Deep Jungle Passage [17x12]

Welcome back Fellow Darkish!

After weeks of searching for traces of the ancient temple, you’ve finally found something! Remnants of the Serpent God’s cult! While focusing on the ancient flooring hidden by vegetation, you fail to notice the delicate rustling and the shimmer of vertical-pupil eyes gleaming among the leaves.

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• 17x12 Map

• Gridded and gridless versions

• Day, Night versions!

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• 17x12 Map

• Gridded and gridless versions

• Day, Night, Rain day, Rain night, Bloodmoon, Haunted, Massacre Day, Massacre Night versions!

• Printable PDFs

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• 17x12 Map

• Gridded and gridless versions

• Day, Night, Rain day, Rain night, Bloodmoon, Haunted, Massacre Day, Massacre Night, Toxic day, Toxic night, Tar Pit day, Tar Pit Night , Blood day, Blood night, Lava, Bioluminescent  versions!

• Printable PDFs

MAP DESCRIPTION:

Deep Jungle Passage is a small Encounter Map located deep within the jungle, where dark things crawl and watch you, hidden in the thick vegetation.

The muddy terrain makes walking difficult, and the path is littered with obstacles concealed by the greenery.

Advance cautiously, avoiding quicksand, snakes, and roots.

Flowers and plants of every kind stretch as far as the eye can see, invading every nook and cranny.

The flora hides many secrets that an expert can exploit to their advantage, but also deadly traps that the unwary might fall into.

Poisonous and healing, carnivorous and edible plants mix in this lively and mysterious environment.

Traces of ancient civilizations are scattered throughout the forest, marking paths unknown to foreigners.

Following the ruins and idols will certainly lead to more important constructions, but it also exposes you more to the ambushes of the forest inhabitants who surely patrol their territories.

NOTES:

• Guard sentinels might block our way. Try to hide among the river’s fronds to get past without being seen.

• This Encounter Map is small, but it can offer you great battles!

• Traps of many kinds can hide in the jungle: quicksand, fire-spitting totems, poisoned darts shot from among the fronds, poisonous spores, and much more! Let the Rogue advance xD

• Crocodiles and aquatic monsters might emerge from the water, but it could also conceal something interesting.

• The forest can hide countless dangers. The dense fronds conceal enemies and creatures, and the taller trees are an excellent vantage point from which to attack you.

• Jungle Temple is the perfect continuation for this map, don’t miss it to play them together!

Deep Jungle Passage is a somewhat experimental map.

In the first drafts drawn in our classic style, with very large maps and therefore more synthetic in graphic sign, the area seemed too open, too superficial.

Looking “from the outside” at the jungle, you didn’t get the right feeling of being immersed in dense vegetation, surrounded by danger and mystery.

We’ve reduced the size, giving you an immersive and highly detailed view of the battlefield, where the vegetation creates a wall of mystery around you.

This biome required a closer view, one that made you feel the depth of the playing field compared to the dense jungle that towers over the players.

We would like to create other jungle areas of this kind, with different situations and playability, so as to expand the explorable territory in this area by focusing in detail on each point of interest, eventually creating a collection of consequential maps that you can connect as you like.

So far, we had explored this type of playability only indoors, but we think that even for the exteriors the result is really interesting!

Leave us a comment to let us know what you think, whether you prefer larger maps or if this map has intrigued you and you would like to see more like this!

You can still participate in the Kickstarter for Book of Spirit, where we’ve curated the maps.

Each map in the project has been specifically designed for Book of Spirits, along with other carefully crafted details in this D&D expansion.

Don’t miss out, take a look! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beyondthescreen/book-of-spirits-an-ethereal-supplement-for-5e?ref=11o1g9

Once again, dear Fellow Darkish, we wish you great adventures and NAT20s!

The Darkest Maps Team