"Sometimes I just can't believe our luck! A hideout, not far from the main crossroads connecting the twin cities, with several entrances obscured by foliage and the terrain. Boss really struck gold with this one...
It wasn't an easy move. It was once some sort of place of worship, but something must have happened here far before us. The first few days was moving the bones of the previous tenants out and doing some "house cleaning"... Since then the pickings have been ripe, and the...
2023-10-01 03:54:38 +0000 UTC
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With a flick of her ears and a stamp of her hoof, the doe regarded the approaching folk with suspicion. The woman with the staff made from mossy oak, gnarled and knotted at it's head, and clothing held together by flowering vines made her way slowly towards her.
Gently, the woman touched the head of her staff, and spoke unfamiliar words in a calming manner as she moved her hand from her staff, to her own mouth towards the doe. "Now, speak with me, young one" she asked of her woodl...
2023-09-30 10:13:13 +0000 UTC
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"As we came upon the shore, before us was the promised land. Our people had suffered so much, and finally we felt the freedom promised by the Prophet of the New Gods.
Our ships became our homes, and it wasn't long before our new world shared it's endless bounty. Ships laden with fishes of all kinds, fields of foreign fruits and tillable soil, a paradise we could not have imagined was being shared with a people who knew nothing but depravity, a concept as foreign as the soil. Still, every paradise cannot ...
2023-09-27 15:11:02 +0000 UTC
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Vote for the map(s) that you'd like to see me make this month! I'll either pick a theme or a selection of the top voted ones and take it from there! :)
Wrecked Ship Village - Suspiciously like a hamlet, only this time it’s made with crashed ships
Feywild crystal castle - In to the unknown, weird and wonderful. There will probably be mushrooms to go with the crystals
Mountain Sky Fort + Griffin Stables - A small mobile flying fortress!
Fortified Prison ...
2023-09-07 16:57:47 +0000 UTC
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"The Captain, monitoring his crew's progress from the quarterdeck, remained unsettled. The Freeport was the only safe place they could unload their cargo, and safe was a relative word.
"Branded a pirate, a brigand, a traitor..." he thought bitterly to himself, "when my only true crime was not surrendering my ships, my livelihood, to the crown."
In an abundance of caution, the flotilla was ordered not to dock at the Freeport, but instead to lower the cargo down onto the dinghies and the longboat for transf...
2023-09-01 00:09:55 +0000 UTC
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"Such a ship must withstand anything the unknown can throw at it. Waves higher than our highest tower, that could split a lesser vessel in twain from the sheer force of impact and stress, creatures strong enough to splinter the tallest trees from their trunks, to name a few. Every plank is planned in advance, bent to shape, and built with care."
As the Master Shipwright spoke, he traced the lines on the building plans of the galleon's frame as it bolted to the keel, to the outline of the ship's exterior and the ironclad rein...
2023-08-31 15:41:26 +0000 UTC
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"Is there not a corner of the seas we haven't sailed? I can't say I take ya seriously with a question like that, lad. Ships like this, they only shewed us an ever-growing boundary of what we know exists. The Tall Ships, aye, they take us far, but the ocean stretches farther. It's not like ye can just sail off in any direction and find land.
Calm your eager eyes, young one. Ya know not what you face out there in the deep black. Sailing for week after week, never seeing even a slive...
2023-08-26 21:59:41 +0000 UTC
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Vote for the map(s) that you'd like to see me make this month! :)
Rebuilding something old and broken - People enjoyed the ruined keep, this would be another location, perhaps a ship or tavern.
Ships - For when your your party needs to go exploring the high seas
Mountains - Mountain base, path through the mountains, above the clouds
Feywild - In to the unknown, weird and wonderful. There will probably be mushrooms.
Mountain...
2023-08-07 17:50:07 +0000 UTC
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"As such, Brackenridge Keep was rebuilt to it's former splendor. The lord and lady cemented the alliance between the neighboring regions. They ruled together, a living testament to the pact they forged in marriage.
Those who serve under them and the commonfolk they protect, at one and the same time sing their praise. Everyone sworn to duty upholds their law, as the weight of responsibility rests with them, not just for peace for the keep and the surrounding villages, but peace bet...
2023-07-31 22:40:51 +0000 UTC
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"But, as with all things of import in this world, their legacies perpetuate their own worth. And a place so worthy, with history both grueling and prosperous, fosters notable attraction. After many years abandoned, the Keep found itself under the care of new caretakers. This was a momentous occasion for many reasons, but most notably due to the circumstances which breathed life back into it's broken walls.
