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The Old Fighting Pit

Sitting under the dungeons of (insert dungeon location from your campaign here) is an old fighting pit, once used as entertainment for the owners and masters of the dungeon; and punishment for slaves, captives, and traitors.

The actual arenas are on the lower level and are overlooked from the chambers above on each side of the main hall. There are also wide slots in the floor of the main hall that looks down on the preparatory areas and cages that lead into the arenas proper. D...

Marpenoth Hall – Upstairs

Continuing up from our earlier post of the ground floor, here is the second level of Marpenoth Hall. As shown, only the east and west wings are two stories, with a pitched roof over the north wing and a smaller roof along the south wall of the courtyard (providing a modicum of cover right along the south wall for those out in the rain).

The east wing is upstairs from Marpenoth Hall proper and consists of private rooms for the family as well as a sitting room overlooking the front entran...

Marpenoth Hall – Ground Floor

Welcome to Marpenoth Hall, home to the Khohren mercantile house. The structure is divided into three general areas. The west wing is the staff wing with kitchen, scullery, staff room, and pantry. The east wing is Marpenoth Hall proper with tapestries on the walls, a statue of Hushan Khohren, the founder of the Khohren mercantile house, offices and libraries. The single-story north wing connecting the two contains a dining room, lounge, and conservatory as well as access to the courtyard.

Release the Kraken on the Skybridges of Sharn III

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 from September’s poll is this expansion to the skybridges of Sharn (the original of which is in the official 5e Eberron book)

The City of a Thousand Eyes

The City of Towers

We return to the towers and skybridges of Sharn again this month with another set of towers and plazas designed to work with the map I d...

Dead Goblin Hole

“Cleverly” named based on the primary current purpose of this old sinkhole on the outskirts of Lautuntown in the hills of Pantesh – dead goblin hole is where prisoners are tossed when they aren’t needing to face “justice” in more civilized areas. This is mostly raiders from the local goblin tribes and those locals and visiting people who decide to join or aid these lawless little monsters.

The entrance by the top of the stairs is walled and gated and guarded by a couple of t...

Bradrig's Hall (a five-room dungeon)

This hall was built at the behest of Bradrig, summoner of the great devourer, master of the kraken, lord of the seven isles, and so on and so forth. Completed shortly before his death, he would accept petitioners here where a doppelganger would sit on a high throne and pronounce “the will of Bradrig” Upon his death, his six doppelgangers were immediately slain by staff dedicated to exactly that purpose, and the throne in Bradrig’s Hall was replaced with a statue of the summoner of the g...

Release the Kraken on the Ruined Cities of Red-Litten Yoth

Beneath the massive blue-lit cavern of K'n-yan are the red-lit caverns of Yoth where the serpent folk of yig moved their civilization in ancient times. All that remains now are ruins and serpent-tech... and a way to even deeper lightless N'kai, home of Tsathoggua.

https://dysonlogos.blog/2022/10/07/release-the-kraken-on-ruined-cities-of-red-litten-yoth/

Smallharbour

Smallharbour is a fortified settlement at the mouth of the Doggerel River which forms a… small harbour. The town’s growth and curtain walls have broken it up into several sections: The Manor at the heart of the city with its own docks and warehouses; Old Town to the immediate south of the manor with the main gates; Newall (New Walls) to the west of Old Town centred around the pentagonal temple of the fisher god; Newall Docks attached to Newall; Northside beyond Newall (with its own docks ...

Hunter’s Descent, a five-room dungeon

The ruined “well” in the forested hills is well known to hunters in the area as it stands out as an unusual place for such a well (at the top of a hill instead of in one of the valleys). Actually a ventilation shaft for some deeper construction, the space beneath was only discovered recently when part of the hillside was torn away by the roots of a falling tree exposing a massive chamber within and a series of other rooms and spaces damaged by ages of neglect and water.

These five c...

October's Backstage Pass

Here is this month's set of maps in one convenient zip file! This marks the end of the Monday Five Room Dungeons (only have two for this month, maybe I'll bring the series back at another time, but I'll definitely keep drawing one here and there from now on) and we should be seeing two sets of geomorphs every month for... well... another 8 months or so.

Thank you again for your support. YOU mak...

And now, THE OKTOBERKRAKEN!

As promised, here's the OCTOBER Kraken poll to determine which maps we'll re-release under the commercial license this month (once we've released the September ones in the next two weeks).

Vote here: https://forms.gle/wEy4nHiEhKgrhA4bA

September Kraken Poll (in October)!

Wow, September got away from me completely!

For the new patrons here, every month we poll to see what maps to re-release that month under a free commercial-use license. 

I failed to get that poll out in September, and it is time to release the maps, so here we go, get those votes in and we'll run the September re-releases over the next two Fridays instead (the 7th and 14th).

An...

Tower of the Five Who Watch & The Blind Guide

The five who watch stare forever at each other and at their guide, eternally lost wearing a stone blindfold. These six statues stand on the top level of this odd hexagonal tower-shrine, a weird mystery that is beyond even the greatest sages and legend lore magics.

But mysteries like this attract weirdos… and a number of cults have set themselves up here at one point or another. The current resident weirdos are “The Creed of Streksus” who have decorated all the statues with flowing...

