The Unknownwood holds many secrets, its perpetual autumn. The painful silence cut only by the ever present wind. This forest is old and those who live here do not particularly appreciate intrusions. Deep deep in the wood, where only one who is truely lost could reach is the hut. A single chicken leg that glimpse into a cascade of black fur and feathers. Home to the Baba Yaga, first sister of the first coven. If you can handle her tricks and riddles and trails she may even reward your brashnes...
2025-06-08 05:00:08 +0000 UTC
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All you have to do is cross a room, easy peasy, also don't get crushed, that's important too.
The door slams closed behind, the party looks before them a deep pit with cubes, each marked with arcane runes. The otherside of the room is another door. Ok- reach it. Easy. They take a step and the room jumps to life, the stone cubes slide violently fast across the pit. Not so easy. The floor is littered with symbols, maybe those can help us predict where the cubes move and we can ri...
2025-05-31 20:13:01 +0000 UTC
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The high-rises of the city, so packed with people, put a demand on the local intranet signal that is nearly as congested as the apartments themselves. But like any problem in the dark future, there is a solution available for the right price. The Online Cafes let customers access high-speed connections for the VR worlds they use to escape the late-stage capitalist hellscape they find themselves in, or to link into private business meetings with a need for a less personally connected connectio...
2025-05-25 05:00:07 +0000 UTC
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engineers. The damn things have countless moving parts, and they insist on them being bipedal for some god forsaken reason. Really it's a miracle of engineering these things work at all and then those damn hot shots take them out on the battlefield and blow them up, unbelievable. You’d think flash printing would have put us out a job but the easier they are to make the more those apes blow them up, we’re working more than ever!
This map is inspired by the Lancer TTRPG, and the long...
2025-05-18 05:00:07 +0000 UTC
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“Most totemic troupes are quite poor. But to have so little and still perform is—I think—an even truer expression of Passion.” – Ida Holly
The theatre troupe of the Sperrowspot Revue can have their whole stage set up in a day, and torn down in under an hour. A useful talent when your lead actors have a habit of causing a scene at the local tavern when your caravan is pulling out of town. They’d throw him in jail if not for his charm, a once-in-a-lif...
2025-05-11 05:00:04 +0000 UTC
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“Your path to discovering Arjun’s Inn begins at the foothills of the Markehsha Mountains, a major crossroads of cultures. The majestic sight of Joramy volcano is just above the horizon.” - Ida Holly
Here lives a rich merchant, Arjun, who has fallen on hard times and has turned his large home into “Arjun’s Inn. The kind of boutique hotel that wealthier adventure travelers might seek out in D...
2025-04-30 05:00:09 +0000 UTC
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“They say the heist of the casino was the boldest ever preformed in the whole of the world. But they forget to add the chase that came after was too” - Ida Holly
“Your listening to Rockthron radio:
This just in! The auction taking place at the cirrus on high floating island casino in Grand Nostridan HAS. BEEN. ROBBED! a grand heist has left the coffers of Enchante herself completely empty and- what’s this?
Breaking news!
A ...
2025-04-20 05:00:35 +0000 UTC
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“The Wilder, the Wilds. Home of the wolfking and his children. The land of beasts is no friend to man. The soil riots to our boots and the winds cry our passing. Wander ye weary through circles of the fey.” - Avara Luvo, witch of Dunwel
In ages long forgotten these portals served the beasts of the woods, connecting their burrows and warrens to the land of the fey. Today the fairy use them to prey on foolish mortals. There is a song, It goes:
"O tread...
2025-04-13 05:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Living in the Mega Buildings? Oh it's not too terrible, really anything you’d need in there. Shopping, entertainment, Most even have a monorail station. But the worst thing about living in the megabuilding is the Gantry lift skips so many floors every stop. I’m up on 170 so I have to go up to the 185 stop then walk down 15 flights to get to my apartment. But I mean for the price it's better than one of the Coffin hotels or living out in the stacks or something. Plus I always get m...
2025-04-03 06:06:55 +0000 UTC
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“There are few monsters great enough to be mentioned on world maps by name, But it is critically important that the territory of Rahido, the Arcwhale, is known to anyone traveling the skies.” - Ida Holly
The Lost horizon is the fastest, Highest flying twin manabattery Iari class airship ever created. The Drakul Harpoon is the strongest most advanced airship harpoon constructed to date. The crew we’ve assembled is hand picked by Tankren Falstead who’s been huntin...
