Exposed as the glaciers melted back a few summers ago, the Nightal Caverns stretch an unknown distance through the rock beneath the ice. It is believed that they might link back to an ancient city still frozen in the ice – a place where elder races lived before the current eras of dwarves, orcs...
2020-12-28 18:49:50 +0000 UTC View Post
We waged war upon the elves. We chased them into their twisting warrens full of strange brightly-coloured devices of war. The war was long and bloody and we were fought at every turn, battled in every doorway. The eldest of the elves was a massive old elf, rotund and powerful.
In the end we...
2020-12-25 22:08:50 +0000 UTC View Post
The great spires of industry blacken the skies of Solace. And deep within these hives there is a rot. Heretics to the creed would subvert their fellow hab dwellers and hive toilers. Here we have a small section of the deep hive – a mix of residential space (the seven rooms in the lower right), ...
2020-12-21 23:05:45 +0000 UTC View Post
In the Crags of Shargun near the verge of Troll Country, this massive ruin has been reclaimed by various warlords over the ages. The structure is noted for the six towers that still stand watch over the mazelike fortress – each tower has massive plates of iron bolted to the walls, now orange wi...
2020-12-18 00:25:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The ancient city of Púrdimal struggles to remain above the swamps that surround it. Old dusk-grey structures of porous stone squat like ugly toads slowly turning green from the pervasive wetness and stench that seems to overwhelm the city.
The temple of Keténgku is the city's largest libr...
2020-12-15 20:41:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Few temples of Pharika are supported within the major city states of Theros. While Pharika teaches many healing arts, she is best known as the god of afflictions, poisons, and disease. While not presented as a foul Nurgle-esque monstrosity, Pharika is still treated as a monster almost more than a...
2020-12-11 20:39:29 +0000 UTC View Post
A few decades ago the tower on Boar Isle was the kind of place that you would go to for a picnic, or as a stop-over point when fishing on the lake. As chaos rises and the wilds become wilder, it comes as no surprise to the townfolk across the lake that some nights you can see torchlight across th...
2020-12-07 21:45:33 +0000 UTC View Post
In the north of Yán Kór several days travel beyond Dháru where the Kai’odrath Plains give way to the northern steppes is an ancient ruin dating to the Empire of the Dragon Warriors. Little remains besides cyclopean stonework indicating that a number of large structures in a walled compound o...
2020-12-05 20:11:49 +0000 UTC View Post
A small farming community, Appletree Pond is built by their namesake water source, but is most notable because of the great church near the middle of town. Founded and built by a potent wandering cleric thirty years ago, the church is still attended to by this powerful minion of the gods.No one i...
2020-12-04 00:29:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's this month's Backstage Pass - well, most of it anyways. This package contains 8 of the planned 10 releases this month (if we make it to 10, mind you). Additional releases will get packed up separa...
2020-12-03 23:45:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Patrons! Somehow 2020 is coming to a close after only 196 weeks (most of them made entirely out of Mondays).
I'm watching the snow falling outside as I type this up. December is upon us a...
2020-12-02 19:01:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Contact was lost with Research Station Palatua as we approached the system. When we pulled around to the landing area on the trojan asteroid that houses the station, there was a debris field where the outside elements of the station were, and yellow strobing lights from within the portions dug in...
2020-11-30 21:27:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we go through our back catalogue of maps and you decide which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. This map from last year is the latest to be voted in.
Many enjoy living next to l’Étendue Sombre, or the Dark Desert – a fragrant desert o...
2020-11-28 20:02:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Here’s the final set of the Crypts of the Lich Lord geomorphs – the final four designs that I put together a few years ago with an alternate geometry designed for use as a deck of cards but that I only managed to get 10 done before other work took over.
Maybe one day I’ll get back on ...
2020-11-27 21:27:58 +0000 UTC View Post
This continues the Crypts of the Lich Lord geomorphs – another three designs that I put together a few years ago with an alternate geometry designed for use as a deck of cards. Maybe one day I’ll get back on the project and release a full deck of these, but in the meantime here are the origin...
