So, it’s been entirely too long since I’ve paid enough attention to this blog. I think I’m lucky enough to be that rare gamer who
suffers from too many games. Yes, that’s right folks, I could place blame on my
lack of productive blogging on things like work, fatherhood, MMO play, my
music, painting, etc. Truth is though, I simply play a lot of games and that’s
how I choose to spend my hobby time. Currently, I have a weekly Friday game, a
once-a-week online game (MapTools and Ventrillo), and a 2X month game with my kids
and their friends. I also have a few other games that I run from time-to-time.
So yeah, busy gamer, that’s me.
On the other hand, I have made all sorts of things that I
intend to share with the gaming community and plan on doing so over the next
few updates. This first piece is a rather large sub-level of my own massive, old
school dungeon (Scadwrath Castle). I wanted to have a go at drawing dungeons
without grid paper, drawing them in my sketchbook. Honestly, before I started
reading Dyson’s blog, I had never even considered doing such a thing. Not sure
how successful this one is, but man, it’s big enough that you could explore for
hours and hours. It consists of 95 rooms, 5 different levels most of which are
finished rooms and passages, but a few caverns. I’ve color-coded the hand
lettering so that you can more easily see where the level changes are located.
I’ve stocked this myself and will probably upload that at some point.
On the other hand, it would probably be more fun to see what
folks out in the OSR can do with it.
Download a PDF of the dungeon HERE. Note that the original is about 8" x 8" so you'll want to click the "fit page" radio button on your print dialogue window. I've left room at the bottom of the PDF so you can write notes if need be.
