Micro-maps

I think my sister in law colorized this one while playing with my niece.

This is from last year.

I love the idea of modular micro maps that can connect together, so I’ve been working on a solo RPG that uses that mechanic. This is a map of floor 13 of the dungeon I’m exploring, constructed from 6 basic room shapes (with a little flexibility to make them join up in some places).

I tried (and failed) to write a decent pun for a title.

I’ve long thought that portraying elevation in top-down maps is extremely hard.

They should be useful to connect other micro-maps as geomorphs.

I realized I don’t yet have enough castle doodles to have a semi-usable set of geomorphs.

The top one is yet another failed attempt at drawing statues. I wanted to go away from the star-inside-a-circle symbol, but I didn’t like how it looked. Something to try again some other time,

Trying something a little more urban for this one. Need to do some at a smaller scale though. Was hoping to draw some buildings, but the scale only suited 2 of them, castle and church/temple (the lower left circle is a fountain in my head). Still a fun exercise for imagining city street layout.

Ended up noisier than I would have liked. This scale is harder to balance detail vs useability

More coastlines = more fun. Experimenting with labels

Been doodling but not posting. A couple of small generic maps for practice

Another tiny strip of paper, for filling up odd gaps in a city:

Didn’t know what to do with this tiny scrap of paper until I figured this could fill in many gaps in a cementery layout:

I’d gotten used to gel pens and then whoever gets the office supplies bought different kind of pens, and… I’m not a fan (see this post).

After struggling with pine forests, I decided to leave this as-is.

From a video game, if anyone can guess. Not exactly a ttrpg, but still

Aaand we’re back online

On a standard-sized sticky note

I’m still unsatisfied with the “mass of trees”. Seems like individual trees is the way to go. At least for my own drawing skills.

These forests do look better, but it’s very tedious to draw individual triangles.

Still a lot of room for improvement.

Gazebo included!

200th micro map!!

I just love that word, even if it’s no longer used.