How to Create a One Page Dungeon! Temple of the Blood Crystal! Free Download!!!

[@shivamutreja6427]

I’d easily binge an entire series like this

[@kaiba5271]

I know, it’s amazing

[@knightoflostlight6550]

Anytime

[@loydjenkins2241]

I do.

[@BEDABLIO]

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[@Kostoja]

I almost did it

[@spider3701]

started playing D&D in 78' . it has evolved so much sense then, but dungeon layout where soooo much fun to draw. thank you for this

[@PatriceBoivin]

Some of those old dungeons were almost one-page dungeons, once you unfolded the cover and looked at the blue and white map inside. Some had two pages, like G1.

[@itsmeerickpatrick]

Definitely do more 1-page dungeons =)

[@BigCowProductions]

I love your energy, Dood. I could see you being a teacher for a day job

[@henriqueribeiro8167]

Man you are incredibly talented. Everything you do is good and straightforward, it looks easy.

[@anathema1828]

Nice work! I’ll have to grab a few of these one page dungeons for my sandbox campaign in Eberron!

[@RunnerLogan]

I love your obvious passion for the craft. Your finished product is amazing and shows your heart and soul were poured into it. Also, your presentation of the process is succinct and as polished as the final product. The art/layout of the dungeon is incredible but the interconnected stories for the various chambers ties it all together, creating a compelling dungeon. It gave me a few ideas as I plan a new city for my campaign.

[@kingsfan2099]

So crazy that I'm literally writing an adventure in a temple but the sunken into the ground part is so cool and will find its way into my game.

[@CorbinsChickenCafe]

This was amazing and after coming from your world map tutorials, I'm blown away. Love your energy and your tutorials got me super inspired to finish making more maps for my campaign!

[@pastamethis]

Love the final presentation of the sheet. Really nicely done! There's an online tool I found cool called Dungeon Scrawl that helps with the design

[@brettallenthomas]

Great vid, really enjoyed watching your creative process on flushing out a 1 page dungeon.. brings me back to my junior high school days when I used to sketch our dungeons during class...

[@fernandoherranz4095]

You're the best JP! Your enthusiasm is contagious and inspiring- I hope to draw some cool maps and create some compelling dungeons soon. Keep it up!

[@flexorlamonticus]

I love your newer videos, but I also love going back and reliving the classics like this one. This video is worthy of many, many rewatches. I just can't get enough of it!

[@bjhale]

I greatly enjoyed watching the nuts and bolts of your process. I'm an aspiring DnD content crestor with no art background but a non-zero of art supplies, so it was very useful to see what you do. On a dungeon design note, though, I would recommend at least one branching path or alternate entrance, perhaps one through the caverns.

[@twilightgardenspresentatio6384]

I can’t wait to see what you think

[@StoneWolf99801]

I've been creating 1 page dungeons in books of graph paper for the last 20 years. I get board, pull out one of my spiral bound books of graph paper, attempt to find a blank page, and start drawing. I have dungeons, forest, cities, continents, castles, houses, stables, all sorts of things all designed on a single page... Some on a sheet where you find a set of stairs and flip the sheet over and the second layer is on the back of the page.

[@TheRunpoker]

Wow, thank you for these awesome videos and resources 🙏🏻

[@Liamgjg789]

great video! very useful indeed. And thanks for sharing your one-page dungeons, very generous! I'd love to see more content like this. Greetings from Argentina!

[@mattjackson]

Nice work! Very good video. Yes, the one page dungeon contests have been going on for years now, especially among the old school gaming crowds.

[@TRANCERwin]

Im in love with your wall x) !

[@dreddbolt]

Awesome arrangement on the 1-page dungeon!

[@euansmith3699]

That is a great looking project; nicely balanced on the page.

