Starter scene · dungeon battle map

Hollowdeep Cells

Torchlit stone corridors, a guard room, cells and a treasure vault.

The place

Setting: Underground, torchlight and long shadows

The classic dungeon crawl, built to the 5-foot grid. Stone-brick corridors with doorways and archways, a guard room with a table and weapon racks, a row of cells with sarcophagi and skeletons, and a vault at the end with the chest that started all this. Torches throw real shadows and the bloom on the flames reads from across the room.

What the recipe places

7 floor and road ops
11 wall runs
43 props, lines and scatters
12 lights and effects
9 miniatures

Close-up of a dungeon corridor with a torch and a skeleton — Close-up.

Encounters it was built for

A corridor fight where the archway is a choke point and the guard room is the flank.
The cells: something is still in one of them, and the door is the only way in.
The vault trap: the treasure chest is the bait, and the top-down view shows who is in range.

Tips

Press T for the top-down view when the players need to see the whole layout.
Every torch on the shelf is a light source; add one per wall sconce and the corridors light themselves.
Skeletons come rigged and animated; they idle in place until it is their turn.