Saint Zeviax still walks the hall of this temple. At one time it was a church to a higher power – an ideal that almost everyone could get behind. But the long-term tenancy by Saint Zeviax has taken over and the temple is dedicated to their strange communion and seeming eternal resistance against death.
You see, Saint ...
2023-03-03 17:58:16 +0000 UTC View Post
When I got a copy of the Dungeoneer's Survival Guide some 36 years ago, it was a flood of information, rules I would consistently ignore, scraps about the underdark for the first time since the D series of adventures...
And a collection of pages at the back on drawing perspective-based maps. Not the isometric (axonometr...
2023-03-01 19:28:41 +0000 UTC View Post
And one last set of Crypt Dungeonmorphs to finish off our February map releases.
These are redraws of the Dungeonmorph designs originally drawn by myself, Glynn Seal, Billiam Babble, Alyssa, and Joe Wetzel. I’m doing these redraws one “die” at a time. The geomorphs have been assigned faces on the DungeonMorph Dice...
2023-02-28 00:40:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again we are finishing off the month with some more geomorphs from the DungeonMorphs IV set.
These are redraws of the Dungeonmorph designs originally drawn by myself, Glynn Seal, Billiam Babble, Alyssa, and Joe Wetzel. I’m doing these redraws one “die” at a time. The geomorphs have been assigned faces on the ...
2023-02-24 17:20:47 +0000 UTC View Post
This dungeon level was designed by Greg Oppedisano as part of his #Dungeon23 project, and I loved the huge chains, twisting & looping passages, and general design so much that I asked if I could redraw it in my style – and thus we have the Goblinoid Pits…
The obvious biggest point of interest is how this level i...
2023-02-23 01:50:18 +0000 UTC View Post
It is about that time - as February comes to a close, we need to pick out which maps from the back-catalogue we are going to re-release under the free commercial use license.
I've put together a selection of 12 to pick from thi...
2023-02-22 03:58:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Below the dungeon level detailed in the adventure is another. A deeper area that can be found if you know where to look – like after you got that treasure map from the Ogre Magi that showed where the secret stairway is, and hinted at a much larger treasure below…
Here the dungeon intrudes on a large natural cavern t...
2023-02-21 00:08:10 +0000 UTC View Post
The split theme of the Gateway of the Twin Demons is not carried through to the underlevel of the complex – these lower chambers of the Gateway of the Twin Demons contain a deeper cistern, a small garden of poisonous fungi, and a double-levelled tomb of the faithful to the demons of Vimúhla. The entire complex is decorated...
2023-02-17 19:57:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Near Prakú Cháya Peak in Western Mu’ugalavyá is this ancient temple to twin demons of Vimúhla – their names lost to the ages, they were once the patrons of a town south of Gashchné that was considered very fortunate to be looked over by not one but two of Vimúhla’s favoured servants. Much of the town’s resources...
2023-02-16 03:43:21 +0000 UTC View Post
There’s a cave on the cliffside beaches of the dark shore where eerily beautiful music can be heard on occasion. The caves have evidently been cut and modified by pickaxe over the years, with doors, stairs, and chambers cut into the stone and sometimes decorated and smoothed even further with masonry work.
At the hear...
2023-02-13 18:27:56 +0000 UTC View Post
In the goblin hills there’s a hill crowned with a circle of white granite standing stones that can only be described as… giant stone teeth. In the centre of the teeth is a wide stairwell down into the hill itself.
While originally built as a barrow, there is little to show of the original purpose now. Instead of the...
2023-02-10 18:18:39 +0000 UTC View Post
And here's my second #Dungeon23 project - the first keyed and stocked zone of the Tumíssan Underworld on the shore of Lake Néttu Tlakán directly under the ferry buildings and the Great Market Plaza.
I’m still keeping on with the #Dungeon23 projects – here’s level 1 in its entirety with the full map and short-form stocking.
1-1 The Gates
The doors of the gates are long gone but sounds can be heard from within the walls as scavengers dig through the ruins of the burned structure within. The ...
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 January’s poll is this small dungeon map that was originally designed to fit on a postcard.
The ruins under the Signet Heights are leftovers of th...
