Friday, August 7, 2026

Dolmenwood Lair of the Singin Pentacle (Witches)

 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.


Thursday, August 6, 2026

Shadowdark One Page Dungeon - Old Dwarven Outpost (Low Level)

 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



Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Shadowdark One Page Dungeon - The Amber Grotto (Low to Mid Level)

 This time I made couple of new things. I wanted to try out making a more natural shaped cavern map opposed to the more abstract "blocky" look. Another thing was that instead of lines, I just colored the null space black. Someone already said that it could be an issue if someone wanted to print the map, but let me know what you think? I feel like I haven't yet found any style, I'd want to stick with even though this weeks work feels like the best so far (I am not sure if its the black null space or the fact that the dungeon is more natural shaped though).

The dungeon itself is a pretty basic cave style thing, which I imagined into the desert realms of the SD "Western Reaches" campaign setting, but which you are free to slap into wherever you want naturally :D