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Cavern, Dungeon, Dungeons & Dragons, Fantasy, Labyrinth Lord, Maps, RPG
Kernaught’s Well
Holy crap, it’s the return of the Friday Map!
For those of you who have been coming here for a few years, I used to put up a map every Friday. Well, hopefully it is back.
This week brings us Kernaught’s Well, a small cave complex with some man-made and man-modified chambers and access to a natural water source. Kernaught’s Well is situated near the sea, but in an area with a severe lack of fresh water, making it a key tactical holding because the well at the back of the caves is deep and holds a seemingly endless supply of fresh water (it taps down into a local aquifer beneath the level that local surface wells can reach).
The map for Kernaught’s Well was drawn in a single draft using a 0.5mm Gel Pen in my plain-paper dollar store mapping notebook. I particularly like this map because of the smaller details, the debris, mix of natural and artificial structures, and the crosshatching fill even turned out better than normal.
Kernaught’s Well
Cool map! What is the thicker dashed line on the right side meant to signify?
That is a raised wall with battlements along the top. In the efforts to secure the well, one of the previous owners built up that wall to reduce access to the well to a single route. The wall is about 12 feet tall, the cavern about 40.
Very cool. I think you style has gotten even tighter.
Thanks – this particular map is exceptionally good, I must add. Not all (most) of the maps in my book from this summer of mapping are nearly as good as this piece.
WOOOOO!!!! Friday Maps are back!! To fill the gap, I’ve been running a megadungeon made almost entirely of Dyson maps–the party is currently on the Circle of Doom.
Do you have a general overview of how you’ve been linking the maps together? I’m curious. I used the Circle of Doom as a part of one of my own Megadungeons too – because I hadn’t drawn out three or four levels of it, I just subbed in the Circle.
Delightful as always! Thank you and happy for your comeback! You have our support!