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Mossy Hollow

This week's map is the Mossy Hollow (11x16), a tiny cave map full of grass, mushrooms, and roots. I imagine you could come across this cave through an oceanside tunnel, behind a waterfall in the jungle, or by jumping into any dark pit you find in a forest. In short, use Tears of the Kingdom as inspiration for places to sprinkle caves into your adventures. If it was hard enough to get into, then simply add a skeleton holding a small chest and let your party discuss the risk/reward of the 100% ...

Mossy Hollow, Adept

Hello there, Adepts! This is The Mossy Hollow (11x16), a map that can be as hard for your players to enter as you want—lead them through flooded tunnels deep underground (a personal favorite obstacle), dark pits in the forest filled only with the sound of dripping water and the smell of mold, or violent and territorial local animals with nests at the entrance—geese, perhaps. And that’s just getting inside. There could be hundreds more geese in here, so I hope the reward is worth it.

Mossy Hollow, Expert

I'm back again with a new and tiny map: the Mossy Hollow (11x16)! This teensy-tiny map depicts a watery, grassy, and rootbound cave with two distinct areas—the sandy shore at the bottom and the rocky ledges at the top. I imagine your party could face off against all kinds of cave-dwelling critters here—the kinds that don't see the light of day often enough to warrant developing eyes. But don't forget that you can sprinkle in as many skeletons as you want into any map. That's your choice, ...

Secluded Cove

I'm back again with another tiny map, the Secluded Cove (16x11)! This 'lil map is a bite-sized recessed beach, ringed on all sides by steep rocky walls and huge trees.. which means that this is the first tiny map to not be confined within a cave or building. That could mean that this tiny map may be too small for some combats and it will struggle to contain adventurers with premium movement abilities, but as always I have to assume that the size of these maps will be enough of an upside to ma...

Secluded Cove, Adept

Hi there, Adepts! This map is the Secluded Cove (16x11), a small protected beach where you'll probably fight crabs, snakes, or pirate skeletons. You know, low level baddies. In order to better set the scene for pirate skeleton slaying you're getting a foggy variant of this one.

1. Something that's kinda tricky with these little maps is laying them out in such a way as to provide both tight and open s...

Secluded Cove, Expert

I return! This is the Secluded Cove (16x11), a tiny little beach ringed by tall rock walls, great for isolating your characters with low Dex who would rather die here than try to climb out. So, I suppose this would be a perfect location to trap a party of low level wizards. Maybe they got grabbed by harpies and dragged to their nest here? Or perhaps your party simply washed up on the little beach with a few stacks of exhaustion and have to contend with the local critters who call this scenic ...

Ancient Tomb

This week's tiny map is the Ancient Tomb (11x16), a map as simple as it is small- you've got some sarcophagi, a few urns, and that's just about it. Don't think it isn't intentionally straightforward, this series of mini-maps is intended to be chock-full of the the sort of basic and useful maps that you can use in most any standard campaign. In addition, they're sized in such a way as to fit across two sheets of standard printer paper for the sake of being printed quickly and without using man...

Ancient Tomb, Adept

This week's map is the Ancient Tomb (11x16), another tiny map for your convenience. While this whole series of mini-maps is intended to be evergreen, this one especially could likely be used in more locations than the rest. Tombs can be present just about anywhere, can be full of loot, and come with obvious potential enemies. If your party is greedy enough you won't even need to give them a reason to explore a random tomb, especially if it seems like it might belong to some rich dude and no o...

Ancient Tomb, Expert

Hiya Experts- this map is the Ancient Tomb (11x16), your run of the mill Tomb map. You can look forward to filling this guy with all kinds of ghouls, zombies, ghosts, bats, and rats to your heart's delight and your players' dismay. Maybe even a necromancer if you're feeling spicy! I would recommend ghouls, they don't get enough play in fantasy for my taste. But really, you can't go wrong with ghosts, especially with new players who aren't too sure what to do about them- interesting enemies ca...

