Nestled in the depths of the Underdark, the tiny settlement of Dripstone Deep radiates an aura of unease and secrecy. The air is heavy with moisture, and the faint, rhythmic sound of water dripping...
2025-04-21 22:35:20 +0000 UTC
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Kaelith Marrowshade has gone missing. It isn’t that unusual for a ranger to wander off for a few months, but it has been two seasons now since they were last seen. Kaelith was known for their unc...
2025-04-18 15:19:50 +0000 UTC
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At the top of the trail leading up Longboat Mountain to the valley travellers get their first view of the longboat itself – an impossibly big wooden boat made from trees that must have been 100 f...
2025-04-16 23:48:16 +0000 UTC
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Back to the shops along the intersection of Market & Random. Based on a Patreon request from Mark Clover, I’m drawing up individual floor plans for shops, stores, vendors, and businesses alon...
2025-04-11 15:39:10 +0000 UTC
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Two months ago we explored Eastmeadow Manor – a three-story stone manor house outside of town. The manor is home to the Lindwyne family and their three servants.
There are three levels of b...
2025-04-10 19:31:03 +0000 UTC
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This is the last of the maps of “The Finger” and the dungeons beneath it. Last month we introduced the location as part of the Autumn Lands and then did three maps of the location itself (the s...
2025-04-08 00:36:39 +0000 UTC
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The Autumn Lands lie to the south of the Midsummer Lands. This map sits to the east of map I from last month and to the south of Map B and is the final map in the set. The goal of the Autumn Lands ...
2025-04-04 16:06:16 +0000 UTC
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This month's Backstage Pass is here! This zip file contains all ten maps to be released this month on t...
2025-04-03 02:25:09 +0000 UTC
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Alright, we are finally getting back on track!
This month's selection for the Kraken re-releases ...
2025-03-31 16:02:23 +0000 UTC
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Here we are, the compiled works of Dyson Logos for the month of March. Thank you so much for your conti...
2025-03-31 15:18:01 +0000 UTC
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I've been remiss on the Kraken polls lately (things have been a little hectic here dealing with health ...
2025-03-28 15:31:52 +0000 UTC
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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...
2025-03-28 13:45:22 +0000 UTC
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Centuries ago, a secret temple was constructed to revere Xal’keth, a God of Shadows and Secrets. The clandestine cult obsessed with unraveling forbidden truths and harnessing the power of shadows...
2025-03-27 01:20:09 +0000 UTC
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The Graxworm is a massive dead dragon of mythic scale, several miles long and large enough to contain a town in the mouth. Creatures have set up here to “mine” the massive corpse for its valuab...
2025-03-25 00:20:11 +0000 UTC
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This small extradimensional space was crafted by Zitharion the Thaumaturge – obsessed with capturing the very essence of greed. He believed that greed was more than a mortal flaw, even more than ...
2025-03-21 16:14:51 +0000 UTC
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Beneath the ruins of the Iron Maw is the Black Star Gaol – the citadel’s small and very well-organized dungeons. Designed to hold four dozen prisoners at any time, the gaol has been abandoned s...
2025-03-20 00:32:24 +0000 UTC
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Back to the shops along the intersection of Market & Random. Based on a Patreon request from Mark Clover, I’m drawing up individual floor plans for shops, stores, vendors, and businesses alon...
2025-03-17 16:26:32 +0000 UTC
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Now deep beneath “The Finger” these substructures were used as tombs by the followers of the “Somnolent One”. But on these levels the weird lights in the walls fade away and the stonework a...
2025-03-14 15:23:21 +0000 UTC
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The structure above these dungeons (The Finger, see Monday’s post) is believed by its residents to be a remnant of “Somnolent One,” some vast, dreamlike entity between the folds of reality. T...
2025-03-14 00:30:08 +0000 UTC
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In the upper right corner of the latest hexmap (The Autumn Lands, Map H) is a strange stone outcropping (requested by a patron) that looks like a finger pointing to the sky. This freakish natural r...
2025-03-10 15:45:46 +0000 UTC
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The Autumn Lands lie to the south of the Midsummer Lands. This map sits to the east of map G from last month and to the south of the original map A – next month’s Map I will be to the east of t...
2025-03-07 16:10:04 +0000 UTC
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Here's the ten maps that will be going up on the blog this month. Thank you again for your support,
2025-03-06 02:11:11 +0000 UTC
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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...
2025-02-28 15:41:40 +0000 UTC
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With the end of the month falling on a Friday, I need to get out February's last map and cartography collection today. So here goes! (Map to follow in the next post)
2025-02-28 14:57:05 +0000 UTC
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An oddly shaped “tower”, the Tower of Vodores is a brutalist structure standing alone in the Plains of Stone (the badlands to the west of the kingdom, a huge natural boundary between the kingdo...
2025-02-26 23:20:15 +0000 UTC
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Fortress Thiasau was built centuries ago by the knights known as the Order of the Crimson Heart. The order operated as paladins but actually worshipped a malevolent deity of chaos and destruction d...
2025-02-25 04:42:31 +0000 UTC
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On the island of Thalares is the palace of the hero Moliades – a charismatic and ambitious young prince turned adventurer. Born into royalty, he inherited a small but strategically important pala...
2025-02-21 15:45:37 +0000 UTC
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The Kingdom of Kestral is the baked-in setting for the Six-Hack RPG by James Hargrove.
I drew this map based on the description of the Kingdom in the game, making sure to include all the loca...
2025-02-20 00:32:47 +0000 UTC
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The sinkhole on old man Gref’s farm connects to a number of caves including one that takes the overflow of the muddy waters from the pool and descends deep below (areas 9 & 10). These caves, ...
2025-02-18 05:03:47 +0000 UTC
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The shadow crypts are marked on many a scholar’s maps – a complex of long halls of decaying stonework that date back to unknown times. The crypts are decorated with strange glyphs, but the styl...
2025-02-14 15:20:42 +0000 UTC
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