Referred to in some texts as “The Pillar Of Salt” because of the white crystalline structure of the tower, this towering structure and the enclosed garden sit on a hilltop but are invisible to those who don’t climb the hill – as one approaches within a few hundred feet of the structure, i...
2023-07-10 23:53:57 +0000 UTC View Post
A lovely little estate with a smallish two-story home, mostly covered back yard, carriage house, and guard posts at the entrance, Gladhold is currently home to the Rivermark family who are deeply involved in local shipping and receiving, with a number of warehouses in the dockside district. The f...
2023-07-07 16:33:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we go through our back catalogue of maps and you vote on which should be re-released under the free commercial use license. Here we are returning to one of a set of maps I drew for a mini-campaign of James V West’s GOZR RPG – the Rumbledown R...
2023-07-05 15:14:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy 4th of July to my American Patrons, and a belated Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canadians!
Here is this month's Backstage Pass, compiling all ten maps that we'll be releasing to the blog this...
2023-07-04 18:27:11 +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. Our first kraken release of the summer is this Gamma Terra map that incorporates a regional map and a few site maps in...
2023-07-04 14:27:52 +0000 UTC View Post
As we close out our June maps, here’s one of the last of the DungeonMorphs sets – the seventh die in the “Lairs” set. We’ve only got one more to complete the whole set – which we’ll be posting next month.
BUT we have big news! The Kickstarter has been fulfilled and now you can...
2023-06-30 00:30:25 +0000 UTC View Post
As we close out our June maps, here’s one of the last of the DungeonMorphs sets – the sixth die in the “Lairs” set. We’ve only got two more to complete the whole set – one die will be posted later this week, and the very last die will be posted next month.
BUT we have big news! ...
2023-06-27 17:11:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Today’s map is inspired by the Hawkmoon series by Michael Moorcock.
Around his domain, Count Brass maintained a set of strange pre-war defensive systems – towers that would spin out of the ground and fire strange bubbles at their enemies. This is my interpretation of the towers...
2023-06-24 16:22:16 +0000 UTC View Post
The forces of chaos are amassing not even a day’s travel from the small borderlands keep of Zath Gor Bastion. A collection of small caves line a small box canyon, not far from the road into the mountain passes through the borderlands. These caves have become a staging area for small bands of hu...
2023-06-22 16:21:16 +0000 UTC View Post
At the edge of the White Plains of Thaeral (a massive ice sheet that covers the land north of here) are the debris fields where the ice has retreated. Rough terrain covered in boulders and rocks – some worn smooth by the glacial action, others sharp and jagged, stones shattered by the relentles...
2023-06-19 16:06:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Zzarchov Kowolski of “A Thousand Dead Babies” and “Neoclassical Geek Revival” fame has written and released a pulp fantasy adventure novel titled “It Was Tuesday“. As part of his effort to make it a classic pulp fantasy novel, he had the cover art and interior map drawn by people comp...
2023-06-16 20:16:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Gascon’s Pit is a shaft in the centre of some old ruins. The pit was once under a roof, but the structure above the pit and associated understructures has long fallen into ruin – leaving the pit open to the elements. The ruins are at the end of a dwarven bridge over the Deepspike Ravine – t...
2023-06-14 23:27:52 +0000 UTC View Post
So what happens when you put all three of the Stony Shore maps together into one big map?
You get this 41.25 x 6 inch map.
Downloadable in four versions from the blog now - colour @ 144 & 300 dpi, and B&W at 600 and 1200 dpi.
The Stony Shore maps are a series of three interconnected dungeon & cavern maps that were each drawn on a 14-inch wide by 6-inch tall canvas at 4 squares per inch. Called the Stony Shore because an underground river runs through much of the space in question, these three maps can be used ...
2023-06-12 23:16:21 +0000 UTC View Post
The Stony Shore maps are a series of three interconnected dungeon & cavern maps that were each drawn on a 14-inch wide by 6-inch tall canvas at 4 squares per inch. Called the Stony Shore because an underground river runs through much of the space in question, these three maps can be used ...
2023-06-08 18:54:46 +0000 UTC View Post
It is, once again, time to vote on which maps from our back catalogue should be re-released under the commercial use license.
Here's a selection of maps from the blog archives, the two receiv...
2023-06-08 01:43:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The Stony Shore maps are a series of three interconnected dungeon & cavern maps that were each drawn on a 14-inch wide by 6-inch tall canvas at 4 squares per inch. Called the Stony Shore because an underground river runs through much of the space in question, these three maps can be used ...
2023-06-06 16:36:16 +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. Our second release this month is a section of sewers I drew in 2018 (shortly after I drew the sewer maps for Dragon He...
2023-06-06 01:18:30 +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. Our first release this month is this ruined outpost and experiment with colour palettes from 2019.
Once a d...
2023-06-02 17:28:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's this month's Backstage Pass!
We've got a small regional hexmap, a set of three interconnected 6" x 14" mixed dungeon & cavern maps, a miniature "caves of chaos" box canyon, a tower shrin...
2023-06-02 14:06:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Whoa.
I'm doing it again, fell way behind because EVERYTHING seemed to pile up this month (major contract got rewritten & rescheduled at the last minute, car's been in the shop twice, dealing w...
2023-05-31 15:12:07 +0000 UTC View Post
And, for our two last new releases of March we return to the DungeonMorphs!
Here’s one of the DungeonMorph Lairs series of dungeon geomorphs – the fifth die from the set (the last of the three sets).
And, for our two last new releases of March, here’s one more of the DungeonMorph series of dungeon geomorphs – the fourth die from the Lairs set (the last of the three sets).
2023-05-29 23:34:21 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m still keeping on (if not 100% keeping up) with the #Dungeon23 projects – here’s the fourth map (level 3 – the second map was the surface level) in its entirety with the full map and short-form stocking.
4-1 Gaol
There are a total of 16 wererats living in area...
When they aroused the ire of the gods, the mighty stone walls and cyclopean architecture of Ishud Vath proved to be no more than monuments to their hubris – the great mountain that the city was built around was thrown down upon them, raining the city in stone, ash, and lava.
There are sev...
2023-05-23 23:46:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Built by rebel priests of Amon-Gorloth, this dungeon was constructed and adapted from existing caverns following dreams they claim are channelled from Amon-Gorloth itself – making them a twisted and nightmarish version of the convoluted mausoleums under the desert sands where Amon-Gorloth sleep...
2023-05-20 19:45:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m still trying to keep up with the two #Dungeon23 projects I started – here’s the fourth zone of the Tumíssan underworld (expanding from the small access hallway at the south end of Map 3 (area 3-16).
4-1 Access Tunnels
Uneven floors, pipes a...
Two ancient domes behind a crumbling softstone wall are known just as “Bore Four-Four” to the locals. Once part of some deep-bore experiments where scientists were measuring solar ejecta from deep underground, the domes have become the headquarters of a well-equipped group of raiders / bandit...
2023-05-16 18:08:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Four massive standing stones were erected in a small but deep bowl in the rocky badlands of Dehnuk – accessed via a steep climb through a dark cave that is unmarked except for the evidence of the Circle of Dehnuk druids travelling to and from this holy space.
While ascending to the stones...
2023-05-13 15:13:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Beneath the ruins of the Claw of Sunsets are a number of small dungeons and understructures. This particular dungeon is under the final portion of the ruins maps above – with entrances both via the stairway in the tower (to the “dungeon” levels) and via the cave downhill from the tower (to ...
2023-05-11 16:11:22 +0000 UTC View Post