Temple of Bast

This is my entry into the Adventure Site Contest III. It's a 24 room, ruined, cat god temple, written for D&D BECMI / Rules Cyclopedia.

Here is the above ground map:

And the catacombs below:

And here's the full 3 page dungeon: Temple of Bast

Here are the reviews:

• Tiny Pink Tentacle
• Coldlight Press
  
• B/X Blackrazor
  
• Flooded Realms
  

Update: Crikey! It won!

Tomb of the Animalism Cult

 This is a short, 8 room tomb for level 3 characters to plunder. It's written for D&D BECMI. There's an intended path through the tomb, getting the keys in the "correct" order, but my play test group used flight to bypass rooms.

Here's the map:

Here's the stocked dungeon: Tomb of the Animalism Cult

Kubuk Mill

I went to visit the National Slate Museum in Llanberis recently and saw their massive, working water wheel. This is a little dungeon all about making a water wheel turn again.

Here are the maps:

And here's the stocked dungeon: Kubuk Mill

Gadwick's Tribute

This is a two page dungeon that I wrote for the Delightful Dungeon Contest. I quite like the way it turned out, but it might be a little heavy on the petrification.

Here's the review it got.

Here's the map:

And here's the stocked dungeon: Gadwick's Tribute

Mourndeep Caverns

This was a bit of an experiment in dungeon map generation.

To make the dungeon I generated three stacked dungeon layers. Each layer used a dice drop to generate randomly placed rooms which I linked up with corridors to form a minimum spanning tree. 

Next I added the shortest corridor I could to form a loop on each layer. Then I linked the layers up at points where their rooms were closest, with stairs.

I found the result to be pleasingly twisty with lots of corridors running underneath higher layers. Should be fun to map.

For stocking, I used the D30 DM Companion for the monsters and BFRPG for treasure.
Finally, I checked my encounter difficulties with Frank Mentzer's algorithm from Dungeon magazine ("Plan it by the numbers" page 16).

Here's the map:

And here's the stocked dungeon: Mourndeep Caverns

Shrine of the Razor Gnomes

This started out as a death-trap tomb complex, but mutated, as I wrote it, into a shrine to a gnomish god of traps. It's designed for 2nd level parties but some of the traps and monsters are nasty and need clever play to avoid or defeat. Time for the party thief to earn his share of the loot.

Here's the map:

And here's the PDF of the stocked dungeon: Shrine of the Razor Gnomes

Death Talon Lair

A while ago I was tinkering with a hex map and I wanted some inspiration for dungeons to put on it.
I used a random dungeon name generator and one of the suggestions it gave was "Death Talon Lair".
The dungeon itself was next to a swamp, so I thought that Death Talon could be a Black Dragon.

I asked myself, what sort of creatures would co-exist with a Black Dragon? Well, the dragon is immune to its own breath weapon which in this case is acid. Oozes and slimes attack with acid, so I thought maybe a Black Dragon would lair alongside them, using them as a natural defence.

Here's the map:

And here's the PDF of the stocked dungeon: Death Talon Lair

Trove of the Triumphant Troglodytes

This one got too big for a single page, so it's a two page dungeon.
I'm OK with that because you can print it out and staple the pages together as a two page spread.

This time I used the excellent Grid-Mapper to create the map, instead of drawing and scanning it.
I like how clear the map is, but I'm not sure which map style I prefer.

Still compatible with the B/X family of old school retro-clones.
Monsters and treasure should be about right for level 2 player parties.
Still black and white to make it home printer friendly.

Getting better handling Scribus. It's even got a picture in it.

Here's the map on its own:

And here's the full PDF: Trove of the Triumphant Troglodytes