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The Velvet Hood - A Svirneblin Fortress

Looking almost like an upside down castle embedded in a bridge, The Velvet Hood was initially a nameless toll fortress along the passages of the underdark. But the fortress was ransacked on two occasi...

Griffinwatch Ruins

Griffinwatch is an old waterside fortress that was built on a hill that legends say was home to a nest of griffons prior to its construction. Once a watch fort on the border between elven and human la...

Backstage Pass - Season 3 # 4

Today is that day that comes around every month where I spend most of the day walking back and forth between the scanner and the computer, scanning and fiddling with my monthly output of maps.

Alright Patrons, RELEASE THE KRAKEN!

First of all, my apologies, I have pre-emptively released a back-catalog map under the aegis of the Release the Kraken initiative without giving you a say in which map it would be. But this is an extr...

The Turning Tower

The Turning Tower is a stout three-tiered tower on the Plains of Dross. An ugly black blight upon the landscape, highlighted by brass doors; every hour or three the three rings of the tower rotate to ...

Release the Back Catalog!

On March 15th we broke through the second-last of the Dodecahedron Patreon milestones. I held off on announcing it right away because we see a fair amount of churn throughout the month, but here we ar...

The Sahuagin Mound

While we devotin’

Full time to floatin’

Under the sea

Wayne of Wayne’s Books (an awesome salesman of old and out of print RPG material – where I scored a few uber rare titles...

Temple of the Four Gods

A massive and mostly open stone structure, this temple is dedicated to the four creative forces of the universe and the personas that embody them in this world. The temple itself is nearly symmetrical...

The Lost Ossuary

This complicated little map started with a simple request from Christian Klauser over here on Patreon who asked for a "Map that is intended to be folded into a cube (warped space)."

The Lost Oss...

Cinolth Citadel

Cinolth Citadel started as a lone spire on a barren chunk of rock overlooking the Ironflow river as it headed out to sea. To the tower, others were attached and then a hall between them forming the ba...

Free Awesomeness from Raging Swan Press

(This is a patron-only post)

Raging Swan Press has been one of several companies benefiting from your incredible generosity. Thanks to your support, we've been releasing maps under a roya...

The City of Letath

In a recent session of my 5e D&D campaign I found myself grabbing cities from other people’s products to fill in places in my game world. And of course, that couldn’t last. So when I got home ...

Seven Year Itch

Today we celebrate the seventh anniversary of Dyson's Dodecahedron. The above celebration map is courtesy of Rodger Thorm (and is quite frankly 124% awesome).

To join in the celebrations,...

The Ashen Castle

In a run-down end of town is a squat and ugly ruin. The Ashen Castle was once a prison – when the city had more law and order and the means to maintain a prison and prison population. But that was t...

Ruined Pyramid Complex

A massive temple, three ancient pyramids and some old ruins lie in the narrow zone between desert and jungle. A classic scene for any adventure. Sure, jungle / desert interfaces are a pretty fantastic...

Backstage Pass - Season 3 - Issue 3

Thanks for the patience and the support everyone!

Here is the backstage pass for March 2016. This includes one map that was included in the February backstage pass (the city of Letath) th...

The House of Seven Wines

Welcome to the noble House of Seven Wines.

The house itself is a dark ochre in colour and attempts to make it look like a refined garden home, tucked in among the willow trees, ornamental bridg...

The Ziggurat in the Sand - Part 2

Continuing the delve that was started with Tuesday’s “The Ziggurat in the Sand” maps, we head inside the ziggurat today with the middle and lower levels of the structure (in two different maps, ...

Zigurat in the Sands (part 1)

This post has a lot more drawings than usual (3 exterior shots and 2 versions of the first level of the map), so I recommend heading on over to the blog to get a view of them all - 2016-02-23 15:20:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Gladecrest Village

It is no secret that I've been playing in an awesome Empire of the Petal Throne campaign through 2015 and into 2016 (next session is today!). So when I started working on a Christmas present for a clo...

The Request Line - Progress Shot 2

A few days back I opened up the request line for all patrons at the $2.50 level or higher to send me map ideas that they would like to see. 

This is the second map from the requests tha...

The Request Line - Progress Shot 1

A couple of days ago I opened up the request line for all patrons at the $2.50 level or higher to send me map ideas that they would like to see. 

Here is a photo of the first resulting piec...

The Eastern Shore

For all my love of maps, I'm a firm believer in starting a campaign without a large regional map - instead of definite locations the game is best mapped out by descriptions and ideas, not locked down ...

The Valentine Dungeon / Temple of Love

Originally I had a different map planned to be posted today (and that I sent out as part of the Backstage Pass this month), but then the whole Valentine thing inspired me to draw something different y...

The Bridge Tower

I can’t remember exactly what triggered this map. I was probably planning to use it in my 5e D&D campaign, but for the life of me whatever the idea was it is long gone.

But the map remains...

The Roadside Fortress

Most borders remain generally undefended, with the occasional watch tower near primary points of interest. But there are always places where it just makes sense to set up a small fortification along m...

The Temple of Chag

Not all spider gods are the loathsome, jealous and backstabbing Lolth. This is a temple to Chag, a spider god with eight different aspects that are worshiped both separately and as a united whole. Cha...

BackStage Pass - Season 3 - #2

Here we go! Another month of maps for the Dodecahedron. Thanks again everyone for the amazing show of support to keep these maps flowing.

2AM Edit: Now with the right maps! D'oh!  2016-02-02 06:04:29 +0000 UTC View Post

All Four Levels of the Dungeon of Fuck You, That's Why

So, I posted that map that was giving people the finger called "the Dungeon of Fuck You, That's Why" and it kind of went viral on various social media. The joke wouldn’t die and now I’m writing up...

Tomb of the Smith

The Smith’s Reliquary was crafted from heavy blocks of stone banded together with huge bands of steel that wrap around the structure like the hoops on a barrel. These bindings have rusted through th...