CREATING FLOORPLAN MAPS
Floorplans include dungeon maps, modern location maps such as bars, hotels, or houses, and futuristic deckplans for starships or space stations.
Keyed floorplan maps provide the basis for creating battle maps.
Visualize each of the spaces from the Adventurer's point of view.
Consider each of the following possibilities:
- Locate “north”
- What scale to use?
- Floors?
- Walls?
- Roof or ceiling?
- Entries? Exits?
- Archways? Doors? Hatchways?
- Windows?
- Size? Maximum occupants?
- Primary purpose or activity which happens here?
- Furnishings such as beds, couches, bookcases, and tables?
- Fixtures such as sinks or showers?
- Fittings like shelves or cabinets?
- Life support such as atmosphere, temperature, and pressure?
- Designed for microgravity or full gravity use?
- Lighting?
- Sounds?
- Smells?
- Decorations?
- Plants?
- Animals and their supplies or equipment?
- Hidden features, traps, or harzards such as radiation?
Floorplan Examples
Medieval / Fantasy
- Castles
- Ruins
- Caves
Modern
- Hotels
- Bars
- Houses
- Computer Rooms
Futuristic
- Space Stations
- Colonies
- Outposts
- Spacecraft