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 roug...
2024-05-22 02:15:38 +0000 UTC View Post
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 th...
2024-05-16 18:28:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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 a...
2024-05-14 20:07:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2024-05-10 15:11:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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, ...
2024-05-09 00:30:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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 sh...
2024-05-06 15:23:38 +0000 UTC View Post
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 w...
2024-05-03 14:19:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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:<...
2024-05-02 21:05:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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, ...
2024-05-01 02:10:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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 th...
2024-04-30 13:06:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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 o...
2024-04-30 04:01:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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. <...
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 th...
2024-04-25 16:58:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 w...
2024-04-22 21:44:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2024-04-19 14:37:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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 woo...
2024-04-17 23:21:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2024-04-15 23:36:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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 d...
2024-04-11 19:39:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2024-04-10 01:50:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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 in...
2024-04-06 23:54:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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 a...
2024-04-03 14:35:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2024-04-02 17:34:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2024-03-29 16:20:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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 th...
2024-03-29 14:50:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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 al...
2024-03-28 19:59:49 +0000 UTC View Post
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, i...
2024-03-27 23:30:33 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2024-03-27 15:15:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ne...
2024-03-25 22:56:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Three nearly perfect circular depressions have been cut into the white stony hills about a half hour off the road between the City of Copper Bowls and the City of the Gods.
Bryz’ulag is the demon patron of treasurers, silversmiths, and tapeworms – pushed out of local worship as the berzerk monkeys of the Granitespir...
2024-03-22 15:07:44 +0000 UTC View Post
From 2008 through to 2013, Sabre Lake was the centre of a number of campaigns that I ran – using B/X D&D, Advanced Labyrinth Lord, and D&D3x. Each campaign focused on different elements of the region – although two of them shared the same intro arc starting with Goblin Gully and then dealing with the horrible thin...
2024-03-20 15:31:16 +0000 UTC View Post
