Today brings us one of the last explorations into the maps I drew in the Oak King three years ago and promptly forgot for all this time is this small fortification and the dungeons beneath.
Unli...
2016-01-22 14:54:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Dwimmermount is the mighty megadungeon penned by James Maliszewski and published (after a trail of long-ago events) by Autarch. It has a total of 13 levels (and several sublevels) that were mapped for...
2016-01-19 13:49:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Strange magics require strange sigils, and sometimes those sigils leave their mark on the arcanist's mind. Sometimes the arcanist manifests the obsessive details of these sigils in drawings, in carvin...
2016-01-15 15:51:34 +0000 UTC View Post
The City of Blue
Ten pillars of pale blue crystal jut straight up from the island that has become the City of Blue in the unimaginatively named Azure Sea (which is actually a massive freshwater ...
2016-01-12 17:09:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I often get requests for manors, houses and various other “normal” structures. Honestly people, google for mansion floorplans. There are a lot of them out there. This is my manor. There are many l...
2016-01-08 17:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Ages past the settlement had been built along the banks of the small cold river that flowed from the dark holes in the mountain. But several decades ago the lands shook, stones fell from the mountain ...
2016-01-05 14:07:44 +0000 UTC View Post
So, the files are off at the printer and I'm waiting on the proof copy to arrive before I put it up for sale. The print edition is a US Letter sized spiral bound 88 page book with almost all the maps ...
2016-01-05 00:29:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the last three months I've posted three previous parts of the Giant's Halls. Today I finally finished the map with the fourth segment, and am retroactively releasing all four parts (as well as th...
2016-01-02 19:03:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to season 3 of the Backstage Pass program for patrons at the $1 level and above.
2016-01-02 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes we found things in the ground and began to dig for more. Other times we started to dig, and found things. This unassuming stairwell cut into the rocky earth by the Elder’s Grave has little...
2015-12-29 13:17:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again we had to the pages of the Oak King for a map I had drawn and then pretty much lost at the beginning of 2013. Inspired by Gus L.'s cartography over on his Dungeon of Signs blog, I started d...
2015-12-26 14:27:42 +0000 UTC View Post
When Garry Hamlin asked for an underground casino map for his D&D game, I immediately had a flashback to the classic Operation: Sprechenhaltestelle adventure that came bundled with the 1980...
2015-12-22 12:03:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the last two months I’ve posted two of the four maps of the Giant’s Halls. This third installment fits on the south side of the second map and is the main entrance to the halls.
This ma...
2015-12-18 16:01:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Many small towns and hamlets have an old tree near their centre – a reminder of the transience of time and the seasons, and the ability of the community to continue and thrive through the ages.
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The worship of the Snake is a recurring theme for evil fantasy religions with a long history of awesomeness and strange cold-blooded civilizations that predate humanity. So when Chris Williams asked f...
2015-12-11 15:24:11 +0000 UTC View Post
At the beginning of October I opened up “the Oak King” for the first time in over two years. The Oak King is a hand-made book with a lovely rough paper I was gifted for Christmas of 2012 and which...
2015-12-08 15:53:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Not all land masses sit comfortably on the ground. Some insist on picking up and floating away, doing their own things it would seem. Some of these have been wrangled by people with access to flying m...
2015-12-04 15:50:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we go with the last Backstage Pass of the year.
I had a comment recently that one patron would prefer these to be in a zip file or a similar archive so all the maps could be download...
Every now and then I get an idea that I think will be fun to draw. Sometimes I actually follow through on it.
They aren’t always the best ideas.
There are times when I just want to r...
2015-12-03 00:28:41 +0000 UTC View Post
The settlement known as Jando's Arch (Hejmarko in the local tongue, a contraction of "Home on the Arch") presents one of the more memorable vistas of any city in the realm. Built on a stone arch jutti...
2015-12-01 13:33:33 +0000 UTC View Post
I don’t often work with colour, but my recent acquisition of a few coloured pens in the same style as my usual pens used for my maps made me want to try something with a LITTLE bit of colour as high...
2015-11-27 14:45:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Barrow Mounds are a huge part of our fantasy mindset - probably because they feature prominently in a few major works of the genre combined with their connection to things ancient that we still discov...
2015-11-24 15:38:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Early in the Patreon days I posted the above map of the dwarven mines to the blog - minus the grid.
I generally don't like going back to a map and adding a grid after the other post-produ...
Last month I posted the first part of the Giant’s Halls. This map sits to the south of the first one and is a bit less multi-leveled. Again, this is a dungeon of massive hallways connected to smalle...
2015-11-20 14:40:12 +0000 UTC View Post
A wonderful staple of science fiction of most genres is the secret asteroid base used by the pirates, a small military or para-military force, or the illegal raritanium-mining conglomerate.
This...
2015-11-17 12:47:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Temples and churches are a fairly common sight in a fantasy city, but few maintain a standing military force without having a massive structure or complex to house them in. In the case of Keegan’s T...
2015-11-13 15:16:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Towers. Can’t have enough towers. This particular tower was inspired by a request by Louis Brenton for a tower concealing a secret cult meeting area.
Brenton’s Watch is an old watchtower, on...
2015-11-10 13:13:14 +0000 UTC View Post
The very beginnings of an underground citadel that never was, Warrek’s Nest expanded on an existing cave and was meant to become a massive multi-leveled underground structure. The location was chose...
2015-11-06 15:23:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The first of the dwarven earthships to come to this world failed to breach the surface and its engines failed somewhere beneath the Plains of Harr – now the Harr Badlands after centuries of war betw...
2015-11-03 13:11:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's our second-last backstage Pass of 2015. Since I brought back the backstage pass I've been actually kind of impressed with my ability to keep ahead of it this time around.
Here's a ...