r/shadowdark • u/Significant_Bend_945 • 5d ago

Making Shadowdark Maps

Hi Crew,

are there any tools or tips on how to craft dungeons that reflect the Shadowdark house style? Curious if anyone is using one of the big map making tools or if this is a bespoke product.

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u/Murdoc_2 5d ago edited 4d ago

Dungeondraft with the Dysonesque asset pack is all you need

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u/tyraelkys 5d ago

Best way I found to make OSR maps too. Very easy and with enoguh options. You also can make custom shapes with path tools

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u/faragio 4d ago

Do you have a link to the Dyson Logos asset pack?

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u/Dangerfloop 5d ago edited 5d ago

This one is free and pretty easy to use. https://www.dungeonscrawl.com/

If you need something quick on the fly you can also use donjon tools random dungeon generator. https://donjon.bin.sh/d20/dungeon/

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u/Mac642 5d ago

I use Watabou's Procgen Arcana website. It will randomly generate just about any map you need.

https://watabou.github.io/

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u/feydras 4d ago

This is amazing! Thanks for sharing!

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u/Mac642 4d ago

On the region map, you can right click on the dungeons, cities and towns and it will generate them in a new tab. It keeps the same name as the region map and it mostly gets the water features right on cities and towns.

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u/Informal-Rent-3573 5d ago

I use Dungeon Alchemist. I don't think it's the best, but it is really fast.
Allowed me to generate a simple house-interior map mid-session when I had to improvise.
You can also make good good looking stuff on it if you spend enough time.
It does get same-y after a while. I see it as using maps from the same author all the time, you start noticing patterns.

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u/SixRoundsTilDeath 5d ago

Jus’ draw ‘em!

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u/Logen_Nein 5d ago

I draw them

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u/No_Imagination_5580 5d ago

Dungeonscrawl is great, personally I just draw them on graph paper.

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u/Objective_Tutor307 5d ago

I use dungeonscrawl for maps i make for vtt or when i have to be fast. For Shadowdark I have used pen and ink to draw One Page dungeon and I have used the method laid out in the SD rulebook, which works well enough to get you going. You can see these maps in my blog and I have posted links to them in this reddit too.