Ye Olde Wizard’s Observatory – the traditional place where you are likely to find a stargazing seer. The tower comes equipped with the mandatory ground-floor orrery that makes it dangerous to s...
2022-04-09 22:56:37 +0000 UTC View Post
A small dwarven watch in the Barrow Mountains, Unrol Kaz’ad used to house a small team of dwarven rangers who would patrol the traditional thirteen-and-a-half mile radius around the watch looking...
2022-04-07 21:39:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the maps coming out this month on the Dodecahedron. Once again this is entirely thanks to
These lands were not always swamps and jungles. The rivers were re-routed, the lands flooded, the forests allowed to become dense jungle all during the falling days of the great civilization that w...
2022-04-05 00:49:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we go through our back catalogue of maps and YOU vote on which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. In March all the c...
2022-04-03 02:08:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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We explored the area around and on top of the Temple of Kuvartma with Tuesday’s map release – so today we head inside the temple and then to the understructures – including the passage to the...
2022-03-31 23:04:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Of the ruins explored this month on the blog, the Temple of Kuvartma and the surrounding shrines to the various demon apes in his entourage are in the best repair. A small tribe of awakened apes do...
2022-03-28 23:59:15 +0000 UTC View Post
The hilltop Athenaeum of Vicon was abandoned and left to collapse when her worship fell out of fashion with the change in empires in old Zorisz. The goddess of visions, Vicon’s priesthood used th...
2022-03-26 23:33:31 +0000 UTC View Post
The local peoples worshipped the twin gods of Vullil & Raizil, bringers of rain and sun respectively. But with the arrival of the cult of the great sky god, the cults of Vullil & Raizil fel...
2022-03-24 22:45:34 +0000 UTC View Post
The stream running under these ruins was once much more formidable – blocking easy traffic for miles up and downriver. And thus these bridges were built and now abandoned. The all-stone construct...
2022-03-22 00:37:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Along the shores of the Ironflow are a number of dwarven ruins – outposts and other structures built by the dwarves of Kuln. Some of these have been absorbed by the Black Mire, but most sit quiet...
2022-03-17 22:43:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Fort Redshield was badly damaged by a series of great magical earthquakes and abandoned soon thereafter. But it didn’t remain abandoned for long. The ruins have been home to various bandits and e...
2022-03-14 23:20:31 +0000 UTC View Post
The crumbling spire of an old tower marks the ruins where Brollmoreth, Demon of Shallow Graves and Patron of Silent Children was once worshipped. It is said that the demon physically tore itself ou...
2022-03-13 00:05:09 +0000 UTC View Post
The ancient Kale city of Steldin Dorg was reduced to naught but rubble in an assault that opened the last round of hostilities between the Kale and the People and set the stage for the final collap...
2022-03-10 22:11:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Shagunat Keep was built on the ruins of a much older elven structure and now that the keep itself has fallen, the ruins present an interesting mix of elven and human stonework, especially undergrou...
2022-03-07 19:04:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we go through our back catalog of maps and vote on which two should be re-released under the free use license. Today we are bringing back one of my companions to my many dungeon geo...
2022-03-05 17:00:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Forget the Great Modron March...
The Kraken March sounds like a song or something...
Here's a map from 2019 that we're re-releasing today.
Sprawling over the area where the Greenbeck river joins the Vhec is the trading centre of Jalovhec. A “point of light” in an area of ...
2022-03-03 23:42:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's this month's backstage pass collection.
This month's maps are all ruins. I'm also going to...
2022-03-03 02:46:39 +0000 UTC View Post
These cavern geomorphs are designed to mesh with the other few hundred geomorphs I’ve posted to the blog over the years, the many varieties of DungeonMorphs published by Inkwell Ideas, and of cou...
2022-02-28 23:12:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This stepped pyramid has no ground-level access, and in the ages since it was built no one has maintained the wooden stairs that used to lead to the entrances into the top tier. The stairs have rot...
2022-02-26 23:44:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Arcane waters have created a sinkhole above this cavern – one that has nearly consumed the ruins of an old homestead beside it. The old well at the homestead goes down to the arcane waters direct...
2022-02-26 00:24:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This set of six geomorphs is all centred around crypts and tombs and associated structures (like memorials, preparation chambers, mausoleums, etc) Each geomorph (of which there are six here, for th...
2022-02-23 23:13:43 +0000 UTC View Post
These are atypically sized geomorphs. The three on top are double geomorphs – 20 squares tall by 10 wide; while the bottom geomorph is a triple – 30 squares wide by 10 tall. This allows for lar...
2022-02-21 00:26:03 +0000 UTC View Post
These cavern geomorphs are designed to mesh with the other few hundred geomorphs I’ve posted to the blog over the years, the many varieties of DungeonMorphs published by Inkwell Ideas, and of cou...
2022-02-17 23:54:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Built on the highest hill to be found near the Red Ford across Shelfbel Brook, Redford Citadel is still a good half-mile from its namesake ford. The Citadel was built not so much to defend the ford...
2022-02-14 21:09:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Two days travel down the coastline of Dehnuk from the capital is Nuzur Hollow – a small cave that was once under the waterline before the cataclysm that came with the collapse of the ancient Zori...
2022-02-12 21:12:47 +0000 UTC View Post
A freebie (not patron-supported post) to help track the state of Darklingtown.
I’ve been posting district maps of Darklingtown Districts for four months now (a total of nine district maps s...
2022-02-10 02:16:31 +0000 UTC View Post
The Darkling River works its way through the underdark beneath the grey hills to depths unknown. Darklingtown is a trading community built into a series of claustrophobically low-ceilinged cave...
2022-02-09 00:14:52 +0000 UTC View Post