Beneath the basements of the Temple of the Worm are the catacombs that significantly predate the temple proper. This level of the catacombs is interspersed with small tunnels that were probably home to pipes for moving air or water when they were originally built. The pipes are long gone, but the...
2024-09-20 15:35:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we descend deeper under the Temple of the Worm. The small temple in the city is less than half of the total space of the temple. When the cult of the temple was ascendant in the city, the old temple was much larger and more ornate, and these levels were built up over the ruins of the old te...
2024-09-19 02:38:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Last month we explored the main structure of the Temple of the Worm. This month we are going to head underneath it – where much of the work of this temple is done. As a temple to the god of death and the effort to keep the intellect alive after the “soul” has departed, a lot of the structur...
2024-09-17 02:45:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The church in the heart of town has gone through many worshippers and worshippees over the ages, and still has a dark reputation (thus the name). Originally the structure was built as a temple to the Zoriszian god of mercy, of whom the priesthood allows no representations. With the fall of Zorisz...
2024-09-13 15:38:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Back to the shops along the intersection of Market & Random. I’m drawing up individual floor plans for a number of shops, stores, vendors, and businesses along a single market block. As I draw these, I also have the overhead views drawn out on a map of the city block as I go, so when the se...
2024-09-11 15:45:45 +0000 UTC View Post
The Autumn Lands lie to the south of the Midsummer Lands. This is the second map in the set, situated to the right / east of Map A. There’s no set scale for these maps, and the items on the maps are not to scale with each other so we can see points of interest like towers, cities, and caves. If...
2024-09-09 15:05:55 +0000 UTC View Post
The Autum Lands lie to the south of the Midsummer Lands. I’ll be posting a series of interlocking hexmaps that I drew over the next few months. There’s no set scale for these maps, and the items on the maps are not to scale with each other so we can see points of interest like towers, cities,...
2024-09-06 14:35:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Patrons!
Here is this month's backstage pass - 10 new maps of dungeons, megadungeons, temples, catacombs, and a pair of hexmaps!
Thank you again for your support, you...
2024-09-05 16:48:29 +0000 UTC View Post
And let's wrap up the Patreon releases for August with our final patron-exclusive - this month's Kraken releases.
This month's voting settled on the Pyramid of the Prince in Silver (with half the t...
2024-08-31 02:16:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's all of this month's maps compiled with the descriptive text into a pair of PDFs - both in spreads and individual pages. This is one of the Patron perks for your support - in about six months this...
2024-08-31 01:45:43 +0000 UTC View Post
The Champion himself had this dungeon constructed, a strongpoint where he could succour those he was sworn to protect. The entrances to the retreat are three caves that are meant to represent his willingness and ability to confront even death itself. Two of these end in traps, one enters into the...
2024-08-30 14:46:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The Scavengers’ Deep is a reminder of the amount of work that went into underground structures during the great war. Generally, the elves only built underground when hiding their breeding and research facilities, whereas the forces of the kingdoms, assisted by the dwarves, were constantly build...
2024-08-29 02:19:31 +0000 UTC View Post
It is time to vote on which maps from the archives will be re-released under the commercial use license exclusively for patrons to use.
I've pulled a list of ten to v...
2024-08-26 16:37:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Continuing up Longboat Mountain from the Drop Falls, the climb takes another reversal in direction (and an increase in grade of the ascent) at the reflecting lake (location D on the Longboat Mountain overview map). The stream running down to the Drop Falls and then over the edge to Silver Lake po...
2024-08-26 15:27:57 +0000 UTC View Post
The Halls of the Violet Sorcerer extend deep into Montauppes Mountain – with the main entrance along Stonerich Pass right before Gravel Bend (and the secret entrance being much further along Stonerich Pass). The paired entry doors have long been reduced to one sealed stone portal, the other bur...
2024-08-24 18:32:55 +0000 UTC View Post
The Graxworm is a massive dead dragon of mythic scale, several miles long and large enough to contain a town in the mouth. Creatures have set up here to “mine” the massive corpse for its valuable materials – leather, scales, ichor, tendons, and more. Practically every bit has some value to ...
2024-08-23 15:59:53 +0000 UTC View Post
The Graxworm is a massive dead dragon of mythic scale, several miles long and large enough to contain a town in the mouth. Creatures have set up here to “mine” the massive corpse for its valuable materials – leather, scales, ichor, tendons, and more. Practically every bit has some value to ...
2024-08-20 17:44:03 +0000 UTC View Post
We return to the Temple Of The Worm from earlier this week with these two upper levels of the temple structure. This level is reached via three sets of stairs in the upper-right portion of the ground floor map – one leading into the upper level of the administrative part of the temple, and the ...
2024-08-15 17:37:19 +0000 UTC View Post
A manifestation of the god of death has been summoned within this relatively minor temple to its worship. Someone managed to break one of the seals of death and a massive death worm, a demon of the dead, now squirms in the main fane.
The temple itself is not a major one in the city or of th...
2024-08-12 23:27:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Back to the shops along the intersection of Market & Random. Based on a Patreon request from Mark Clover, I’m drawing up individual floor plans for a number of shops, stores, vendors, and businesses along a single market block. As I draw these, I also have the overhead views drawn out on a ...
2024-08-08 18:03:47 +0000 UTC View Post
We are finally at the deepest parts of Iseldec’s Drop. This section is over two hundred feet below the fortress on level 19 and is only connected to the levels above via the shaft (the barrel for some planetary-scale defence system?). And even these final levels are difficult to travel between....
2024-08-06 20:36:25 +0000 UTC View Post
August is here, and I've got a new set of ten maps for you!
Two of this month's maps include alternate versions - where I removed details from one of the weirder or more detailed rooms to make it m...
2024-08-01 14:43:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we go!
This month's Kraken first choice was of zero surprise to me - as soon as I put the Spiral Crypts up on the list for release, I knew it would make it through, and I wasn't disapp...
2024-07-30 02:56:12 +0000 UTC View Post
With the last map of the month up this morning, it is time to put together the monthly PDF collection!
2024-07-30 00:20:13 +0000 UTC
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The Scavengers’ Deep is a reminder of the amount of work that went into underground structures during the great war. Generally, the elves only built underground when hiding their breeding and research facilities, whereas the forces of the kingdoms, assisted by the dwarves, were constantly build...
2024-07-29 13:45:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Still working through the back catalogue. The plan is to have all of 2023 done soon, and hopefully all of 2022 before autumn.
2024-07-29 02:10:27 +0000 UTC
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The Graxworm is a massive dead dragon of mythic scale, several miles long and large enough to contain a town in the mouth. Creatures have set up here to “mine” the massive corpse for its valuable materials – leather, scales, ichor, tendons, and more. Practically every bit has some value to ...
2024-07-25 20:18:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok, these will start being a lot less of a surprise as I continue to post collections of older work from 2023 and then 2022 over the next month or two, but here's the Cartography Collection PDFs ...
2024-07-24 15:39:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm working my way through the back catalogue of maps and putting together the monthly Cartography Collections like I've been doing since last autumn.
This is the first of these from the b...
2024-07-23 20:03:55 +0000 UTC View Post
The Graxworm is a massive dead dragon of mythic scale, several miles long and large enough to contain a town in the mouth. Creatures have set up here to “mine” the massive corpse for its valuable materials – leather, scales, ichor, tendons, and more. Practically every bit has some value to ...
2024-07-23 16:13:24 +0000 UTC View Post