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The Halls of Lost Heroes

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This old tomb in the Ghost Hills Range was long ago buried when the main entrance collapsed. In more recent times, the side of the hill has slid away in a series of small landslides that breached one of the tombs. From there, the portal to the tomb was broken open, and the entire complex was opened to invaders and treasure hu...

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September 2023 Backstage Pass

It may be late (lots of stuff still going on vis-a-vis the family medical emergency - this is looking like it is going to be at a low boil level for the next 2-3 months now with lots of travelling, hosting, and dealing with the whole...

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Patron Exclusive: August 2023 Cartography Collection

Attached to this email / post are two PDFs of August's map releases.

While the backstage pass includes all the maps for the month in their raw graphical format (which is where most of us find the best value in them), there's be...

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Our First Patron-Only Kraken Release!

Attached to this post / email is this month's (updated) Release the Kraken zip file. It contains the two maps re-released this month along with the commercial license specific to those two maps.

THIS PARTICULAR...

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Delays & Updates

Hey Patrons!

I've been hit with a major family medical emergency which is going to impact both this and last month's patronage.

We'll still get all ten maps out as always, but we'll be seeing a few delays along the way as I'm rushing back and forth from the hospital daily to take care of a family member in signifi...

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Our First Patron-Only Kraken Release!

Attached to this post / email is this month's Release the Kraken zip file. It contains the two maps re-released this month along with the commercial license specific to those two maps.

THIS PARTICULAR KRAKEN PO...

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Fort Yaramuil

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This compact keep is essentially a small collection of towers, a small square keep, and a gatehouse linked by a few walls. The fully flagstoned yards and lack of stables indicate that horses are either kept outside the structure, or are not a major consideration in the region where the fort stands. The courtyards are tiered (...

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Weeping Dwarf Crag

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Green copper bars prevent entry to the two ground-level entrances to this mountain temple except for those who can squeeze through a 16-inch by 16-inch space. Before the final portcullises, the streams run in masonry-built channels, but then run “free” and meander away from the structure for a few hundred yards before the...

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The Tower Between Worlds – Island Tower

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There is a strange tower that exists in many worlds, many places, many times. The Tower Between Worlds is a six-level spire in every version, but the interior (and often parts of the exterior also) can be quite different from each other. One element that each version of the tower has is the fifth level of the tower where the ...

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The Tower Between Worlds – City Tower

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There is a strange tower that exists in many worlds, many places, many times. The Tower Between Worlds is a six-level spire in every version, but the interior (and often parts of the exterior also) can be quite different from each other. One element that each version of the tower has is the fifth level of the tower where the ...

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The Tower Between Worlds – Wasteland Tower

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There is a strange tower that exists in many worlds, many places, many times. The Tower Between Worlds is a six-level spire in every version, but the interior (and often parts of the exterior also) can be quite different from each other. One element that each version of the tower has is the fifth level of the tower where the ...

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The Tower Between Worlds - Forest Tower

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There is a strange tower that exists in many worlds, many places, many times. The Tower Between Worlds is a six-level spire in every version, but the interior (and often parts of the exterior also) can be quite different from each other. One element that each version of the tower has is the fifth level of the tower where the ...

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Our first Private Krakening!

It is that time!

Time to vote on which maps we'll re-release under the free commercial license - but starting this month instead of posting these to the blog, these two maps will be re-released exclusively to you, the patrons. At the end of the month, I'll collect the two winning maps and a copy of the commercial use li...

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Bolukbasti Grotto

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Sitting on the rocky cliffside shore of Catspaw Lake, Bolukbasti Grotto is a twisting set of caves reached by stairs up the steep shores – stairs that have decayed and fallen to the erosion of the lakeshore. Exploring past the great cat den near the entrance to the caves, the main grotto (the long east-west cavern) has a ce...

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The Drurdelm Tombs

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The Drurdelm Tombs were once well hidden but with the help of scrying magics they were uncovered about a hundred years ago and thoroughly looted by those unafraid of the Curse of the Drurdelm Sorceries. A curse that proved quite potent, killing the looters of a horrible magical wasting disease and somehow immune to both cure ...

