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Eclipse Ravine

Caves and chimneys along Eclipse Ravine are home to a dragon and an abandoned fire temple of a faith imported from the distant City of Brass. The narrow ravine cuts through the badlands of Zorisz with a small stream that in time reaches to Black Sphinx Bay.

The main ravine and the two “chimneys” are open to the rough stony terrain above – cut by waters that flowed through these lands before the disapproval of the gods and the coming of the deserts that became the foundation for an...

Longboat Mountain: Longboat Valley

Here’s the map that started the whole Longboat Mountain set (location G on the Longboat Mountain overview – posted last month). I drew this based on a dream I had just as I was waking up one morning, and liked it enough to expand the whole thing into a whole set of maps. We won’t be tackling the points of interest in the Valley quite yet, as we’ll continue going through the other points of interest on the mountain proper before we detail the key locations up here, but since this map w...

Longboat Mountain: The Silver Deeps

Today we explore the lower level of the old silver mine that lends its name to Silver Vale (location A on the Longboat Mountain overview – posted last month). The silver mine links to one of the “secrets” of Longboat Mountain – the Silver Stair.

This section of old mines and caves sits beneath Silver Vale Cave and connects via the large cavernous shaft on the upper right of that map that descends to the similarly shaped chamber on the upper level map here. There used to be woode...

Iseldec's Drop (Levels 9-12)

PATRONS: Please note that the maps in this post are slightly different from the ones in the Backstage Pass sent out at the beginning of the month.

We are now deep into Iseldec’s Drop – these levels are hundreds of feet below the ruins above, and those found down here only know of the surface because the twenty-foot wide shaft at the centre of the dungeons pierces to the sky above. Those things that inhabit these depths have no easy way back up as there are no stairs ...

Stonewill Estate

A dubious ally and patron of adventurers in town, “Lord” Eldric Stonewill conducts most of his business from his family home on the ancient cobbled Avenue of Whispers. Here he lives with his suspiciously quiet family and retainers. The building is an old two-story affair with a servants wing, four family bedrooms, study, smoking room, music room, and a crafting room where Lady Stonewill holds her own private court over needlepoint.

The west wing of the building is the servants quart...

The Golden Fishmarket

This is the second shop in the new collection of small shops set along a single block based on a Patreon request from Mark Clover. 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 series is complete you can use them on their own, or as a fully mapped out block of shops.

Sitting across Random Street from Rok’s Pottery Workshop, The Golden Fishmarket sells just about whatever fish-like things make it to the docks in the h...

Rok’s Pottery Workshop

This month I’m starting on yet another series of maps – 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 map of the city block as I go, so when the series is complete you can use them on their own, or as a fully mapped out block of shops.

Our first in the series is Rok’s Pottery Workshop.

This s...

Backstage Pass - May 2024

Here's this month's Backstage Pass - all ten maps that we'll be releasing this month. I seem to be in a bit of a "major projects" mode right now...

We have the following series of maps being expanded on or started here:

• Scavengers' Deep (Map 7)

• Longboat Mountain (2 maps)

• Iseldec's Drop (levels 9-12)

• The Graxworm Megadungeon (2 ma...

  2024-05-02 21:05:48 +0000 UTC View Post

Release the Kraken - April 2024

Thanks for voting, patrons!

Here are the two maps that pulled the most votes this month - now re-released under the free commercial use license exclusively for patrons!

The Circle on the Shore and The Lost Hall of Gazul, Protector of the Dead (both from 2021).

Graxworm – Map 5 – The Council Chambers

The Graxworm is a massive dead dragon of mythic scale, fully 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 someone, and in the long term the expectation is that nothing will remain, not even the massive bones. We’ve started our explorations of the Graxworm at the top – the head of the deceased creature �...

Cartography Collection - April 2024 edition

Every month I put together a collection of this month's releases in PDF format for my patrons to enjoy. And while the final map of the month goes up tomorrow, it being the last day of the month (and I have a bunch of errands to do out of town during the day), I figured I should upload the end-of-month Cartography Collection for you now.

2024-04-30 04:01:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Kraken Time!

It is once again time to vote on which maps we'll re-release under the commercial use license exclusively for our patrons. I've selected ten maps from our back catalog, and your votes will determine which two will be the ones re-released.

So which maps would you like to see in future published projects?

https://forms.gle/94...

Graxworm – Map 4 – East Eye Orreries

The Graxworm is a massive dead dragon of mythic scale, fully 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 someone, and in the long term the expectation is that nothing will remain, not even the massive bones. We’ve started our explorations of the Graxworm at the top – the head of the deceased creature �...

Scavengers’ Deep – Map 6

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 building underground as the elves were unrelenting and would completely raze any surface defences that they defeated.

But the structures now known as the Scavengers’ Deep are atypical, an elven com...

Longboat Mountain: Silver Vale Cave

Today we explore the top level of the old silver mine that lends its name to Silver Vale (location A on the Longboat Mountain overview – posted earlier this week). The old silver mine has been long worked out, but now others have moved into it…

The upper level of the mine is mostly a cave that had some mining in the south side that were in turn converted into storage and holding areas. The main cave drops down into the lower caves, some of which are partially flooded, and the remnan...

