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The Lost Watch

A wee little watch tower once sat in the blue hills, overlooking a hamlet that was slowly dying. Then Zhole, a hundred other minor godlings, and the 77 Gods Trapped Between breached the division be...

Gath-Am’s Beacon

Deep purple light seems to bubble out of a strange tower in the Grim Highlands, the purple magical glow illuminating the area for 20 miles around with dark magical energies. The structure itself ap...

The Strangled Imp Tavern

The Strangled Imp is a dark and cramped space, with wooden beams and a slowly decaying roof that leaks into the owner’s apartments above. The air is thick with smoke, sweat, and the smell of ale ...

Backstage Pass - January 2024

Our first backstage pass of 2024 is here! Contained within are 3 versions each of 10 different maps - w...

Last Kraken of the Year

Each month, patrons get to vote on which maps from the back catalog will be re-released under the free ...

Monthly Cartography Collection - December 2023

Friends, Patrons, Internet Denizens!

Here is our last monthly PDF collection of ...

Scavengers' Deep - Map 2

The Scavengers’ Deep is a reminder of the amount of work that went into underground structures during the great war. Generally, the elves only built underground when hiding their breeding and res...

Drake Pit Tower

The wizard Azkalador was an ambitious alchemist who discovered a rare vein of “energized” gold that could be further enhanced to create potent potions and elixirs well beyond their typical craf...

Merry Christmas

Hope the holidays are doing their best for you and yours. I'm on the road for the holidays, so all posts to the blog and patreon from yesterday through to the end of year are being posted automatic...

The Adakite Passage

A cave and passage cut through the volcanic stone between the Rhun Hills and one of the many kettle-like kimberlite lakes scattered about the area. The shores of these lakes are very steep, making ...

Gorgonmouth Mine

An abandoned copper pit mine in the Chalk Hills, Gorgonmouth turned out to be a lot less profitable than anticipated and recently hasn’t even been worth working for the miners in nearby Riverside...

Final Kraken Action of 2024!

It's that time!

Every month I post a selection of maps from the blog that aren't currently availa...

Gaftur’s Gate

Home to a gateway to other worlds, Gaftur’s Gate was cut out of the rocky hillside with powerful magics to form this small complex, but was then modified by stone crafters of remarkable skill and...

Specter's Tower 2023

An old watch tower outside of town, Specter’s Tower is (unsurprisingly – considering the name) said to be haunted by the ghost of the last watch who worked here who died horribly after consumin...

The Sordid Rhinoceros

Named for the… anatomically unlikely… signage out front, this basement tavern is in the heart of the roughest part of town and is used by “adventurers” of the worst kind as a sort of base o...

Gnarsh's Domain

Gnarsh’s Domain

The gnoll warlord Karag was granted visions of a lost and razed desert temple that contained a portal that could be opened to the Abyss with the right ritua...

The House of Kalaxar (Linear Dungeon Experiment 2)

Most have forgotten the House of Kalaxar, and that isn’t just strange coincidence. The house was built above a small spring that is believed to be somehow connected to the river Styx, worlds away...

Pit of the Sand Wraiths (Linear Dungeon Experiment 1)

There are few water sources in the badlands at the heart of what was once Zorisz, but the trickle that comes out of the Pit of the Sand Wraiths is one that is given a wide berth. The waters are not...

December Backstage Pass!

Backstage Pass Time!

Here's the ten maps that we'll be releasing to the blog & Patreon this m...

Revised Kraken Releases - November 2023

I did it again. 

I didn't update the spreadsheet properly, and put up a map in the Kraken po...

November 2023 Kraken Releases

The November Kraken releases have been voted on, and here we go!

Two maps are being re-released t...

Monthly Cartography Collection - November 2023

Friends, Patrons, Internet Denizens!

Here is the monthly PDF collection of maps ...

Labyrinth Lord’s Known Lands Hex Map

With the second edition of the classic Labyrinth Lord B/X retro-clone now in production, I had the incredible pleasure of redrawing the hex map of the Known Lands from the game in my style to go in...

November Kraken Voting!

For those that are new here (thank you!), every month we have a poll to determine which maps from the b...

Scavenger’s Deep – Map 1

The Scavengers’ Deep is a reminder of the amount of work that went into underground structures during the great war. Generally, the elves only built underground when hiding their breeding and res...

Isle of the Iron Huntress

The Temple of the Iron Huntress takes up most of the island of the same name. A small rocky island in the Persimmon Sea covered in a thin layer of volcanic soil that supports scrub and grass but no...

Monastery of the Fire Opal - Upper Levels

The Monastery of the Fire Opal is primarily a two-story edifice, and while it looks solid and defensible, it doesn’t have parapets along most of the structure, instead having peaked roofs to keep...

Monastery of the Fire Opal – Ground Level

Last week I posted the Dungeon of the Fire Opal, a classic dungeon that (according to the lore) sits beneath a razed monastery of evil devil-worshipping monks. This assumes that the Monastery was n...

Dungeon of the Fire Opal

Most old-timers are more than a bit familiar with this dungeon – but almost every generation of D&D Dungeon Master has probably brushed against it. It originally appeared in the AD&D1e Du...

Edge Strip Dungeon

Measuring in at 8 squares / 2 inches wide by 88 squares / 22 inches tall, this dungeon map was specifically drawn to be used as a sidebar in a book, rather than as a full-feature dungeon map. If re...