For

the

Love

of

Dungeons By Tony Dowler

For the Love of Dungeons

Maps by Tony Dowler
Edited by Philip LaRose
A book of hand-drawn Dungeon maps
with space for notes and occurences
Layout by Ben Lehman Copyright 2008 by Tony Dowler Planet Thirteen Games: planet-thirteen.com

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 F or the Love of Dungeons is a book of dungeon maps
designed to be enjoyed on their own merits or used in playing
fantasy adventure role-playing games with a dungeon theme.

These dungeons are suitable for use in most any dungeon-

crawling game or campaign. The maps include annotations that
can provide inspiration for encounters and hazards for impro-
vised play or prepared adventures. Use the Notes and Occurrences
are to make preparatory notes or to record your sessions as they
happen.

Thank you to all the people on Story Games who helped me find
the quotations for this book: Dana Johnson, John Harper, Dave
Younce, James Ritter, Philip LaRose, Ben Wray, Josh Roby, Nick
Wedig, Richard DiTullio, Judd Karlman, Jason Morningstar,
Paul Czege, and Lukas Myhan.

I welcome feedback. Email me at [email protected] to

provide criticism, make suggestions for future map books, or to tell
me how your game went.

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 Table of Contents

Catacombs of Lava Forge of Mouth of the Den of the

the Wizard the Orc God Volcano Snake Cult

Altar of the The Haunted Chasm Fortress Cathedral of

Horned Terror Mine of the Furies Fear

Frost Cave of Lair of the The Astral Tomb of the

the Ice Giants Vengeful Wyrm Skein Forgotten King

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 Catacombs of the Wizard
Notes and Occurences

T
he adventure begins at the
entrance to the dungeon.

Dungeons & Dragons

Basic Set

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 Lava Forge of the Orc God
Notes and Occurences

N othing was heard for several minutes; but

then there came out of the depths faint knocks:
tom-tap, tap-tom. They stopped, and when the
echoes had died away, they were repeated: tap-tom,
tom-tap, tap-tap, tom. They sounded disquiet-
ingly like signals of some sort; but after a while the
knocking died away and was not heard again.
The Fellowship of the Ring,
JRR Tolkein

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 Mouth of the Volcano
Notes and Occurences

A Dungeon horrible, on all sides round

As one great Furnace flamd, yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible
Servd only to discover sights of woe,
Regions of sorrow, doelful shades, where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes
That comes to all...

Paradise Lost, Milton

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 Den of the Snake Cult
Notes and Occurences

O conspiracy,
Shamst thou to show thy dangrous
brow by night,
When evils are most free? O then, by day
Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough
To mask thy monstrous visage?
Brutus, in Julius Caesar, act 2, scene 1,
William Shakespeare

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 Altar of the Horned Terror
Notes and Occurences

W hen I get to the bottom

I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and turn
and I go for a ride
Till I get to the bottom
and I see you again
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Helter Skelter, The Beatles

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 The Haunted Mine
Notes and Occurences

I n order to accomplish your goal, youve got

the Main Dungeon. But certain challenges
of the Main Dungeon may have subdungeons
of their own, and the subdungeons themselves
might have subsubdungeons of their own, and so
on, until youve got this giant, sprawling, frac-
tal nightmare of branching stone corridors and
traps and monsters. Delicious.
Ben Wray

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 Chasm-Fortress of the Furies
Notes and Occurences

I t was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one, a

savage city, yet it had such tenderness, a bitter,
harsh, and violent catacomb of stone and steel and
tunneled rock, slashed savagely with light, and
roaring, fighting a constant ceaseless warfare of
men and of machinery; and yet it was so sweetly
and so delicately pulsed, as full of warmth, of pas-
sion, and of love, as it was full of hate.

The Web and the Rock, Thomas Wolfe

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 Cathedral of Fear
Notes and Occurences

O f the dungeons there had been

strange things narratedfables
I had always deemed thembut yet
strange, and too ghastly to repeat, save
in a whisper.
The Pit and the Pendulum,
Edgar Allen Poe

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 Frost Cave of the Ice Giants
Notes and Occurences

D o not ask, Reader, how my blood

ran cold and my voice choked up
with fear. I cannot write it: this is a
terror that cannot be told.

The Inferno, Canto IX, Dante

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 Lair of the Vengeful Wyrm
Notes and Occurences

T hen an old harrower of the dark happened

to find the hoard open, the burning one who
hunts out barrows, the slick-skinned dragon,
threatening the night sky with streamers of fire.
People on the farms are in dread of him. He is
driven to hunt out hoards under ground, to guard
heathen gold through age-long vigils, though to
little avail.

Beowulf

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 The Astral Skein
Notes and Occurences

I n the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon,

though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us
to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom
they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark
receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the
mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when
the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas,
without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray
that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse
not break their chain.

The Haunted Mind, Nathaniel Hawthorne

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 Tomb of the Forgotten King
Notes and Occurences

O ld wisdom born out of the west was for-

saken. Kings made tombs more splendid
than the houses of the living and counted the old
names of their descent dearer than the names of
their sons. Childless lords sat in aged halls mus-
ing on heraldry or in high, cold towers asking
questions of the stars.
The Return of the King,
JRR Tolkein

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