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With all the attention given to one-hour dungeon maps, I thought I would actually try my hand at actually timing myself while drawing a map.
The trend was started with a dungeon map over at Planet Algol and a bunch of follow-ups have been tried by some awesome mappers around the blogosphere:
- Planet Algol’s trend-starting Original
- Aeon’s & Auguries (1)(2)(3)
- Carto Cacography’s looks particularly awesome.
- Tower of the Archmage has a sweet pencil-drawn one.
- Quickly, Quietly, Carefully posted one in pencil, and then one that he spent an extra hour inking.
(and a tip of the hat to Dave at Tower of the Archmage for keeping track of all the one hour dungeons out there)
Because I was on a time limit, I didn’t put in my usual cross-hatching background. And then I discovered something. I found an hour almost too long. I ended up going back and adding details and thickening walls and finally having time to scan the map in that hour.
Here’s the raw scan of my 1 hour effort:
One Hour Dungeon - Raw Scan
And here it is again after 20 minutes of post-production in photoshop (click on it to get the high-res version). Two new toys in Photoshop for this one – I created a grid overlay and a genuine Dyson Logos background fill.
One Hour Dungeon Map - Refined
The Dyson fill really makes a huge difference. Cool map!
Wow. This is one of your best maps ever.
Different layers/levels, bridges, cliffs, pools, natural caves and built structures, many entrances…
Excellent!
I’ve found that doing these has made me faster at mapping.
Any chance of getting the Dyson fill (or a reasonable facsimile) as a download?
Not too likely, it is basically my trademark.
Drat! That’s what I figured…. Never hurts to ask….no infringement intended, of course. Only flattery.
NICE……!!!!! …..now I’m going to have to try it…….
Very cool map! Like it!
One question: The 3×3 room in the lower right corner. Is it filed with water or something?
Water with two bridges/paths… or possibly a room with 3 pools. Up to the DM really.
That is a sweet map Dyson! Might be a good one for the next installment of our hopefully on-going dungeon creation game!