I love maps. Seriously, I really love maps.
Better than good maps though, are good maps with wicked adventures attached to them. Over the years that I’ve been running this blog and posting what some consider to be good maps, there have been some wicked adventures written by my readers using these same maps.
A Dwarven Fortress, perhaps?
But let’s step that all up a bit, alright?
I’ve got some maps that I want you ALL to write adventures, encounters, monsters, traps, or just set pieces about. And then I want to help decide which of these awesome pieces of writing will get original copies of my maps to go home with.
You see, Mark, the awesome guy behind Mithril and Mages, has bought a bunch of my original maps and is GIVING THEM AWAY. That’s right, GIVING THEM AWAY. All you have to do is go over to the Grand Original Map Contest being hosted by Erik at Tenkar’s Tavern, check out the four maps there, and use them. Then tell us about it and the three of us are going to judge the best entries and the winners get the original maps in question.
Rose River, home of the Order of The Red Doppelgangers?
So get going and post up your interpretations of these maps. I want more adventures for my games, damnit, and I want YOU to write them!
Because I’m LAZY!
Dyson's Dodecahedron 
Thanks to you guys for making it system neutral. I’ve enjoyed putting my entries together for Fictive Hack, spread between the World Between and the Breathing World. I look forward to seeing more entries!
While I personally write for B/X D&D mostly, I’m such a huge fan of so many games that I couldn’t imagine restricting it to any one system. I’m hoping to see some BareBones Fantasy versions, we’ve already got one using Basic Fantasy, and what’s stopping people from REALLY going out there and stocking one using Toon or Over The Edge?
Though I am most familiar with 3.5 D&D over the past years, I am stocking the Torvek’s Tower and Rose River maps in either 1st ed. AD&D (borrowing books) or BareBones Fantasy (just got KK on Monday and have had the softcover core rules for under 2 weeks). I just need to nail down what I want to write up for them.
The tough part for me is that I have been dealing with flare-ups of my meniere’s disease over the past week. Hard to focus on much of anything when I’m either coping with severe vertigo or doped up from my meds.
*BUT*…. I will submit something, I promise!! Would be awesome to have a hand-drawn map from the Master Dyson!!
I wrote some sweet BareBones encounters for one of your maps last weekend, a quick conversion to this map & I’ll throw it in the running…
I am so on this. I’m planning on running some AD&D2e soon, so I’ve been practicing stocking maps for a bit. Time to put something out there…
I submitted my entry over at Tenkar’s Tavern, though I’m not positive if my comment got through or not.