[@mightydub]

Ok, so I recognize that this video is 3 years old, but I found it and loved it and when I had half my players cancel on me for game night last night, I decided to run it for the other 3 as a "side quest". They're playing through the Goodman Games 5e Isle of Dread classic adventure, so I modified the backstory of the temple a little to match that setting. They also didn't have anyone who needed ot be ressurected so I changed it a bit that they could place the crystal in the hands of the statue and it would become charged, allowing them to use it for 1 "free" ressurection in the future. They loved it! They breezed through the first few rooms, killing the rats (I put 8 in that room) and the skeletal acolytes (I put 4). I also had a bit of a trap associated with the dorm room - I decided that if they distrubed the old, mouldy beds that the room would fill with toxic spoores (1d8 damage + poisoned unless they make a Con (14) Save). They had some trouble getting down to the bottom of the chasm - they used the well but didn't trust the rope so used their own and one character still managed to fail their athletics check and fell. They climbed up the other side after fighting the Nothic. Then the real fun started with the Corpse Monstrosity taking its toll on them (two of them were consumed at least once, one more than once!) and they were convinced that that was the Big Boss until the wraith showed up in the final room. Suffice to say, it was a nail-bighter of a fight and two characters definitely lost a fair bit of max-HP to the wrait (14 for the fighter, 18 for the rogue!) They managed to eek through though, and I gave them a few magic items that they found in the Nothic's lair and a fair chunk of XP for their efforts. Interestingly, I imported your map into Roll20 and enabled Dynamic Lighting. Since all 3 PCs were human, they needed to manage their light spells/torches effectively which was a neat addition. The players all reported that doing it that way definitely incrased the spook-factor and left them all with a sense of dread as they moved through. I don't always love using Dynamic Lighting for a few reasons, but it was a neat addition to this 1-page dungeon. Thanks for a great evening's worth of fun adventure. I'll definitely be trying my hand at my own 1-page dungeons in the near future.

[@JPCoovert]

Love hearing this!

[@squidlicious8449]

Love that you gave us all a free dungeon! Thanks!

[@louisegothard3382]

Definitely do more one page dungeons and other great maps. Watching is tons of fun.

[@JPCoovert]

Will for sure!!!

[@stonerocks0]

This detailed, structured approach is really helpful and encouraging - thanks!

[@BlueMoonShadowhawk]

What a great tutorial you have created. Thanks for sharing. I think you should indeed do more one page dungeons, your work on this one is high quality work. Keep it up.

[@caleb3708]

I made a one page dungeon based off of this (tweaked to fit my campaign) that I ran yesterday and it went great! Thank you for the inspiration! :)

[@JPCoovert]

That's awesome!!!

[@redraspusrpg3807]

Yes, yes! More of these! I'm excited to make some myself...

[@FatalKitsune]

Two years too late but I just found your videos. I really like your approach and the map looks gorgeous! I think it would make for a fun one-shot adventure, though with one tweak. The MM Wraith is a little boring, as all it can really do is swipe and life drain. If one is going to be a boss it needs some spice to make the fight exciting. Maybe the priest's journal hints at a specific weakness? It maybe contains a passage of holy prayer that one of the PC's must repeat to stun the wraith? Maybe the wraith has some spells slots, or maybe he's got some minions of his own? The chapel room could have a second level, a wraparound walkway with pews that is accessed by some stairs and up there are some skeletal archers. Or you could go Dark Souls-style with it; on the second level are undead minions that utter cursed prayers to the wraith and give him a shield of sorts. Tons of options! Really fun video that got me thinking creatively!

[@johnleach8553]

Very cool. Loved the art work and the whole concept

[@matteorossi1172]

I love this, happy to subscribe and find this channel. I will be happy to implement the doungeon in my campaing if I get the chance

[@sixoffcenter80]

I might try converting some adventures I'm planning on running into one page dungeons. If nothing else it could serve as a nice exercise to learn the content better before running it.

[@JeffWise-ji6he]

MAN THIS IS AWESOME! Thank you. Nice craftsmanship.love it

[@obaits3225]

I’m going to use this excersize and also keep a copy in my book at all times. Never know when someone in the tavern will run their mouth and the party needs a resurrection

[@rachelblume2255]

This was amazing! Super inspiring, thank you for the great ideas. Please make more one page dungeons in the future!

[@furakko]

Really great work and instructions! Keep it up, it's awesome

[@landozr2443]

Dude I love your your art!!!!

[@jawajunk]

This is a great idea. Although I enjoy the WOTC products and the extensive amounts of backstory and info, practically speaking when preparing for a game night, I am often whittling things down to essentials which your work here captures. Your unique style is so visually appealing which further makes your work compelling. Great thoughts and a equally fantastic creation. Well done!

[@JPCoovert]

Thank you!!!

[@twilightgardenspresentatio6384]

I used to do exactly this in the 90s. I’d make a drawing and notes that gave character build hints with a map and encounter notes on the other side.