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Greyrock Tower

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Looking out over the edge of Triumph Mesa, Greyrock Tower is a small remnant of much larger ruins and would appear at first to be an entrance to the extensive “Catacombs Below” – but the dungeons of Greyrock Tower are not linked to those great underworld byways – just three levels of dungeons with an opening to a narr...

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The Big 2023 Campaign Update

Do you have any suggestions on ways to improve the visibility and value of the campaign without significantly increasing my workload?

I’m FINALLY rebuilding this campaign after nearly a decade. (I launched the campaign in November of 2013).

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Statues of the Thrall Gods

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Based on the architecture and the spiralling hexagonal pit leading down below the structure proper, this would appear to have been an elven structure from the era of the great war. But beyond that, little makes sense here – there are rough-cut crypts and tombs in the lower level that don’t match any elven funerary rites, ...

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Backstage Pass - August 2023

Greetings friends, patrons, and various awesome folk!

Here is the collection of maps we'll be releasing to the blog & Patreon this month. This Patreon-exclusive backstage pass collects them all into one package at the begin...

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Release the Kraken on The Flooded Catacombs

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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. This map is the final public “Release the Kraken” release. Patronage of the blog has decreased by over 20% in the past few years – but instead...

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Release the Kraken on The Sanctuary of the Magi

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Every month we go through our back catalogue of maps andyou vote on which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. This week we’ll be making the final two public “Release the Kraken” releases. 

Patronage here has decreased by over 20% in the past few years – but instead ...

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#Dungeon23 Dyson's Delve II Level 5 Maps

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With the announced death of my two #Dungeon23 projects, I'm going to keep posting the maps I've drawn for them and will hopefully finish off the map set at the very least (so we'll have all twelve maps for each project at least). I can't promise they'll all get done, and who knows - maybe I'll find the time to get back to wri...

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#Dungeon23 Dyson’s Delve II Level 4 Maps

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Well, my #Dungeon23 projects have died. Between health and commissions, I just haven’t been able to keep up with them. I didn’t release maps or descriptions of either dungeon in June, and I didn’t manage to catch up with them in the interim. But I still have the maps… And thus I present them here. Maybe I’ll find th...

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DungeonMorphs – Lairs Set 8

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This is it folks, the last of the DungeonMorph series drawn and redrawn for the 10th anniversary DungeonMorphs. This is the 8th set in the Lairs series, and the 24th set in total for this edition of the DungeonMorphs.

BUT we have big news! The Kickstarter has been fulfilled and now you can buy the dice, cards, books, an...

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The Ebonhill Tombs

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The main entrance to this cavern is marked by a double-row of large rocks each with an old candle atop it leading to the side cavern containing the eponymous tombs – a cave with 11 niches in the walls used as crypts for elder priests of the Nilzar tribes. The centre of the cave drops down about 30 feet to a pool below where...

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July Kraken Poll

It's about that time! 

I've put together a collection of ten maps to vote on this month, and the two that get the most votes will be re-released under our free commercial license.

That said, there will be a change to...

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The Demon Spires

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The two towers of the “Demon Spires” jut out of the stony terrain offering no entry doors to the curious. A small fortification on the edge of the stony plateau offers access to the towers and an underground complex beneath them.

The whole complex was overwhelmed in the last month by a small army of deranged halflin...

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The Gallery Cave & The Gallery Pit

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The Gallery Cave is where the townsfolk of Whitehold River gather to deal with “town hall” type events and discussions. The cave is a grand gallery with a sunken main area and chambers around the perimeter that have been connected by passages (caves and excavations) around the main gallery.

Events are presided by th...

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Windsong Hall

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While most of the “dungeons” remaining from the great war had very “utilitarian” entrances (so the elves wouldn’t find and destroy them), some few of the more ornate structures remain as they were never assaulted during the war for one reason or another. In the case of Windsong Hall, the owners were collaborators an...

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Willowstone Hall - a 5 Room Dungeon

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A waypoint for travellers through the ancient dwarven nation of Skur Garrad, Willowstone Hall is cut into a stony hillside that once sat beside a river that long ago meandered elsewhere. The name comes from a row of willow trees that stood before the hall along the bank of the river, but there’s not even stumps to show they...

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