Badly Drawn Dungeons
@baddrawndungeon.bsky.social
Just a dad trying to produce TTRPG content and wonky maps. See my DTRPG page for a growing list of things like D&D creatures, rules, and scenarios.
Tiny twig hut
August 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Tiny twig hut
A new, FREE, scenario incoming this week (I hope).
The Red Band’s Lair. Home to mercenaries disguised as common bandits and a locked crypt with a horrifying secret.
The Red Band’s Lair. Home to mercenaries disguised as common bandits and a locked crypt with a horrifying secret.
July 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
A new, FREE, scenario incoming this week (I hope).
The Red Band’s Lair. Home to mercenaries disguised as common bandits and a locked crypt with a horrifying secret.
The Red Band’s Lair. Home to mercenaries disguised as common bandits and a locked crypt with a horrifying secret.
Oh, hello badly drawn kobold!
July 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Oh, hello badly drawn kobold!
Dog in the grass (black pen on paper).
July 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Dog in the grass (black pen on paper).
I have to say, as the parent of a Gen Alpha, I’m slightly disappointed there aren’t more Sigmar Boy memes.
July 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I have to say, as the parent of a Gen Alpha, I’m slightly disappointed there aren’t more Sigmar Boy memes.
A very normal Saturday doing some test sketches of a desecrated crypt…
I was a a loose end with the little one making a secret picture book project in her room.
I was a a loose end with the little one making a secret picture book project in her room.
May 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
A very normal Saturday doing some test sketches of a desecrated crypt…
I was a a loose end with the little one making a secret picture book project in her room.
I was a a loose end with the little one making a secret picture book project in her room.
Work in progress mercenary campsite, with target dummies and training area bottom left and a repair shop bottom right.
Down the stairs in the top right are some hidden secrets that even the mercs haven’t found yet.
Down the stairs in the top right are some hidden secrets that even the mercs haven’t found yet.
May 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Work in progress mercenary campsite, with target dummies and training area bottom left and a repair shop bottom right.
Down the stairs in the top right are some hidden secrets that even the mercs haven’t found yet.
Down the stairs in the top right are some hidden secrets that even the mercs haven’t found yet.
Starting to look a bit more like a camp, maybe?
May 23, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Starting to look a bit more like a camp, maybe?
New background now out for free on DTRPG!
Link below.
Link below.
May 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
New background now out for free on DTRPG!
Link below.
Link below.
Working up a badly drawn ruin of a monastery, which will be the base for a mercenary band (and a secret chamber in the crypt).
May 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Working up a badly drawn ruin of a monastery, which will be the base for a mercenary band (and a secret chamber in the crypt).
Badly drawn horseshoe for my soon-to-be out Stablehand background (#5e for now).
May 16, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Badly drawn horseshoe for my soon-to-be out Stablehand background (#5e for now).
A tiny book for my daughter. Dog Butt.
May 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
A tiny book for my daughter. Dog Butt.
You have been around horses and other riding or pack animals all your life. You have cared for them, trained them, driven or ridden them, eaten and slept alongside them. Deep knowledge and experience help you to read the animals’ body language and predict their actions or reactions.
May 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
You have been around horses and other riding or pack animals all your life. You have cared for them, trained them, driven or ridden them, eaten and slept alongside them. Deep knowledge and experience help you to read the animals’ body language and predict their actions or reactions.
The earliest and lowest layer was part of the same cultural tradition as those above. A smaller, self-sufficient settlement but one where intricate crafting took place and early ironwork was made or imported.
What’s your interpretation of these patterns?
What’s your interpretation of these patterns?
May 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The earliest and lowest layer was part of the same cultural tradition as those above. A smaller, self-sufficient settlement but one where intricate crafting took place and early ironwork was made or imported.
What’s your interpretation of these patterns?
What’s your interpretation of these patterns?
Rolled up the second archaeological layer under our generic fantasy human village. It’s the same cultural tradition as the (later) one above, but uses crystal (jade? obsidian?) rather than steel technology.
What would cause the sudden shift in technology?
What would cause the sudden shift in technology?
April 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Rolled up the second archaeological layer under our generic fantasy human village. It’s the same cultural tradition as the (later) one above, but uses crystal (jade? obsidian?) rather than steel technology.
What would cause the sudden shift in technology?
What would cause the sudden shift in technology?
Here are draft tables to help add flavour to the archaeological patterns coming out of the new worldbuilding tool I am making. Anything missing?
April 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Here are draft tables to help add flavour to the archaeological patterns coming out of the new worldbuilding tool I am making. Anything missing?
I used some in-progress auxiliary tables for more details, showing bronze necklaces and iron beads with the altar in the final grid square.
We probably have some religious centre with a martial element. Monastic or paladin order. Living, training, worshipping.
What do you see in the first layer?
We probably have some religious centre with a martial element. Monastic or paladin order. Living, training, worshipping.
What do you see in the first layer?
April 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I used some in-progress auxiliary tables for more details, showing bronze necklaces and iron beads with the altar in the final grid square.