2025-03-23 05:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The great grass plains divide the world into nations, cutting them off like a windswept ocean of tall grass. The average folk fear wandering out into the grass be it superstition or the dangers that lurk hidden within. The only safe way is a path called the Old Road, which cuts through the valleys and is seldom disturbed by the twisted monsters of the fields. The Totemic people call these roads home, and many who travel between the four nations do so among their merchant caravans for protecti...
2025-03-16 05:00:05 +0000 UTC
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“I have seen the World Engine. Deep down underground in the Sunless Sea. Its miles across and Its core glows red in the darkness. Which is lucky, because it's very easy to get disoriented in that forest of Oil and pistons.” - Ida Holly
There are machinations we just weren't meant to understand. The surface above the world engine is so simple, human, strife but only on our mortal scale. Below the World Engine runs for the divine constructed by gods and put toward their ineff...
2025-03-09 06:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The city of the future, sterile and optimized, is beyond scarcity- but some things only huge fighting robots can settle.
This map is designed for my Lancer Actual Play, Star Progoney which just recorded its very first episode! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLJDmsa9_Ro
It’s my first crack at making a battlemap set for t...
2025-03-01 06:44:13 +0000 UTC
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The Cirrus Casino Vault, A artwork in its own right, this Impenetrable haven of decadence houses the most valuable items in the elseworlds. Nowhere is safer- it is the final most ambitious goal of any true thief.
The ambitious design of the Cirrus Archives and its three primary vaults requires the unity of over 100 master craftsmen in their respective fields. The estimated cost of the entire vault level is believed to exceed the sum total of the entirety of the Grand Nostridinian milita...
2025-02-23 06:00:07 +0000 UTC
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The Cloudstone Engine breached the veil of time, Constructed by the greatest alchemical engineer ever to live, or at least conceptualized. If the legend is true the moment Crimley Dorian dreamt the Time Machine up the earliest second a time traveler could return to was set, and in a flash of light, before it’s inventor even put pen to paper, a copy of himself appeared with a fully constructed device exactly as he had imagined it.
Learning about the future, about himself, about the l...
2025-02-16 06:00:09 +0000 UTC
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The chaos of limbo is death to anyone who cannot master the mind. The Ever-Changing Chaos is a mental domain and so those who can colonize a place for themselves here must be steadfast and unshakable in their mental discipline. Personal resolve converts one to one to physical manifestations. It's no surprise that the aetherial monasteries are some of the only lasting structures. But when they come under attack each lost monk threatens the integrity of the whole of the temple, and the chaos of...
2025-02-10 00:58:55 +0000 UTC
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“Sometimes a quick getaway is more dangerous than just sticking around to fight!” - Ida Holly
Life in silkwind Junction is fast and cheap, Emphasis on the FAST! And the Tho mines are blasting all round the clock and wont even pause for a group of wayward adventurers and hurt their bottom line. Baron’s would say if you stopped for every band of misfits who ran down into the blasting tunnels you’d never have a full day’s work!
Danger, Blasting! This p...
2025-02-01 01:14:00 +0000 UTC
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Life in silkwind Junction is fast and cheap, better to work the mines then tussle with the Tho Barons. The locals say If you don’t have a mind for invention then you better have a back for digging or fists for fighting. Down in the canyon it's all or nothing and switches between them mighty fast.
Inspired by one of my earliest maps that was a frogger sort of encounter on a busy street I wanted to set a similar kind of challenge in my canyon city of Silkwind, a gnomish desert city wher...
2025-01-27 01:38:10 +0000 UTC
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“People in glass castles shouldn't throw stones.” - Ida Holly
As you enter the great hall, your eyes run up the black marble walkway to the great Geode throne in the center of the chamber. The throne must tower about 15 feet high, dwarfing everyone else in the chamber, but somehow the figure sitting in it makes it seem too small.
A man built like an Olympic God reclines in it, his opaline eyes regard you thoughtfully, striking a vivid contrast to his stone-lik...
2025-01-19 06:00:08 +0000 UTC
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“See Basanna never run off when their links are undone. It's mostly because they are too dumb, but the point remains.” - Ida Holly
Moving cargo isn't exactly a QUEST, but you have to start somewhere and your party needs coin. So you climb up the wagon and roll off to the market faire. Unloading was easy but loading everything back up in the evening has been a real pain, when suddenly the druid lets the pack beasts loose! “They hate this job” so they sa...
