Tags
Dungeon, Dungeons & Dragons, Fantasy, Labyrinth Lord, Maps, OSR, RPG
There is a passage through the mountain. Myth holds that it was built by an ancient Kale Elf named Evan who was magically tasked with the construction in order to win an unwinnable battle.
There is a pass to cross through these daunting peaks, but it is two days travel away from Evan’s Trials. Yet few would be willing to brave the trials instead of taking the extra four days of travel and the risk of being waylaid by stone giants along the pass itself.
Through the Mountain of Evan’s Trials
Through the Mountain of Evan’s Trials was drawn by hand in a single draft in The Oak King, a handcrafted mapping book. It was drawn using a very cheap 0.7mm gel pen that works poorly on most of my other papers, but that works incredibly well on the commercial barkpaper of this book.
If you like Through the Mountain of Evan’s Trials and maps like it, check out Dyson’s Delves, a book of similar maps and adventures.
Dyson's Dodecahedron 
This is one of the best maps you’ve posted. Outstanding.
The extensions (150′, 800′, 900′) are a nice touch, and really give you two (or more) maps for the price of one. Take it as written: a passage through the mountain. Ignore the extensions: a hill top shrine or tomb. Or (nyah hah hah) take advantage of the extensions: throw another dungeon in somewhere along the extension – Darkling Depths 3A (converting the northern ramp up to a corridor), or maybe The Deeps Bridge, Drewer’s Cave or The Circle of Doom from Dyson’s Delves.
Hah! Had the opportunity to play through the third and (probably) final session in this dungeon yesterday. As mapper for the final session, and combining that with the maps from the first two sessions, it’s interesting to see how ‘what they heard’ looks compared to ‘what they saw/were told’ – including me since I didn’t remember the details of the map beyond the gaps in it! What we ended up with was a very linear, rigidly angled map with very few curves to it.
Very cool. Any chance you could scan your play-generated version of the map?
I’ll get my InDesign ‘piece together’ I do for our site to you tomorrow (sadly, I downsaved it from ID5 at work to work on with ID3 at home, but forgot to upload the file to Google Drive – D’oh!)
Finally got around to finishing up my InDesign version and posting it on our campaign wiki. Let’s see if the wiki’ll allow a direct link to non-members…
Very cool! I’ll probably post about this later this week.