Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Geomorph #108

The original Dungeoneer's Survival Guide contains a treasure trove of drawings that illustrate great dungeon locales. In today's installment, I'll be considering the following piece:


The scene conveyed is just a single gigantic subterranean gallery. It's the sloping walls, numerous (climbable) stalagmites, and giant mushroom forest that make it interesting. Translating this to a geomorph presented a little challenge, as I had to distinguish between the fungus and the elevation rings. Deviating slightly from previous tiles, I added tiny hash marks to the elevation bands and stems and polka-dots to the mushroom caps.

4 comments:

Trey said...

Dungeoneer's Survival Guide isn't usually a book I think about, but it did have some nice illustration. Good geomorph.

m.s. jackson said...

That book, along with the wilderness survival guide, provided much fodder for my young brain. Though I used little of the rules, the inspiration one gleaned from those pages was unfathomable!
Love the 'shrooms!!!

Professor Pope said...

I like the mushrooms. They're cute ;)

Risus Monkey said...

Badger badger badger Mushroom!

Anyway, I never used the DSG much but it did provide a wealth of caving information that was hard to get before the age of the Internet. And the art is what's doing it for me now.