We probably have some religious centre with a martial element. Monastic or paladin order. Living, training, worshipping.
What do you see in the first layer?
We probably have some religious centre with a martial element. Monastic or paladin order. Living, training, worshipping.
What do you see in the first layer?
With details of the first grid square finished, the next strp is to roll 2d6 to see what the next square contains.
I rolled an 11, moving two rows down on the land use table to ‘large structures’, where we find spearheads, blades, and a decorated breastplate.
I rolled an 11, moving two rows down on the land use table to ‘large structures’, where we find spearheads, blades, and a decorated breastplate.
April 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
With details of the first grid square finished, the next strp is to roll 2d6 to see what the next square contains.
I rolled an 11, moving two rows down on the land use table to ‘large structures’, where we find spearheads, blades, and a decorated breastplate.
I rolled an 11, moving two rows down on the land use table to ‘large structures’, where we find spearheads, blades, and a decorated breastplate.
With the presence and type of feature decided, we roll a d6 and d20, twice, to figure out the interesting finds in the grid square.
I rolled a 4 and a 16, then a 2 and an 8, showing small figurines and grinding wheels. The figurines and dais could show a religious locale with food proceesing.
I rolled a 4 and a 16, then a 2 and an 8, showing small figurines and grinding wheels. The figurines and dais could show a religious locale with food proceesing.
April 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
With the presence and type of feature decided, we roll a d6 and d20, twice, to figure out the interesting finds in the grid square.
I rolled a 4 and a 16, then a 2 and an 8, showing small figurines and grinding wheels. The figurines and dais could show a religious locale with food proceesing.
I rolled a 4 and a 16, then a 2 and an 8, showing small figurines and grinding wheels. The figurines and dais could show a religious locale with food proceesing.
Here is one in progress. The ‘present’ has a generic human village using steel-based technology, but rolling a 9 means that before this village a different steel-using culture lived here. A 7 means small buildings were here. An odd number and 19 on a d20 shows a daius present.
April 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Here is one in progress. The ‘present’ has a generic human village using steel-based technology, but rolling a 9 means that before this village a different steel-using culture lived here. A 7 means small buildings were here. An odd number and 19 on a d20 shows a daius present.
Once you have the first tile’s land use, you roll a d6 to see whether there are any notable fixed features; odds are yes, evens no. If you have a feature, a d20 will tell you what it is!
April 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Once you have the first tile’s land use, you roll a d6 to see whether there are any notable fixed features; odds are yes, evens no. If you have a feature, a d20 will tell you what it is!
With the general nature of the layer decided, the next step is to roll 2d6 and see what land use characterises the first grid square.
April 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
With the general nature of the layer decided, the next step is to roll 2d6 and see what land use characterises the first grid square.
First step I have in the (draft) process of building an archaeology for your setting is to start with a grid, 3, 6 or 8 across and 3 down. Then roll for the top layer’s cultural and technological traditions relative to ‘now’.
April 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
First step I have in the (draft) process of building an archaeology for your setting is to start with a grid, 3, 6 or 8 across and 3 down. Then roll for the top layer’s cultural and technological traditions relative to ‘now’.
Hi guys! Happy Saturday!
I’m still giving away three free copies of The Swarms of Tanffridd (link below). A Call of Cthulhu scenario set in 1920s Wales. Comment or dm if anyone wants one.
Publisher page also has a free game, free DnD stuff, and more!
I’m still giving away three free copies of The Swarms of Tanffridd (link below). A Call of Cthulhu scenario set in 1920s Wales. Comment or dm if anyone wants one.
Publisher page also has a free game, free DnD stuff, and more!
April 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Hi guys! Happy Saturday!
I’m still giving away three free copies of The Swarms of Tanffridd (link below). A Call of Cthulhu scenario set in 1920s Wales. Comment or dm if anyone wants one.
Publisher page also has a free game, free DnD stuff, and more!
I’m still giving away three free copies of The Swarms of Tanffridd (link below). A Call of Cthulhu scenario set in 1920s Wales. Comment or dm if anyone wants one.
Publisher page also has a free game, free DnD stuff, and more!
Hi guys! Thanks!
I’m still giving away three free copies of The Swarms of Tanffridd (link below). A Call of Cthulhu scenario set in 1920s Wales. Comment or dm if anyone wants one.
Publisher page also has a free game, free DnD stuff, and more!
I’m still giving away three free copies of The Swarms of Tanffridd (link below). A Call of Cthulhu scenario set in 1920s Wales. Comment or dm if anyone wants one.
Publisher page also has a free game, free DnD stuff, and more!
April 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Hi guys! Thanks!
I’m still giving away three free copies of The Swarms of Tanffridd (link below). A Call of Cthulhu scenario set in 1920s Wales. Comment or dm if anyone wants one.
Publisher page also has a free game, free DnD stuff, and more!
I’m still giving away three free copies of The Swarms of Tanffridd (link below). A Call of Cthulhu scenario set in 1920s Wales. Comment or dm if anyone wants one.
Publisher page also has a free game, free DnD stuff, and more!