2023-02-04 16:56:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Jaikalór isn’t all that exciting – a small mercantile city that exports cloth from the many looms here, and timber harvested from the Forest of Gilrayá that it is nestled against. The city has changed significantly since it was captured (bloodlessly) from the Ebon Throne three hundred years ago – much of the city has ...
2023-02-02 16:42:35 +0000 UTC View Post
February is coming in WITH FURY up here - we're looking at -29 tomorrow night (-48 with wind chill). So as I get towels together to put in front of doors and double up on curtains, I thought I should take a break and zip up all the m...
2023-02-02 05:40:47 +0000 UTC View Post
So, I had scheduled to release the first of the "release the kraken" maps tomorrow morning... and then noticed that I NEVER SENT OUT THE POLL!
So, this poll will only be open for 36 hours or so. For those new to my patreon, thi...
2023-02-01 04:08:18 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the final stretch goals of DungeonMorphs IV 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 I spent a month and change redrawing all the geomorphs from their original artists’ style...
2023-01-27 18:22:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Ribbon Jammers are a fairly traditional spelljammer format – designed around a long, lean, ship structure that would fit in well in any non-jamming ocean world except for the lack of a keel and rudder. It stands out because of the long ribbons that hang off the sides of the ship and flow out and along it as it sails through...
2023-01-26 04:31:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Down beneath the strange spire is the source of the infection – why the strange insectoid humanoids are now arriving mutated and twisted, spreading chaos in their wake. The base level beneath the spire shows all the organization and clean design of the creatures in their “natural form”, but even here there are a large n...
2023-01-23 18:22:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Bizarre humanoid insects are pouring out of this structure that has formed like a foul boil upon the land in the last month. The grounds around the spire have also slowly transformed into a lifeless rocky terrain broken into hexagons roughly 20 feet across.
These extradimensional ant-like beings seek something and hunti...
2023-01-18 17:13:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Chiténg’s Circle of Plunder is not exactly a secret (as it is a fairly large round dome with an open roof in the centre over the arena proper), but one requires an invitation from the cult in order to witness the battles fought here – this is no Hirilákte arena for glory and personal deeds of arms, but a ritual space wh...
2023-01-16 21:14:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Floating in the badlands in exactly the same manner that most towers don’t, this odd structure is evidently of ancient design and made of a strange bone-white material. There are several ways to access the tower, but for those who can’t fly the obvious choice is to bridge the small gap between the rocky cliff face and a b...
2023-01-12 15:36:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Made of nearly white stone and then decorated in soft but brilliant white howlite, the pillared tower of Hnálla peaks over the wall of the foreigner’s district so even the heathens and barbarians from other lands can hear the Tunkúl gongs ringing to call the faithful of the Supreme Principle of Stability to prayer. The to...
2023-01-09 15:52:34 +0000 UTC View Post
When the Rangers of Lazuni built a tower atop this hill, they also put some work into expanding the small caves within the hill, although they never connected the tower and the caves (to prevent infiltration of the tower from the caves below). When the shrine was built using the old stones of the tower, the cult of the local ...
2023-01-06 21:17:36 +0000 UTC View Post
The Rangers of Lazuni built a watch tower atop this hill in ages past to track the movements of the spider armies through the region. With the end of the Arachnid Empire the tower was only checked in on once a year or so until it was compromised during a major earthquake and then collapsed over the next few decades. About two...
2023-01-04 20:16:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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 December’s poll is this map I drew after working on “Mythic Odysseys of Theros” for Wizards of the Coast – a temple ...
2023-01-02 22:44:41 +0000 UTC View Post
A new year! A new backstage pass!
Thanks to YOUR support, here's the ten maps we'll be releasing in January. We've got a LOT of circles in these maps... My love/hate relationship with circles seems to have lost...
2023-01-02 20:11:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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 first release from December’s poll is this map I drew for an Empire of the Petal Throne game. I’ll note immediately that NONE of the text fr...
2023-01-01 23:23:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Holy crap! It's the final of the eight dice of the sewers set for Inkwell Ideas' DungeonMorphs IV! Original designs by Glynn Seal, Billiam Babble, Alyssa, Joe Wetzel, and myself, all adapted to my style and methodologies.
2022-12-30 17:44:14 +0000 UTC View Post
