[WIP] What Even Is This Thing?
Hi everyone!
Honestly, I have no idea what I'm building right now...
Seriously. I started placing shapes, ruins, glowing stuff, weird mechanisms and suddenly it became... this.
Maybe it’s some kind of ancient machine.
Maybe an abandoned ritual site.
Maybe the whole structure itself is the boss encounter.
I genuinely don’t know yet :D
But that’s also one of the coolest parts of mapmaking sometimes - when the map starts creating its own story before I even fully understand it myself.
Anyway, here’s an early concept/WIP so you can already catch the vibe and atmosphere of where this strange thing is going.
Oh! Maybe you can share some hints in the comments?
Cheers!
~dransky
Comments (7)
This looks like the area from old game Zanzarah!❤️
It gives me Beholder lair
Xanathar's hidden demiplane? Maybe? :D
4 elements or artifacts needed to activate the portal to a vault of endless riches, or a prison of something ancient and dangerous 🤔
So that's exactly how this map it is! The only place where 4 pieces of a Hand of Shmoshnergrog can be re-forged into one again!
This is literally perfect for a puzzle encounter im building. With the pillars as twistable symbol pieces that show something on the central circle the party needs to read while the cavern floods around them.
Flooding! Yes! that's a great idea for phased battlemap. Just wonder to keep it for other map, or maybe create anbother variant...