Four Demon Temple
At the edge of the woods behind the manor house is the old family tomb with stairs leading down to the crypts below. Except the stoneworks beneath are evidently not a family crypt. Four Demon Temple...
View ArticleInto the Dungeon!
Only recently have we rediscovered the location of the palace of the Vampire King. As the old stories and sages described, the palace had not only been besieged, but torn down stone-by-stone and...
View ArticleBeneath the Dungeon!
Exploring the dungeons beneath the ruins of the Vampire King’s palace is fraught with dangers. Monsters seem to come out of nowhere and foul terrors stalk us as we seek the king’s treasure rooms. Under...
View ArticleMy Private Jakalla – Map 1P
Down below the streets are not only the basements and crypts of temples and clanhouses, but also the ruins that remind us of the many ditlana the city has been through to become the wonder it is today...
View ArticleChristmas Kraken 2 – Epherin’s Keep
With all the weirdness and rushing around this month between Patreon and Christmas, I didn’t put up the usual poll to decide on what old maps would be re-released under the Release the Kraken process...
View ArticleMy Private Jakalla – Map 1R
Finally, with this 18th map in the “My Private Jakalla” undercity map set, we arrive at one of the physical borders of the city itself – the as yet unnamed river. My Private Jakalla 1R (with grid)...
View ArticleHeart of Darkling – The Cove of Coals
In the late summer I introduced the Heart of Darkling series of maps. Unlike my other ongoing megadungeon (the Tekumel Undercity maps), the Heart of Darkling series is being released for commercial...
View ArticleThe Manticore’s Teeth
The Manticore Peninsula wasn’t named at random. Many explorers of the region looking for the ancient temples and treasures of the Tauvec have encountered the fierce beasts. The Manticores’ Teeth is a...
View ArticleBuried at Sea
Some people put a lot of effort into their tombs. Others get left in a niche, sometimes still in the same clothes they died in. In the case of one matriarch of the elven line of Tehnadi a tomb in the...
View ArticleThe Halls of Taqash Thesk
One thing you saw in a number of classic D&D adventure modules were crazy long hallways to break parts of the dungeon apart. Part of it was so we could have more wandering monsters. Part of it was...
View ArticleMy Private Jakalla – Map 1S
As we continue exploring the undercity along the riverbanks, the structures take on a much different feeling. Remnants up here are really that – the remains that didn’t get filled in, but just built...
View ArticleRelease the Kraken upon the Great Hall of Gruthren the Excessive
It is the end of the month and time to head back into the older maps and dig up a few to re-release under the free commercial license, all thanks to the awesome patrons who support my cartographic...
View ArticleHeart of Darkling – The Augite Shore
Welcome back, travellers, to the Heart of Darkling – a series of free maps tied together by the underground Darkling River and the deep blackness of the Darkling Lake. Heart of Darkling – the Augite...
View ArticleThe Skittering Caves
The Skittering Caves? Did the sage really suggest the skittering caves? The only way from here to there is through the Skittering Caves? You know I’m arachnophobic, right? Yeah, we’re going to take a...
View ArticleThe Basilisk’s Caves
Travelling along the edge of the Dry Badlands of Korush en route to the City of Copper Bowls, you find half of the corpse of a young man clutching a small dragonhide sack containing the emperor’s...
View ArticleMy Private Jakalla – Map 1T
Another month of exploring the undercity along the riverbank, just south of the Palace of the Realm, and we again find ourselves in basement ruins that were not entirely filled in during the Ditlana...
View ArticleHeart of Darkling – the Hags
We have travelled down the Darkling River to finally arrive at the Darkling Lake – an underground lake of immense size that was once home to a thriving society of aboleth slaves and a few ancillary...
View ArticleThe Catacombs of Olik Gullar
Since the Day of the Green Sun three weeks ago, the catacombs of Olik Gullar have been teeming with the undead. A sanctified necropolis, Olik Gullar contains untold numbers of the dead from the city...
View ArticleThe Toronin Ruins
With the town of Toronin razed to the ground, the ruins of the small fortress are all that remain to indicate where the town was these days. Toronin Ruins – Surface The mossy ruins have a few streams...
View ArticleThe Strike
The Strike They call it “The Strike”, the place where a massive longsword of a magical material sits embedded in the stone, surrounded by a small crater. Over the years a small church and a few...
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