Minotaur Sketches

Dungeon map: Kellerlabyrinth

The Kellerlabyrinth is a maze of tunnels under the streets of Oppenheim, Germany. They were constructed according to need (as opposed to following some overall architectural scheme) over the course of at least six hundred years. I first read about it in this blog post.

I was working on a 30 Years War sandbox around that time, which made me even more excited than I should have been about Better Than Any Man when it came out a couple months later. The story's main town of Karlstadt is fictional, but another location on the map isn't: Wurzburg, which, by LotFP rules, is only a three days' walk (unencumbered) from Oppenheim. So this would actually make a pretty good follow up if any of my players ever manage to live through BTAM (seriously none of them even know about the Insect Cult).

This map doesn't even come close to depicting the entire tunnel system, which apparently could have more than 600 rooms in it. Most haven't been discovered yet because tunnels have collapsed or been intentionally blocked off, so you can think of this as one of the undiscovered sections. Some areas go five or six levels deep, but I think this is just enough visual complexity to not be overwhelming.

The side bar on the right is just general guidelines to use when stocking it, but I ran out of space. There also would have been plenty of grafitti (most people were at least literate enough to sign their own names by this point), and probably drinking halls like this modern one set up:

How many historical attractions have bars built right in? (okay probably a lot actually but shut up)

I wouldn't be at all surprised to find a few fingers of the worm hiding in the bottom level. The worm could even be intentionally fueling the madness of the 30 Years War, the witch hunts, or even the whole worldwide General Crisis (a.k.a. the reason LotFP is set in the seventeenth century by default).

Overland Map 1

More playing around in Procreate. Just a small, generic barony/duchy/whatever. I'm pretty sure the icons are obvious, except possibly the village represented by little boxes surrounding the keep. The mine cart was less vague before I zoomed back out but I still think it reads.

I'm already juggling a couple campaign settings, so I doubt I'll do much with this anytime soon. If you find a use for it (or anything else I put up here really), let me know. No labels because 1) you can use it for whatever this way and 2) naming things is more boring than drawing them.

Procreation

There's an app called Procreate that basically turns an iPad into a sketchbook. I can only assume they wanted free advertising from twelve year old boys. I haven't gotten much practice with the program yet but if there's one thing I can draw it's a weird looking phallus.