The Darkling River works its way through the underdark beneath the grey hills to depths unknown. Darklingtown is a trading community built into a series of claustrophobically low-ceilinged caverns on the banks of the Darkling and a number of its tributaries. Darklingtown (which in turn will be made of 9+ maps) is the seventeenth mapped location (and this the 27th map total) along the Darkling River and the Darkling Sea beyond.
Sitting south of Frogsport is a large mostly open c...
2022-02-06 21:23:57 +0000 UTC
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As promised, I actually had this prepped and ready this month!
So head on over to the form and vote on your favourite choice from the map archives to be re-released under a commercial use license.
https://forms.gle/UfiTLfmSx1zcjTdQ8
2022-02-06 20:10:10 +0000 UTC
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Ten more maps! All of this month's releases are in the three standard formats - 1200 dpi PNG, 1200 dpi PNG with no grid, and promotional 300 dpi jpg (often with a paper-like background).
Thank you all once again for your support. YOU make these possible.
2022-02-06 05:51:20 +0000 UTC
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Every month we go through our back catalog of maps and you vote on which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. Today we are bringing back the The Dwarven Shrine at Mount Thorrien – a map I originally posted to the blog back in 2014. For this re-release the map has been rescanned to 1200 dpi, sharpened up, and a grid has been added.
At the base of Mount Thorrien is a shrine to one of the dwarven patrons of the great...
2022-02-05 01:26:13 +0000 UTC
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Every month we go through our back catalog of maps and you vote on which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. Today we are bringing back the Dwarven Folly that is Ruldroc Castle.
An exercise in pointless stonecraft, this castle sits abandoned and oft overrun by foul creatures. A dwarven folly – a structure built purely for the sake of building a structure – the castle cuts into and juts over a small canyon in the foothills of Tismar Summit.
2022-02-02 20:27:22 +0000 UTC
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So, once again I THOUGHT I had posted the poll and didn't. So, let's get... krakening!
I've pulled ten maps from the archives for you to vote on as to which should be re-released under the free commercial-use license.
And to keep from doing these last second NEXT month, I'm working on the February poll right now!
January Kraken Poll:
2022-01-30 20:15:33 +0000 UTC
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There’s bound to be some level of miscommunication when dealing with the Kobold Tombs. After all, why would anyone have reason to try to raid the tombs of some lowly kobolds? But these are not kobold tombs, they are ancient tombs that now belong to the Great Shark kobold clan since they moved in and no one could be bothered to pry them back out.
But when a low level party blows a research roll and finds an old book about the Ghezzek Tombs that indicates the tombs include a secret trea...
2022-01-30 02:17:05 +0000 UTC
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The Warlock Rosedriah never got along with their patron in the dark arts and thus sought any and all means to extend their life in order to deny their eternal soul’s torment in the patron’s servitude. In time Rosedriah became a lich and after further ages explored new ways to keep themselves from losing their connection to the world. They stretched their existence out for so long that instead of becoming a demi-lich, Rosedriah became something new – a “shadow lich” – incorporeal m...
2022-01-28 00:52:59 +0000 UTC
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Twelve years ago I started posting Geomorphs to the Dodecahedron. Twelve years. I posted the first geomorph to the blog at the end of October, 2009. Here we are in 2022 and I’m still posting new ones to add to the mix. These new geomorphs are, of course, the fault of Inkwell Ideas who will be launching a new DungeonMorph Dice / Cards campaign later this month!
This set of six geomorphs is centred around crypts and tombs and associated structures (although this particular set is heavy ...
2022-01-25 01:07:46 +0000 UTC
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In a world full of dungeons and dragons, you never know when you are going to run into either of the above. In this case, here’s the root cellar under Grandmaman Crève-Cœur’s little hut. If one accepts a dinner invitation while visiting Grandmaman, odds are she’ll need something trifling for the soup, like just one more rutabaga or perhaps a leek. Fortunately, she says, she keeps a few spares in the root cellar. Just through that door there, dearie!
Beyond that door are stairs l...
2022-01-23 00:49:30 +0000 UTC
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Beneath the hexagonal tower from Monday’s post are three sublevels – the basements directly below the tower, the more extensive dungeons a good 25 feet below that, and an old set of caverns in the depths. The same set of stairs that leads up through the tower is used to access all the lower levels as well.
