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Deep Warren Battle Map - Launch

Added 2024-03-21 11:46:34 +0000 UTC

Hello Adventurers! I wanted to create a new mini Dungeon for you this month and thought something with a more organic feel would be fun. So we have the Deep Warren, a place for any number of monsters to make their home. Rescuing someone from the depths of this place would be fun, or clearing out some kind of infestation would be cool. Obviously, with Easter coming up you could create some deadly bunnies to traumatise your party while playing the theme to Watership Down in the background ;)

Next Maps

I’ll be working on the Oasis Cave next with the City Sewer Junction coming next month.

Oasis Cave
Deep in the desert sands lies an Oasis with the entrance to a cave that legend tells holds unimaginable treasures. However that's just folklore, really it's full of giant scorpions. This will be a small desert oasis with a cave lair for some desert creatures. It should be great for a travel encounter when traversing a desert.
City Sewer Junction
I’ve created a couple of sewer maps in the past and I think having another location would be useful. This will be a large open area with lots of entrances and pipes leading to it. It should make for a great ‘Boss’ combat location.

As with every map release I put out, I’m constantly grateful to the people who support my work. Thank you, everyone, new and old Patrons for helping me create hand-drawn maps for the community. Every one of you is simply awesome! Have a wonderful end of the week and as always happy adventuring!

Now let's go explore the depths of this cave system. Ignore the worryingly large round pellets of dung outside the entrance. Remember people! We are after the ostrich egg thieves. Maybe they are also responsible for the colourful paint heist we’ve been hearing about.

Downloads

As always the files can be accessed on the Map List Page along with thumbnails and tags. You need to be logged in to Patreon and be signed up to the correct tier to access them. And remember you are only charged for map releases, you can download all the old maps at no extra cost!

Map Descriptions

Making your way up the hillside you see a copse of ancient oaks at its crest. Below the trees are sandy cliffs, held together by roots and grasses. At the base of one of these cliffs is the entrance to a den, dug into the cliff wall by some unknown, but obviously large creature.

The grass is closely cropped around the entrance, and large round dung pellets litter the ground.

As you enter the den, you feel a change in the air. The clear, fresh scent of the hillside is replaced with musty earth and cool dampness. In places, light filters through holes in the roof, created by roots and small slips of earth. The interior walls are unstable, seemingly only maintained by constant repair.

Claw marks can be seen on some of the stones and roots.
Gnarled roots grow through the walls and in places hinder your passage. In these places, the earth has been dug away under or around the obstacles.
Some roots have been cut through, or more precisely gnawed through by sharp cutting teeth.
There are small alcoves dug into the walls, their interiors littered with hay and grasses. Ticks and other insects infest the bedding.
Dry and rotting vegetation covers the floor of the chambers.

Notes and Tips

30x45 Grid Map
Not just bunnies: Although this is designed as a rabbit warren, which could certainly house a fluffle of killer rabbits (yes the internet has decided to call a group of rabbits a fluffle). The map is just a group of connected chambers and could house any number of monsters. There are plenty of giant versions of creatures to choose from. Badgers, mice, rats, weasels, multiple insects. They don’t have to have dug the warren, they just use it as their home now.
Rocks fall: The walls of this map are crumbling and unstable. Cave-ins are a serious danger. Any loud noise or concussive shock risks the party being crushed by falling rocks and soil.
Killer Rabbits: Something dark lurks in the ground below the fields of this pastoral landscape. A horror that farmers fear to name above a whisper, in case they are summoned… yes, it's giant bunnies. Giant KILLER bunnies! Treat them like some supernatural horrifying creature, and they should actually be dangerous! You need to get your party scared of these creatures before they ever enter the warren to clear them out.
Lucky Rabbits: In this region live a species of giant rabbits that are revered by the locals. Having a warren located near a village is good luck and ensures a good harvest. However, the local warren has been taken over by something else and the villagers have tasked you to clear them out.
Country Kobolds: Kobolds have taken up residence in an old giant rabbit warren. They have started raiding local farms for food and the farmers need them dealt with. But with Kobolds come dragons and this warren is home to a small but vile wyrm, wyvern or other dragonkin. It should be fairly low-level, more of a local threat for lower-level adventurers but could still possess limited draconic abilities.