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#1 Osunder Mar 19, 2015 17:20:21	So I'm trying to find a decent design style for laying out dungeons in a module I'm working on. Here's the first building that the PC's come across in this module with the description. I design everything with GIMP and Inkscape. By converting to a bitmap and PDF in Inkscape, Dungeon Masters can enlarge the dungeons to their desire without losing image quality. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0ePH_SedAg2aWRXekd3ODgxRTg/view?usp=sharing The dank and dark room bristles with a chill that could make a lich shiver. On one side of the room lies a scribe’s desk cluttered with mildewed parchment and old quills, inkwells, ledger books, and a dirty brass nameplate reading “AGRAN DODD.” A rigid safe is nestled in the corner behind the desk. Opposite the front door is a cast iron, potbelly stove with two doors on either side of it, water pooling from beneath the one on the left. Tall wooden drawers sit in undisturbed rows to the left wall, each of them bloated with wet, mildewed documents.
#2 celtwarrior Mar 19, 2015 17:55:17	Osunder wrote:
#3 iserith Mar 19, 2015 17:59:23	The style looks distinctive and clean. As far as the map itself, I'd probably remove the wall dividing the two bed chambers and include some windows in the place overall. This mitigates the potential for boring fights at chokepoints and creates more avenues for entry and escape.
(Reply to #3) Osunder	iserith wrote:

So I'm trying to find a decent design style for laying out dungeons in a module I'm working on. Here's the first building that the PC's come across in this module with the description. I design everything with GIMP and Inkscape. By converting to a bitmap and PDF in Inkscape, Dungeon Masters can enlarge the dungeons to their desire without losing image quality.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0ePH_SedAg2aWRXekd3ODgxRTg/view?usp=sharing

The dank and dark room bristles with a chill that could make a lich shiver. On one side of the room lies a scribe’s desk cluttered with mildewed parchment and old quills, inkwells, ledger books, and a dirty brass nameplate reading “AGRAN DODD.” A rigid safe is nestled in the corner behind the desk. Opposite the front door is a cast iron, potbelly stove with two doors on either side of it, water pooling from beneath the one on the left. Tall wooden drawers sit in undisturbed rows to the left wall, each of them bloated with wet, mildewed documents.