Under the salted ruins on Lecheys Plains is the last shrine of the Emperor of Bones, partially flooded and collapsed after centuries of neglect.
With the recent stirrings of the White Prince,...
2019-12-12 20:37:16 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, here's all of last month's maps in one package. I am slowly getting ahead again, and while...
2019-12-12 08:06:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Jean-Coleer Behkon started upgrading the family tavern when he took it over from his father 40 years ago. Since then he has added a two-level wing of guest rooms and moved the common sleeping space...
2019-12-11 02:42:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm late. I'm always late. But I realized something this year - I could get a jump on NEXT YEAR, and if everything goes perfectly, I can even get what I want to get done this year by early next yea...
2019-12-10 00:15:38 +0000 UTC View Post
With all the sewer sections I’ve been posting in the last few months, I realized a few more basic “connector connector” maps were in order.
These fill a similar purpose to the passage e...
2019-12-08 20:19:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we re-release a couple of older maps from the archives under a free commercial-use license. Today I'm glad to bring out these ruins from 2015.
I often feel that dungeon...
2019-12-06 20:48:43 +0000 UTC View Post
You've probably noted the lack of backstage passes in November & December. I got way behind dealing...
2019-12-04 21:15:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we go through our back catalog of maps and the many patrons over on Patreons v...
2019-12-01 00:29:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we have a floorplan for a typical fantasy city storefront – a store to do your shopping in front, a workshop behind it to produce the goods being sold (with a small strong room for storing f...
2019-11-28 22:55:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Near the centre of Bathayg Lake is an island tomb – a tuft of grass, dirt, and stone slowly being reclaimed by the waters. At some point the small island was built up as a barrow mound – a drom...
2019-11-25 20:48:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Currently home to the Stormbrow Sentinels – a “mercenary” company of orcs, bugbears, and a few humans – Shepherd’s Cave has been used by a number of groups over the years. The elders amon...
2019-11-22 22:01:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Lost for nearly a decade, the Hall of the Patrons is one of the few remains of the Green Fortress that have been rediscovered after the razing of Eagle Duchy. The hall was where the great treasures...
2019-11-20 03:31:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Since I have a ledger-sized printer, I’ve been experimenting with maps for the Fantasy Trip that fit within the 11 x 17 inch page. This map is drawn using the Legacy Edition 1.5 inch hexes (the s...
2019-11-17 21:54:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Summerthorpe is a very small community nestled near the main trade road between two major cities – giving it enough traffic to support it, and enough protection that the worst thing the locals us...
2019-11-14 19:58:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Labhruinn’s Tavern is a cosy little establishment built into the basement of three story stone & wood residential structure on Clinker Street. While the clientelle was mostly boatbuilders and...
2019-11-11 22:34:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we go through our back catalog of maps and the many patrons over on Patreons vote on which ...
2019-11-09 20:58:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Most fantasy cities don’t start with infrastructure – things like sewers are added as the city grows and the need for improved infrastructure becomes apparent when people get sick of (and from)...
2019-11-07 19:56:41 +0000 UTC View Post
We continue our explorations of points of interest in the sewers beneath Waterdeep. This series of maps is designed to mesh perfectly with the sewer-based maps that I drew for Waterdeep: Dragon Hei...
2019-11-04 20:55:53 +0000 UTC View Post
The forbidden worship of Hir of the Six Eyes has meant that most of Hir’s temples were “salvaged” from older construction – built over or into the remains of temples and other dungeons belo...
2019-10-31 22:36:32 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the most prominent points of interest when looking over Oakfell Vale from the hills around is the Temple of the Seasons. From a distance what is clearly visible is the massive oak tree in th...
2019-10-28 21:35:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Oakfell Vale is an adventure site for a forthcoming module for Neoclassical Geek Revival – the setting is a corrupted valley in deep and near trackless woods. Woods are always an issue to represe...
2019-10-25 22:30:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Wizards of the Coast released Locathah Rising as a fundraiser for Extra Life 2019. Written by Christopher Lindsay, he ran the adventure during a great live stream event earlier this fall.
Aft...
2019-10-21 19:49:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Beneath the massive blue-lit cavern of K’n-yan (which may be as much as a hundred miles across, without counting the many side caverns and labyrinthine structures) are the ancient red-lit caverns...
2019-10-17 20:04:57 +0000 UTC View Post
One last run into the sewers of Waterdeep for the month before we move on to other ground (but there will be more Waterdeep sewer maps next month). Today’s map is a set of four “points of inter...
2019-10-14 19:04:38 +0000 UTC View Post
I did the release posts for September this month (because I am always running late), but my goal is to ...
2019-10-13 22:05:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we go through our back catalog of maps and the many patrons over on Patreon vote on w...
2019-10-12 18:57:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again this month we are under the streets of Waterdeep, exploring the sewers and, in this case, a business connected thereto.
There are no lack of “basement taverns” in Waterdeep –...
2019-10-10 19:35:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Running late on the Backstage Pass this month, and with my workload through the rest of Octo...
2019-10-09 23:12:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Back beneath the streets of Waterdeep, we continue to explore the sewers around the hideout from Dragon Heist.
This section of sewers has a maintenance access in the lower right side – a ha...
2019-10-07 19:13:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we go through our back catalog of maps and the many patrons over on Patreons vote on which ...
2019-10-05 18:49:17 +0000 UTC View Post