Between the streets of Waterdeep and the many dungeons (and a whole other city!) below it are significant extents of sewers used to move sewage and storm water from the city to the sea. Many of the...
2019-10-03 18:13:51 +0000 UTC View Post
One of these days I should update my Patreon page to mention these Patreon-Exclusives, eh?
Inching in just before the end of the month, we have another Patreon-Exclusive piece from the Dodeca...
2019-10-01 01:07:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Sprawling over the area where the Greenbeck river joins the Vhec is the trading centre of Jalovhec. A “point of light” in an area of dark forests, wastelands, and inhospitable low mountain rang...
2019-09-30 19:38:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Many enjoy living next to l’Étendue Sombre, or the Dark Desert – a fragrant desert of dark sands and slowly shifting dunes where the faint smell of anise suffuses the dry air. Those used to li...
2019-09-26 22:38:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Drowning Point is, aptly enough, sinking into the lake.
A small community built up around a river outlet, Drowning Point is watching the buildings built closer to the water being taken by the...
2019-09-23 18:58:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Built into a small plateau in the east hills, the Falcon’s Rest is a shrine to a small local deity that is usually interpreted to be an incarnation of the great hunter, or a version of the god of...
2019-09-19 16:20:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The Ashknuckle gnoll tribes divide the area around the Absent City into their various tribal territories – but they share a common set of ruins that they use occasionally for the punishment of pr...
2019-09-16 20:11:54 +0000 UTC View Post
It is time to pick out a few maps from the back catalog to re-release under the free commerc...
2019-09-14 20:00:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Smugglers repurposed the old Hornberger House a few decades ago – essentially in response to the political shifts on the mainland increasing protectionist taxes on a number of imported goods – ...
2019-09-12 20:54:50 +0000 UTC View Post
There is a wise soothsayer who lives in small house in a grotto under Deep Echo Forest. It is said that the house was there even before the forest, and has slowly sunk into the ground. A sinkhole n...
2019-09-09 19:40:41 +0000 UTC View Post
In the ruins of the Absent City are a number of sites that are still maintained by the silent caretakers. One of these is the sunken gardens by the Palace of Rains which in turn lead into a whole s...
2019-09-06 20:54:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I just put the finishing touches on the last map for September (see my Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook ...
2019-09-05 21:37:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Converted from / attached to an old watchtower from the Siege of the Mad Kings era, Shieldrick’s Inn is a small tavern set in a pastoral landscape of rolling hills and farmland.
The inn ser...
2019-09-04 20:11:20 +0000 UTC View Post
It is done!
The 2019 reissue of the classic mini mega dungeon from the early days of my blog. Dyson's Delve is an 11 level dungeon with all new maps that is exclusively presented here f...
2019-08-31 21:06:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Nearly a decade of geomorphs on the blog. So let’s do one more set of four that I put together for the new series of DungeonMorph dice from Inkwell Ideas.
Clockwise from top left we’ve go...
2019-08-29 20:57:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Nearly a decade ago I spent most of a year drawing and posting geomorphs to this blog. This year’s Kickstarter for a new series of DungeonMorph dice from Inkwell Ideas brought me back to drawing ...
2019-08-27 19:24:37 +0000 UTC View Post
We return to the maps of Dyson’s Delve with maps of the very top and bottom of the mini mega dungeon.
The upper ruins are only hinted at in the original Dyson’s Delve – the assumption i...
2019-08-22 17:34:33 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the final month of redrawing Dyson’s Delve – today we get levels 9 & 10 of the redraw, and later this week I’ll be releasing the final level (11) as well as the all-new surface le...
2019-08-19 21:12:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Colloquially known as “God Alley”, the Temple Walk is a set of courtyards and walkways winding between 13 different shrines, temples, churches and reliquaries to various deities and godlings of...
2019-08-15 17:10:46 +0000 UTC View Post
The sewers under Rosewood Street are large and open compared to most in the city. Built out of much older structures that were repurposed ages ago, the sewers are a mix of utilitarian and overly or...
2019-08-12 22:58:41 +0000 UTC View Post
If you are going to build a secret temple to a pariah god that is not intended to be worshiped at, why not go whole hog and build it at the bottom of a deep and nearly inaccessible desert cave?
... 2019-08-08 20:54:21 +0000 UTC View Post
We don’t know why we call it the Old Turnip… it’s just always been the Old Turnip. Well, I guess about 30 years ago it was the Old Turnip Eatery and Inn, but that didn’t last.
You can...
2019-08-05 20:31:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Portals between worlds are crafted from potent materials in places where the energies of the world intersect with that of other places. Sometimes these ‘ley lines’ are conveniently found where ...
2019-08-03 20:21:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Woo! The August backstage pass is here. Because I'm releasing geomorphs 4 per release and levels of Dys...
2019-08-02 23:14:34 +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. For older maps I also work on...
2019-08-01 20:23:40 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been trying to work a bit with colour on some of my maps as I've had a lot of requests for this over the last decade. I'm practicing techniques and having the occasional rough spot where I jus...
2019-07-30 18:27:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Even bullywugs have saints, holy frogs, and sanctified leaders and allies. They aren’t common, and they are revered. This bullywug reliquary dates back to the rule of the Verdant Administrant and...
2019-07-29 20:18:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Drawn back at the end of 2015, I've upped the resolution on this map and am re-releasing it today.
The Smith’s Reliquary was crafted from heavy blocks of stone banded together with huge ban...
2019-07-28 19:40:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Nearly a decade ago I spent most of a year drawing and posting geomorphs to this blog. This year’s Kickstarter for a new series of DungeonMorph dice from Inkwell Ideas brought me back to drawing ...
2019-07-25 21:52:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again we return to my classic “Dyson’s Delve” with another pair of maps from my 2019 redraw of the mini mega dungeon. This entry brings us to the mid-deep levels of the delve, where we f...
2019-07-22 21:16:34 +0000 UTC View Post