Thursday, November 20, 2014

Part 42. Another map by Holmes, cut from the manuscript, this time showing part of a first level dungeon.

Part 42. Another map by Holmes, cut from the manuscript, this time showing part of a first level dungeon.
http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2014/11/part-42-sample-floor-plan-part-of-first.html

4 comments:

  1. I had another thought. Room E would probably be some kind of leader lair (humanoid or evil human), with the Secret Door as an escape route.

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  2. I had notebooks full of "Holmsian" dungeon maps in high school! I think I still have a lot of them, in storage in Mom's garage...

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  3. In some ways there is a complete lack of sophistication -- who is in the guardrooms, what are they guarding, and why -- and yet there is an element of archaic realism, like opening a heretofore unknown copy of the Pkanotic Manuscripts, in which the age and source do not ask for but command the suspension of our disbelief...

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