I think the ones from today are the best yet. Keep up the good work! I may very well steal several of these.

Thanks Akiva.  I do think working on plain paper is helping.

Yes, there's considerably less "long hallway, with right angles!" clutter. It also tightens up room clusters, which looks more 'lived in' sensible. It's a big exercise you made for yourself, but it looks like it's bearing some fruit.

I also like the vertical cut-away one. It may seem limiting to draw perhaps, but I think that might be more of an issue of scale. You are showing room level detail, or a medium pull away, instead of strictly level detail, more of a far pull away. However, it comes off interesting all the same.

If the vertical stuff is hard, perhaps make it an inset. And then make the overhead map be a magnified level area of the inset.

I also like how your newer stuff seems to be adding new across-the-map terrain features besides 'rivers'.

And the hexagonal rooms are a plus, too. Have you thought about attempting a hive?

How many are we at now?

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Well, I made it as far as 19 before Christmas, with a few other non-presentable scribblings.  I'll post them up now.  I don't know if it's worth continuing to 30, although I do think I learned a few things over the ones I did finish.  Happy New Year all.

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Hmm...

Is it castle complex with towers and minarets with sky high walkways?

Or is it a dungeon with stairs leading to pit fissures?

Intriguing either way.

A good candidate for a vertical layout inset.

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Very city-esque. Not 'just a dungeon,' but so organized in a rather 'livable' way, that it gives good voice to "dungeon as underground city."

You could easily convert this to an above ground town or palatial estate structure.

Versatile.

Also with the 'river S' on the side it demands less attention, suggesting a confidence that it's important regardless. Good break away from habit.