The basement level is slightly smaller than the tower itself and is a pretty tight space used primarily for storage although there are also a pair of bunks down here for servants ...
2022-01-20 23:59:39 +0000 UTC
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This asymmetric hexagonal tower has eight floors. The height of the full tower is easily adjusted by choosing if the spiral stairs are 270 degrees (as shown) or if they include an additional 360 degrees of rotation between floors that isn’t shown. This makes the floors roughly 10 feet apart or for a more intimidating structure up to 20 feet apart (for a towering 160 feet). The stairs run clockwise downwards indicating that this is likely a human construction (as most humans are right-handed...
2022-01-18 02:10:26 +0000 UTC
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Oceanwatch was originally an outpost of the Masked Company, a mercenary force tasked with guarding against the encroaching forces of Baron Ossur. They marked off the small peninsula for later building and built their hexagonal fort where it still stands today near the inner seawall (which, along with the outer seawall, was raised by a conjured Earth Elemental). With Baron Ossur’s conquest of these lands, their mission was a failure, but the Masks remained, offering their services to the Bar...
2022-01-13 23:26:12 +0000 UTC
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The Tunnels District is the “low rent” part of Darklingtown. A set of twisting caverns instead of the wide-open areas of most of the town, residents have built homes into every widening of the passages they could fit into. Even being away from the rivers of Darklingtown, the Tunnels remain thick with moisture and stink of cooking and the ever-present fungus.
There are few businesses in the Tunnels – most of the space is given over to housing and few people from the rest of Darklin...
2022-01-11 01:16:22 +0000 UTC
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The Darkling River works its way through the underdark beneath the grey hills to depths unknown. Darklingtown is a trading community built into a series of claustrophobically low-ceilinged caverns on the banks of the Darkling and a number of its tributaries. Darklingtown (which in turn will be made of 9+ maps) is the seventeenth mapped location (and this the 25th map total) along the Darkling River and the Darkling Sea beyond.
Cut into the cave walls of East Frogsport is Frog T...
2022-01-09 01:27:56 +0000 UTC
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The Darkling River works its way through the underdark beneath the grey hills to depths unknown. Darklingtown is a trading community built into a series of claustrophobically low-ceilinged caverns on the banks of the Darkling and a number of its tributaries. Darklingtown (which in turn will be made of 9+ maps) is the seventeenth mapped location (and this the 23rd map total) along the Darkling River and the Darkling Sea beyond.
The populace of darklingtown subsist on a diet of various un...
2022-01-07 02:51:17 +0000 UTC
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I think I've said it before... but I need to switch that Backstage Pass graphic one of these days. It's been at least five years since Patreon rebranded.
ANYWAYS.
Backstage pass!
First one of 2022!
Ten maps, enjoy!
2022-01-03 02:10:34 +0000 UTC
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Every month we go through our back catalog of maps and you vote on which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. The first release voted for in December is Krelava Manor – an older structure mostly drawn in 2015 and then completed in 2017. The map has been upgraded to 1200 dpi and cleaned up a little for re-release.
The fortified manor of Grumbrek Three-Fingers Krelava stands in the middle of the old estate, a squat three-story stone affair that seems...
2022-01-01 22:34:14 +0000 UTC
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In the summer of 2017 I was working away on the ultimate secret project for me… Drawing the maps for Waterdeep Dragon Heist, my first commission for Wizards of the Coast and the first time my work would appear in an official D&D adventure. Fast forward to 2021 and there are nine adventure books and a few other products now out with the official D&D logo on the front and my work inside them. One of the coolest bits of this was designing the lair of the Xanathar – the beholder crime...
2021-12-31 01:49:30 +0000 UTC
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So, the January kraken releases hit the schedule for January 1 and January 3, 2022. Which, it turns out, is only DAYS AWAY!
So, for those who are new to the Patreon: (almost) every month I put up a list of 8-12 maps from the blog archives and we vote on them. The top two get re-released under the free commercial map license.
So we should get voting!
Head to the Kraken Poll here:
2021-12-29 00:03:13 +0000 UTC
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This is the fourth and final set of sewermorphs for 2021. This set of three geomorphs includes a standard 10×10 geomorph (lower left) a 20×10 geomorph (takes up the space of 2 regular geomorphs – upper left), and a 30×10 geomorph (taking up the space of 3 regular geomorphs – right). Oversized morphs like these allow for larger structures or structures that span a regular gemorph’s break points allowing for designes you couldn’t do within a set of standard geomorphs. The downside of...
