My Dungeon Maps

**wormspeaker** · 02-23-2009, 12:44 PM

Originally Posted by Turgenev

here the map that started my flooded underground city idea.

This is a WIP and I'll probably be adding a few more details here & there (like altars, statues, that sort of thing). The corridor map that I posted previously runs off from the sides of this map. I also have a map with two 4-way junctions on it and another map with a main floor layout in the works.

I love it! So many good ideas here.

I have been really busy at work the last few (6) months and normally I don't have much preparation time before I run a game on Sunday. So I tend to just shoot from the hip and make up stuff as I go along. It helps to have a nice map to focus on and get ideas from. All the maps in this thread have given me months of adventures to pull out of my butt at the last minute. =)

**RPMiller** · 12-04-2008, 06:31 PM

So just because I'm curious, did the builders of this dungeon intend to flood it? I ask because it appears to have been built to be flooded with a lower elevation main hallway running through out, and a very symmetrical layout with doorways at higher elevations.

Is there perhaps an aquatic monster that roams the flooded areas as a guardian or some such?

**Turgenev** · 12-04-2008, 06:43 PM

Originally Posted by RPMiller

So just because I'm curious, did the builders of this dungeon intend to flood it? I ask because it appears to have been built to be flooded with a lower elevation main hallway running through out, and a very symmetrical layout with doorways at higher elevations.

Is there perhaps an aquatic monster that roams the flooded areas as a guardian or some such?

To be honest, the maps came first and now I need to rationalize them.

At this point I'm leaning towards the idea that the dungeons were flooded on purpose. Some of the later maps have rooms that have access to the water. I picture travel along the waterways are done via small boats/gondolas. Or perhaps the inhabitants are amphibian (semi-aquatic) in nature.

One idea I had was the complex was a Dwarven outpost first but an evil Aquatic race (Kua-Toa? Deep Ones?) slew the Dwarves and then used their own skills/magic/gods (or all three) to turn the streets into canals and flood the place. Perhaps the original inhabitants had mined their way into a flooded chamber that released the aquatic horrors on them.

Here's the rough draft for the junction chambers:

**RPMiller** · 12-04-2008, 07:19 PM

Originally Posted by Turgenev

To be honest, the maps came first and now I need to rationalize them.

At this point I'm leaning towards the idea that the dungeons were flooded on purpose. Some of the later maps have rooms that have access to the water. I picture travel along the waterways are done via small boats/gondolas. Or perhaps the inhabitants are amphibian (semi-aquatic) in nature.

Oo... both ideas work.

Originally Posted by Turgenev

One idea I had was the complex was a Dwarven outpost first but an evil Aquatic race (Kua-Toa? Deep Ones?) slew the Dwarves and then used their own skills/magic/gods (or all three) to turn the streets into canals and flood the place. Perhaps the original inhabitants had mined their way into a flooded chamber that released the aquatic horrors on them.

Here's the rough draft for the junction chambers:

That could work as well.

**Robbie** · 01-12-2009, 01:43 PM

I gotta tell ya turgenev, you're maps helped me a LOT this weekend...didn't have much time to plan, but needed a dungeon...pulled one from here and customized it to meet my needs, and the players are having a ball!

**Turgenev** · 01-12-2009, 05:44 PM

I'm glad my maps were able to help you out, Arcana. The way my luck has been going lately, this bit of news made my day.

**Robbie** · 01-12-2009, 06:23 PM

Since most of your smaller dungeon maps have two branches that aren't connected, I made one side a gnoll hideout, and the other is a passageway to a shadow crossing. Yay!

**Turgenev** · 01-12-2009, 10:31 PM

What's a shadow crossing? Is that a school crossing for baby shadows? Just Kidding.

I like to set up various factions in my dungeons that are often competing against each other. Throw the Player Characters into the mix and stir. Smart players will pick up on this and use it to their advantage.

**Turgenev** · 01-18-2009, 10:30 AM

I was able to get some Photoshop time in and I took advantage of it to finish a dungeon that I started before my computer woes. Here's the full colour version: