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That cross-hatching-in-the-walls thing is fairly distinct, and I saw it immediately on Dyson's blog but not on a quick survey of old Dragon/Dungeon maps. That s
by kemayo 6y ago
That cross-hatching-in-the-walls thing is fairly distinct, and I saw it immediately on Dyson's blog but not on a quick survey of old Dragon/Dungeon maps. That said, Dyson is clearly going for that aesthetic mostly, so it could be convergent evolution, and I'm hardly up to date on current styles for maps in other places.
- lakkal 6y agoThe style really reminds me of old Chaosium maps, from the 1980s.
- pharke 6y agoJust taking a look at Dungeon Magazine on archive.org and it seems that crosshatching in walls is pretty common, at least in the early editions. https://archive.org/details/Dungeon_Magazine_002/page/n25/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/Dungeon_Magazine_002/page/n25/mo... https://archive.org/details/Dungeon_Magazine_002/page/n45/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/Dungeon_Magazine_002/page/n45/mo... https://archive.org/details/Dungeon_Magazine_002/page/n51/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/Dungeon_Magazine_002/page/n51/mo... https://archive.org/details/Dungeon_Magazine_003/page/n31/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/Dungeon_Magazine_003/page/n31/mo... https://archive.org/details/Dungeon_Magazine_003/page/n41/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/Dungeon_Magazine_003/page/n41/mo...