When I was approached by Eric Hoffman to draw the maps for an adventure in the next issue of Brave the Labyrinth my immediate reaction was "why on earth are there no other aqueduct & viaduct maps already?!"
A two-level construction, the main portion of which was the viaduct which connected a n...
2016-11-22 16:24:53 +0000 UTC View Post
The first of the two maps to be re-released under the commercial license this month (thanks to your votes in the monthly RELEASE THE KRAKEN poll) is a true oldy of mine - Ruins of the Gorgon!
These ruins of an ancient elven workstation have had a small watch structure built above them to keep an e...
2016-11-21 20:36:52 +0000 UTC View Post
There are a number of dead gods, demons and other creatures long forgotten who's planes of existence have ceased to exist and who now float around the astral, petrified with old age and lack of followers.
While most are just ignored, or used as the occasional stopping place or landmark in the infi...
2016-11-18 17:14:19 +0000 UTC View Post
(Please note that there are two maps today - the one shown above, and a second map of the dungeons underneath the temple on the blog page)
The eight-pointed star has been the symbol of chaos for so long… that in some ironic way it has become the law. And yet chaos champions and sorcerer...
2016-11-15 17:38:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Named for the heavy clay found in the mudflats where the town was established, Clayfield Village is a small outpost of humans and halflings built around a bridge across the outlet of the sluggish Laglach river.
While the local halflings still use the old name for the original halfling farm al...
The old stone fortress and tower along one of the tributaries of the Greendraught river almost certainly had a name at one point. Something dark, ominous and with much gravitas like Orothon's Spire or The Dark Hold. But these days there's not much reason to try to fortify something along the Greendr...
2016-11-08 14:22:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In the mountains of Kuln, the Ironflow river's tributaries form a number of ravines, clefts, and canyons of various sizes. This particular cleft cuts through some sedimentary rock where the river has washed out sections of the softer rocks forming a series of natural galleries that were in time expa...
2016-11-04 16:01:51 +0000 UTC View Post
There are borderlands where fortified structures are the norm for those with riches and influence. Where civilization isn't strong, and the law can't be trusted to keep you safe. In these places instead of manor houses and mansions, those who have the means instead build fortifications and bunkers.<...
2016-11-01 17:21:45 +0000 UTC View Post
So... we've reached the $500 funding target to release the second Kraken.
Now, the way things usually work with my Patreon is a number of pledges "bounce" at the beginning of the month, bringing down the total pledge by up to $25. So, being all excited as I am, and thankful for your support,...
2016-11-01 02:13:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Halloween!
We're rolling into another month (I'll post about the big news for November shortly in a post to all patrons), and I've just finished uploading a whole pile of maps to the blog.
A few of these I just noted don't have the "Patreon Supported" graphics at the bottom...
2016-11-01 01:52:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Continuing on the series of maps of a massive undercity project I am taking on. The goal is to produce a large set of maps that interconnect to produce something akin to, but very much different in style from, the original Jakallan Underworld map that M.A.R. Barker used in his Empire of the Petal Th...
2016-10-29 17:04:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The votes have been collected and the top response was to release Wolf Tower from two years ago.
The Wolves are a secretive warrior-cult typically pictured fighting with “long knives” (short swords) in both hands. They operate within military forces, tribal warrior bands, city...
2016-10-27 15:18:32 +0000 UTC View Post
When the Sorceress Queen Nemorlienne finally died, some efforts were made to keep her that way. While her rule was generally good for the state of the nation, those closest to the halls of power found her ways destructive and maniacal and her magically-augmented temper shortened many an advisor’s ...
2016-10-25 13:19:45 +0000 UTC View Post
“They” say that the restless dead get confused by corners and curves. Thus they make their crypts into convoluted spirals and in some cases interlocking circles to confuse the restless dead and force them to remain underground, away from the living.
These Spiral Crypts are a medium-sized ...
