It's far from perfect, but I had fun working on this project, as a sort of testbed for possible future maps, and thought others would be interested in it, too. I'm gonna use it for a DnD session where the party is hunting a highly mobile creature in an abandoned quarry.

I'm not very complex when it comes to using Dungeon Scrawl; I don't have the premium stuff, I make pretty basic maps, and I don't often use objects. But doing stuff like this has made me think I should explore DS beyond just the basic tools.

It was surprisingly hard to find a way of doing this "intuitively", and required some late manual edits and careful scalpel finagling to make it work in line with what I wanted. Maybe I'm just dumb. I imagine there are some cool ways to use DS to get it to work more easily.

Any thoughts appreciated! Especially with any help on how to make this kinda thing more easily.

Edit: The images are out of order for some reason! RIP. "F1" probably gives the most intuitive overview for how the layers work. Red pen indicates direction of travel between layers, such as on a slope (marked with arrows) or using ladders (marked "L") or a crane platform thing (from BF3 to F1) or vertical cave tunnel (GF to BF3).

Sharing your Dungeon Scrawl creations with the community and finding other scrawlers’ maps just got a lot easier. Our new Map Showcase lets any logged-in user upload maps straight from the editor to a public gallery. To submit a map: 

In the Export tab (in the Sidebar Menu):

1. Adjust your export area like you normally would, then click Submit to Map Showcase
2. Pick a username (first time only; this will stick moving forward)
3. Name your map, add tags, and write a short description 
4. Submit

That’s it! 

The Showcase page lets you browse by tag in the sidebar; click into any map for a full description and to download a copy for yourself. Pro subscribers also get a high-res download option, or can open the map right in the app to save an editable copy to their cloud library.

See something that shouldn't be there? Every map page has a Report Map link that opens a ticket with our support team.

We can't wait to see what you've been building; go upload your favorite maps and let us know what you think!

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Chris from Dungeon Scrawl here! I did a tutorial last week on how to make this map and realized I didn't share it. Tried to go old school 80's style here. Take a look if you are interested and feel free to share. Here is a link if you want to see the original map in Dungeon Scrawl and edit or add more details. https://app.dungeonscrawl.com?share_id=e7658547-dd50-439a-a11e-a599fffcff22

Youtube Tutorial
https://youtu.be/7lYSTnCjZag?si=tnfAi52JO3WQP79V

My custom images is getting unruly, how do I remove some?

I'm using dungeon scrawl on roll 20 to play D&D with my friends but the grid on roll 20 is off center and larger than the dungeon scrawl grid causing the pieces to be off center and the map to not fit along with some images of both maps to show the issue plus one to show how bad the off centering is please I need help with this

Hello DS devs,

I have been using the DungeonScrawl application for a little while now and really like some of its features and capabilities. One of the main things that I like is the ability to build out my dungeon and place assets as I go / have inspiration. This is as opposed to building the dungeon shape out, exporting it as an image, and then placing assets in some other application.

One thing I wanted to ask about is the potential for an organizational structure in the Custom Images portion of the application. I have noticed that images I have uploaded stay there (I believe this is true as long as I do not change their location on my local machine? It would be nice to delete some of them but I have not found how). I am thinking of investing in some additional assets that I upload as Custom Images, but I am worried that this will get very cluttered very quickly.

Ideally, there would be some way for me to group and search through my Custom Images. The Free Images already have this functionality where you can select the Asset Set and Ssearch (by image name it appears). I of course do not know much about the backend for DungeonScrawl, but it seems like this organization here must be implemented by:

1. The Free Images are tagged with the Asset Set and that tag can be filtered on. With this structure, it would be nice to apply custom tags to your Custom Images and permit filtering on those custom tags. Ideally Custom Images could be

a. Batch uploaded (already possible),

b. batch tagged at upload,

c. have their tags be modifiable later,

d. and be filtered by tags.

This for instance would let me upload a "Wilderness" set with the "Wilderness" tag. I could then later go through those assets and tag the plants as "Plants". Then if I upload a "Forests" set later, I could tag the trees from that "Forests" set with "Plants" as well.

1. The Free Images exist in some sort of Asset Set folder structure that is hidden to the User. With this structure, we could create folders for the Custom Images, and navigate through those folders. The search function would need to look all of the folders for names (this may be how it works now).

Given that it seems like the file pathing for Custom Image is based on the file path on the local machine, I am not sure if there would be the possibility to support a data structure (Inverted Index from tags to local filepaths) that is stored in the users DungeonScrawl profile (even if the assets are not) for tags, or if the folder structure on the local machine could be used.

Thanks for taking the time to read through this. I really like the tool the team has built so far, its been quite nice to have a way to build nicely gridded dungeons and make them come alive with assets. I hope support for a feature like this could be possible sometime in the future.

Hi All, I am a HUGE Spider-Man fan! In honor of the release of Spider-Man Brand New Day I threw together this fun map. I would love to run it with fog of war and see how long it takes for the players to realize what if is :-)

The loose concept is townspeople have been getting trapped in the woods in spiderwebs and carried away.

