[Tuesday Map] ReQuasqueton
Sometimes you find inspiration in another map. Initially I started drawing this map based only on three corridors, and somewhere along the way I realized that it was starting to feel like Quasqueton –...
View Article[Friday Map] The Lost Base
Sir James sought out an underground military headquarters from which he could command troops and maintain an eye on logistics but also be out of sight when needed. In the end he commissioned a pair of...
View Article[Tuesday Map] The Architect’s Dungeon (working with the Dungeon Architect Cards)
In March of this year I backed a Kickstarter for “Dungeon Architect Cards” because I was in the consideration phase for the Dyson’s Deck of Delves project. The cards arrived in the mail in the...
View Article[Friday Map] The Architect’s Isometric Delve
This is another map drawn using the Dungeon Architect Cards as the baseline for the design and structure. But I wanted it smaller than the last map, and since I had a new pad of isometric paper that I...
View Article[Tuesday Map] Crypt of the Child Kings
This is the real meat and potatoes of my fantasy games – small underground maps of caves that have been modified for human or subhuman occupation or use. In this case, the cave has been converted into...
View Article[Friday Map] The Giants’ Halls (part 1)
I don’t normally spread a big map release over several months, but this one I seem to be taking my damned sweet time at. The goal is to draw up a dungeon based upon unreasonably large hallways. The...
View Article[Tuesday Map] The Coot’s Egg
Obviously the name of this is a bit of a joke referencing the “Egg of Coot” from Arneson’s “The First Fantasy Campaign” (which some people take to be an attack on Mr Gygax, but was in fact aimed at...
View Article[Friday Map] Rhinoceros Containment Caves of the Iron Overlord
In late September, Billy Longino asked for some mapping ideas over on google+, so I threw him a title I was working on at the time – Rhinoceros Containment Caves of the Iron Overlord. He thought it was...
View Article[5e Actual Play] Out of the Ember Crag and into…
I drew the map of Cinder Crag in 2008, after having used it in a campaign in 2001 and then went on to use it again in two different campaigns in 2009. Then I posted it to the blog in 2011 along with...
View Article[Friday Map] Scart’s Descent
Introduced earlier this week, Lord Scart of the Hemron Coalition was a name-level fighter who took over a series of insanely meandering and twisting goblin warrens and converted them into his base of...
View Article[Tuesday Map] ReQuasqueton
Sometimes you find inspiration in another map. Initially I started drawing this map based only on three corridors, and somewhere along the way I realized that it was starting to feel like Quasqueton –...
View Article[Friday Map] The Lost Base
Sir James sought out an underground military headquarters from which he could command troops and maintain an eye on logistics but also be out of sight when needed. In the end he commissioned a pair of...
View Article[Tuesday Map] The Architect’s Dungeon (working with the Dungeon Architect Cards)
In March of this year I backed a Kickstarter for “Dungeon Architect Cards” because I was in the consideration phase for the Dyson’s Deck of Delves project. The cards arrived in the mail in the...
View Article[Friday Map] The Architect’s Isometric Delve
This is another map drawn using the Dungeon Architect Cards as the baseline for the design and structure. But I wanted it smaller than the last map, and since I had a new pad of isometric paper that I...
View Article[Tuesday Map] Crypt of the Child Kings
This is the real meat and potatoes of my fantasy games – small underground maps of caves that have been modified for human or subhuman occupation or use. In this case, the cave has been converted into...
View Article[Friday Map] The Giants’ Halls (part 1)
I don’t normally spread a big map release over several months, but this one I seem to be taking my damned sweet time at. The goal is to draw up a dungeon based upon unreasonably large hallways. The...
View Article[Tuesday Map] The Coot’s Egg
Obviously the name of this is a bit of a joke referencing the “Egg of Coot” from Arneson’s “The First Fantasy Campaign” (which some people take to be an attack on Mr Gygax, but was in fact aimed at...
View Article[Friday Map] Rhinoceros Containment Caves of the Iron Overlord
In late September, Billy Longino asked for some mapping ideas over on google+, so I threw him a title I was working on at the time – Rhinoceros Containment Caves of the Iron Overlord. He thought it was...
View Article[5e Actual Play] Out of the Ember Crag and into…
I drew the map of Cinder Crag in 2008, after having used it in a campaign in 2001 and then went on to use it again in two different campaigns in 2009. Then I posted it to the blog in 2011 along with...
View Article[Tuesday Map] The First Breach
The first of the dwarven earthships to come to this world failed to breach the surface and its engines failed somewhere beneath the Plains of Harr – now the Harr Badlands after centuries of war between...
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