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Caverns, Dungeon, Dungeons & Dragons, Dyson's Delve, Fantasy, Labyrinth Lord, Maps, Megadungeon, OSR, RPG
More than my Geomorphs (which I’ve been recently revisiting), this blog’s breakthrough into the OSR was with Dyson’s Delve which I released level-by-level from October 2010 through to the last day of the year.
An 11-level “mini mega dungeon”, Dyson’s Delve was designed to give a small megadungeon experience and to advance characters that played it at a rate that would start them at level 1 and culminate the adventure at level 6.
You can see the genesis of my map style in these maps (much like the geomorph maps which came out around the same time).
But times have changed – it’s been nearly a decade and my style has evolved a bit over the intervening years. Here are the first two levels of the classic mini-mega-dungeon at 1200 dpi in my new style as seen in the new D&D hardcover adventure, Ghosts of Saltmarsh.
Over the next few months I’ll be posting all 11 levels of Dyson’s Delve in this redrawn format – and then once they’ve all been posted I’ll reformat the whole Dyson’s Delve experience using the new maps and some of my own illustrations and release it as an exclusive release for all supporters of the Patreon campaign.
The maps on Dyson’s Dodecahedron are released for free personal use thanks to the support of awesome patrons like you over on Patreon. Every month 400 patrons come together to make these releases possible. You can help too in order to keep the flow of maps coming and to improve their quality – and even get a map of your own!
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I don’t know if you get these emails, or if you even care, but your real strength is in writing adventures. Your maps are really great but I think that the adventures that you write to go along with them are some of the best I’ve ever read and I honestly believe that. For what it’s worth I really hope that you get around to writing some more. The Frog Idol adventure is criminally underrated IMO.
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Thank you!
I hope to find the time to write again soon!
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Oh wow, this was the second 5e campaign I ever ran… love seeing the updates!
I fondly remember starting our campaign in the Delve with our brand new DM. Lots of fun exploring that!
You do great work. I keep the Delve in reserve as one of several choices for my players for when they finish the current adventure in our campaign. Are you planning to update the contents of the mini-mega dungeon for D&D 5e?
Not at this point, no. The whole structure was designed around the XP progression and combat difficulty of classic D&D… I might consider it when I actually take the revised version to full commercial release. But for the initial release, it will be a Patreon Exclusive with the same minimal classic D&D stats.
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