Megadungeon Mapping...Echo post

I've got a post that may be of interest to the few readers of this blog that for some strange reason don't read my rambling genius over ay Aeons & Auguaries: Megadungeon Mapping.

The original post got a mention here: http://rolesrules.blogspot.com/2011/12/meaningful-megadungeon.html that folks will surely enjoy reading.

December already?

Been a while since I posted here. I've been doing a fair bit of hand wringing and false starts getting things ready for this site. Presenting a megadungeon in a format that others can use is a pretty daunting task. Fiddling with this site and a commercial product I have in the works made it all to obvious how tough a task it is. Makes sense to me now why most published adventures are relatively tiny.

The BigDungeon entrances and a few levels should be seeing their way to being posted online in the next couple months. I'm going to take a more relaxed and less formal approach than I have been girding myself to and flailing about to find.

BigDungeon isn't dead it's sitting in the shadows and growing.

Wrong Turn In Development

As the growth of BigDungeon is part of what this blog is going to be all about I had to share this.
Early work on BigDungeon took a wrong turn in development. I was enamored with making the map look different and whipped up an alternate style from the typical square grid dungeon- the big hex dungeon. It was a cool idea but strayed a bit too far from tradition for my tastes after dealing with it for a while.

A portion of one map is below for the curious to get a glimpse at what will never be and some of what I was spent dungeon development time on.

BigDungeon

BigDungeon is going to be an ongoing development of a Big Dungeon (what the kids are calling a "MegaDungeon" lately) with maps and keys and all the assorted goodies that go along with them written to be generally compatible with the various Old School Dungeon Crawling RPGs out there.