Thursday, December 5, 2019

What the hell have you done to Stonehell?

I thought I'd increase the difficulty of running Stonehell slightly by reconfiguring the maps slightly. This is the test layout of the first level of the dungeon, although I will definitely make a couple more changes from the original layout to better suit the radial nature of the dungeon.

I always found Stonehell much to cramped for my tastes. Ideally I would actually disperse it more. I am not of the school where a megadungeon needs to be fully inhabited, but rather of the school of thought that a megadungeon is an underground environment with scattered enclaves of various groups, usually separated by dull empty space in which they can skirmish or sneak through.

Apologies if anyone manages to take away any actual information about the layout of the original Stonehell from this version, but if they do they are much more skilled than I.

Edited to add: And here is the final result I will be using.

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12 comments:

  1. ArchonDecember 5, 2019 at 8:03 AM

    This radial design is really cool! I think an original dungeon in this style would be excellent - maybe something similar in setting to Arnold K's Dragon Hole, where you slowly make your way down the perimeter of a massive pit.

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  2. SkerplesDecember 5, 2019 at 12:29 PM

    Fantastic! Useful for all sorts of circular or spherical dungeons. Aside from the Dragon Hole mentioned above, I'd definitely use this for the Near Moon from Ultraviolet Grasslands.

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  3. WillettDecember 11, 2019 at 1:39 PM

    I've always wanted to use a map like this for a buried "starship enterprise" type ship that is now an overgrown dungeon.

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  4. SkerplesJanuary 10, 2020 at 11:39 PM

    The final map is really neat. Is there any chance of a higher res. file? The map downloads at 440x440, which really isn't useful for printing.

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  5. DiaghilevJanuary 22, 2020 at 9:28 AM

    Would love to see a higher-resolution version of the final image--I'm prepping Stonehell myself and would enjoy comparing notes.

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  6. jimijhonbrowMarch 1, 2020 at 10:59 AM

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  7. Reverance PavaneMarch 3, 2020 at 9:52 PM

    Oops. Meant to do better images of some more of the circular maps before posting anything full-size ... but life happened. Will put them up somewhere soon. Unless death happens.

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  8. Reverance PavaneJanuary 4, 2021 at 5:30 PM

    Apologies everyone. I had the motherboard on the computer I was doing them on die and the data, being active/new, it wasn't backed up off the computer (since I manually archive). And unfortunately I've been a bit too busy/ill to rescue the drives (since for the first time in my life I don't have a spare linux box to shove them into). So hopefully I'll be able to get around to it before the drives suffer from stiction, but it's probably going to take a while.

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    1. DiaghilevJanuary 4, 2021 at 5:58 PM

      Didn't know you were ill, man. Best of luck--we can wait.

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