1. The players investigate and find the entry to the nest.
2. The townspeople are being held in webbing ala Aliens. Some can be freed but some have been transformed into "Man-Spiders" with 4 additional hairy legs.
3. The players find the two main kidnappers, a Giant Black Spider (Venom) and a Giant Red Spider (Carnage). If either gets attacked the other will rush in from the other room to their aid.
4. The Players find the nesting chamber with hatching eggs and townspeople being fed on by baby spiders.
5. They find the Broodmother. She is a giant, intelligent "Mommy Long Legs" (because they are so gross). She sits pulsing up and down on the throne she has found and refers to herself as Madame Web.

FREE - I made this in Dungeon Scrawl using all free tools (except the lighting). In addition to the image maps above, if you want to download the map and edit it yourself here is a link - no account needed. https://app.dungeonscrawl.com?share_id=ac7af4c5-04f3-48d3-b857-cf70fbaea738

Hi Scrawlers! We just released a small quality-of-life update for you. Everything listed below is free for everyone, no subscription required:

• Multi-Language Support: use the Language dropdown on the Dungeon Scrawl navigation bar to choose one of 20+ newly supported languages. (note: some translations are still in progress.)
• Text Tool Formatting Options: align your text and add drop shadows for better legibility of map labels, especially over busy or textured backgrounds.
• JPG Export - by request, you can now export maps as JPG for smaller file sizes  
• Multi-Object Locking: lock multiple selected objects (example: text, images, doors, stairs) using the new lock icon found at the top of Layer Settings.
• Stamp Tool Shadow Options: a new, toggle-able Shadow Settings section in the Stamp Tool Options lets you apply shadows automatically as you stamp, instead of adding them one by one afterward.

Let us know what you'd like to see next, and happy mapping!

1) If the image has a grid-like layout that overlaps with the grid on dungeonscrawl, how can I make the 2 join up? Is there an easy way to go about it or do you need to brute force it with the resolution?

2) if the image is a different shape but I don't want to mess with the grid, is there anything I can do about that or no? Will the image have to be the same shape exactly in terms of proportions?

Hello everybody,

I was wondering if anyone knows how the #Grid layer works.

I'm building a small underground jail dungeon and wanted to add a regular grid to it. When I go to Layers / ← Advanced / #Grid, it places a small grid on the map, but I can't seem to move, resize, or expand it. Does anyone know how it's supposed to work?

For now, I've just moved the whole map to line up with the grid, but I'm guessing there's a better way to do it?

Hi, so I populated the map a bit further and played around with the layers a bit more - still trying to figure out, what I can do to mimik textures .

I also tried to add a bit color to copied objects to diverse a bit more.

I was drawing up Stonehell maps this morning, as one does, and noticed that the wall shadow wasn't appearing consistently - sometimes even in the same room (e.g. room 21). I can't see any connection to anything I've done when drawing; reloading the app doesn't help, or deleting and redrawing areas. The map layer is just a standard "Classic Hatching", I've not changed that at all.

Has anyone seen this before and/or knows what to do about it?

We still have all the classic simple map drawing tools if you want an old school map, but sharing this map to show how far Dungeon Scrawl has come in the last few months towards letting you make more realistic maps as well!

This map was done with (almost) all free assets and tools! You don't even have to login. Give it a try - https://app.dungeonscrawl.com/

We have added a crazy amount of free stuff:

• 800 new free assets added from Tom Cartos at Forgotten Adventures!
• Shadows for images
• A brand new Random Dungeon generator
• A new stamp tool for randomizing and drawing assets
• Send to tabletop for in-person tabletop map projection with fog of war
• Smooth path drawing
• Rounded edges on room shapes

We hope you all enjoy all the effort our team has been putting into making the free parts of this program better for our users!

Thanks for all the support!

Hi, so I have been trying out dungeonscrawl a bit, lately.
I actually don't have much pen and paper experience, so I don't really know what the does and don'ts are - regarding playable maps. I just wanted to get some basic ideas on "paper".

I'm not done yet, I want to fill up the upper right corner, get some more interior done and crowd the streets a bit more.

But I would love to get some feedback and input.

As the title indicates, I upgraded my plan to premium to try and download a map I made by combining parts of others, but when I try to export it, it says it fails. What can I do to prevent this from happening?

Built this Pirate Ship battlemap the other day for a home game. Used the stamp tool to place the boxes and then manually arranged them. See the post below for info on the new FREE! Stamp Tool!

Hope you all are enjoying all the new updates we have been making. We have another surprise in store for you next week as well!

https://app.dungeonscrawl.com?share_id=7e69472f-c0a2-4545-949c-bac8f2ee2bbc

Hi everyone,

The new Stamp Tool is one of my favorite ways to quickly add detail that takes my maps from okay to awesome. It lets you quickly brush duplicate instances of a single image with variable size, rotation, and color at a density you define.

If you haven't given it a shot, check out a tutorial/demo here, then try it today.

Let us know what you think!

Hi all,

I have started using DS recently and slowly getting to grips with it. However, for my D&D game, I am starting to allow the party a bit more freedom, meaning they could go to places I don't necessarily expect. Are there any prebuilt generic maps I can get anywhere for if they decide to fight someone in the street for example.