What if I really want to use a banana for determining the scale? (cmon, let's be real, you came here to talk about the drawing of a banana)

In last week's drawing, I intentionally left the tip of the coloring pencil, to achieve that. But now I decided to add a couple of notches to the drawing: on the bottom, two notches are set 1" apart, and the rectangular thing at the top is 1cm wide. That should do it, right?

About the micro-map itself... I'm not convinced about the cobblestones. At least these take a lot less time to draw than previous attempts. Still experimenting.

Just a forest path with villages on each end.

Plus a few cave doodles to fill in some gaps.

When I think about underground cave systems, it's hard not to think about FR's underdark. I (somewhat) remember an illustration about adventurers reaching one end of the Darklake... with no other shore on sight.

Now that I look at it again... it may not be 100% clear that the blob in the center is a chute going down. A hole in the ground.

Something more to practice and refine, I guess.

Can't help but think that the stalagmites on the bottom left doodle resemble the tentacles from Maniac Mansion.

It's meant to be played on graph paper. The general idea is a randomly generated dungeon crawl. When you get to a door, you roll 1d6 and draw the next room! Each M is a monster, and each L is loot, which also has random tables to determine what is what, or you could use random tables from any other system with the general idea.

This is the third magnetic sheet I use like this. I like it.

Let me know when it looks like I have an addiction. 😅

Second verse, same as the first,,,

... but this time it's mostly caves.

So... I bought a few magnetic sheets with glue. placed a bunch of dungeon tiles and then cut them to size.