Wednesday, November 06, 2013

These beautiful D&D maps make you want to break out the 20 sided dice...

Make: - Beautiful D&D Maps Recount Days of Adventure

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I’ve been admiring Jason Thompson‘s beautiful D&D maps that he drew for various classic roleplaying adventures. His sendup of A1: Slave Pits of the Undercity shows a redrawn version of the main dungeon map of the adventure, with each room illustrated to reflect the monsters, traps, and treasure contained therein. Plus, Jason includes annotations describing a theoretical adventure party’s travels through the tunnels.

There are some snarky asides in the annotations. For instance, in The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, one note points out that there is a stream running through the top level of the dungeon, so why is the lower level–presumably below the water table–bone dry?

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The ability to do stuff like this amazes me and makes me feel very inadequate. I could draw like this... in about a million years or so... :P

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