2021-12-28 00:35:58 +0000 UTC
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This is the third set of sewermorphs – and decidedly the least exciting. In this set we focus on geomorphs where the sewer line just runs straight through the centre – no forks, no splits, nothing exciting except 100 feet of sewer across the middle of the tile.
Like the rest of the sewermorph set – these incorporate a change to the classic dungeonmorph design – adding two additional entrances in the central point of the top and bottom face of the tile for the sewer line. Those f...
2021-12-25 00:58:08 +0000 UTC
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Twelve years ago I started posting Geomorphs to the Dodecahedron. Twelve years. I posted the first geomorph at the end of October, 2009 and now here we are in 2021 and I’m still posting new ones to add to the mix.
This is the second set of sewermorphs – these incorporate a change to the classic dungeonmorph design. The standard design is a 10 x 10 grid with entrances at squares 3 & 8 on each face. For these sewermorphs though, between 1 and 4 additional entrances have been added...
2021-12-20 21:23:11 +0000 UTC
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Recently my co-conspirator and AWESOME artist, James V West, suggested putting together an all-goblin zine. My immediate response was that I would do a series of goblin lair maps entitled “SHUT YER GOBHOLE”. This is the first of these maps. What’s kind of annoying is I completely forgot the element that I was thinking of when I started the map – a series of very low-ceilinged undercaves packed full of stinking goblins that just come boiling out into the main caves when disturbed…
2021-12-18 21:18:45 +0000 UTC
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Many things were lost in the deep halls of Kadar-Khalizad as the dwarven citadel slowly died after their Loremaster locked himself in the lowest levels and no dwarves would return there. Ancient stairs lead down from the burial vaults to the domain of Gazul, the dwarven ancestor-god who protects the dead. Partially collapsed and flooded, these halls are home to many ancient sarcophagi containing the last remains of many of the past elders of Kadar-Khalizad.
Over the ages the waters have...
2021-12-17 00:58:11 +0000 UTC
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Roughly three hours trek into the badlands of Pantesh is the haunt of Daglan’s Daggers, a small group of ne’er-do-wells assembled around Daglan Alderpride, a mid-level high elven sorcerer. Not welcome in human or elven society, Daglan has set up camp in this waterfall cave (prior to the Daggers moving in, it was just marked as “waterfall cave” on local maps). The highest level of the cave (on the right – where Daglan’s home and a small barracks are built) is open to the sky – th...
2021-12-14 23:35:31 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to the sewers… This complex of passages, sewers, collection pools, and drainage outlets is designed to be a central feature in a fantasy sewercrawl environment. You can link it up to the two sewer maps from Waterdeep Dragon Heist, add a bunch of the sewer elements that I have posted to the blog over the years, and it also has four connectors designed to be linked to the six sewermorphs posted last month and the 12 more that are coming this month.
In fact, there’s enough sewe...
2021-12-11 23:16:36 +0000 UTC
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The Darkling River works its way through the underdark beneath the grey hills to depths unknown. Darklingtown is a trading community built into a series of claustrophobically low-ceilinged caverns on the banks of the Darkling and a number of its tributaries. Darklingtown (which in turn will be made of 9+ maps) is the seventeenth mapped location (and this the 23rd map total) along the Darkling River and the Darkling Sea beyond.
East Frogsport is slightly less crowded than Frogsport, but ...
2021-12-10 00:22:19 +0000 UTC
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The Darkling River works its way through the underdark beneath the grey hills to depths unknown. Darklingtown is a trading community built into a series of claustrophobically low-ceilinged caverns on the banks of the Darkling and a number of its tributaries. Darklingtown (which in turn will be made of 9+ maps) is the seventeenth mapped location (and this the 22nd map total) along the Darkling River and the Darkling Sea beyond.
In Frogsport the Darkling is joined by a couple of slow-movi...
2021-12-06 21:07:23 +0000 UTC
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Once again, thanks to your support, I have a selection of 10 new maps to release on the Dodecahedron this month.
- We have two large sections of Darklingtown (each on 16" x 12" canvases, bringing us up to four sections of the trading town complete).
- A bunch of sewer geomorphs to go with the set of six I posted last week. Two sets of six, and one set of oddballs.
- A la...
2021-12-06 04:45:40 +0000 UTC
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