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<blockquote data-quote="Kalendraf" data-source="post: 2130306" data-attributes="member: 3433"><p>Back in high school during the mid-80's, I got my hands on some of that small graph paper where the lines are like 1/16th or maybe 1/8th of an inch wide and I went totally nuts drawing a dungeon. The final dungeon was going to be 10 levels or so, and each level would have had 100's of rooms.</p><p></p><p>I got level 1 drawn, and began populating it with monsters, traps and the like. I sent one party into it, and they promptly died after a couple rooms due to intra-party squabling over something or other unrelated to the dungeon. I had some rather immature players at the time.</p><p></p><p>I shelved the maps and ideas until some other time. Shortly after that, big dungeons started falling out of favor, and I started using more city, wilderness and political style campaigns later on. I'm not sure where the map is, but I suspect it's in my loose pile of 1e stuff (maps, adventures, character sheets, etc) collecting dust on my shelf.</p><p></p><p>Nowadays, any dungeons I run with more than 1 level or more than a dozen rooms are considered big. My how times have changed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kalendraf, post: 2130306, member: 3433"] Back in high school during the mid-80's, I got my hands on some of that small graph paper where the lines are like 1/16th or maybe 1/8th of an inch wide and I went totally nuts drawing a dungeon. The final dungeon was going to be 10 levels or so, and each level would have had 100's of rooms. I got level 1 drawn, and began populating it with monsters, traps and the like. I sent one party into it, and they promptly died after a couple rooms due to intra-party squabling over something or other unrelated to the dungeon. I had some rather immature players at the time. I shelved the maps and ideas until some other time. Shortly after that, big dungeons started falling out of favor, and I started using more city, wilderness and political style campaigns later on. I'm not sure where the map is, but I suspect it's in my loose pile of 1e stuff (maps, adventures, character sheets, etc) collecting dust on my shelf. Nowadays, any dungeons I run with more than 1 level or more than a dozen rooms are considered big. My how times have changed. [/QUOTE]
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