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Is the Escher-esque image under "Isometric Edit Mode" (https://dungeonscrawl.com/images/pic10.png https://dungeonscrawl.com/images/pic10.png) a joke, or does th
by scott_s 6y ago
Is the Escher-esque image under "Isometric Edit Mode" (https://dungeonscrawl.com/images/pic10.png https://dungeonscrawl.com/images/pic10.png) a joke, or does the tool allow for physically impossible layouts? Or am I reading the image wrong and it's a physical layout?
- cthalupa 6y ago> does the tool allow for physically impossible layouts? I hope so! I've definitely run some dungeons that had Escher-esque layouts. It's for D&D dungeons, not real life architecture :)
- aidenn0 6y agoAFACT it's just a line drawing tool that supports isometric drawing. One of the defining features of isometric is that such layouts are possible because the X/Y axes are identically sized (iso = same; metric= measurement) regardless of the position on the Z axis.
- probabletrain 6y agoThe tool allows for that, but it takes some effort and familiarity to actually do - the isometric mode just does a rotate and squeeze scale
- drdeadringer 6y agoThis reminds me of the Dr Who episode "Castrovalva"; the Doctor and his companions do spend some time running around trying to figure out the layout until they realize what's going on. I've entertained the idea of DMing that type of thing for a while now.
- at_a_remove 6y agoQ1, Queen of the Demonweb Pits, had something similar if I recall.
- simonh 6y agoThere was an article in Dragon magazine back on the 80s about hypercube dungeon layouts.
- at_a_remove 6y agoEven further back, there's Hunt the Wumpus, which I think was originally laid out on a Platonic solid. Messing with adventurers is a time-honored tradition!
- dragonwriter 6y agoThe original Wumpus map I've always seen referred to as a “squashed dodecahedron”, though since it only uses numbered vertices without spatial coordinates there is no particular way to distinguish it from an actual dodecahedron,