This is the Shaowdark one pager I did without the random generator from the shadowdark rulebook. I feel like using that system starts to generate pretty similar stuff pretty fast so its better to look elsewhere for inspiration. I like how the witch cave hatching came out so wanted to make another one like that.
Let me know what you think.
This one page dungeon is a lair for the Dolmenwood RPG by Necrotic Gnome. I have been enthusiastically drawing OPDs for Shadowdark, but since at the moment I am really running Dolmenwood and there's also a project with my daughter, which we are planning to publish for this system, I thought maybe I should try to make OPDs for it as well. Making lairs is a no brainer for Dolmenwood so let's do those, I thought and here we are.
The dungeon in question is the home base of a witches coven called The Singing Pentacle. Only the coven's priestess lives here full time, but her witch sisters visit occasionally so there could be more than one witch present. If you decide to run this I would love to hear how it goes in the comments and all feedback is appreciated so shoot away if anything comes to mind.
This week's dungeon is an old dwarven outpost, which has fallen into bad times. The goddess of RNG bestowed less action to this one and it might be possible to go through the whole thing without a single fight. I got to say that now after 9 maps I am starting to have some problems with the Shadowdark "Shadowdark Maps" section as randomly rolled maps start repeating themselves. I guess will have to look for some other inspiration to keep this up, but no promises and we'll see.
For this map I experimented with some new technique. Firstly, I got myself thicker paper and instead of a grid, printed light dots to it. The grid on the map is hand drawn and I wanted the grids to be close to invisible in the text boxes. Secondly I got more pens of different thickness and even some grey ones to draw scatter and shadows on the map.
Got the ideas for these new drawing techniques from @Henksuli. He has some nice maps online as well. Take a look at them here, if you want.
As always, comments are more than welcome and if you use this in your game, please share your war stories :D
