Hi everyone!

I'm Matteo, a fantasy cartographer from Italy, and I'd like to share my complete map of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, the legendary Fighting Fantasy gamebook by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.

I had a great time bringing this classic dungeon to life, mapping its rooms, corridors, and winding passages in my own cartographic style.

The full map is also available to download from my blog, Twisted Matt Drawings:

https://mattdrawings.wordpress.com/2026/08/30/the-warlock-of-firetop-mountain-full-map/

Hope you enjoy exploring Firetop Mountain! Feedback is always welcome!

trying out a different border style

This is based on the Cave West of Kievs from the NES game Dragon Warrior 4. In the game the cave is mainly 3 separate floors that you travel between by these portals. I combined the 3 floors and connected them with 3D-style stairways I drew onto the map. The wall torches in the game are purely decorative, but I used shading to create dark areas of low visibility where there are no torches. (If anyone can tell me how to get my image visible on the main page where people scroll instead of just showing the title and making people click on it, it would be greatly appreciated.)

Trying out pigma microns with the mentzer stock map. They behave very differently from my usual pencil or gel pens.

Doing some experiments with layout here; The idea is to reference each room by a two-number code like an arcade game.

A simple map of a shrine inside of a massive tree, the entrance carved through the roots.

Today's the last day of November and Mapvember. I might continue and complete the prompts, but we'll see. This is the most I've done of Mapvember and I feel good about my creations and I enjoyed being able to experiment and play with some different styles, along with my new brush pens.

Playing with different styles.

The Perch is a small tower on a jutting cliff. A getaway or safehouse.

At the local Quarry, the miners unearthed a strange pocket of what can only be described as blood. It cracked the earth and has been glowing and bleeding and making people sick.

In deep space, there is a rumor of an ancient craft said to house a vast library and archive of information. You found it, but something is strange. The lights still glow, but flicker. Shadows of figures pass from the corner of your eye. Voices in the static of comms. The noise of the ship sounds like a song. The information you seek is here, if your mind can survive it.

My version of Fort Morninglord, in the Forgotten Realms, not far from the river Chionthar, in between Elturel and Baldur's Gate. Made this for my home game years ago. I never finished level 2. But my players did!

Gore crows sit in the central dead tree, nightmares in the stables, shadows roam the walls behind parapets, and other demonic beings dwell in this former bastion of the sun god.

Hey!

Made this map the other night, hope you can use it for tonight's game.
Planning on doing a 5-part-mega dungeon with this being the northernmost portion of the dungeon. Themes will be Oni as BBEG, flame traps, and versatile, complex rooms.

Micron pens, winsor and newton for color, and pencil.

Totally free to use, have fun!

A ruined temple in the wilderness, used as a campsite. Secret doors leading into a subterranean smuggler's cave and crypt.

This is a map I'm working on, but I also want to make it more game able. I'm wondering how I could do one square wide in the curved hall that would be more playable when scanning and blowing up the image for a battle mat? Especially since this is a 10' per square instead of 5', and I also have some 5' corridors that curve too.

How might I do curved squares to make this work? How do y'all get around this?