My Dungeon Maps

[Turgenev]

Great link ... that calander page works great for me always loved the gh calander

Thanks Del. I have to admit I was happy with the way that calendar turned out. I use it in my games to help my players to get into the right mindset. It is one thing to say, "It is Waterday, the 5th of Flocktime." But it is another thing for my players to see the calendar. That way they get the impression that it is a "real" date. I use the calendar to track time in my campaigns and characters' b-days should the need arise.

as for the avatar... well... I don't pretend to be smart in any language... you are correct in the japanese translation of shukugou and i'm sure your translation is correct .. but it is the mandarin chinese reading that was my intent ... sù yè >>

I am currently studying Japanese so now when I see kanji I end up reading it as Japanese. I'm weird, I'm enjoying my kanji studies. For me, kanji is like an artistic puzzle... actually a hard artistic puzzle in some cases but I'm slowly expanding my vocabulary and written knowledge. LOL! Only about 1900 kanji to go before I can be considered to be literate.

I have noticed that some of the Japanese readings of the kanji have stayed the same as the original Chinese readings but obviously the pronunciation of the character has changed drastically.

This is the Buddhist concept of Past Karma. To put it simply, it's the sum of all the good and bad from all previous lives (and perhaps earlier in your current life). This term is not commonly used outside of the Buddhist faith (you'll have a tough time finding a non-Buddhist Asian person that knows this word)

Other ways to translate this: "The karma of previous existence", "The karma remaining from prior existences", or simply "Former karma"

But other than a few other symbols... that's about my limit on asian languages...

Cool. You learn something new everyday. There's a Japanese Buddhist temple near where I live in Toronto (I know it is Japanese because it used Japanese writing called Katakana to spell Toronto on its sign). I've been by it many times but haven't checked it out... one of these days I might just do that.

I better make another dungeon map soon so I can bring this thread back on topic (after I derailed it so well). *grin*

[Badger]

That is so cool... I wish I had the time to learn japanese or mandarin characters and the language ... I'm far to old and senile to start something of that magnitude...

And I think I might have started the derailment... you just went ahead and pushed it off the tracks

I say YES ... do another map maps maps maps.. I love maps!!!

[Turgenev]

That is so cool... I wish I had the time to learn japanese or mandarin characters and the language ... I'm far to old and senile to start something of that magnitude...

Well, I've always wanted to learn Japanese and I figured if I didn't try it now I would never learn it. I'm learning on my own time so it is slow going but I have made a start of it. So far I know enough to get myself into trouble.

And I think I might have started the derailment... you just went ahead and pushed it off the tracks

LOL! That's a good description of what happened. Not that I mind.

I say YES ... do another map maps maps maps.. I love maps!!!

Well this isn't a dungeon per se, but it does lead to one of my dungeon maps in my AD&D game. I needed a set of ruins for my game so I came up with this... the plans for an ancient ruins located on the Northern border of the Dreadwood Forest.

This is the Player's Map:

The structure of the buildings range from solid to falling apart. Doors are noted on buildings. Windows are up to DM discretion. The ground inside the ruins' area is overlaid with stone cobbles. In some places, the stonework has been reclaimed by the forest. The ground stonework is uneven and may be dangerous in patches 9chances of falling/stumbling).

Here's the DM's Map:

The Northeast corner is inhabited by Huge Spiders and is full of webs. The Humanoid bandits (in pay from foreign powers to the South) have control of the Southeast corner. In the Southwest corner is a Harpy lair and a group of Wererats have taken up residence in the centre of the ruins. These wererats have allegiances to the Plague of the Blackhand (a cult of Incabulos) and are actively working against the Bandits. Some of the houses hold clues to the ruins' past (including its ancient name of Tharenthjia).

Unknown to the Bandits, they now occupy the area that once belonged to the Cult of Incabulos. The Cult wishes to reclaim the area at any cost. Why they were forced to leave the area in the first place hasn't been decided yet.

The players are sort of screwed either way. Should they rout the bandits then the Cult will grow in strength and vice versa. Course this is all background info while we do a few dungeon crawls. The circular house (#39) leads to the dungeon back in post #6 of this thread.

The black & white maps can be found here:
http://paratime.ca/images/fantasy/ruins001bw_PCMap.jpg
http://paratime.ca/images/fantasy/ruins001bw_DMMap.jpg

[RPMiller]

If you had versions of these maps without the grids on them, they would be perfect for a VTT. Do you have such a version?

[Turgenev]

If you had versions of these maps without the grids on them, they would be perfect for a VTT. Do you have such a version?

I do my work in photoshop and all the major features of the image are on their own layers and that includes the map grid. I could easily turn it off and then save the altered file as a new image.

Pardon my ignorance but what is a VTT?

[RPMiller]

Oh sweet!! Since you have it in PS already that is even better! If you could set the resolution so that 50 or 100 pixels equaled 5' we would be smoking!

VTT = Virtual TableTop. Also sometimes referred to as VGT (Virtual Gaming Table). It is an application that simulates the table battlemaps that we are all familiar with and includes chat, dice rolling, initiative tracking, etc. If you do a search on the forums for VTT, MapTool, Battlegrounds, VGT, etc. you'll find more descriptions and such.

I personally use MapTool, and there are several folks here that do as well, but there are others such as Battlegrounds and ORPG that some of our members use. If you follow the link in my sig below you'll see what MapTool is all about.

[Turgenev]

Thanks for the link. Let me look into this and I'll have to get back to you. I need to do some reading to learn more about this (hopefully I will have time this weekend to explore VVT a bit further). Cool.

[arentay]

OMG OMG I've been making a dungeon crawler game and couldnt figure out how to do it on a PC or have it in million files of text but your image totally opened my eyes you are so awesome thanks for this look out for the hit game Saibadon!