So much for being on top of things! It is sneaking past mid-July, and I haven't posted this month's Release the Kraken list!
For the new patrons - each month I post a list of 8-12 maps from the blog and we vote on which should be re-released under the free commercial use license.
This...
2019-07-20 21:38:50 +0000 UTC View Post
When I got a copy of the Dungeoneer’s Survival Guide some 33 years ago, it was a flood of information, rules I would consistently ignore, scraps about the underdark for the first time since the D series of adventures…
And a collection of pages at the back on drawing perspective-based ma...
2019-07-18 19:36:14 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the fourth level of the Geomorphic Halls, a dungeon designed around my dungeon geomorph design to produce levels that have specific waypoints and landmarks, but also areas that shift and change between visits.
This is the final level of the Geomorphic Halls – except for that one s...
2019-07-15 19:14:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Greymail Clanhold has fallen. Word of the tragedy has only recently made it down from the mountains, but the stories paint a bleak picture of the hold being invaded and the dwarves destroying much of the structure to keep it out of the invaders’ hands.
But that is only part of the tale. T...
2019-07-11 19:12:02 +0000 UTC View Post
A quiet structure for the contemplation and learning about the life and trials of the paladin Eneshra and their eventual transformation into the dragon Vanshiro who flew into the west and who’s occasional returns to these lands are a mix of myth, hearth-tales, and the one time it landed on this...
2019-07-08 19:38:05 +0000 UTC View Post
There are many dark and cramped dungeons out there to explore – descents deep underground, delves into ancient confines…
But what is at the top of those first stairs?
Onyx Hill is capped by old ruins of a small fort. Shattered and broken remains of a pair of structures and the old...
2019-07-05 22:26:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Up near the docks, between the Clinkers district and the docks themselves is the Half-Cask. In an area known for its inns and taverns, the Half-Cask presents a very traditional “drinking hall” environment, making it popular with locals and travellers alike.
The Half-Cask is a friendly s...
2019-07-03 19:32:12 +0000 UTC View Post
And here we go, all the maps coming out this month on the Dodecahedron!
Thank you once again for being a patron of the Dodecahedron. Your support makes these floods of maps possible, and this constant flow of output has me always improving my skills.
2019-07-03 18:28:14 +0000 UTC View Post
The Court of Summer Wines is a well-to-do establishment that offers a wide selection of wines imported from near and far as well as a fruits, breads and sweets to be paired with such.
The food menu varies daily based on what is available in town, but Haspar (the owner) works hard to maintai...
2019-07-01 21:05:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we go through our back catalog of maps and you decide which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. For older maps I also work on upgrading the quality of the scan where possible.
Letath is a city that appeared in my “From Winterspire to Yoon-Suin” c...
2019-06-29 22:22:10 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's Patreon Exclusive is a single-page recto-verso page detailing the Twelve Goats Tavern. It is pretty system-neutral although tied in with one of my favourite adventure modules - the Isle of Dread.
The floorplan of the tavern was released on the blog in May. This adds a new side ...
2019-06-28 20:11:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we return to my classic “Dyson’s Delve” with another pair of maps from my 2019 redraw of levels 5 and 6 of this mini-mega-dungeon.
Level 5 is known as the howling halls and is essential...
2019-06-27 17:57:13 +0000 UTC View Post
There are many small independent island cities in the Copper Seas that I have visited in my attempts to navigate out of those quiet and confusing waters. Today we look at the Isle of Kheyus, where the remnants of ancient civilizations have the locals cowed and eking out a living in fear of the pa...
2019-06-24 22:16:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Cut from the stones of the Weirding Mountains by the drowned priests to craft a gateway for their mad god, this small complex has been “abandoned” for a few hundred years since the collapse of their order.
All the masonry of the complex was made of red stone brought up piece by piece by...
2019-06-20 15:11:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the third level of the Geomorphic Halls, a dungeon designed around my dungeon geomorph design to produce levels that have specific waypoints and landmarks, but also areas that shift and change between visits.
As we continue down into the Geomorphic Halls I get to experiment with dif...
