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Thursday, January 30, 2014

More old maps

While assembling my Map Index links page, I found some maps in my uploaded pictures that never got posted back in 2012 when I was scanning old maps like mad and posting them. So here are a few more of my greatest? hits of the 70s, suitable for the 40th anniversary of D&D, and a couple of later ones. Definitely more on the functional than the arty side.




 I don't know what this one is. Something from the 80s I think. I notice it has some of my favorite map tropes, like the pit with a board bridging it, and a small tunnel from the pit over to a trapdoor up to another hall.

 I totally don't know where this castle was.

I think this is sort of a hidden oasis with a spring and a pool in a bowl on a hill, since the vegetation away from the water looks like dry scrub. There is a secret approach trail up the dry stream bed. I do not remember what I was planning, but I still kind of like it.


 This one was later in the 70s campaign. I can tell by the calligraphy, the little subtunnels for the ratmen to flank the PCs, and the hollow tree entrances.
 Wasserschein siege tunnels. This one got used once I think.

Gotta figure out how to rotate images in blogger. CSS, or is their a GUI trick to it?
Anyway, the siege tunnels on the map above are located on this map, I think.

Zershene was typical of the smaller dungeons from the campaign after I scrapped the 10 squares to the inch megadungeon from the first flush of learning. Four compact levels on one sheet. This one saw a lot of play.



This last one, the Mountain Troll Lair, was effectively a one page dungeon, heavily keyed right on the map, probably from either my 80s 10 year anniversary OD&D game or intended for a 3rd Edition game. Either way, I don't think I ran it. It might be a fun one to redraw in inks.







3 comments:

  1. Did we play in any of these dungeons with the Loda groups?

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    1. Hey Chris!
      Yeah, most of what I've been posting of old maps was the Loda game. On the Cairnin one in the other post, where I scanned in all the keys, there's a lot of marks that I made during play. Looks like it was partially explored but not cleared. I have several pages of campaign logs in one notebook, The Tarnheim Chronicles, where I was trying to write in a pseudo-chronicler style. It didn't capture everything, I think I started it a bit late and may have stopped before the end, but does give a track of a lot of the wanderings of the characters. Might be able to look up there which group of characters that was.

      I'm not even sure I drew the castle on green graph paper. Might have been a planning sketch by Russell for Otto Parts's planned castle or something. The style and paper are different enough that I'm guessing it is something like that.

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    2. There are a couple more you guys played in left to scan, plus I used Judges' Guild or modified Judges' Guild maps a bit.

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