Longboat Mountain: Silver Vale

Today we explore the first point of interest at the base of Longboat Mountain. Silver Vale is location A on the Longboat Mountain overview and is a small valley at the base of a waterfall. It was also once home to a silver mine (still known as silver cave) and people continue coming here seeking their fortunes.

This wooded nook is the first stop along the trail up the mountain. The trail goes along the edge of the river and around the small silvery lake at the base of the waterfall. On ...

Welcome to Longboat Mountain.

This is the first in a series of maps detailing adventure sites and locations on the trail up to Longboat Valley high atop Longboat Mountain. The mountain is named after the wooded valley (G) near the peak of the mountain – which contains what can only be described as the skeletal wooden remains of a titanic wooden ship of titanic scale.

Over this week we’ll investigate Silver Vale, sitting near the bottom of the mountain and the first stop along the trail up to Longboat Valley.

Grudge Match at the Underground Market

Sunken markets spot the Bazaar of Sails – five oval market set ten to twelve feet below street level. Where the Bazaar is mostly temporary structures, the sunken markets contain permanent structures, workshops, food & drink, and entertainments. The Market of Wines (which only has a total of four wine houses and mostly deals in leather and bronze goods) is notable in that there is a gate between one of the wine houses and a bronze-crafter’s that leads into the sewers that drain water a...

Menrina’s Library & The Salty Tavern

The Salty Tavern isn’t especially notable – yet another place where you can sit down with some company for a drink and some food – there’s even a private dinning room for larger parties who want a little privacy. But in the basement there are a pair of secret doors. One leads down some rubble to the collapsed remains of Menrina’s Library, the other into a 15 x 10 foot room dominated by an inlaid silver circle…

If you look over the map, there are a total of five similar small...

Dungeon of the Bad Egg

At one point, someone really cared about ventilating this small complex – a series of large clay pipes work their way through the complex at ceiling level to distribute fresh air throughout. Ancient bronze grates are mounted to the pipes where they access the various rooms, and are tarnished enough that they easily blend into the stonework unless one is specifically looking up or looking for them.

However, the structure is very old and collapsing. The pipes are broken in one location,...

Iseldec's Drop (Levels 5-8)

Here we descend further beneath the stony ruins of Iseldec's tower. We are reminded that the dungeons beneath reach at least as deep underground as Iseldec's tower once reached above the lands - a vertical shaft connects untold small dungeon levels that seem to cling tightly around it. The shaft itself is open to the levels above, and pierces all the way to the ruins as it once continued into the tower proper.

These four levels of "Iseldec's Drop" again repeat the tightness of the desig...

Backstage Pass - April 2024

A new month, a new Backstage Pass!

Here's the ten maps we'll be releasing this month. This set includes the sixth map in the Scavengers' Deep series, maps 4 & 5 of the Graxworm megadungeon, a set of 4 levels that sit below the first four of Iseldec's Drop from last month, a few Patreon requests (I occasionally ask patrons at the $2.50 level and above for map requests), and a new series that...

Release the Kraken - March 2024

Thanks for voting, patrons!

Here are the two maps that pulled the most votes this month - now re-released under the free commercial use license exclusively for patrons!

The Well of the Wyrm from 2018 and the Crypt of the Child Kings (remastered to 1200 dpi) from 2015.

Graxworm – Map 3 – West Eye Temple

The Graxworm is a massive dead dragon of mythic scale, fully 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 someone, and in the long term the expectation is that nothing will remain, not even the massive bones. We’ve started our explorations of the Graxworm at the top – the head of the deceased creature �...

March Cartography Collection is Here!

So the final map of the month goes up tomorrow, but it being a long weekend I want to get as much end-of-month stuff out of the way as possible, so here's this month's Cartography Collection PDF - all ten maps released this month along with the text that goes with them (well, I shortened the text for one of them - the Skull Dungeon's text was mostly facetious to begin with, so I used the shortened v...

Graxworm Town

The main entrance into the Graxworm megadungeon is not at the base of the mountain, but the top. The Graxworm is a massive dead dragon of mythic scale, fully 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 someone, and in the long term the expectation is that nothing will remain, not even the massive bones. 2024-03-27 23:30:33 +0000 UTC View Post

March Kraken Poll is Live

Every month I post a collection of maps and you vote on which we'll re-release under the free commercial license exclusively for our patrons.

So this is where you make that choice! Pick your favourite map from the poll (linked below) and the top two voted maps will be re-released at the end of the month.

https:...

OnyxSkull Caverns

Sometimes a campaign needs a ridiculous skull-shaped dungeon when it is time to delve against some obviously evil foes…

These ominous caves along the Onyx Defiles were claimed by [Insert Ancient Creepy Group] who used magic and the labour of their [Insert Insane Humanoid Followers] to add new structures within, as well as to reshape existing caves into rooms and chambers for their [Insert Dark Practices].

But their worship of [Insert Forbi...