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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 7959359" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!I agree with [USER=16077]@3catcircus[/USER] about the &quot;clean black and white&quot;...although a &quot;clean coloured version&quot; can be almost as easy to read....but those are almost non-existent, as most/many people think that making everything &quot;blurry and blended, with lots of dots around the edges&quot; is a good thing.Harn has some amazingly clean maps; both their indoor b/w ones, and their outdoor colour ones. Simple colour scheme, mostly 'flat' colours, no shading, and simple symbolism (re: squiggly lines for farm/garden furrows, for example). I'm also partial to the maps from Warhammer (1st edition) in the main rule book. Black and white, with more of a 'hand drawn' vibe to them than the Harn ones (Powers &amp; Perils also has this sort of map style).Anyway....designing a dungeon is easiest if you first know why it is actually there. The person(s) who created it is the second most important thing. After that, Who and Why....you can fill in the What, Where and How. A dungeon carved in the side of a dormant volcano will be different from one carved out of the side of a cliff made of clay and shale, which will be different from one dug out of dirt and loose gravel. Each would have different &quot;safety&quot; features (supports, drainage, bricks/flagstone/cobblestone, etc).To this day, I still find the 1e AD&amp;D &quot;Dungeoneers Survival Guide&quot; to be great for ideas and suggestions. You can grab a PDF off of RPGNow for $11 bucks or something (<a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17006/Dungeoneers-Survival-Guide-1e" target="_blank">Dungeoneer's Survival Guide (1e) - Wizards of the Coast | AD&amp;D 1st Ed. | Rules | DriveThruRPG.com</a>).^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 7959359, member: 45197"] Hiya! I agree with [USER=16077]@3catcircus[/USER] about the "clean black and white"...although a "clean coloured version" can be almost as easy to read....but those are almost non-existent, as most/many people think that making everything "blurry and blended, with lots of dots around the edges" is a good thing. Harn has some amazingly clean maps; both their indoor b/w ones, and their outdoor colour ones. Simple colour scheme, mostly 'flat' colours, no shading, and simple symbolism (re: squiggly lines for farm/garden furrows, for example). I'm also partial to the maps from Warhammer (1st edition) in the main rule book. Black and white, with more of a 'hand drawn' vibe to them than the Harn ones (Powers & Perils also has this sort of map style). Anyway....designing a dungeon is easiest if you first know [I]why[/I] it is actually there. The person(s) who created it is the second most important thing. After that, Who and Why....you can fill in the What, Where and How. A dungeon carved in the side of a dormant volcano will be different from one carved out of the side of a cliff made of clay and shale, which will be different from one dug out of dirt and loose gravel. Each would have different "safety" features (supports, drainage, bricks/flagstone/cobblestone, etc). To this day, I still find the 1e AD&D "Dungeoneers Survival Guide" to be great for ideas and suggestions. You can grab a PDF off of RPGNow for $11 bucks or something ([URL="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17006/Dungeoneers-Survival-Guide-1e"]Dungeoneer's Survival Guide (1e) - Wizards of the Coast | AD&D 1st Ed. | Rules | DriveThruRPG.com[/URL]). ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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