It is the end of the month and time to head back into the older maps and dig up a few to re-release under the free commercial license, all thanks to the awesome patrons who support my cartographic wan...
2018-03-29 17:34:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We trekked through the Swamp of Forgotten Dreams and into The Jungle Beyond to find the old temple ruins. It turns out there’s a good reason to stay clear of that whole part of the Jungle Beyond...
2018-03-27 18:03:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Back by popular demand, Tever's Fort has been re-released on the blog under the free commercial use license.
It is the end of the month and time to head back into the older maps and dig up a f...
2018-03-25 19:04:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Somewhere beneath the Machineries, Ul-Vir built a crypt where he keeps his failed golem and automaton designs.
Somewhere within these crypts is of course the MacGuffin that will reanimate the old wa...
2018-03-23 19:41:08 +0000 UTC View Post
On the western edge of the Swamp of Forgotten Dreams, the stony roots of the Highspear Mountains are exposed right down to the waterline of the swamp. Most fear to travel on this side of the swamp bec...
2018-03-20 16:11:55 +0000 UTC View Post
They tell you that there aren’t sharks in a swamp. That the water is too shallow, too brackish. They forget that not all sharks swim.
The Swamp of Forgotten Dreams is home to a burrowing beast (a ...
2018-03-16 21:08:28 +0000 UTC View Post
They call it "The Strike", the place where a massive longsword of a magical material sits embedded in the stone, surrounded by a small crater. Over the years a small church and a few buildings have be...
2018-03-13 17:55:48 +0000 UTC View Post
With the town of Toronin razed to the ground, the ruins of the small fortress are all that remain to indicate where the town was these days.
The mossy ruins have a few streams that wander thro...
2018-03-09 21:45:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Last month got away on me a bit, so today I’m posting the two maps that are being released as part of the “Release the Kraken” thing that we do every month. Because of the awesome support ...
2018-03-08 17:05:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Since the Day of the Green Sun three weeks ago, the catacombs of Olik Gullar have been teeming with the undead. A sanctified necropolis, Olik Gullar contains untold numbers of the dead from the city a...
2018-03-06 20:33:52 +0000 UTC View Post
We have travelled down the Darkling River to finally arrive at the Darkling Lake – an underground lake of immense size that was once home to a thriving society of aboleth slaves and a few ancillary ...
2018-03-03 18:19:07 +0000 UTC View Post
It is time to set up for this month's Kraken Releases! Last month I let it go late and ended up giving you a "fairly limited" selection of maps to vote on. Both of those maps will go up over the next ...
2018-03-02 20:55:44 +0000 UTC View Post
The latest backstage pass is here with nine new maps that will be going up on the blog over the month of March!
Just grab the zip file and enjoy!
2018-03-02 20:52:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Thank you for your support here on Patreon.
As we roll into yet another month you are the inspiration that keeps me mapping. You make the continued creation of content and the constant improve...
2018-03-01 20:54:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Another month of exploring the undercity along the riverbank, just south of the Palace of the Realm, and we again find ourselves in basement ruins that were not entirely filled in during the Ditlana b...
2018-02-28 18:48:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Travelling along the edge of the Dry Badlands of Korush en route to the City of Copper Bowls, you find half of the corpse of a young man clutching a small dragonhide sack containing the emperor’s em...
2018-02-26 18:40:52 +0000 UTC View Post
HOW ON EARTH IS IT FEBRUARY 25th ALREADY?
Whoa, allcaps off.
February is almost over and we haven't picked our Krakens yet. So here's a trick poll. Which maps should we release this month?
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Occasionally when delving through archaic tomes about the prehuman denizens of the world, one comes across references to the Lost City of the Naga Queens somewhere around the Donon Basin. The city is ...
2018-02-22 18:21:34 +0000 UTC View Post
“No, seriously folks, wasn’t there a giant emerald castle RIGHT HERE last time we were out this way?”
A sure sign that player characters have been somewhere is the sm...
2018-02-19 18:30:34 +0000 UTC View Post
About 40 minutes upriver from Kreland’s Ford is the old Blackhall. Sitting on a small hill, now nearly overgrown with brush and trees, the squat stone house has been abandoned for at least a decade,...
2018-02-16 17:31:22 +0000 UTC View Post
The Skittering Caves? Did the sage really suggest the skittering caves? The only way from here to there is through the Skittering Caves? You know I’m arachnophobic, right? Yeah, we’re going to tak...
2018-02-13 21:51:34 +0000 UTC View Post
In the heart of the swamp, Stirge Rock is a small fortification and settlement named after the best known of the local wildlife.
An outcropping of rock that has pushed up above the swampland (or at ...
2018-02-09 21:41:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Duke Dorian (although we always called him Duke Eyebrows because… well… it looks like he has a pair of dire caterpillars arguing over which one gets to eat his eyeballs)…
Let me start over. 2018-02-06 16:40:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back, travellers, to the Heart of Darkling – a series of free maps tied together by the underground Darkling River and the deep blackness of the Darkling Lake.
The Darkling River finally s...
2018-02-04 19:25:39 +0000 UTC View Post
One of these days I'll get the hang of timeliness.
Here's this months map selection, first one will probably go up on the blog tomorrow / this morning.
Interestingly, the top choices for this month's "Release the Kraken" were a perfect tie between Ten Crown River Caves (which I reposted on Monday) and today's Great Hall of Gruthren the Excessive....
2018-01-31 18:34:02 +0000 UTC View Post
As we continue exploring the undercity along the riverbanks, the structures take on a much different feeling. Remnants up here are really that – the remains that didn’t get filled in, but just bui...
2018-01-30 20:04:07 +0000 UTC View Post
It's the end of the month, and time to release some Krakens!
The first map being re-released under the free commercial license this month is the Ten Crown River Caves.
The mysterious Ten ...
2018-01-29 18:44:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Merchants have spread the word that Zorus Island has been overrun with zombies.
Sensible people are avoiding it along with the merchants now, but clever people have pointed out that it is far too cl...
2018-01-26 18:16:53 +0000 UTC View Post
The only major human settlement in the Swamp of Forgotten Dreams, Will-o-the-Wisp sits on the edge of the swamp on the shore of Dreaming Bay. The settlement has gone through several names, but one tav...
2018-01-23 18:03:34 +0000 UTC View Post