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Brazenthrone - Excavation

This is a new, unnamed chamber of Brazenthrone currently being excavated. It's at 19 on this map. This is wh...

Brazenthrone - Excavation - Patrons' Edition

This is a new, unnamed chamber of Brazenthrone currently being excavated. It's at 19 on this map. This is wh...

All those dungeons and not a single dragon until today.

If you were in need of tokens for dragons or flying mounts, you should be all set. Personally, I haven't used a dragon in my game in a pretty long time. Like, years at least. I mean, sure, dragons are cool and all, but they're not as essential to D&D as the name would have you believe. Dungeons? You do usually need those....

Ironbird Aerie – Gunpowder-Free Version

Here's the alternate version of Ironbird Aerie without the cannons and fancy engines. Some DMs make their players kill a dragon the old fashioned way. Others let them blow a hole through its chest with an 18-pound smoothbore siege gun, spraying chunks of Sky Godzilla into the next county. Both are perfectly valid options and ...

Ironbird Aerie – Gunpowder-Free Version - Patrons' Edition

Here's the alternate version of Ironbird Aerie without the cannons and fancy engines. Some DMs make their players kill a dragon the old fashioned way. Others let them blow a hole through its chest with an 18-pound smoothbore siege gun, spraying chunks of Sky Godzilla into the next county. Both are perfectly valid options and ...

Ironbird Aerie - Gunpowder Version

Ironbird Aerie might look like a truck stop for airships and flying mounts, but that's only because it kind of is. This is the first of two versions of this map, the second of which will be a little lower-tech, with no gunpowder weapons or mechanical engines. It won't take long to modify and I should have it for you tomorrow....

Ironbird Aerie - Gunpowder Version - Patrons' Edition

Ironbird Aerie might look like a truck stop for airships and flying mounts, but that's only because it kind of is. This is the first of two versions of this map, the second of which will be a little lower-tech, with no gunpowder weapons or mechanical engines. It won't take long to modify and I should have it for you tomorrow....

Brazenthrone – The Oreworks – Third Level

And here's the last level of the Oreworks. Is there much here on the third floor? No. Is there a hole through which your players can drop someone into a blast furnace? Yes sir, there is.

Honestly, I think the real potential of the Oreworks is that there's all kinds of dangerous stuff sitting around that can make a fight...

Brazenthrone – The Oreworks – Third Level - Patrons' Edition

And here's the last level of the Oreworks. Is there much here on the third floor? No. Is there a hole through which your players can drop someone into a blast furnace? Yes sir, there is.

Honestly, I think the real potential of the Oreworks is that there's all kinds of dangerous stuff sitting around that can make a fight...

Brazenthrone - The Oreworks - Second Level

Here's the second floor of Brazenthrone's Oreworks. Not too much going on, but now you know what those horses are walking around in circles for. Also, the Miners' Guildhall isn't just a bar, even though it is mostly a bar.

Brazenthrone - The Oreworks - Second Level - Patrons' Edition

Here's the second floor of Brazenthrone's Oreworks. Not too much going on, but now you know what those horses are walking around in circles for. Also, the Miners' Guildhall isn't just a bar, even though it is mostly a bar.

Brazenthrone - The Oreworks - Ground Level

This is the first of three levels of Brazenthrone's Oreworks. This took a bit of research to draw, since-- like most people-- I wasn't all that familiar with the processes and equipment involved in pre-modern ore processing and steelmaking.

Brazenthrone - The Oreworks - Ground Level - Patrons' Edition

This is the first of three levels of Brazenthrone's Oreworks. This took a bit of research to draw, since-- like most people-- I wasn't all that familiar with the processes and equipment involved in pre-modern ore processing and steelmaking.

The Great Garden - Everyone's Edition

I think this is the first map I've drawn where everything is outdoors. No buildings, no caverns. Weird. That's not the only unusual thing about it. I tried a few new things with this. I lightened the grid, I made the grass look more... grassy, and I used much brighter colors than I normally do.

I'm really happy with it ...

All the tokens I've made for my game and a few more.

These are all the tokens I've made since my game went online in April. The second image is the new ones. I don't know how useful a lot of them are going to be for a lot of people, but if you really, REALLY needed a token of a horse-drawn sleigh, well, you're welcome.

My game is going to some pretty strange places. I'm r...

Brazenthrone - Burke's Hall

An explanation of who Burke was and why there's a chamber of Brazenthrone named after him is in the DM notes, which I'm giving away to everyone. You can find them above. As with most of the other residential chambers, all the buildings in Bu...

