Old ruins of a prior civilization in cut yellow stone, it is believed that this is where the lich-prince Esothil emerged from when his madness consumed him and lead him into a swath of destruction ...
2020-10-22 21:41:27 +0000 UTC View Post
I went to check on the October Kraken poll, and discovered there were no responses yet.... probably bec...
2020-10-22 08:17:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Built over the Yuan-ti ruins of Vrael Othloon at the outlet of the otherwise unremarkable Marpenoth river, Marpenoth River City has exhausted several alternate names since it was built and is now n...
2020-10-19 16:53:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The temple of the Seven Children celebrates the faith and the faithful of a small pantheon of gods who rose up to slay their parents and protect and guide their followers.
The temple itself i...
2020-10-17 21:33:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Today’s map is another experiment after the sharpie dungeon posted earlier this week. This time I’m trying out a heavy black outline and “splatter” effect around it. I also went with a blac...
2020-10-15 22:01:27 +0000 UTC View Post
This dungeon began as a small set of mines cut into the hill where an underground stream was bringing gold to the surface. The mine quickly played out and was repurposed by the cult of Garathon as ...
2020-10-12 23:02:17 +0000 UTC View Post
The Darkling River works its way through the underdark beneath the grey hills to depths unknown. This is the eleventh location that I've explored along the Darkling River and the Darkling Lake beyo...
2020-10-10 21:58:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the first chunk of October's maps. Including the high res of the city map that is so hot on soci...
2020-10-10 21:55:38 +0000 UTC View Post
The Qune Heresy was an offshoot of the church of Xaeen led by three grand clerics of the church who were quickly exiled and denounced. It holds that Xaeen ascended to immortality from the Mithril T...
2020-10-08 20:36:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Those who served Illhan the Binder in life are rewarded with uneasy deaths. The binder has little power over the dead, but refuses to let go of those who have become bound to her. The priesthood en...
2020-10-07 00:45:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's all the maps that were released in September. I am indeed catching back up and have 5 of the 10 ...
2020-10-06 19:34:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we go through our back catalogue of maps and you vote on which two should be re-released in the "Release the Kraken" releases. The second release for September is the f...
2020-10-03 04:26:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we go through our back catalogue of maps and you vote on which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. The first such release this month is The L...
2020-09-30 21:11:21 +0000 UTC View Post
The complex was abandoned early in the war when it was discovered by enemy bombers and thoroughly trashed. A few of the structures are mostly intact, but with the destruction of the active counterm...
2020-09-28 22:05:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Caves and mines (both new and old) present themselves frequently in the ancient mountains on each side of the Kanayugára River. The Blue Marked Caves are in the foothills of the Chayéngar range i...
2020-09-27 00:39:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Saint Zeviax still walks the hall of this temple. At one time it was a church to a higher power – an ideal that almost everyone could get behind. But the long-term tenancy by Saint Zeviax has tak...
2020-09-24 21:24:39 +0000 UTC View Post
A bright green ichor seeps and flows along the halls of this place. It moves slowly and ripples even when there is no breeze or outside disturbance. The effects of the ichor upon living creatures i...
2020-09-21 22:10:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The massive bars that keep out intruders are orange with rust – somehow appropriate for a place named after the yellow and orange sigils drawn on every wall. The ochre sigils extend out also, alm...
2020-09-19 21:33:46 +0000 UTC View Post
A pleasant inn offering decent ales and beers, clean guest rooms, and of course a hidden secret in the basement, Simon’s Inn is the classic environment to start an adventure in. The ground floor ...
2020-09-17 23:32:19 +0000 UTC View Post
A great flying beast has moved into Foxtail Grotto! While it is hard to get much out of the previous tenants (being bandits and all, they aren’t keen on being interrogated or even admitting that ...
2020-09-14 23:53:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The Magi in Sapphire was a small self-serving order of psychically potent arcanists and anarchists. They waged petty wars against those who wouldn’t share their magics with the order, and yet hoa...
2020-09-12 18:36:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Pentagon cove obviously predates the current tenants – a motley crew of humans and grippli who occasionally plunder coastal shipping from their collection of small boats and organize night raids ...
2020-09-10 16:50:37 +0000 UTC View Post
In the gentle hills and scrubland a day’s travel east of the city is an old shrine to a pastoral deity that serves double-duty as storage for the local goatherds and farmers. The shrine is not of...
2020-09-07 16:35:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we go through our back catalogue of maps and my patrons vote on which two should be re-released. I screwed up last month and didn't get the poll up, so I grabbed two of the top rank...
2020-09-03 13:01:12 +0000 UTC View Post
We might not have a September backstage pass ready to launch, but we can get ahead on the Release the K...
2020-09-01 13:46:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the first update to that most demanded Patreon-Exclusive release- The InstaDyson. At heart this...
2020-08-31 13:44:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Why make things easy? Beholders have the ability to truly craft their own environments to take advantage of their abilities. This beholder lair is specifically not extra-difficult to navigate – i...
2020-08-31 10:19:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally out! This zip file includes all the maps released on the blog this month (and the one coming ou...
2020-08-30 05:31:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we go through our back catalog of maps and the many amazing supporters of the blog over on Patreon vote on which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. Wit...
2020-08-29 16:48:33 +0000 UTC View PostThanks for your support through the pandemic and beyond. I started August horribly behind on everything, and have managed to get mostly caught up. I expect that while the theme of August was "Holy ...
2020-08-29 14:08:34 +0000 UTC View Post