2020-11-23 18:51:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we go through our back catalogue of maps and you (my amazing patrons) vote on which two should be re-released. This map originally goes back to 2014.
We don’t know why the ancients built so many underground structures (perhaps to remain out of the sight of the elves w...
2020-11-21 18:30:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Somewhere around three years ago I started on a project to make a new set of geomorphs using a different layout than my traditional geomorphs. These geomorphs were designed to fit on a regular set of playing cards and have entrances in the middle of each facing. The project never matured past the...
2020-11-19 16:19:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, let's get the second half of November's Backstage Pass out, right?
We've already seen a few of these make it on to the blog already, but here's the full set that complete's November's re...
2020-11-18 17:44:44 +0000 UTC View Post
On a clear day you can just make out the trail leading up into the mountain north of town. When the sun hits just right on such a day you can see the glimmer of the white columns of the mountain temple itself.
It is here that would-be heroes climb to request the blessing of the gods in thei...
2020-11-16 22:06:51 +0000 UTC View Post
The conjoined magi were masters of communications with the strange beings beyond the walls of sleep. As infants, they spoke strange tongues and received answers as if from the ether. As they aged, they took up the study of magic and the assistance of these same beings seemed to propel them into g...
2020-11-14 17:24:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Tucked into the fertile hills of Pantesh are the fortifications of Lautuntown. Lautuntown is a moderately sized community that supports (or truly is supported by) the extensive farmlands in the nearby hills. Central to the geography of the town is the Chatting Rill, a small river that winds and m...
2020-11-12 17:52:43 +0000 UTC View Post
The rough rocks of Irloga Isle in the open seas beyond Khalesh-Sonket is home to a small cult of demon-worshippers, said to be the last remnants of the old Semut clans. Here they raise sheep and goats and make sacrifices to their ancient demon gods. The island is home to a dozen small demonic shr...
2020-11-09 14:34:45 +0000 UTC View Post
The Borderlands Caves are a complex of natural and creature-“built” caverns and associated dungeons where more “civilized” folk added their own living, working, and worshiping spaces to the caves.
This is only one entrance into the Borderlands Caves, but the most obvious one. The ca...
2020-11-08 03:17:54 +0000 UTC View Post
South of the Ashwood a few small islands jut out into Bittersweet Lake. These Sommerich Cays have been home to their namesake family through three generations – the various Ladies Somerrich using their small island estate as a summer getaway traditionally and in more recent years as the family ...
2020-11-06 00:36:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Last month's backstage pass didn't have all of Otober's releases in it, and I'm less caught up now than I was in October (had my primary production system die on me and only just got my replacement / upg...
2020-11-05 10:40:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Get out there and vote!
For that other thing too, but also on what maps will be pulled out of the achives and re-released under the free commercial use license!
Here's the poll:
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2020-11-02 22:47:51 +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. The second release this month is the False Tombs from 2017.
Lord Dranoel was the kind of mad king that of c...
2020-10-31 22:33:57 +0000 UTC View Post
The side cavern from the deeper sections of the old dungeon had a surprise at the end. An area of worked stone & masonry in what appeared to be a gallery with a chamber looking down over it 25 feet above. Portions of the cavern had collapsed and other sections appear washed away. The suggesti...
2020-10-29 23:48:14 +0000 UTC View Post
The waters along the back of these old limestone caves are almost opaque and nearly pea-green in colour. Nonetheless they are some of the only waters in this part of southern Zorisz.
The central space of the cave contains a small house, with roof and everything, that currently serves as the...
2020-10-26 22:48:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we go through our back catalogue of maps and YOU, the army of amazing supporters on Patreon vote on which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. The first such release this month is an “ancient” map in my reckoning, going back to 2013.
Axebridge ove...
2020-10-25 01:37:16 +0000 UTC View Post