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Flooded Ruins - Preview

An Enemy in Need Preview:   

What should have been an easy trek through the wilderness has unexpectedly become grueling and bothersome. The vegetation is twisted and thick and a low fog has crept in, reducing visibility to no more than a few dozen feet. The rain started hours ago and has not relented; all but the toughest of boots have long since soaked through. The mind can wander to dark places against the soundscape of the ceaseless buzzing of flies and the...

Flooded Ruins

Make the entire flooded area difficult terrain to watch your party struggle to fight for what high ground they can secure.  You can be extra cruel by making your party fight a spell caster or ranged combatant that has the ability to blink or teleport short distances.

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Flooded Ruins Drained

For the last variant we added water, it only makes sense that for this one we removed it.  It could make a fun encounter to have a fight start on dry land only for an off screen element to flood the area and doing a map change mid fight.

Thanks again for your support!

Cliffside Dragon Remains (free + patron preview)

Rocky terrain, levels of elevation, and a dragon skeleton. Don't ask where the feet went. 

We also made our first NPC for this release, but he's only loosely associated with the map. He's a dwarven necromancer who has his undead brother follow him around while he looks for rare spell reagents. 

Cliffside Dragon Remains

Rocky terrain, levels of elevation, and a dragon skeleton. Don't ask where the feet went.


We also made our first NPC for this release, but he's only loosely associated with the map. He's a dwarven necromancer who has his undead brother follow him around while he looks for rare spell reagents. 

Cliffside Dragon Remains - Flooded Variant

Cliffside Dragon Remains, with extra hydration. 

100 Patron Goal Reached!

We can't thank you enough for all the support!

We just added this goal recently and certainly didn't expect we would reach it quite so quickly. (This is a good thing!)

Work has already begun on an adventure to celebrate this goal, though we do anticipate that a full release will take approximately a couple of months. Set in a mining town on the brink of disaster, it will feature 3-5 battle maps (still fleshing out the outline), NPCs, new monster statblocks, fles...

Divinity Original Sin 2 - Alexander Fight (free + patron preview)

With this map we have now completed a map for every major combat encounter in the first act of Divinity Original Sin 2!

I started this series a little over a year ago if the first map I ever made, Griff’s Camp. I think it is fair to say I have improved a little since then and I can not thank you enough for the support this community has given me.

We hope you enjoy the map, thanks!

Divinity Original Sin 2 - Alexander Fight

With this map we have now completed a map for every major combat encounter in the first act of Divinity Original Sin 2!

I started this series a little over a year ago if the first map I ever made, Griff’s Camp. I think it is fair to say I have improved a little since then and I can not thank you enough for the support this community has given me.

We hope you enjoy the map, as a special ...

Divinity Original Sin 2 - Alexander Fight, Summoning variant

Along with the additional sun set variant we included in the $1 tier, we decided to do a variant that could lead to another boss fight besides Alexander from the game.  Here he see some kind of summoning ritual in its final stages.  What could be coming from the deep?

Thanks again for the support!

The Smiling Island of So'thugakesh

Long before the age of man, the great devil lord So'thugakesh roamed the Material Plane, reaping souls for harvest.

So'thugakesh was a hideous sight; a massive and monstrous floating head, with a long serpentine tongue and rows upon rows of sharp teeth. It was said that So'thugakesh could devour mountains and forests with a single bite, and turn the gods themselves to stone with only a glance.  Some believe that So'thugakesh was the father of the first medusa after he married the G...

Desert Excavation Preview

The Evil Within Preview:   

An ancient threat, long buried deep in the ground,has been unearthed. Perhaps the expansion efforts of a fledgling empire have now recently been interrupted. Perhaps an independent archeologist's guild has found more than they bargained for. Perhaps pirates, looking to bury their hordes of treasure, found an old evil instead. Regardless of the circumstances, the monstrosity is the same — rorelocks: more advanced, more threatening ...

Desert Excavation (with winter variant)

Some explorers came across a piece of black stone, carving covering the top, protruding through the rocks and sand on while traveling from town to town.   

They returned with a team and after months of excavating they uncovered a massive black stone obelisk, surrounded by the ruins of ancient city.

The locals say they feel sick near the obelisk, increased heart rates, as if their fight or flight instincts kicking in.  Some say this is better left alone, others want ...

Buried Vault (with winter variant)

The variant this time is the perfect set up for a underground desert dungeon!

Explorers have dug to deep and released something that was meant to be buried.

Thanks again!

(Free Dungeon Oneshot) Sydyr's Punishment

For 7th to 10th level characters. 

Below Whulmthar's ruined keep lies a crypt as old as the frost giant clan itself. After his slaying of the Steel Council and his bloody rise to power, Whulmthar ordered the crypt's expansion to hold the new corpses he had left in his wake. His brother Sydyr, who tried to oppose his sibling's savage coup, was ordered to dig the graves as punishment. Bound in iron chains inscribed with runic magic, Sydyr was forced to dig grave after grave, eventual...

