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The Rumbledown Ruins

In the liminal area between the Ghost Dunes and the Ruint Rabble are a number of ruins half-covered by the dunes, distant enough that they don’t become the mass of damaged and crushed towers and structures that make up the rabble. The Rumbledown Ruins are a pair of damaged towers that are used ...

The Gooz Hexes

These are the lands of the Ghost Dunes around Goozer City. When the pretty ones left the world to the Gooz much fell to ruin. Goozer City sits on the edge of the Ruint Rabble – an ancient city of the pretty ones that has collapsed into ruins and picked clean for treasures. From this detritus th...

The Six Greater Spires

Taking the structure of the Six Spires posted in June, this map changes the scale of the structure so that each entrance is two squares wide instead of one, giving us a lot more room to work. Now instead of a small shrine or similar built into a megalithic structure, we have a massive temple unde...

The Ochrenvault – Map 3

The Elders of the Ochren built a portal to the stars deep within the Ochrenvault – a deep set of caves and “dungeons” that were cut into the mountains by nature and the ochrefolk (a “privileged” class of humans and half-elves that were “permitted” to serve the elders). The Ochrenvau...

Nephilim's Hall

Somewhere just off the routing between King Snurre’s domain and the caverns and warrens of the troglodytes is this set of overlapping caverns that are home to a small group of seemingly immortal giants. Not much taller than a hill giant, they somehow cloud the memories of those they meet and th...

Skaldon’s Dome

Looking like a truncated cone with a hemisphere embedded in it, Skaldon’s Dome protects a small sealed garden within it. Trees and grass surround a small pond that in turn is home to an island with a tall, thin obelisk upon it. The interior of the dome is only accessible via stairs from the upp...

Pentagonal Monuments in the Ghost Dunes

Standing tall over the endless sands of the ghost dunes are these ruins made of five pentagonal structures set into a pentagon themselves. The structures, said to have been risen from the sands by the will of a wind-wizard, are a sacred site to the cult of the Sand Children who climb the ruined t...

Heart of Darkling – The Pillars

The Darkling River works its way through the underdark beneath the grey hills to depths unknown. This is the fifteenth mapped location (and 18th map total) along the Darkling River and the Darkling La...

Backstage Pass - September 2021

Thanks for your patience and support folks! 

Here's this month's backstage pass containing 10 maps, many of which are part of the GOZR playtest I'm running right now for James V. West (includi...

Back To School Kraken Time!

Autumn is on the way, but the Kraken refuses to acknowledge the changing of the seasons and requires release! 

So it is time to head on over to the monthly poll to vote on which maps we'll be ...

Release the Kraken on Greyfalls Cave

Every month we go through our back catalog of maps and you vote on which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. Greyfalls Cave was released in February of 2020 in response to a question about my favourite elements of a dungeon map.

I was asked what features I liked...

Release the Kraken on the Catacombs of the Flayed Minotaurs

Every month we go through our back catalog of maps and YOU vote on which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. The Catacombs of the Flayed Minotaurs was drawn and released back in March of 2019 and includes call-outs to several classic D&D adventures.

The Ochrenvault – Map 2

The Elders of the Ochren built a portal to the stars deep within the Ochrenvault – a deep set of caves and “dungeons” that were cut into the mountains by nature and the ochrefolk (a “privileged” class of humans and half-elves that were “permitted” to serve the elders). The Ochrenvau...

The Dungeons of Zath Gor

The stairs in the northwest tower of Zath Gor Bastion lead up into the tower, but also down beneath to the dungeons of Zath Gor. With the loss of the other properties & territory of the Counts of Gor, these dungeons have become the primary means to lock up malcontents, rivals, and important p...

Zath Gor Bastion

Zath Gor Bastion was once a border fort of Great Zorisz – a watch point along the great swamps northwest of what is now Shu-Qune. With the collapse of Great Zorisz, the princes of Shu-Qune secured as many of the border forts as they could as their small nation was both threatened by the Wizard-...

Monolith of the Ghost Dunes

Five rusty black monoliths sit on a barren stretch between the sands of the Ghost Dunes. Depending on the vagaries of the winds the bases of these rough black spires are usually hidden in the sand, but sometimes the bare rock outcropping they stand upon is swept free and the entrance to the centr...

Where we left the bodies…

We were visiting Rü in the Kerunán Protectorate when the cultists of Sárku caught up to us. We quietly returned them to their five headed lord of worms in an alley, but needed a place to hide their bodies as we were already having enough problems with the local temples and an agent of the Omni...

It is time for the August Kraken Selection!

We are halfway through August so it is about time we get to selecting which maps we will be re-releasing under the free commercial use license. So here's this month's set of ten maps to pick from!

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The Ochrenvault – Map 1

The Elders of the Ochren built a portal to the stars deep within the Ochrenvault – a deep set of caves and “dungeons” that were cut into the mountains by nature and the ochrefolk (a “privileged” class of humans and half-elves that were “permitted” to serve the elders). The Ochrenvau...

The Tyrant’s Ruins

Somehow when I posted this map to the blog and promoted it across all my social media feeds, I failed to post it here... you know, the place where you actually pay me for these maps. So belatedly, here's the map of the Tyrant's Ruins posted everywhere else on the internet on Thursday....