2025-01-12 06:00:05 +0000 UTC
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The Saltpool Terraces separate the upper sea from the lower, The great geyser erupts with mineral rich torrents in the upper sea and slowly they flow over the mountain side depositing their minerals and forming countless pools and rivers. The people of the region believe among these sacred pools lie portals, windows into time where one can peer and see how their life might turn out depending on the choices they make. Divining Dowser Wizards make frequent visits to them they say to seek to gli...
2024-12-31 06:00:09 +0000 UTC
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The moon, on the snowbanks that shimmered below,
Lit up the dark lanes with an eerie white glow.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a horse’s white skull and a troupe full of cheer.
With ribbons and bells tied to bone stark and bare,
Mari Lwyd had loomed, a sight strange and rare.
Her sockets were empty, her grin wide and grim,
Yet joy filled the air as they sang their old hymn.
"Open your door!" came Mari's refrain,
"Let us best you in rhym...
2024-12-22 04:40:47 +0000 UTC
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In the city it feels like you live inside your car in traffic with brief, glorious moments of being outside at work or home. Even in the dark future with flying cars and automated driving there is no real escape from the true dystopian pain of rush hour. Best to avoid any car chases or high speed gun fights until at least 6:30. Life in the slow lane, Bumper to bumper… still on the fastest route.
This map comes with 11 variations all set on a packed 8 lane freeway in the city. I apolo...
2024-12-15 06:00:05 +0000 UTC
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“Critical note: Just because Mimsy sometimes LOOK like stuffed animals doesn't mean they are cute and snuggly and nice.” - Ida Holly
In the dreamlands of Nocturne everything is steeped in whimsy, the theatrical world of sleep. Here the Mimsy, Jester-like personifications of various dreams and desires, live their lives. Their great dreaming city of Avu serves as an anchor point for all the waking world to visit when they are asleep and their minds wander to ...
2024-12-08 06:00:05 +0000 UTC
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You enter a dim chamber, the stone door sliding closed behind you, the room is lit by faint glowing runes one each on every stone between here and the exit. On the opposite side of the room an illusion of one of the runes glows over a plinth.
Collapsing Puzzle Floor, A phased battle map where glowing runes on the floor slowly crumble underneath the heroes. Each rune is foreshadowed by the illusionary plinth, telling players who figure out what's happening which runes they best avoid. Af...
2024-11-30 22:19:51 +0000 UTC
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Some believe the Net is hell, and that AI are demons, Evolved in their pit of darkness and code. Some others are reckless enough to dredge them up to our side of sanity.
Inspired by one of the missions in Cyberpunk 2077 where a demonic ritual was being performed anchoring something unknowable from the cybernet to a body, This map imagines a similar sort of ritual. Because I know that back alley chop job was not Mealstoms’s only attempt. There's got to be warehouses hidden deep where c...
2024-11-24 06:00:05 +0000 UTC
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“The Lost Horizon, Plague of merchants from Seagate to South Deitzeil, Yet somehow its crew manages to do good. Could there be such a thing as a hero pirate?” - Ida Holly
There are legends that Captain Tankren The Lost Horizon made a wish to fly an airship that would never go down, Always outrun, and come to rule the sky. That the Lost Horizon would dominate Crudilex and outlast all others- Today even Tankren himself has aged and died, But his old ship stil...
2024-11-17 06:00:05 +0000 UTC
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“I’ve heard lots of tales of the adventurers who fly that airship, and really… It's no surprise it wrecked. Honestly, most adventurers shouldn't be allowed to fly.” - Ida Holly
The Affinity was an exceptional airship and it crashed in just as exceptional a wreck. Shattered to splinters hundreds of feet in the air when it tried a daring maneuver through a basalt canyon that was just a bit too narrow. Now it dangles from ropes in the frozen wastes, it...
2024-11-10 06:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Inkarnate’s own Mati and I collabed together for a special halloween map! Inspired by the St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans and The happy haunts of the haunted mansion at Disney. Mati built the map and I provided the phases!
Find more of Mati’s over at https://inkarnate.com/p/34K9WG--mati/
Dead Man’s Party! When the veil grows thin the dead can return for a brief time to the world of the li...
2024-10-28 06:02:35 +0000 UTC
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“There are cracks in your authority my king, as big as those in the fabric of spacetime behind you…” - Ida Holly
At the end of all things the Scarlet king awaits. The lord of horror and master of all evils who came after him. His malignant energies have merged with the ley lines and taken root in the very heart of the world causing generations of darkness to bubble to the surface and a legion of minions to rise to his wordless commands. And here, at the h...
2024-10-21 05:00:08 +0000 UTC
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