the efreet, which sits atop a brass pillar in the middle of a lake of lava.ConclusionsIf you are like me – that is, you tend to scavenge adventures more than use them as is – Dungeons of Doom should be of great use to you. It has a variety of nicely done, easily copyable, and (unlike Cartographica easily readable maps. The maps have a lot of great ideas that you can plug into your campaign circumstances and even your own system.Overall Grade: B+ -Alan D. Kohler</blockquote>

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