Free Map and Dungeon Compendium

Hi folks,

You can find free versions of every map and dungeon we've released thus far attached to this post for easy access. 

Each map has been attached individually, however there are also  zip files for complete map and dungeon bundles near the bottom of the list. 

Preview - Mountain Pass

Dead Yeti Pass Preview:

Travel is cold and treacherous in the frozen wastes of the North. Blistering, frigid winds and the threat of exposure can strike a pervading fear in the hearts of adventurers just as well as any monstrous beasts rumored to dwell in the mountains. The Tribe of the Dead Yeti fear not the elements nor the fearsome creatures that lurk within them. Hardened by the land and cautious of those who would trespass in their territory, the Tribe of the Dead ...

Mountain Pass

Cliffs to both sides, narrow choke points, and lots of changes in elevation.  A perfect stop to set up an ambush!

We also wanted to throw in an extra variant at each tier for this one we added on a grass version.

We hope you like the map, thanks for your support!

Snowy Mountain Pass & Mountain Reservoir

Just like the base map we wanted to include an extra variant here as well so for this release we got a snowy variant to go along with the "Dead Yeti Pass" encounter and a still water reservoir of clean water hidden in the mountains.

Thanks again for your support!

Preview - King of the Giants

The Sins of Whulmthar Preview:

There is seldom a faster road to damnation than hubris. Such was the case of the ancient frost giant king, Whulmthar the Ruthless. His rise to power was savage and bloody, his fall precipitous and agonizing. The giant council he slew to claim his throne cursed him in their undeath. The crown of never-melting ice he had crafted to designate his rule became his undoing — slowly digging itself into his cranial bone and degrading his mental ...

King of the Giants

When your party enters this room they will be able to see the resting skeleton king from over 200ft away. 

As they get closer they feel an unnatural cold take over the chamber as the whispers of those the King wronged on his path to the throne enter their ears.

If you have a party of brave people on your hands they will probably still get closer, triggering this ancient King to raise from his throne once more.

Thanks for your support!

Arcane Ritual - Variant

The raised elevation where the throne sat in the base map was a perfect spot for the makings of an arcane ritual so that is what we did!

Thanks again for your support!

Jail House - Preview

Jailbreak Encounter Preview:  

A prisoner, important to the party, has been locked away in a jail house and is being questioned by a ruthless interrogator with sinister intentions. Perhaps this prisoner is a family member to one of the player characters. Perhaps the interrogator represents a corrupt, oppressive government that the characters are opposed to. Perhaps the party seeks to find important documents within the jail house, or maybe they have been hired by a...

Jail House

6 cells, big enough to throw an entire party in and watch them try to escape.  

Once in a while the interrogator opens the door, briefly blinding the party with the light spilling in, as he takes them one-by-one for questioning.

Alternatively, you can throw the parties favourite NPC in jail and see how they react.

Who ever is in the cell, this is a great chance to do a mini jailbreak.

Thanks for your support!

We hope you enjoy the map :)

Jail House Variants - Fire & Propless

What is better for a prison break than a fire erupting in another room?  Probably many things but in this case we got the fire!

There is also a completely propless variant this time around.  There are a lot of great asset creators out there so this give you the chance to create the exact prop layout you would want for your game.

Thanks again for your support!

[FREE ] Tear of the Goddess - League of Legends

Hey everyone!  Here is a free version of the map with and without a grid.

If you like this map, consider becoming a Patron!

Preview - Tear of the Goddess (League of Legends)

Encounter Preview: Many a story has been shared about the Material Plane's conception. One such story tells of the World Mother, who, so awed by the beauty of her creation, began to cry, letting forth the first tears upon the lands below. Many of these tears served to fertilize the soil and provide the necessary essence for sentient life, but a single tear is said to have crystallized in the cold, northern wastes for reasons not understood. Buried beneath the frozen tundra fo...

Tear of the Goddess - League of Legends

The cinematic team over at Riot Games did another great job on their latest videos and I had to turn one of the locations into a battle map!

Check out the video here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR-KAldshAE 

For those unfamiliar, The Tear of the Goddess is an item in the game League of Legends.  Recently it was featured in the cinematic linked above as an artifact found by an ex...

Tear of the Goddess, Flooded - Variant (League of Legends)

Rather than a seemingly bottomless fog covered pit we get a nice calm surface of water in this maps variant.   Perfect for hiding an aboleth in.

You can also use this as a chance to revisit this location.  Maybe your players removed the Tear at one point and now come back to see the entire temple flooded.

Thanks again for your support! 

(Free) Library of the Doomed Mage - Dungeon OneShot

The Library of the Doomed Mage is a dungeon adventure for characters of 5th to 7th level, featuring an abandoned wizard's library that has begun to unravel itself and the living memories it contains. What secrets will they learn about the wizard who built this place, and what secrets will they learn about themselves?