DungeonMorphs – Lairs Set 1

One of the final stretch goals of the recent DungeonMorphs IV Kickstarter was to include an alternate version of the DungeonMorph cards (2.5″ x 2.5″ cards of the geomorphs) in the style of one of the artists involved in the design. That artist was ME! So now that all the different geomorph designs are in for each die, I’m in the process of redrawing the various designs in my style.

I’m doing these redraws one “die” at a time. The geomorphs have been assigned faces on the Dun...

Dorron's Tower

Dorron’s Tower isn’t so much a tower as an ascending dungeon structure. There are two entrances into the structure – one leads into the buttressed central chamber where Dorron’s Emerald used to sit on a plinth mounted on the central dais. Around the chamber are a number of small “windows” that ascend in a spiral pattern along the walls between the buttresses – each allowing people in the upper chambers to look down upon the central chamber and the emerald.

The second entra...

Karaczun’s Hollows

A day’s walk south of GravelThorpe is a gully cut into the soil by the Karaczun – a stream of runoff from the melting glacier that once covered the ruins of the dwarven citadel of Urul-Dar. The gully here is home to a small set of caves and some enterprising halflings from the town had used the location as a base of operations to pan for artifacts in the stream.

They would find the occasional interesting bit of dwarven stonework as well as a pair of cut and polished rubies, and even...

DungeonMorphs – Crypts Set 2

One of the final stretch goals of the recent DungeonMorphs IV Kickstarter was to include an alternate version of the DungeonMorph cards (2.5″ x 2.5″ cards of the geomorphs) in the style of one of the artists involved in the design. That artist was ME! So now that all the different geomorph designs are in for each die, I’m in the process of redrawing the various designs in my style.

I’m doing these redraws one “die” at a time. The geomorphs have been assigned faces on the Dun...

The Burbling Subterrane (a 5-room dungeon)

Named after the sounds of the brook that runs through these caves, the Burbling Subterrane is primarily a series of gallery caverns with a smaller cave complex cut into a memorial in the depths. The first cave is a gallery that almost resembles gapped teeth across the opening, with five gaps between the rocks leading into the cave proper. The brook burbles through these “teeth” to a pool in the second gallery and then down a series of steps to the mushroom chamber beneath.

The north...

The Idol Pit

The idols…

Creepy wide-eyed, pointy-toothed stone idols keep popping up in fields, kitchens, midden heaps… Each about three feet tall, an idol appears once every five to ten years in the village and no one knows why. But they all match one old idol found at the bottom of a nearby cave, now known as the Idol Pit.

When an idol is found in the village, a procession is started to bring the idol and the finder to the cave and then descend down to the lowest flooded level where a sm...

Sanctuary of Xeeus

The great oracle Xeeus spoke to supplicants through the giant face built into the first of the octagonal chambers of the sanctuary… well, actually disciples of Xeeus would use the face to speak down to supplicants below, and occasionally would invite heroes and special supplicants to meet Xeeus itself.

But at some point the Paladin Kheros brought a band of hardy adventurers through here and trashed the Sanctuary in an attempt to slay Xeeus. The town was destroyed in the fighting, and ...

Beneath the Temperance Stone - a 5-room dungeon

First of all, I definitely have a predilection to having standing stones / pillars / menhirs / etc at the entrances to my five room dungeons. With that out of the way…

The Pride’s Circle is a set of standing stones on the edge of the Middlemark Woods. Attached to the circle, but hidden within the woods, is the Temperance Stone, a large “table stone” used for sacrifices and feasts. On the south side of the Temperance Stone is a two-and-a-half-foot gap that leads down a s...

Release the Kraken on Tombs of the Silver Army

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 this “small” tomb map – I’ve adjusted the placement of the map for VTT use and included a gridless version for this re-release.

This three-tiered tomb complex contains a number of reliquaries, crypts, and memorials of Jeberiath’s Silver Army – warriors embedded permanently into their silver-wroug...

Garnet’s Spring (5 Room Dungeon)

The source of the Garnet river is a small spring and stream in the Brock Hills. The spring itself is surrounded by a set of 8 deep red stone pillars that were once of equal height, although two have been shortened by some violent damage. A further four of these pillars run the length of Garnet’s Hall overlooking the spring – evidently, the hall was once at least five feet longer than it currently is, but the front face of the hall has been destroyed and the hall now overlooks the spring l...

September 2022 Backstage Pass

Here are the ten maps set for release in September! Thanks again for your support, you make these maps possible!

Release the Kraken on a Dungeon of Impossible Stairs

“If you’ve done 6 impossible things this morning, why not round it off with a fetchquest at Escherways, the Dungeon at the End of the Universe?”

This is what happens when the lich lord fails to follow the Ikea directions for the flat-packed dungeon assembly. There are multiple places in this dungeon where you can climb up three flights of stairs only to finish off in the same room you started in. Or turn the corner and find yourself in a room 10 feet lowe...

The Imperial Sewers

“Deep in the desert of endless sands rests a grove of rocky outcroppings overlooking a landlocked sea that shrinks each year. Its water is briny to the point that no life exists on or between its shores. But this Salted Sea stretches far across the endless sands and those who sail upon it can fast reach the jungle lands beyond. Because of the strategic value in shortening the trips between the City of Splendours to the north and the Great Library in the City of Mud to the south, there e...