[@tonyhind6992]

That is fantastic. Would love loads more.

[@glennk.7348]

Yes! More one page dungeons!!!

[@mavfan21]

I just came across your page and this video. I loved it! Just subscribed! I play solo a lot and making a dungeon like this and adding some random tables for enemies and encounters will be fun.

[@Phant0mTim]

I'd love it if you did a video about the shading that you add to the final product and any digital finishing that you do. Great video, as always.

[@JPCoovert]

I will! Thanks for the suggestion!

[@WCPFISH]

Love your passion! keep it up, brother!

[@gstaff1234]

Please do more! This was fun to watch

[@Gamarishi]

Man, great as always! You are so inspiring!

[@OkieRCguy]

Great way to do one shots. Some members of our group have expressed an interest in running some adventures. This would be a great way to bring them into the DM fold!

[@JPCoovert]

Yeah! I think these one page dungeons are just vague enough to force a DM to do a little bit of work (in a good way.) Could be a really nice, low stakes way to get new DM's going!

[@jackfranciswest3778]

This is so amazing!!! Keep up the awesome work !

[@Crits-Crafts]

In my campaign where I dm, I have an "adventure board" where I have quests for my players. It allows for autonomy where they can pick their own adventure for the session but I can still plan and link everything to the main story. If I'd seen this sooner, it would have made my notes so much easier lol

[@crease9169]

I love the idea, I will try it out.

[@donneal1352]

Thank you for your time.

[@smansam]

Great work as always man! Such an inspiration!!

[@marcdeschamps9059]

I think there was a magazine in the late 90's, early 2000 that was releasing a dongeon each month. I remember my friend bringing some for us to play

[@JPCoovert]

Yeah! Dungeon Magazine!!!

[@JockevanHelgen]

I love one Page Dungeons (Mausritter uses also One Page Dungeons kind of ^^) Please do more, I will give your Temple a look

[@Ozarkwonderer]

I'm gonna use this format. I'm bad about over complicating and adding to many details in my games. I'm doing some games for my kids so I need simplicity. One pagers or even just two or three would be great

[@OurLibertyMatters]

What opens do you use to get the grey for water? YES, do more one pager dungeons! Great “how to’’ for beginners!

[@JPCoovert]

I did the greys in photoshop ;)

[@OurLibertyMatters]

@@JPCoovert ok, well, that’s a bridge too far for me.. combining drawing and computer enhancement. I really like your videos, I have kids that like to play and I am usually the DM. Time is a premium and finding ways to make it a little easier without just going to canned adventures is great. THANKS!

[@JPCoovert]

@@OurLibertyMatters I like to use the C3 Copic Marker for greys "by hand"

[@OurLibertyMatters]

@@JPCoovert cool thanks!

[@valberto]

Dude your work is completely amazing. You gave me so much ideas for my next game then we'll be turning point on my campaign. Thank you very much for sharing it.

[@JPCoovert]

Love to hear it!

[@frederickchevallier9958]

This is beautiful and very inspiring

[@BigOak1669]

Great work, as always!

[@paulrieu30]

Wonderful ! Great job, so so so would like to play this dungeon. Thanks for making my sunday morning with this vidéo 👍🏻

[@Justin-bk2kh]

Next time I’m short on a night I am definitely using this thank you!

[@russellharrell2747]

How do you make a one page dungeon? One bite at a time. Oh wait, that’s how to eat an elephant.

[@TheDungeonDive]

This is a great video! Thanks. I dig your art.

[@msneill]

Amazing circle!

[@glennk.7348]

I love your imagination!!

[@GIJoeFactotum]

Very cool. Well done.

[@Talathel]

Thanks JP. I really need to learn how to do this stuff.

[@obesebanana1177]

Love the videos man :)

[@whispers._.]

You have such a nice handwriting.. If I do that I have to start it like 15 times cause I'm never happy with my writing and mistakes ._.

[@garenne0169]

awesome exercice and work. thanks. I want more !!!!!!

[@Ciderpunk-jj5es]

brilliant, thanks!

[@TheStylelike16th]

THIS WAS SO COOL!!!!!!!

[@NisGaarde]

Nice video. Just a thought, but maybe consider treating your studio acoustically. I think that would vastly improve your audio. Tighten it up. It has a slightly generous amount of reverberation at the moment. Just something to consider.

