Must Make Amazing Maritime Maruading Minotaur Maze Map

[Anderlith]

So in an upcoming game, my players will be exploring the Labyrinthine Archipelago, a scattering of many islands that are virtually unnavigable, except by seafaring raiding minotaur.
I plan on them fonding the minotaurs base & fightimg them, but i need a good maze with some water elements/ajoined caverns & cant find anything good. I tried mapping one out myself but it lacks that certain something that WoTC maps & other game maps always seem to have.

Can the playground help direct me to good maps?

[djreynolds]

gozzys.com , its okay just google D&D map maker or generator

[Zilong]

Think you've got enough alliteration there?

[Steel Mirror]

Obligatory link for the Cartographers Guild: https://www.cartographersguild.com/content.php

What you want is pretty specific so I have no idea if they'll have anything you can use, but there's definitely a ton of great stuff there and it's fun just to browse, sometimes.

[Malifice]

Think you've got enough alliteration there?

Maybe mate.

[Marlowe]

AN Austrian army, awfully arrayed,
Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade.
Cossack commanders cannonading come,
Dealing destruction's devastating doom.
Every endeavor engineers essay,
For fame, for fortune fighting - furious fray!
Generals 'gainst generals grapple - gracious God!
How honors Heaven heroic hardihood!
Infuriate, indiscrminate in ill,
Kindred kill kinsmen, kinsmen kindred kill.
Labor low levels longest, lofiest lines;
Men march 'mid mounds, 'mid moles, ' mid murderous mines;
Now noxious, noisey numbers nothing, naught
Of outward obstacles, opposing ought;
Poor patriots, partly purchased, partly pressed,
Quite quaking, quickly "Quarter! Quarter!" quest.
Reason returns, religious right redounds,
Suwarrow stops such sanguinary sounds.
Truce to thee, Turkey! Triumph to thy train,
Unwise, unjust, unmerciful Ukraine!
Vanish vain victory! vanish, victory vain!
Why wish we warfare? Wherefore welcome were
Xerxes, Ximenes, Xanthus, Xavier?
Yield, yield, ye youths! ye yeomen, yield your yell!
Zeus', Zarpater's, Zoroaster's zeal,
Attracting all, arms against acts appeal!

There. We can stop now.

[King539]

AN Austrian army, awfully arrayed,
Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade.
Cossack commanders cannonading come,
Dealing destruction's devastating doom.
Every endeavor engineers essay,
For fame, for fortune fighting - furious fray!
Generals 'gainst generals grapple - gracious God!
How honors Heaven heroic hardihood!
Infuriate, indiscrminate in ill,
Kindred kill kinsmen, kinsmen kindred kill.
Labor low levels longest, lofiest lines;
Men march 'mid mounds, 'mid moles, ' mid murderous mines;
Now noxious, noisey numbers nothing, naught
Of outward obstacles, opposing ought;
Poor patriots, partly purchased, partly pressed,
Quite quaking, quickly "Quarter! Quarter!" quest.
Reason returns, religious right redounds,
Suwarrow stops such sanguinary sounds.
Truce to thee, Turkey! Triumph to thy train,
Unwise, unjust, unmerciful Ukraine!
Vanish vain victory! vanish, victory vain!
Why wish we warfare? Wherefore welcome were
Xerxes, Ximenes, Xanthus, Xavier?
Yield, yield, ye youths! ye yeomen, yield your yell!
Zeus', Zarpater's, Zoroaster's zeal,
Attracting all, arms against acts appeal!

There. We can stop now.

*Applauds* Good job, good job.

[Anderlith]

Thats awesome alliteration, but im no closer to a labyrinth, the links are good but the mapmakers forum is hard to navigate. How do i fond what i want? Anyone else know a good map site?

[comk59]

I suggest Donjon myself, use it quite a bit myself.


*edit* For intance, here's a maze I just whipped up on it now. It actually took longer to upload than to make. Not perfect, but a good place to start.

https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/dungeon/cache/585f5629-425791d2.png

[djreynolds]

Thats awesome alliteration, but im no closer to a labyrinth, the links are good but the mapmakers forum is hard to navigate. How do i fond what i want? Anyone else know a good map site?


I suggest Donjon myself, use it quite a bit myself.


*edit* For intance, here's a maze I just whipped up on it now. It actually took longer to upload than to make. Not perfect, but a good place to start.

https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/dungeon/cache/585f5629-425791d2.png

Donjon is good also. If possible I think you can print out the map off a print and tape the pages together in sequence.

Also, I would like a PDF of this. It sounds very cool.

[Anderlith]

OMG. donjon is perfect thank you

[Slipperychicken]

Think you've got enough alliteration there?

Not quite. He could have replaced "amazing" with "magnificent" or "marvelous".

[Anderlith]

But then i wouldnt have the better alliteration of saying "maze" twice

[Krivelios]

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What you want is pretty specific so I have no idea if they'll have anything you can use, but there's definitely a ton of great stuff there and it's fun just to browse, sometimes.[/QUOTE]

nice link! thanks!

[BiPolar]

FYI, I had looked at incorporating a maze into one of my sessions, but had read a few posts on this board and others about the dangers of doing so and the frustration level of the players. In theory, it's an awesome idea, but in practice if they don't have the maze to solve in front of them it may be very problematic.

The solution I used was to play a game of memory. Correct matches bring you closer to the end of the 'maze'. Incorrect matches have penalties including : monster fights, reshuffling of the maze board, etc.

[Anderlith]

Im not looking for a big or complex one. I just wanted a single floor dungeon that wasnt straight forward, & had a few deadends & twists.
I ran a complicated maze once & do not wish to do that again