Mapping

Once you start exploring underground, I strongly recommend that you map the dungeon. You will get far more out of Stonehell if you properly understand its layout, and you’ll only achieve that by mapping.

As further incentives, I will award XP for mapping on a per-room basis and I’ll allow you to move through already mapped areas of the dungeon more quickly, thereby reducing the number of possible instances of wandering monsters.

I’ll leave it up to you as to how you organise yourselves to map - whether it’s using old-school graph paper or some sort of online/collaborative tool.

This is a great video on old-school mapping. No need to watch all of it, unless you’re particularly interested in the software (Miro) that this particular group uses, but the first fifteen minutes is a great overview of how player mapping can enhance an old-school game.



Use this thread for discussing and sharing your maps.

It's up to the group, but I tend to view old-school mapping as a player skill/exercise, rather than a character one. So my default position is not to be too fussy about exactly which character is mapping and whether they have the necessary equipment. Nor whether it's the character with the maps that has just been incinerated by the dragon, thereby losing all their hard work.

However, if there's a preference in the group for a hardcore "PCs-do-the-mapping" approach, we can do it that way. Just let me know.

Excellent, thank you! Your northern and eastern corridors are each one square too long, but I'll try to be clearer in my descriptions by making a distinction between a "straight section" of corridor, and a "corner section" where there is a change of direction.

Maps are spot on - good work.

You're just missing the other door in the dining room, in the westernmost section of the southern wall.

They're pressed against the eastern wall, albeit in a rather disorganised huddle. From what you can see, the cave to the north opens out in both directions (east and west), but you can't gauge the extent from your current position.

The passage leading west from the Natural Cavern is 10' longer than currently shown on the map.

Your hexagonal chamber is a bit too tall. The diagonals start from the same level as the east and west passages, and each diagonal goes 10' laterally and 10' vertically. So you should end up with a chamber that is 30' in the north-south direction (yours is currently 40').