[@tburns5943]

Dude! So cool 😎 I love it!!!

[@dmitrydeg1372]

Amazing!

[@Kay22-325]

I love your vids.you,v inspired me a lot🤘🎲🐲

[@happytohelpu2]

Great job!

[@OurLibertyMatters]

Hey, you said you were using 11x14 but I only find 11x17 in the Bienfang gridded paper. You should put your supplies up somewhere. Your dungeons always looks so good!

[@dadinside8739]

The sketchbook also said 11x17, I think he just misspoke

[@AtlasdeWorldbuilding]

this is PERFECT! xoxo from brazil :))

[@dreamweaver3095]

Big fan of your series! I'm going to try printing out my monster figures - what printer are you using?

[@JPCoovert]

I just have a pretty standard HP printer. Use white card stock and set your quality to “best”. Or you can always take the file to an office supply store and have them print it!

[@TheDrewjameson]

This is so cool. Watching you do all that handwriting is making my knuckles ache, tho...

[@JPCoovert]

Yeah... that's the part that took the longest for sure!

[@shaunhall960]

I have a theory on how one page dungeons started and that is they developed out of necessity. I don't think any one person created it but rather the community as a whole. This approach makes it so much easier for the GM to create something quickly and have some depth to it at the same time. I can see over time how easy it would be to create an entire campaign one page at a time and building upon each page with new content over time. You could not only do dungeons but areas of land, towns, and even cities.

[@jorgegodoy8237]

what type of light box you are using

[@josapharmstrong1571]

Awesome map not stop making maps please and thank you

[@jordipallares1540]

Helpful!

[@gsatchu111]

excellent

[@MastertheGamerpg]

You should do more of these. I would like to do some of my own over on my channel.

[@macomorbid]

How would they get back up to the other side? The secret entrance looks like it leads away or is an alternate entrance into the dungeon avoiding the initial stairs and quarters.

[@kargandarr]

OpenOffice or LibreOffice (both free and open-source) will create Microsoft Word compatible documents natively just as googledocs does.

[@V_Pie]

What kind of laptop was that with the touchpad on the right?

[@enslavedcontent]

Omw to make a 1 page dungeon out of a mobius strip

[@RadioCastGaming]

Can I still make the dungeon if I don't talk with karate hands? I feel like it might lose its mojo.

[@JPCoovert]

Haha! Only one way to find out!

[@jonnil1997]

Cool! What level part would you say your dungeon is suited for?

[@JPCoovert]

Level 5 is what I had in mind, but easily scaled up or down!

[@PvtSchlock]

*art studio equipment is very, very helpful.

[@SunSailor]

Me likes more one page dungeons from you.

[@SuperAverageJason]

I NEED THIS FOR MY CAMPAIGN!!! we had to kill a guy off because his player unexpectedly had to quit our campaign and I had to essentially say "Ol' dude had a heart attack in his sleep. he ded." I'd like to bring him back in case his player is ever available to play again, and I think this would be an AWESOME way to do so!

[@JPCoovert]

Let me know if you end up using it! Hope that player can return! :)

[@SuperAverageJason]

JP Coovert definitely will. The only thing I’m waiting on is a stat block for the monstrosity. *patiently waits*

[@lucasterable]

This reminds me of the "how to draw an owl" meme 😂

[@fred_derf]

8:15 Correction: 11"x17" piece of paper.

[@JPCoovert]

Nope! Count those squares ;)

[@fred_derf]

@@JPCoovert Well then you showed the wrong pad at the 7:00 minute mark because it clearly reads 11 in x 17 in. [edit] Ah, I've realized what you did, you cut the 11" x 17" page down to 11" x 14" to batter match the ratio of an 8.5" x 11" page.

[@JPCoovert]

@@fred_derf you got it!

[@ssapp72]

How long does play in these one page dungeons tend to last?

[@JPCoovert]

SUPER depends on the game and the group. My sessions are usually around 3 hours.

[@stacyj443]

Hey man I checked out your video on dungeon design for d&d and that's cool, I don't play d&d anymore I deal with solo rpg games and I'm putting together a solo rpg game all by myself and it's a whole lot to do I like hi how u put together a one page dungeon and I I really would like to use that for my game honestly if your not doing anything we should get together sum how and put a game together I know u don't know me but this would be cool get at me and let me know whts up.