The April Kraken Poll is Late!

Whoa, we are somehow three weeks into April and I haven't posted the poll where we decide which maps fr...
2020-04-21 12:57:55 +0000 UTC View Post

Whoa, we are somehow three weeks into April and I haven't posted the poll where we decide which maps fr...
2020-04-21 12:57:55 +0000 UTC View Post
These lands were not always swamps and jungles. The rivers were re-routed, the lands flooded, the forests allowed to become dense jungle all during the falling days of the great civilization that w...
2020-04-20 14:45:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Deep in the woods, followers of the old faith still perform their blood sacrifices to appease ancient evils. These are the druids of the Bloodied Stones.
This druidic circle appears to be exa...
2020-04-18 19:35:59 +0000 UTC View Post
The bloodied warrens are a small set of caves that were converted over the years into a complex by the Coalbone dwarves before they moved to the Dormont Hills. They abandoned this complex when the ...
2020-04-16 13:01:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Mazes. You would think that, as a dungeon cartographer primarily, I would love them. But mazes as dungeons generally suck.
There is no easy way to convey the sense of isolation and being lost...
2020-04-13 18:43:44 +0000 UTC View Post
One thing you can trust is that retired adventurers will always add little “somethings” to the businesses they acquire. In the case of the Marching Tankard, Gunter Grohl split the sub-basement ...
2020-04-11 16:58:15 +0000 UTC View Post
A lovingly maintained coaching inn, the Marching Tankard is more than most travellers expect along the back roads servicing a few small settlements.
While the Tankard’s history goes back a ...
2020-04-09 20:23:40 +0000 UTC View Post
It isn’t like the Vault of Dahlver-Nar was ever lost… more the opposite – everyone with reason to know where it is knew, and enough books and documentation exists to pinpoint it for anyone wh...
2020-04-06 16:32:16 +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. Today w...
2020-04-02 22:40:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks for your continued support in these difficult times. YOU make it possible for m...
2020-04-02 00:02:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This month we are closing out the set of remakes of the Expedition to the Barrier Peaks maps with the release of the entertainment deck, Deck VI. This is the deck that delayed the release of these ...
2020-03-30 22:21:18 +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 I had to dig deep into old archives to get this map t...
2020-03-28 19:52:29 +0000 UTC View Post
This month we are closing out the set of remakes of the Expedition to the Barrier Peaks maps with the release of Deck V today and Deck VI early next week.
Deck V, like Deck II, is a maintenan...
2020-03-26 11:05:36 +0000 UTC View Post
These two 600dpi maps are designed to be printed on Ledger or Tabloid sized paper (11″ x 17″) to produce a small map for the Legacy Edition of the Fantasy Trip. If you “shrink to fit” to pr...
2020-03-23 16:18:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Once a paladin of renown, Skushuut locked himself away with his treasures when the dragon transformations began to overtake him. His greed and envy for gold and treasures not only pulled him from g...
2020-03-19 20:46:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Sand swept desert ruins give way to the remnants of a multilevel subterranean complex that is slowly giving way to the sand as the weight of ages lays upon it.
Sections of masonry have given ...
2020-03-16 20:16:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Below the looted ruins of the Temples of Shadows are a number of substructures and underground complexes that have at least partially escaped the ravaging of the temple complex – hidden under bro...
2020-03-14 17:33:57 +0000 UTC View Post
The Hydra’s Alehouse is the reason that every other inn and tavern in town has something positive going for them. If you ask townfolk for the best thing about “the Hydra” the standard respons...
2020-03-12 21:49:10 +0000 UTC View Post
The Coalbone dwarven clan are an isolated group of families in the Dormont Hills. Their priest caste all blacken their skin with makeup that stains them for weeks once removed and that acts as a sl...
2020-03-09 23:10:53 +0000 UTC View Post
A classic single-entrance dungeon composed of a sprawling network of rooms, chambers, crypts, and of course caves. Set beneath ancient surface structures (either ruins, or possibly a more recent co...
2020-03-07 21:42:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Bloodied Axe Shrine was supposed to be the resting place of the Gratham the Ravager’s mighty magical axe. And it served as such for a short while before Gratham’s son smashed his way in, claime...
2020-03-05 20:46:15 +0000 UTC View Post
It is time to select which maps we'll be re-releasing under the free commercial use license in March. I...
2020-03-02 23:28:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I really need to update this graphic... it's been years since Patreon stopped using that font and logo....
2020-03-02 23:05:12 +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 we are looking back seven years to Jacob’s Spur
... 2020-03-01 03:01:23 +0000 UTC View Post
The Gardens.
By the time adventurers get to Deck IV, they already know what is in store for them. The garden deck is completely overrun with alien flora and fauna – a deadly ecosystem colle...
2020-02-27 22:30:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Continuing the remake of the Expedition to the Barrier Peaks maps, this is the rebuild of Deck III, the deck that overlooks the garden deck below.
Deck III is where adventurers discover that ...
2020-02-24 23:12:08 +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 we are looking back five years to the Dungeon in ...
2020-02-22 16:27:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I was asked what features I liked best in a dungeon map, and after a bit of conversation and contemplation, I decided a multi-tiered chamber with a statue and some sort of water feature would fit t...
2020-02-20 23:34:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The goblin village of Ormarsa is not what most expect when they think of goblins - instead of excrement-caked warrens crawling with excrement-caked goblins, we have a palisaded village of wooden hu...
2020-02-17 21:05:45 +0000 UTC View Post
A small roadside caravanserai and personal hold of a retired adventurer, Duzig’s Hold was established in the heart of beastfolk territory in the Elk Woods as part of an effort to both remove the ...
2020-02-15 23:15:31 +0000 UTC View Post