Perched over the great cities of the plains, Tabuld Amberhand watches the world change from his throne room in Windkeep Citadel. Beneath the halls of the Citadel are of course the dungeons – home...
2020-08-27 17:28:30 +0000 UTC View Post
In the dry bay there are strange hive-like structures of a ceramic material excreted by the previous residents. These structures are always built into a hexagonal structure, and the interior walls ...
2020-08-24 21:03:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Jaikalór isn’t all that exciting – a small mercantile city that exports cloth from the many looms here, and timber harvested from the Forest of Gilrayá that it is nestled against. The city ha...
2020-08-20 23:26:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Like last week’s Dungeon of Holding, today’s map is another secret dungeon level hidden beneath another structure or at least well-concealed beside an existing fortification. In the latter conc...
2020-08-17 22:47:39 +0000 UTC View Post
I received a copy of the shiny new “Book of Holding” in the mail two days ago and almost immediately began to draw a dungeon in it. The book is lovely and shiny and features Hydro74’s artwork...
2020-08-15 20:09:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Along the northern border of Mu’ugalavyá is the empty husk of one of the domed cities of the Shunned Ones. The buildings within are stone husks half-covered with desert sand and nothing of the s...
2020-08-13 22:34:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Found on Theatre Street, a few blocks from the College of Music and the Grand Theatre, the Raven’s Rum & Roosts tries to dress itself up as a more upscale inn than it is. The manager, Giles B...
2020-08-10 20:13:39 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ve been on a bit of an isometric map kick lately and last month I posted a comparison between one of my recent iso maps and the maps of the Temple of Illhan the Binder that I posted to the blog...
2020-08-07 22:29:53 +0000 UTC View Post
The menhirs of Crowned Hill have been here for a few decades – erected by an order of druids who come out from the nearby farming communities for their rituals, gatherings, and occasional parties...
2020-08-04 21:22:18 +0000 UTC View PostThat was a rough July over here. Between pandemic exhaustion and work and working on our house, we've been a bit overwhelmed chez Dyson the last little while. To be honest, without your help I don'...
2020-08-02 22:58:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we go through our back catalog of maps and you vote on which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. Today’s selection is one of the oldest settlement map...
2020-08-02 22:18:24 +0000 UTC View Post
In the Desert of Eyági near Fasiltúm is an ancient shrine of Durritlámish, the Black Angel of the Putrescent Hand, Opener of Catacombs. Little of the shrine remains above the desert sands beyond...
2020-07-31 18:12:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The Communion of the Gold Hand doesn’t appear all that secretive. The members (mostly merchants, traders, importers and exporters) each wear a golden ring set to look like a hand is holding the b...
2020-07-27 18:53:44 +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. Tod...
2020-07-25 22:34:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Stepped Pyramids are a perennial favourite adventure location – usually hidden away in deep jungles as left over reminders of ancient civilizations. Some are still in use by the original builders...
2020-07-23 16:15:06 +0000 UTC View Post
While I often point to In Search of the Unknown as one of my favourite and ideal dungeon adventures (since it comes unstocked, even the “empty” rooms have a nice description), there is no denyi...
2020-07-21 22:26:27 +0000 UTC View Post
The current Neoclassical Geek Revival game I’m playing in is set in a neo-Mesopotamian pastiche. A land of deserts and mountains where cities are built up on mounds made of the crumbled bricks of...
2020-07-19 21:42:06 +0000 UTC View Post
(Please note that the version of this map in this month's Backstage Pass accidentally didn't include the grid - the version on the blog today has both the gridded and gridless versions of the m...
2020-07-17 20:19:32 +0000 UTC View Post
While a number of the old shaft tombs of the Etturan Dynasty have been found and explored, there is one that remains a well-kept secret amongst sages, masters of dark arts, and the few adventurers ...
2020-07-15 21:11:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we poll you, the amazing people supporting my work, to determine which maps should be pulle...
2020-07-13 16:00:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we have a collection of five mercantile businesses along the south side of Moonset Street. These are fairly traditional business designs – in most cases there is no access to the interior of...
2020-07-12 18:51:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Just inside the north gate of the city is the Warlock’s Arms, a small inn that relies on their reputation for excellent stabling to attract out of towners. The inn has stabling for 13 horses as w...
2020-07-09 21:41:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello mighty patrons! Thanks again to your support, we've got a collection of ten maps going out over t...
2020-07-09 00:36:51 +0000 UTC View Post
The digital version of Mythic Odysseys of Theros is out (but the print edition has been delayed by some sort of global pandemic). In that book I did maps of temples and temple-like structures of al...
2020-07-06 17:37:31 +0000 UTC View Post
The dark creepers occasionally strike out from a cave not quite far enough away from the Blue Gods’ Step Well. That step well bears the blessing of the blue gods, and thus always has water even i...
2020-06-30 10:59:35 +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 with free use license. This wasn’t one I hon...
2020-06-27 22:58:01 +0000 UTC View Post
When my friend Andy was discussing his D&D campaign and how they were going to take on the classic weird funhouse adventure of “The Ghost Tower of Inverness”, the discussion moved to the ma...
2020-06-25 22:10:51 +0000 UTC View Post
There is gold in the maze – it litters the floor and you can just pick up coin after coin as you run through the halls.
And you will run – because the maze is haunted by three fierce and ...
2020-06-22 20:27:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In the lowest chambers of the ancient complex is a great hall now known as “the infested hall”. A two-level chamber cut into the depths. The original chamber had a small reflecting pool at one ...
2020-06-20 20:13:08 +0000 UTC View Post
On the known maps of Tekumel (the world of the Empire of the Petal Throne RPG), Linyaró is just a dot on the distant southwest edge of the map – one of three colonies on the Ashge Peninsula of t...
2020-06-18 19:09:26 +0000 UTC View Post