Old School One Page Dungeon

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Old School One Page Dungeon

14 May 2009 9 Comments

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Now that everyone has submitted their entries to the one-page dungeon contest, I thought I’d share my entry here as well.

It’s the dungeon for the “Expedition to the Ancient Academy” actual play recordings I’ve been posting on the podcast!

All the monsters were placed by rolling on the random tables in the Moldvay basic D&D book. Some of the earlier room descriptions were borrowed from other dungeons, but I’ve updated them to be original content for this version.

There are still some allusions to other dungeons (Frog Gods = Arneson, Monastery = B5: Horror on the Hill, Excavating Tools = Warlock of Firetop Mountain) because part of the point of this was to make reference to old school dungeons – hence the title “Ancient Academy”.

All the graphics, including the hatch pattern, were done in Adobe Illustrator. I learned a lot about doing dungeon maps and might post some tutorials on the techniques I used. I might also release the hatch pattern and the icons as a font set as well if people are interested.

Download the Ancient Academy from Lulu.com

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Stargazer’s World » The Horror of Leatherbury House said:

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# 14 May 2009 at 5:18 pm

Mike said:

I’d love to see a tutorial on how you made your map. It’s very nice.

# 15 May 2009 at 6:46 am

Meepo said:

What Mike said. With pictures because I’m quite slow…

That’s an excellent dungeon, good luck with it in the contest!

# 15 May 2009 at 10:53 am

» The Compiled List of One Page Dungeon Entries said:

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# 25 May 2009 at 2:27 pm

PhrogWizard said:

Very nice. That font set would be totally wicked!! Do it for the masses!! PLEASE!!

# 9 June 2009 at 6:27 pm

Draugr said:

Hi. Any word on when you may release the fonts and/or release a tutorial on how to create similar maps to yours? I really like the design. It looks and feels old school.

Thanks

# 27 October 2009 at 8:49 pm

The Compiled List of One Page Dungeon Entries : Critical Hits said:

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# 24 January 2010 at 6:46 pm

utu said:

Yeah man let’s get some fonts or a tutorial, that would rule. Your dungeon rocks…

# 19 February 2010 at 5:00 pm

Stuart (author) said:

Thanks! Wait until you see the one for this year’s One-Page Dungeon Contest.

# 19 February 2010 at 5:30 pm

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