Err, votes, not bets. That's right, place votes now for the next map to be moved from the personal-use-only archives into the commercial-licensed collection!
https://goo.gl/forms/O55zRu30Lfs9d9XA2
The Krisdithas Estate is one of the best-pedigreed upper-class homes in the city. While it has changed hands a few times in its long history, it has always been to rich families with the bluest of bloodlines and long stories of money, corruption, influence and dark secrets. Even a clan of exiled nob...
2016-10-18 14:35:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The Lesser Velarb Jungle conceals many things, but most only know of the troglodytes and plethora of giant slugs and snails. The northern reaches of the jungle mix into the extensive swamps of the Black Mire, but as the land becomes drier to the south remains and ruins of networks of old Elsilian Em...
2016-10-14 19:08:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Vardisstvy is a small village and great house built up in what used to be the northern gnoll wastes. With the rapid decline of the winter gnoll tribes, the region has become a place where those seeking land and freedoms unavailable in the Satrapy have started setting up homes and villages.
Va...
The Knight of Clubs is dead and his eternal soul trapped within Kingslayer, the sword of Silver. His body, minus his left hand, was secreted away by his henchmen and never seen again. Some sages have records from the henchmen’s deathbed confessions decades later that the tomb of Tarodun the Preser...
2016-10-07 15:05:47 +0000 UTC View Post
There is a cave with far too many statues within it that some locals whisper about when drunk enough. The local kids will dare each other to climb down into the cavern and touch a statue, with the bravest actually moving past the first few and reaching one in the darker confines of the gallery caver...
2016-10-04 18:36:52 +0000 UTC View Post
I've got this under control, honest!Here's 8 more maps (including the one I posted to the blog on Friday... because that failed to make it into the last backstage pass).
2016-10-04 18:13:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Last month I posted the first two parts of a massive undercity project I am taking on. The goal is to produce a large set of maps that interconnect to produce something akin to, but very much different in style from, the original Jakallan Underworld map that M.A.R. Barker used in his Empire of the P...
2016-09-30 15:13:43 +0000 UTC View Post
In the Barrier Peaks is a small pass no longer accessible from either side – at some point the ends of the pass were lifted up above the local landscape by a hundred feet or more, leaving sheer cliffs and difficult climbs. What has been forgotten is that this was done by the dwarves in their time ...
2016-09-27 13:55:13 +0000 UTC View Post
The votes from last month were tallied and the map released under the commercial license is Wygralak's Hole - so I posted it today. It was VERY tight voting, so I'll go through the second choices from the last few months and include them all in the next voting round.
Because it turns out it ...
2016-09-26 14:44:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Bearing obvious similarities to the mansion of the Dervel Merchants in blueridge, the Mastervale Estate is slightly more regular in shape and less alien in material - appearing at first glance to be made of grey stone. The actual material is an unworldly grey crystal that seems utterly smooth to the...
2016-09-23 14:46:19 +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 maintain ...
Elijah's Tower sticks out from a small rocky promontory in the marhslands demanding people's attention. It stands out in an area days travel from the nearest civilization not just for being the work of man in a swampy wilderness, but also in colour and because of the beacon often lit on the roof of ...
2016-09-16 19:25:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Square in the centre of the northern bailey of Helmer's Walls squats the Darnstall Palace. For most of the year it lies empty and barren, silent witness to the drilling of the garrison troops during the spring and fall and to the quiet vicissitudes of winter. In the heart of summer the mostly open-a...
2016-09-13 16:52:39 +0000 UTC View Post
While Sarrheia, goddess of the sunrise, is technically the consort to the Lord of Sun, her worship has come to eclipse his within the cities and towns of the Sandmadra Archipelago. In the city of Sandmadra itself is a massive church dedicated to her via the words of her prophet who swam these waters...
2016-09-09 18:24:13 +0000 UTC View Post
The strange mansion of the Dervel merchants quite literally popped into existence overnight in the rapidly upscaling neighbourhood of bluebridge. The Dervel family bought up a number of old properties to make way for their home, tore them down over a few weeks and did some basic landscaping and then...
2016-09-06 13:24:21 +0000 UTC View Post