Appreciate the background. I create for a homebrew world and cities are a challenge. This is excellent

Thanks Sue. You have mentioned transparency acne posts on FB. It looks like I accidently found a way to use if as a feature instead of a laibility :-) .

Cheers

I was planning to make it the most impostant crypt. I should consider a caretaker's residence & equipment shed. It is consistent with the setting. Thanks. These are all great suggestions

Thank you LoopySue, that was very helpful

Thank you Kevbeck, steal away. I look at a lot of maps others have drawn and I am certain I create very similar content at times either intentionally or not.

@ Royal Scribe, thank you!

Anyone have any suggestions for a better fill for the "walls" of this small dungeon? I am trying to make it look like the inside of a giant tree. I could add lots of age rings, there are some very faint ones on the right above the webfilled room, but just wondering if there might be a better option?

Thank you and Happy New Year

Thank you JimP

Thank you all.

Sue, I am playing with the colorize effect but you are right, this is more clay than wood. Never found anything I really liked but the colorize effect is going to be a favorite

Wyvern, very interesting idea, my thought was a dryad formed the tunnels, which would entail a nature "growth" as opposed to tunneling which would damage the tree & thus the dryad. In conjuction with jonas' spiral inward idea I think it might work really well. The green carpet is an attempt to convey a slimey moss covering, the whitish pustule in the upper right room is intended to be a coccon.

Jonasgreenfeather, great idea. Spiralling to the heart of the tree makes for a better layout & more in line with the story. I like the pinch point idea in the passages as well. The party is going to have small, biting spiders crawling all over them once they pass the web room, and slimey moss actively grasping at their feet, it will be help to amp up the tension too... and then there's the wood golems...

Thank you Ricko. I will follow up. I typically use the maps on a VTT that has it's own grid overlay but knowing how to deploy the grid on just the active map will be helpful.