[CC3/DD3] Old School Dungeon Maps: The Castle of the Mad Archmage

[jaerdaph]

Sorry I disappeared for awhile but I've had a lot of life changes over the past month. I moved out of New York City this past weekend to upstate New York, but now that I'm settled in I'm back to this project. I'm thrilled to say that Joe Bloch is now including my CC3 maps of his magnum opus megadungeon in The Castle of the Mad Archmage PDF! The Level 4 maps are done and Joe Bloch is reviewing/proofing them, and I'm working on the level 5 maps now. When Joe releases the next update of The Castle of the Archmage (which will take us to level 6), it should include all maps at least through level 5.

Please not gifs!

Use pngs, just correctly formatted pngs! (CC3 produces incorrect png files.) Just open it and resave it using another program (as a png) and it will be fine!

-Rob A>

THANK YOU RobA for helping me resolve this!

I will be re-posting the final corrected poster map PNGs of levels 2, 3 and 4 shortly, and will be generating the PNGs in another program like GIMP or Fireworks now instead.

It's always good to come home to the Guild.

[Gandwarf]

Wow, those are huge! Have some rep.

[Steel General]

Nice work Jaerdaph

[ravells]

Wow it would take a lifetime to play through that level alone!!! Epic work, jaerdaph!

[thebax2k]

I am impressed Jaerdaph, the WG13 project just keeps getting better and better. I hope you eventually do a sideview map when most of the levels are done. It would be cool to see the interconnections between the levels.

[Turgenev]

Wow! Very nice jaerdaph. Have some rep.

[jaerdaph]

Rath (Richard Graves) over at Dragonsfoot recently released Level 1 of The Mad Demigod's Castle as a PDF. What's nice about this PDF is that it fills the void for folks who do not own Gary Gygax's Castle Zygag: The Upper Works by Troll Lord Games which is now out of print and going for huge sums of money on eBay. The maps also match up nicely (i.e. stairs etc) with Joe Bloch's Castle of the Mad Archmage which starts at Level 2 where CZ left off. I volunteered to do the maps for Rich which are now included in the PDF. Here are the poster maps in classic blue & white, black & white and Undermountain styles.

[Ascension]

Sweet stuff, especially that undermountain one.

[jaerdaph]

Thanks everyone! Here are the blue & white and black & white maps for Level 5 of The Castle of the Mad Archmage. I hope to have Undermountain versions for this level very soon.

[Turgenev]

Wow, that's definitely a mega-dungeon!