Inspirational Images: Real World D&D Locations

[Klaus]

Now *this* is a dungeon.

I imagine it looked something like this where Beowulf swam to find Grendel's mother's lair.

If you can't put this in an adventure, you need to go back to DM school.

And, finally: a wizard lives here. or a vampire. or a vampire wizard.

Names, I want them names!

 

[Khairn]

Names, I want them names!

I recognize the 2nd photo as the Giant's Causeway in Ireland, but the other 3 escape me.

 

[BigCat]

Crypt of the Capuchin monks:

 

[Xyxox]

Yes, I see the guy. I'm just trying to get an idea of what the place is. It seems just like some crystal pillars fell over. Is that a cave? Some ruins?

It is, in fact, a cave that is actually the inside of a super huge geode.

Here's a smaller geode:

 

[Reynard]

Names, I want them names!

Sorry -- they all came from random google image searching. Maybe you can back track by searching the image file names themselves, since I didn't change them when I uploaded them to my flickr photostream?

 

[Haffrung Helleyes]

I visited the Capuchin Monastery on my first trip to Italy back in 1996... It is really eerie! Mark Twain wrote about it in Innocents Abroad.

Ken

 

[hafrogman]

Names, I want them names!

Looks like the first one, the cliff dwelling, is in Mesa Verde National Park, in Colorado. It doesn't really seem to have a specific name, except perhaps "Cliff Palace", made by the Anasazi people though if you're looking for a fun name to throw out there.

 

[InVinoVeritas]

I recognize the 2nd photo as the Giant's Causeway in Ireland, but the other 3 escape me.

I thought it might be the "other end" of the Causeway, Fingal's Cave in Scotland.

 

[Reynard]

I thought it might be the "other end" of the Causeway, Fingal's Cave in Scotland.

^^^ That? That's awesome.

 

[dnoonan]

I wrote an adventure site last year based on the Cave of Swallows. Add a treacherous walkway on the interior surface, add some beasties, and you're good to go.

Here's a video clip from [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocpuuaNwMSw"]Planet Earth[/ame]:

--David Noonan.
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