This is still, very much, a work in progress, but now, you can actually play through ascii maps. I worked on passing the ascii layout to the javascript port of Richard Garriott's DND1.

So I made an ascii representation of the first dungeon in the D&D red box. And I can now pass that to the DND1 engine, and you can play it. I mean, it is not going to be the same experience. It does not implement a bunch of features that would need to be done to have static monster encounters, and scripted events and other things like that. But, maybe, one day, I will get around to enhancing it.

https://random-wizard.neocities.org/ascii-dungeon-adventure/?grid=Bo0AlSsgoaOokcoLOjSWTZh1twQMISThDizT9iKlbh0nmIVrXy96WumrezdmSI5WPRoPzd2vKpngSpHahQ7zmYtkimohOugcqKjBhViA

EDIT Also, this means you can go make your own maps. You can see the above map in the ascii to svg tool.

https://random-wizard.neocities.org/ascii-map-to-svg-tiles/?grid=Bo0AlSsgoaOokcoLOjSWTQG3cAtNuCBhOecCWegCaYE7VIB+qFBEKlDnjXFoQAcoggBJCIfMAC2VHpVI5BPeFVoUh-TU1TbCAQ0oAqSkpjm0G8DJorMDoUikvnSIljeOkQA&legend=BoGgzgLg9gdgpgWgO4EMA2aQBMUCcDWYaKEcA5rigJ4gXUBQABCHALYAOEV9AJCAMYALOJBAAjXFCQx6WEEihQscGAiyLc4FFixo4EqTIB+4OP1xwIajfUxoAlgC88WVihi0LK+gCpTMMABXKECweDAwTwZWEAd2SIssegAOcHw4PWgPOm4UEDw3LHsMKCA

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