Talk about inspiration.

In case you didn't know or didn't catch the reference, this is a homage to Nethack.

Not only are my cobblestones not looking great, but I've also been drawing houses that extend beyond the borders of the paper. Time to fix that.

This is looking better IMO, and I'll be able to tile them and make a big city. Win-win.

Those streets aren't working. Maybe I shouldn't be trying to draw cobblestones at all?

Any of you have ideas?

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.