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Release the Kraken on the Four Javelins Coaching Inn!

Every month that we keep funding over the $400 mark we dig up maps to be released under the free commercial-use license. This month we released Serzen’s Seven Stairs, and now it is time for The Four...

Release the Kraken on Serzen's Seven Stairs!

Every month that we keep funding over the $400 mark we sift through my back catalog to release a map or two under the free commercial-use license. This month we are releasing the Kraken on a pair of m...

My Private Jakalla - Map 1N

This afternoon I get to sit down with the group I’ve been playing Empire of the Petal Throne with for over 2 years after what feels like months of downtime (which I believe is actually 4 weeks of mi...

Return to the Medusa's Chasm

The Dark Huntress, a medusa most foul, has turned this old shrine into her lair which she shares with her favoured ones - a pack of tainted goblins that can run on the walls and ceilings like i...

Four Pagodas of Kwantoom

My love of Kabuki Kaiser’s solo D&D masterpiece “Mad Monks of Kwantoom” isn’t much of a secret. So when I saw Tim Hartin of Paratime Design playing a game of Ruins of the Undercity ...

August Krakening!

Alright, I'm back from camping, so we'd better get this Kraken thing in gear, eh?

Vote here to determine what maps are being released this month. Voting will be open until Tuesday the 22nd of A...

Infested Hall (time-lapse video and map)

In the lowest chambers of the ancient complex is a great hall now known as “the infested hall”. A two-level chamber cut into the depths. The original chamber had a small reflecting pool at one end...

Heart of Darkling - The Demon Halls

One of the first structures people encounter when travelling along the Heart of Darkling is the “Demon Bridge” where the bitter ice demon and his kobold allies have complete control and use...

The Heart of Darkling - Map 1A

There is a river that dips underground through a low-ceilinged cave before descending fairly gently under the grey hills to depths unknown. However, all it takes is a magic spell to lower the w...

Yew Lane Estate

When the church of Zollis the Untouched was disbanded, the high deacon left the holy city and moved here to get away from the old church’s flock and the many troubles that still dogged it. Wi...

Liar's Cave

Last month I upgraded my video rig for recording when I draw a map, and now I’m learning a few basics of how to edit one of those videos. So let’s start off August with this video of me dra...

My Private Jakalla - Map 1M

I’m heading out of the city for a lovely couple of weeks hanging out with friends on a massive campsite full of cool folks, but before I left I thought we could head back to “My Private Jak...

The Holy City of Guerras-El-Essat

Guerras-El-Essat is built up around a massive temple dedicated to the living (or unliving?) eight-armed vampiric deity-demon El-Essat who stalked the peoples living along the verge of the Blue ...

The Coward's Crescent

Built into a stony hillside, this small dungeon was originally constructed as a storehouse for important, magical, and often illicit goods. The strong defensive construction made it a prime for...

General Update - Late July & Early August

I'm going to be out of town for roughly two weeks at the end of July and beginning of August.

I'll be scheduling posts on the blog and on Patreon to go up while I'm away, but won't be able to ...

Revenge of the Ghoul Prince

Beneath the recent ruins of an unnamed fort in the rough mountains north of Dawnharbor is the “Hall of the Ghoul Prince”. Tales in Dawnharbor mention that the fortress was assaulted and par...

Bela's Cove

So I finally started messing around with my setup for recording again and put this video together. I was inspired by a work in progress shot by @dmquill, and wanted to try out double-lining the...

Hall of the Ancient Ones

The elves called it something that translates to "The Silent Home of Those Who See From Beyond The Veil Of Worlds And Time" or something similar. More recent translations of elven texts tend to...

Last Home of the Thirty Slain Magi

At the bottom of the black well is a single archway leading to the passage that connects the three massive sepulchers containing the tombs of the thirty slain magi.

Occasionally something foul pokes...

It is time for the July Krakening!

Once again, eight maps have been made available for your selection. The top two (unless funding drops dramatically) will be released under the commercial license.

The voting is here: 2017-07-10 19:01:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Release the Kraken on New Cresthill!

Things got a bit busy at the end of last month, so I didn’t get around to posting the second map released in June under the “RELEASE THE KRAKEN!” project. Every month that we maintain funding ov...

Forgotten Catacombs

Years ago the elders of the city entombed their dead in a small underworld necropolis beneath the Temple of Quiet Passage. The temple priests became caught up in strange events and foul creatures that...

The Oubliette Crypts

Different cultures and faiths entomb their dead in different manners. One of the old faiths of the land made small shaft tombs with “cells” at the bottom where a number of coffins would be ...

Backstage Pass - July 2017

Whoooo! Backstage Pass Time!

Nine more maps will be showing up on the blog this month, and you get the advance copies!

Dead Kraken Anchorage

Dead Kraken Anchorage was a small secret pirate cove in the Dunnswall Cliffs until some idiot brought a cog in too far and wrecked the damned thing against "the old Kraken's beak". 

With the wr...

Release the Kraken on Joseph's Inlet

Every month that we keep funding remains over the $400 mark I sift through my back catalog and bring up a selection of maps that you vote on as to which will be released under the free commerci...

My Private Jakalla - Map 1L

Why not finish off the month with a second map for the Tekumel undercity – a small section of old temple and crypt structures that extend into a previous “gap” in the existing maps from the “M...

Whisper's Remains

On the western shore of the Ahr Shallows is a stony beach and sea cave known as the Whisper Shore because of cracks in the stones that whistle and whisper as waves move in and out of the sea ca...

My Private Jakalla - Map 1K

With summer bearing down on us, let us return underground where many priests escape Tekumel’s hot season in the eleventh section of the “My Private Jakalla” megadungeon project. The goal of this...

The Tsolyani Colony of Linyaró

We are now on our 90th session of our Empire of the Petal Throne campaign run by James Maliszewski and things have shifted dramatically for our group of characters as we’ve been exiled to bec...