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Release the Kraken on the Proving Grounds of the Mad Ogre Lord

Added 2023-05-03 02:09:52 +0000 UTC

Every month we go through our back catalogue of maps and you vote on which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. Our second release this month is a small dungeon that was procedurally generated while playing Four Against Darkness (a solo dungeon-crawling game).

As indicated above, this was created procedurally while playing "Four Against Darkness", a very cool solo dungeon-crawler that plays out a game in about 45 minutes once you know the rules and procedures (probably faster if you use one of the many decks of cards that have been produced for the game since the last time I played it).

This complex is home to the Mad Ogre Lord (totally a cheap reference to the classic 1981 CRPG "Wizardy: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord), who takes on any challengers that can make it to his lair in area 21. But first there are weird shrines, guards, hordes of minor minions, and even a massive ravenous ooze to deal with!

(Area 6 is incomplete - the passage to the north goes... somewhere... but even I don't know where. Maybe stairs down to another level that exists as a red herring?)

The 1200 dpi version of the map was drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and is 7,200 pixels (24 squares) wide. To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 140 pixels (for 10′ squares) – so resizing it to either 1,680 pixels wide or 3,360 pixels wide, respectively.

https://dysonlogos.blog/2023/05/02/release-the-kraken-on-the-proving-grounds-of-the-mad-ogre-lord/