Built into a squat hexagonal stone “tower”, the Bast’Inn (pronounced pretty much as “Bastion”) is a popular drinking establishment, especially during nice weather as it sports a second-st...
2020-02-14 02:25:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Somewhere beneath the temple of the Shinning Lord are the catacombs of the last of the line of King Adrih. With the sacking of the temple, there has been no better time for treasure hunters to find...
2020-02-10 20:09:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Built of pale stone in the twilight of the Humut Crater, the Pillar of the Igesej Loremaster was originally built by an arcanist studying the object that formed the deep angled crater – believing...
2020-02-06 19:38:22 +0000 UTC View Post
I knew I was forgetting something when I posted the Release the Kraken poll this month!
THE BACKS...
2020-02-05 18:55:35 +0000 UTC View Post
When travelling through the badlands to the City of Copper Bowls, a distant tower can be seen looking down over the caravan road. While no caravan traffic leads from the road to the old tower, with...
2020-02-03 21:46:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Wait, what is this?
The Kraken Poll being released at the beginning of the month? Have strange po...
2020-02-01 20:56:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Originally drawn in the summer of 2018, The City of the Frogs is being re-released today thanks to you under the Release the Kraken thingamabob!
Some cities just stink. Built over drained swa...
2020-02-01 20:20:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we go through our back catalog of maps and re-release a few under the free commercial use license. The first of these for this year goes way back to 2011 and was drawn in a small molesk...
2020-01-31 23:37:10 +0000 UTC View Post
In these remakes of the Expedition to the Barrier Peaks maps, Deck II (and later Deck V) are the decks where my style shines through a bit. These decks (or ‘tween decks) have large inaccessible a...
2020-01-29 20:59:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Few modules have dug their way into my brain the way Expedition to the Barrier Peaks has. When I pulled the module out to adapt it as the capstone adventure for my first D&D5e campaign, I reali...
2020-01-27 20:05:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Late as usual, here's the poll to vote on which maps will be released under our free commerc...
2020-01-26 05:01:52 +0000 UTC View Post
This walled temple space can serve many purposes or deities. I drew it based on three concepts primarily – the love of asymmetry in Tsolyani temples and general construction in the Tekumel settin...
2020-01-24 22:18:08 +0000 UTC View Post
This three-tiered tomb complex contains a number of reliquaries, crypts, and memorials of Jeberiath’s Silver Army – warriors embedded permanently into their silver-wrought armour to fight again...
2020-01-22 20:13:29 +0000 UTC View Post
In a series of posts about running D&D games in public, Frank Mentzer (of BECMI D&D fame, and with a lot of other D&D credits to his name) discussed the importance of having a “generi...
2020-01-20 22:32:42 +0000 UTC View Post
The City of a Thousand Eyes
The City of Towers
We return to the towers and skybridges of Sharn again this month with another set of towers and plazas designed to work with the map I dre...
2020-01-18 21:12:57 +0000 UTC View Post
As the first adventure of the new campaign, we have chosen to rally behind the cleric in their search for artifacts and relics of Saint Sadon the Orange – a champion of Irmos the Victor. The smal...
2020-01-16 21:00:30 +0000 UTC View Post
For the new campaign of the new year, we started with a map of the small village of Iyesgarten, the last piece of quiet civilization in the Satrapy, and then tightened the focus down to the Iyesgar...
2020-01-13 21:36:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, there's already two of these posted, but here's the full set of 10 maps being released this month....
2020-01-12 01:48:54 +0000 UTC View Post
The main attraction of tiny town of Iyesgarten is the Iyesgarten Inn. Once a small inn and adjoining blacksmith now combined into a single inn about a decade ago. The side that used to be the smith...
2020-01-09 22:13:26 +0000 UTC View Post
A new year is here and it is time for a new campaign! And a classic trope of the fantasy campaign is to start in or near a small village – big enough that it can provide some equipment, rumours, ...
2020-01-06 21:07:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Once a defensive border fortress looking over lush fields, the whispering outpost guards nothing but sand and scrub now - far from any borders.
Not destroyed by siege or strife, the Whisperin...
2019-12-31 19:17:23 +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. I took the top three this month, bringing the total number ...
2019-12-29 18:32:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Half buried in dirt, the wreck of the UPFS Skerples looks like some sort of massive bone or ceramic growth at first glance. The super-ceramic hull of the ship is almost completely unaffected by the...
2019-12-26 21:28:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we go through our back catalog of maps and the many patrons over on Patreons vote on which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. Our second map this month is ...
2019-12-26 05:12:40 +0000 UTC View Post
A moderate sized manor house built of thick and heavy stone, the most noticeable thing about Woodrest Manor is the four-story tower on the northeast side. Built a century or two ago, it is the hand...
2019-12-23 17:41:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we go through our back catalog of maps and the many patrons over on Patreons vote on which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. Our first map this month is a...
2019-12-21 19:25:18 +0000 UTC View Post
In the airy heights of the upper levels of Sharn are places where the towers thin out and the connections between them are almost artistic instead of utilitarian. Sweeping bridges connect fine spir...
2019-12-19 21:19:33 +0000 UTC View Post
It is time to select the maps that will be the last ones re-released under the free commercial use lice...
2019-12-18 19:58:32 +0000 UTC View Post
The foul vampiric beast, now awakened after untold years of slumber, seeks again the crown of Krovzonos.
But the kingdom was destroyed from within and without in order to rid the world of the...
2019-12-16 19:44:20 +0000 UTC View Post
The ruins of the Absent City sit over a significant labyrinth of understructures – a mix of the lower levels of the ruined structures and various bits of supporting infrastructure.
Parts of...
2019-12-14 21:04:14 +0000 UTC View Post