2019-06-17 23:13:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Designed after multiple iterations and revisions over weeks of painstaking design by the magus Braincain007 in the land of Reddit, the Tomb of Za’az was then recreated by the drug-addled crafthall halflings of clan Logos.
A classic “dungeon for the sake of a dungeon”, the Tomb of Za...
2019-06-15 19:24:08 +0000 UTC View Post
An abandoned throne room, flanked by cobweb-covered statues, this dungeon was designed and dug out to be something far grander than it is now.
Originally dug out for access to the underground river here, these dungeons are damp and quiet, home to massive cave spiders that hunt blind fish in...
2019-06-13 18:48:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Potent wizards locked away in their towers working on mighty magics… This is the way it has been in tales, and thus this is the way many wizards operate to this day. Ahsryn Spire is such a wizard’s tower, erected to provide a safe space for wizardly work far enough from civilization that no o...
2019-06-10 16:46:08 +0000 UTC View Post
A “basement tavern”, the Fire Beetle is built underneath “Trinkets & Secrets”, a fortune-teller’s storefront and the closest thing to a “magic shop” as you’ll find in Letath.
The Fire Beetle Ale House is a classic fantasy tavern – dark, windowless, smokey, serving ale ...
2019-06-06 17:27:31 +0000 UTC View Post
It is time - let's pick which maps get re-released this month under the free commercial-use license.
(For those new to the Patreon; every month I post a list of 8-12 maps to pick from. The top voted maps are re-released on the blog under the free commercial use license, bringing us up to 6...
The black stone cliffs of Robrus loom over Rat Crater Lake – the dark stone looking perpetually wet and somehow tainted by the often rainbow-sheened waters in the crater.
The cliffs are pierced here and there by small caves – places where inclusions of softer stone have been washed away...
2019-06-03 19:09:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hang on... I seem to be on top of things right now. Backstage pass out on the first of the month... I'm in the process of putting together this month's Kraken poll (probably to be released tomorrow so I don't flood your inboxes today)...
Ah, I must be procrastinating on something else impor...
2019-06-01 19:51:18 +0000 UTC View Post
The second map chosen this month to be re-released under the free commercial use license is Control – a map based on a joke that I drew as part of Mapvember in 2016. This re-release brings the original map up to 1200 dpi and pure black and white.
This tomb on the edge of the desert of the...
2019-06-01 18:30:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Deeper into Dyson's Delve today, as we remake the maps of levels 3 & 4 in the style of my more recent Ghosts of Saltmarsh maps.
A level a crypts, and then a level where two manitcores terrorize...
2019-05-30 18:06:00 +0000 UTC View Post
(This is a few days late - the day I posted this to the blog, Patreon was down, and then I forgot to post it here until today when I was here to post today's update!)
It has been nearly a decade, so let's return to Dyson's Delve!
There's been a slight change in my mapping techniques t...
2019-05-30 18:04:30 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's Patreon Exclusive release is a selection of hand-drawn hexes I put together for my own use and was then quickly informed that others would like to use them too.
Originally this project...
2019-05-26 14:00:26 +0000 UTC View Post
The first map you chose this month to be re-released under the free commercial use license is The Blessed Monastery (which joins the Oratory of the Eleventh Blessing under that license which is the building on the upper right of the Monastery map)
Up in the Fox Hills is a small monastic ord...
2019-05-25 12:15:53 +0000 UTC View Post
We are in the last 9 hours of the DungeonMorph Dice kickstarter – so perfect timing to release level two of the Geomorphic Halls!
This one takes a cluster of 4 geomorphs as the heart of the level. Since so many geomorphs interconnected can result in a lot of unreachable areas, there are t...
2019-05-23 17:47:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey now... it appears that I forgot to post this at the beginning of the month. Because of course I did.
So!
We need to pick out a couple of maps from the back catalog for re-release under the commercial use license. I've picked out a dozen, you get to pick which ones we end up with.<...
2019-05-21 16:31:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Ever since I started drawing Geomorphs, I’ve had the intention of making a dungeon that took advantage of them to have sections of the dungeon that change from visit to visit – visually based in part on the map of Lankhmar in the old Lankhmar D&D sourcebook.
Thus, every time you ent...
2019-05-20 20:21:29 +0000 UTC View Post