Brazenthrone - Burke's Hall - Patrons' Edition

An explanation of who Burke was and why there's a chamber of Brazenthrone named after him is in the DM notes, which I'm giving away to everyone. As with most of the other residential chambers, all the buildings in Burke's Hall are houses, so ther...

Eldfjall - A Perfectly Safe Place to Live

Eldfjall is an arctic island in the northern seas, a bountiful hunting ground for whaling and seal-hunting. But it's so far north that crops can't grow and even a fire won't keep away the bitter, year-round cold. Still, one brave group of settlers found a way to make it habitable: they built their homes in the caldera of the ...

Eldfjall - A Perfectly Safe Place to Live - Patrons' Edition

Eldfjall is an arctic island in the northern seas, a bountiful hunting ground for whaling and seal-hunting. But it's so far north that crops can't grow and even a fire won't keep away the bitter, year-round cold. Still, one brave group of settlers found a way to make it habitable: they built their homes in the caldera of the ...

A Vote Pertaining to the Results of Another Vote

So, we're finally getting back to the Great Vote, which some of you may not be familiar with. About a year ago, a series of votes were held to determine the next 10 non-Brazenthrone maps I'd draw would be. Curre...

Brazenthrone - The Opaline Grotto

Grotto. While drawing this map, it occurred to me that "grotto" might be... not the ugliest word in the English language, but the ugliest word for a thing that's usually beautiful. Say it: grotto. Grotto. Ugh.

Yeah, so anyway, the Opaline *ahem* Grotto is a natural cavern with unmined opal deposits in ...

Brazenthrone - The Opaline Grotto - Patrons' Edition

Grotto. While drawing this map, it occurred to me that "grotto" might be... not the ugliest word in the English language, but the ugliest word for a thing that's usually beautiful. Say it: grotto. Grotto. Ugh.

Yeah, so anyway, the Opaline *ahem* Grotto is a natural cavern with unmined opal deposits in ...

The Updated Brazenthrone Codex

I just updated the Brazenthrone Codex with all the newer areas of the city. For those of you who haven't seen it, it's a collection of all the Brazenthrone Patrons' Edition annotated maps and DM notes. There's nothing in there that hasn't been posted already, but Brazenthrone is a big place and it's nice to have everything in...

Skywatch: A Castle in the Clouds

Skywatch is a little unusual as castles go, for a few reasons. The obvious one is that it's on a rock in the sky. Historically speaking, the most common place to build a castle is on the ground. I'm told that's where over 50% of castles are.

The less-obvious quirk is the castle's defenses. Most castles rely on the idea ...

Skywatch: A Castle in the Clouds - Patrons' Edition

Skywatch is a little unusual as castles go, for a few reasons. The obvious one is that it's on a rock in the sky. Historically speaking, the most common place to build a castle is on the ground. I'm told that's where over 50% of castles are.

The less-obvious quirk is the castle's defenses. Most castles rely...

JRR TOKEN

I'm running a 2e module called "A Darkness Gathering," which... hang on a second--

*SPOILER ALERT*

Right, let's just get that out of the way. So, it's the first of a three-part series of modules where the party discovers a mind flayer plot to darken all the suns in the universe. It's actually quit...

Brazenthrone – The Old Quarter – Third Level

With this done, the shattered wreck that is Brazenthrone's Old Quarter is now finished. Next up is last month's Cartographic Congress winner: a small castle on a floating island in the sky. Following that, we're going back to Brazenthrone to do t...

Brazenthrone – The Old Quarter – Third Level - Patrons' Edition

With this done, the shattered wreck that is Brazenthrone's Old Quarter is now finished. Next up is last month's Cartographic Congress winner: a small castle on a floating island in the sky. Following that, we're going back to Brazenthrone to do t...

Brazenthrone – The Old Quarter – Second Level

My computer finally died for good. I actually took it into a repair shop, which was a first for me. I'm usually the kind of geek who fixes his own computer. If it's a software problem, I can probably work it out. If it's a hardware problem on a desktop... maybe. But this was a hardware problem on a laptop, which put it ALL th...

Brazenthrone – The Old Quarter – Second Level - Patrons' Edition

My computer finally died for good. I actually took it into a repair shop, which was a first for me. I'm usually the kind of geek who fixes his own computer. If it's a software problem, I can probably work it out. If it's a hardware problem on a desktop... maybe. But this was a hardware problem on a laptop, which put it ALL th...