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Friday Will Tug at your Imagination, One Square at a Time

Apr 15, 2011
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Gaming, Geekery

At least, it will if you are playing around with Dave's Mapper.  I'm not sure how he did this.  It appears Dave (and friends!) sat down and drew himself some dungeon levels, old school style.  But he drew lots.  Lots and lots.  And then he drew some more.  And he divided everything into sections, which he scanned and uploaded.  The tool randomly takes sections and splices them together, ensuring that there is a proper path through the dungeon (some areas can be blocked off, but that's good; it leaves room for  good DM to add detail).  Fans of tabletop gaming that tended towards pen-and-paper RPGs will immediately love it.  Anyone else who is curious about why we love some of the things we love is encouraged to take a look.  The maps spring off the page and tug at the imagination.

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  1. TJIC  •  Apr 15, 2011 @5:52 am

    OMG.

    Feel STRONG urge to play old school D&D.

    No, not AD&D. D&D. Red box, cheap dice, sitting around the kitchen table with elementary school friends.

    Wow.

  2. TJIC  •  Apr 15, 2011 @5:54 am

    On the left hand side you can click check boxes on and off to select which map sets you want shuffled and dealt.

    Click them all off except the last one "Talysman".

    Note the aerial view of a a certain idol with braizer that you may fondly recall from days past.

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0PJR9xmE9zE/TUzb1SSS07I/AAAAAAAAAR8/HYKhfQ-YJm4/s1600/players-handbook.jpg

    WONDERFUL!

  3. Grandy  •  Apr 15, 2011 @6:12 am

    You don't need the Red Box to roll them old school any more. There are several OD&D clones out there that do the same thing. Labrynth Lord among them.

  4. Patrick  •  Apr 15, 2011 @10:45 am

    This is a wonderful thing.

    Oddly enough, my first post at that other blog was about a link I'd gotten through TJIC with a large collection of hand-drawn dungeon maps, on square and hexagonal graph paper.

    Indeed do many things come to pass.

  5. Dan Weber  •  Apr 17, 2011 @5:21 pm

    4e's requirement of maps, while not bad, really makes me wish there that tabletop computers were less than $100. It would beat having to either 1) draw the maps ahead of time, and then throw them away after, or 2) build a bunch of generic tiles and slide them together on the table, until someone sneezes.