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January 3, 2012

Kor, Dwarfhome

As mentioned previously, I recently started running a new Pathfinder game. It is set in Kor, an enormous, ancient Dwarven city-state. Kor means “home” in Dwarven. Kor is more than a city. It is nearly a nation into itself. The Open Market – where dwarves trade with outsiders – is itself larger than most human cities were… and it only...

July 24, 2009

Have a Dungeon Map

Happy Friday.

March 25, 2009

Trap of the Vermin King

As promised: Trap of the Vermin King This dungeon is intentionally left system-neutral. There aren’t any stats for monsters, and there isn’t any firm level of treasure. For an example on how to adapt this: The roach swarms that appear could be normal roaches (appropriate for low-level PCs), poisonous roaches, or even mechanical constructs that inject poison into their victims...

March 17, 2009

Lair of the Leprechuan

Happy St. Patrick’s Day.

February 21, 2009

Name This Dungeon

I make a map. You give it a name/theme. Then I’ll fill in some details. I drew this while roleplaying, and then edited it in photoshop. What does it look like to you?

January 11, 2009

Dungeon map doodle

As I’ve mentioned before, I have an arguably bad habit of doodling while gaming. I fidget. It gives my hands something to do. During Thusday night’s Exalted game, I decided I would doodle dungeon maps. Here’s one: I obviously played with it in Photoshop. I think it turned out decently, though.

January 8, 2009

Cave maps

The other day I was, as I often am, doodling. This time, though, I thought I’d turn my doodle into a map of a cave system. A problem quickly developed. I wanted vertical tubes connecting small areas. I wanted those tubes to be interesting – have cutbacks and ledges and such. In order to do this on paper, I’d need...

October 18, 2007

This one’s for Jeff…

I was going through some of my old AD&D stuff and I came across an old map that I must have drawn sometime in the 1980s. I figured I’d post it. I’m particularly amused by The Waterbreach, which is clearly artificial. .. and by the fact that this was drawn on continuous-feed paper.

February 23, 2007

Cartography Tools

I was poking around on EN World and found this beginning cartography tutorial by Jürgen Hubert. It uses Inkscape and GIMP, both of which are free open-source programs. Since Inkscape is a vector-based program, the maps produced can be altered without completely redoing them. The tutorial itself looks decent, but the thread as a whole is full of links to...

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