Someone summoned something furious and powerful within the “secret” headquarters of the Emerald Hawk Society. The building is now scorched ruins, the roof blown off the secret library, the grand h...
2017-11-10 16:58:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Along the surface run of the Darkling River (where some still call it the Sunset River) a blind seer is known to live and occasionally listen to guests and give them advice, inklings from the future, ...
2017-11-07 18:25:13 +0000 UTC View Post
November is here, it is getting mighty chilly around these parts, and we need a kraken to liven things up a bit!
Head on over to the link below and vote on which maps you'd like to see re-released f...
2017-11-06 17:22:35 +0000 UTC View Post
In the late summer I introduced the Heart of Darkling series of maps. Unlike my other ongoing megadungeon (the Tekumel Undercity maps), the Heart of Darkling series is being released for commercial us...
2017-11-04 17:46:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm going to talk about this a bit on my blog in the next few days, but since you get the backstage pass, you should probably read all about it now since it changes the contents of the pass.
After a...
2017-11-04 02:49:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Down below the streets are not only the basements and crypts of temples and clanhouses, but also the ruins that remind us of the many ditlana the city has been through to become the wonder it...
2017-10-31 18:17:33 +0000 UTC View Post
The fortifications of Tever’s Fort were erected quite recently along the Dragonfly Channel and local farmers and tradesmen quickly moved into and around the fort. The region south of the Dragonfly a...
2017-10-27 19:46:05 +0000 UTC View Post
[A Note to all Patrons: This map was NOT included in this month's Backstage Pass because I drew it this past weekend and scanned it this morning.]
Exploring the dungeons be...
2017-10-24 16:27:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Only recently have we rediscovered the location of the palace of the Vampire King. As the old stories and sages described, the palace had not only been besieged, but torn down stone-by-stone and scatt...
2017-10-20 18:48:06 +0000 UTC View Post
At the edge of the woods behind the manor house is the old family tomb with stairs leading down to the crypts below. Except the stoneworks beneath are evidently not a family crypt.
What we find unde...
2017-10-17 17:07:43 +0000 UTC View Post
The Poisoner keeps to himself and is a hard man to find. Few know that the studious sage in the tower outside of town is the old assassin and that the plants he grows are almost all poisonous, venomou...
2017-10-13 17:22:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt took a while to hit "critical mass" with my maps, but it finally happened this year. I figure a couple of dozen products showed up or are in the pipe for release this year alone with my name in the...
2017-10-12 16:41:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Most adventurers coming to the Manticore Peninsula arrive by boat and land northeast of the fortified town of Saryer’s Overlook in the small dockside community of Sirenhearth Docks.
Aside from the...
2017-10-10 17:08:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes you just need a little map of a place. Saryer’s Overlook filled that need during a one-shot B/X D&D game last month. A small fortified community on the Manticore Peninsula, it looks do...
2017-10-06 19:46:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Swiftwater Monastery is cut into the caves where a smaller and faster tributary of the Darkling River joins it. The monastery has a number of cells for monks in the central section, the main ent...
2017-10-04 02:13:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I honestly did NOT expect to get this out this month after the massive commission I just polished off last month.
But here we are, October has arrived, and we've got another Backstage Pass with nine...
2017-10-04 01:26:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey hey! Another month with over $500 funding means a second Krakening! Our second release this month goes back to the very early days of the Patreon campaign – Aurelon’s Keep.
2017-09-30 17:38:25 +0000 UTC
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The fortified manor of Grumbrek Three-Fingers Krelava stands in the middle of the old estate, a squat three-story stone affair that seems to glower menacingly at the well-appointed homes in the area.<...
2017-09-29 22:29:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Beneath the city streets are the sewers, of course, and the basements and lower levels of important temples and clanhouses. But also the ruins of parts of the city that were here before the last ditla...
2017-09-26 15:55:24 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time to start releasing the chosen maps from this month's Kraken poll - and we are starting off with one of the best cities I've ever drawn - Dawnharbor!
Facing east towards a volcanic island j...
2017-09-25 19:01:50 +0000 UTC View Post
On the mysterious southern continent there are two competing colonies from the major powers in the north – Linyaró (which I posted a map of previously) and the more fortified colony of Nuróab. Bet...
2017-09-22 15:36:18 +0000 UTC View Post
So, I've got this massive commission chewing up ALL my time and things have been getting away from me.
So here's a late Kraken poll to see what maps we release this month from the back catalog....
The tombs of the Mosogret estate were among the structures collapsed and destroyed when the place was overrun by the forces of the city of Tuath and the dwarves of the EarthShip Krohku. The estate lay...
2017-09-19 16:24:13 +0000 UTC View Post
What kind of magic spell to use?
Between here and the goblin city is a great underground maze. Well, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration. But there’s a maze. And it is underground. An...
2017-09-15 16:38:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Somewhere beneath the old ruins is the space where the angel Araqiel fell in combat with the feathered serpent demon Quxaccoaw. The dungeons here are scattered with the deadly toxic feathers of the de...
2017-09-12 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Priests of the Huntress in Umber maintain this stone church in the woods where the village of Spaldingfield once stood. Wandering through the woods around the church, one will find the few remnants of...
2017-09-08 16:43:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Downhill from the old ruins of Kal Odun, the dungeons remain the one intact part of the dark fortress. The dungeons were used to house political prisoners and as the home for the Bound Prince – the ...
2017-09-05 17:34:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Last month I introduced the Heart of Darkling series of maps. Unlike my other ongoing megadungeon (the Tekumel Undercity maps), the Heart of Darkling series is being released for commercial use as the...
2017-09-02 21:37:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey wow! Even after the mad rush of everything when I got back from camping half way through last month, I managed to get this backstage pass together in time. Well, almost in time!
Enclosed herein ...
2017-09-02 20:13:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Lord Dranoel was the kind of mad king that of course would get buried with all his entourage, advisors and hangers-on when he finally died at the ripe old age of 27. Since taking the throne in his tee...
2017-08-29 17:59:43 +0000 UTC View Post