Bandit Cave

I'm back again with this week's map, the Bandit Cave (11x16), another mini map that's designed to fit across two regular sheets of paper! This one features a tiny cave system where some bandits have made their base- if it helps you imagine the space this map depicts a space that's nearly the same size as a high school basketball court (which would be 10x17). Not a lot of room, but maybe they're laying low or not the most successful bandits out there. Or maybe they're all gnomes and they find ...

Bandit Cave, Adept

This week's map is the Bandit Camp (11x16), another tiny map I made to fit across two sheets of printer paper. Why? Because it feels like that might be handy or convenient! I've heard of some people playing at bars or coffee shops, and I know I wouldn't want to try to fit a huge map down on the table, I'd rather skip the map in that situation and do combat in our imaginations. Also, it might be nice for groups with fewer resources and time to put together a big map, like a school club, in whi...

Bandit Cave, Expert

Hi Experts! This is the Bandit Cave (11x16), another tiny map for small combats. Also, I think it's probably best that these are used for low-level encounters since a single fireball covers about 1/3 of the map, but maybe you could account for that with plot reasons not to turn this cave into an inferno.

For your alternate variants I've prepared Day/Night versions without all the props, giving you the room to fill this bad boy with as many wolves as you can stomach. Or maybe you just di...

Cultist Hideout

Cultist Hideout, Adept

I'm back with a micro dungeon, the Cultist Hideout (16x11)- a tiny map which is designed to fit on 2 sheets of computer paper (which is 8.5x11), 2 sheets of A4 paper (8.27x11.69), or a single sheet of A3 paper (11.69x16.54). Why? I thought it might be nice to have a few little dungeon maps which you could easily print without needing to put much effort into piecing together a bunch of sheets or investing a bunch of ink. It might be nice for introducing new players to the game or quickly whipp...

Cultist Hideout, Expert

Hello there, Experts- this is the Cultist Hideout (16x11), a very very small map that'll fit nicely on 2 pieces of printer paper! I think that would be nice if you're DMing in person for new players who rely more on visuals, or maybe it could be good for a quick one-shot adventure that could use a little flair. I personally don't use printed maps so it's an aspect of these I don't usually put much thought into, so maybe I'm overthinking it a little- let's just say it's a nice and tiny map tha...

Sewer Intersection

Ok, I'm back with the final map of this month, the Sewer Intersection (18x25)! I've been trying to catch up after taking a vacation and getting sick at the beginning of the month, and with this one I'll have successfully made 4 maps before the month is out. Hopefully next month is a little smoother.

Anyway, this is the last sewer map I had plans for, a fun circular junction with lots of pipes in the walls and tunnels splitting off in each direction. I thought this would be a good one f...

Sewer Intersection, Adept

I return this week with another Sewer map, the Sewer Intersection (18x25), one that's designed to feel like more of a boss fight arena while also serving as a connecting map for the other sewer maps I made this month (note: not seamlessly, I don't plan THAT far ahead).

1. Like I said, I wanted this to feel a little boss-fighty. In a sewer environment a boss fight arena can't be too big and also has ...

Sewer Intersection, Expert

Hi folks! This is the Sewer Intersection (18x25), not one of my most creative map names but they can't all be winners- it's been a long week. Anyway, I wanted to make a place for these sewer maps that you could potentially use for boss fights. While making this one I imagined a big boss fight against some sort of huge slime with big splashy attacks, but maybe your squad has chased someone down here and cornered them in this chamber? Honestly since this is presumably below a city your options ...

Sewer Pipes

This week's map is the Sewer Pipes (26x18), a short length of winding sewer tunnels with almost no dry ground to speak of. Not all sewers are going to have full walkways and bridges for you to use, sometimes you bust open the sewer grate, jump in, and land in 1 foot of sludge, that's just how it goes. Have fun!

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Sewer Pipes, Adept

Hi Adepts! This one is the Sewer Pipes (26x18), a twisting length of 10 foot wide, flooded passages, all of which are obviously difficult terrain and also probably inhabited by a couple gelatinous cubes hard at work. If that wasn't bad enough, you can also throw in Con saves against the smell or Dex saves to avoid slipping in the slime. Essentially throw in anything that reinforces to the players that this is both an awful place and also not somewhere they're supposed to be.. unless they're b...