Mapping Challenge – Day 33

A lowered room with a small dais (an altar perhaps?), a funky corridor with columns, and a secret door thrown in for kicks.

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Mapping Challenge – Day 32

A sunken central arena theme for this one with four balconies that overlook the arena (and one secret passage to get from one of them to the arena floor). And now with bonus pit traps!

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Mapping Challenge – Day 31

Another one of the “big corridor crosses the geomorph” (with bonus tapestries and statues) as the start for this one. I also like the odd-ball corridor on the upper left with the big tapestries and three decorative columns (or are they essential support structures? Let’s knock them down in a major fight and find out!).

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Mapping Challenge – Day 30

Geomorph 2 in the “interesting hallways”. I’ve generally tried to avoid symmetry in the geomorphs (because it seems to be the first thing I want to do when I started mapping a 10×10 area) so there’s a reason to randomly determine which of the 8 entrances is used. This is probably the most symmetrical one [...]

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Mapping Challenge – Day 29

I started this geomorph with the snaking corridor. I think I’ll go with the theme of “interesting hallways” for this week.

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[Friday Map] Week 4 Geomorphs

The theme this week was caverns and the maps are a collection of natural caves, some with man-made (or perhaps inhuman) accessories – a strange ziggurat to explore, a few old statues, and a secret underground lake.

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Mapping Challenge – Day 27

Partially inspired by the pond in geomorph 4c, and partially by the latest Harry Potter movie, this geomorph features a small underground lake. But none of the caves entering the geomorph actually can see the main lake – just a shore of it. You have to go underwater to get to the central location and [...]

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Mapping Challenge – Day 26

The central cavern here has three large platforms ten feet above the cavern floor, which winds between them. Nice place for an ambush or a fight with flying creatures (or rock-flinging stone giants).

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Mapping Challenge – Day 25

A ziggurat? In my caverns? What strange creatures used to worship here?

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Mapping Challenge – Day 24

I had a little more time today so I put more detail into this geomorph. A ladder, a small pond, multiple levels, and some debris makes this one stand out a bit.

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Mapping Challenge – Day 23

An intersection of major and minor caves deep underground. There’s even signs that someone once set up a small fort, home or guard post along the way here, but has long abandoned it.

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Mapping Challenge – Day 22

As a break from dungeons, this week I’m going to focus on cavern geomorphs. Not only useful for random dungeon generation, but also for extending the options for encounter locations when running the classic D series of modules.

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