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Gascon’s Pit

Gascon’s Pit is a shaft in the centre of some old ruins. The pit was once under a roof, but the structure above the pit and associated understructures has long fallen into ruin – leaving the pit open to the elements. The ruins are at the end of a dwarven bridge over the Deepspike Ravine – the bridge having significantly better longevity than the structures that were definitely built after it.

Stairs lead down into the pit – and then end at a mezzanine that looks down over the pi...

The Stony Shore - Compiled Maps!

So what happens when you put all three of the Stony Shore maps together into one big map?

You get this 41.25 x 6 inch map.

Downloadable in four versions from the blog now - colour @ 144 & 300 dpi, and B&W at 600 and 1200 dpi.

https://dysonlogos.blog/2023/06/13/the-stony-shore-combined/

The Stony Shore – Map 3

The Stony Shore maps are a series of three interconnected dungeon & cavern maps that were each drawn on a 14-inch wide by 6-inch tall canvas at 4 squares per inch. Called the Stony Shore because an underground river runs through much of the space in question, these three maps can be used independently, or combined into one 42-inch long by 6-inch tall piece. This is the third map in the set, which counter-intuitively is the left-most / west-most map.

The western edge of the ...

The Stony Shore – Map 2

The Stony Shore maps are a series of three interconnected dungeon & cavern maps that were each drawn on a 14-inch wide by 6-inch tall canvas at 4 squares per inch. Called the Stony Shore because an underground river runs through much of the space in question, these three maps can be used independently, or combined into one 42-inch long by 6-inch tall piece. This map sits immediately to the left (west) of map 1.

This portion of the caves of the Stony Shore is accessed either...

Summer Krakening Begins!

It is, once again, time to vote on which maps from our back catalogue should be re-released under the commercial use license. 

Here's a selection of maps from the blog archives, the two receiving the most votes will be re-released at the end of June / beginning of July.

Vote here: https://forms.gle/XYv9JnSKQwXQmb...

The Stony Shore – Map 1

The Stony Shore maps are a series of three interconnected dungeon & cavern maps that were each drawn on a 14-inch wide by 6-inch tall canvas at 4 squares per inch. Called the Stony Shore because an underground river runs through much of the space in question, these three maps can be used independently, or combined into one 42-inch long by 6-inch tall piece.

Approaching the Stony Shore from the north, all one sees is a stone embankment pierced with a number of cave and sinkh...

Release the Kraken on The Delren Street Sewers

Every month we go through our back catalogue of maps and YOU vote on which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. Our second release this month is a section of sewers I drew in 2018 (shortly after I drew the sewer maps for Dragon Heist).

While much of the city is served by “surface sewers” to move waste and water, in parts of the old town there exist proper underground sewers that date back to the previous empire�...

Release the Kraken on The Whispering Outpost

Every month we go through our back catalogue of maps and YOU vote on which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. Our first release this month is this ruined outpost and experiment with colour palettes from 2019.

Once a defensive border fortress looking over lush fields, the whispering outpost guards nothing but sand and scrub now – far from any borders.

Not destroyed by siege or strife, the Whispering Outpost...

Backstage Pass time! June 2023

Here's this month's Backstage Pass!

We've got a small regional hexmap, a set of three interconnected 6" x 14" mixed dungeon & cavern maps, a miniature "caves of chaos" box canyon, a tower shrine in a field of massive boulders (also with a Spelljammer asteroid field version), a four-level pit-based dungeon, a strange tower that spins out of the ground to launch surprise attacks against invad...

VERY late Kraken Poll!

Whoa.

I'm doing it again, fell way behind because EVERYTHING seemed to pile up this month (major contract got rewritten & rescheduled at the last minute, car's been in the shop twice, dealing with gallstone issues, exploding water heater in the basement, renovations still incomplete... etc.)... so here's the May Kraken Poll, to determine which two maps from the archives will be re-released ...

DungeonMorphs – Lairs Set 5

And, for our two last new releases of March we return to the DungeonMorphs!

Here’s one of the DungeonMorph Lairs series of dungeon geomorphs – the fifth die from the set (the last of the three sets).

https://dysonlogos.blog/2023/05/31/dungeonmorphs-lairs-set-5/

(apologies - the original version of this post had the wrong image attached,...

DungeonMorphs – Lairs Set 4

And, for our two last new releases of March, here’s one more of the DungeonMorph series of dungeon geomorphs – the fourth die from the Lairs set (the last of the three sets).

https://dysonlogos.blog/2023/05/29/dungeonmorphs-lairs-set-4/

Dyson’s Delve II – Level 3 (April)

I’m still keeping on (if not 100% keeping up) with the #Dungeon23 projects – here’s the fourth map (level 3 – the second map was the surface level) in its entirety with the full map and short-form stocking.

4-1 Gaol
There are a total of 16 wererats living in areas 4-1 through 4-8, including the prince and their leader. Two are always on guard here, watching for encroachment from above. They will try to raise the alarm, and the wererat in 4-2 will join in if t...

The Arena Ruins at Ishud Vath

When they aroused the ire of the gods, the mighty stone walls and cyclopean architecture of Ishud Vath proved to be no more than monuments to their hubris – the great mountain that the city was built around was thrown down upon them, raining the city in stone, ash, and lava.

There are several interesting ruins remaining in accursed Ishud Vath, but here we are focused on the arena where gladiators anointed by the city’s warrior spirits engaged in ritual combats that served as enterta...

The Halls of Amon-Gorloth II

Built by rebel priests of Amon-Gorloth, this dungeon was constructed and adapted from existing caverns following dreams they claim are channelled from Amon-Gorloth itself – making them a twisted and nightmarish version of the convoluted mausoleums under the desert sands where Amon-Gorloth sleeps and dreams. Of course, the “real” priests of Amon-Gorloth had already created the Deep Halls following the sleeping god’s plans, and neither can agree that the other can possibly be right (alt...

Tumíssan Underworld – Map 4

I’m still trying to keep up with the two #Dungeon23 projects I started – here’s the fourth zone of the Tumíssan underworld (expanding from the small access hallway at the south end of Map 3 (area 3-16).

4-1 Access Tunnels
Uneven floors, pipes and weirdness. Lots of small spiders have settled here and there are webs everywhere. These passages are hot, with steam and hot pipes running along the walls and ceilings and a humming / thrumming noi...

Bore Facility P44

Two ancient domes behind a crumbling softstone wall are known just as “Bore Four-Four” to the locals. Once part of some deep-bore experiments where scientists were measuring solar ejecta from deep underground, the domes have become the headquarters of a well-equipped group of raiders / bandits. Both domes are made of a black-coated metal of some kind, with tinted crytalline panels on the upper dome to allow light it (the lower dome likely had these two, but the dome structure has been com...

Zinik’s Stones (a 5-room dungeon)

Four massive standing stones were erected in a small but deep bowl in the rocky badlands of Dehnuk – accessed via a steep climb through a dark cave that is unmarked except for the evidence of the Circle of Dehnuk druids travelling to and from this holy space.

While ascending to the stones is fairly straightforward (and once you enter the cave, you can see the sky at the top of the climb to the stones), there are deeper parts of the cave, including a finished space cut from the stone b...

Beneath the Claw of Sunsets – Map 3

Beneath the ruins of the Claw of Sunsets are a number of small dungeons and understructures. This particular dungeon is under the final portion of the ruins maps above – with entrances both via the stairway in the tower (to the “dungeon” levels) and via the cave downhill from the tower (to the “caverns” levels). This is also the only set of understructures that haven’t been infiltrated by massive vines/roots of the others.

There are three levels to the dungeons and two to th...