An alliance between nations, both which fought and laid waste to each other...
2023-07-28 21:30:46 +0000 UTC
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"Once a noble bastion of peace in the outer fringes of the Known World, the ruins of Brackenridge Keep persevered, standing tall against the wilds. The name alone reminds many of the history it survived. Over it's many years, it withstood the rule of many lords, both noble and corrupt. It's walls protected many a villager and their kin through a great many sieges, wars, and territorial disputes, acted as a safe harbor for trade caravans between several nations, even changed hands between those nations on several occasions. It's lega...
2023-07-22 16:14:39 +0000 UTC
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Vote for the map(s) that you'd like to see me make this month! :)
Rebuilding something old and broken - A building in different stages of repair, from broken, to being fixed to fully built. Something like a watch tower or a tumbled down inn.
Ships - For when your your party needs to go exploring the high seas
Mountains; mountain base, path through the mountains, above the clouds
Dwarven Civilization: Chamber of the high council, a lone watch...
2023-07-03 22:19:31 +0000 UTC
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"After half a day's travel through the deep and interwoven chambers and interconnecting passages, one may find themselves within the central chamber of Akenhepsut, the Fallen Sybarite, buried alongside his servants.
Such a massive tomb would have been thought to be reserved for someone of the greatest importance, a leader, a king, not one such as he. A glutton and hedonist, his desire for all things that bring pleasure knew no bounds. His life, and the lives of his servants, were dedicated to finding even greater...
2023-06-30 22:10:19 +0000 UTC
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"As we stepped through each chamber, statues of a forgotten idol, clad in gold plating, gazed imposingly upon us. It's true that each idol remained still during our exploration, this stillness didn't reassure inanimacy. I wasn't alone, as I came to realize. Whilst they hid it well, I couldn't help but notice that Gambi and Breminan cast uneasy glances as they collected relics, or pried gemstones from the walls. My interest remained on the petroglyphs found on every surface, and the secrets they held.
2023-06-30 17:30:13 +0000 UTC
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“As the River Nacepht receded from it's crest, it revealed architecture buried within it's sands and lost to time. The rains further up stream near the Ahpocret Oasis, originating from the reckless transmutations of those who dwell there in their attempt to preserve their oasis as the wellspring failed, were too much for the sandstone and dunes to contain.
Fate finds them now wrapped in a tragic irony, for in their attempts to preserve paradise, the cleansing deluge washed away ...
2023-06-18 12:14:22 +0000 UTC
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“The Lord Lieutenant was most pleased that I had accepted her assignment. The locals had been growing increasingly restless, and it was becoming more and more difficult to quell their anxiety.
For some time now, traveling seafarers made no mention of encounters with aquatic creatures that bore a disturbing, loose, scaly resemblance to ourselves. While this might seem like a blessing, it had also been accompanied by a rise in missing ships and stories of all hands lost.
2023-05-31 09:40:09 +0000 UTC
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"After facing the labyrinth of halls, we had finally arrived at the first of the three antechambers, each with their own challenges, leading to his throne. All concept of time had slipped from each of us by now after what certainly must have been an eternity in that maze leading to the throne room, and we found ourselves again at an impasse.
A massive door leading to the first of the three antechambers lay before us. Alas, it was anchored in place, and to our dismay the mechanisms...
2023-05-20 18:23:24 +0000 UTC
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Vote for the map(s) that you'd like to see me make this month! :)
Great Monster Lairs. Ancient dragons, krakens, demon lords.
Dwarven Civilization: Chamber of the high council, a lone watchtower or some small citadel, a tinker workshop.
Glowy Maps! - Glowy Mushroom Forests, glowy crystal caves, cave of mirrors
Mountain Sky Fort + Griffin Stables - A small mobile flying fortress!
Fortified Prison Island
2023-05-02 19:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
Follow up for my last map here, the interior and basement of this great little dockyard area. Plenty of interest and intrigue to test your players with. I hope you all like 'em! :)
Map Download Links: (Hit the link for the tier you're...
2023-05-01 00:53:32 +0000 UTC
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"I believe it was here that our native phrase was coined: "Never is there a moment's peace by the sea."
Today, the Tartauran Freeport bustles with activity in the midsummer sun, attracting trade ships from the distant reaches of the sea. Spice merchants unload their galleys on the seaside quays, while on the south side fishing trawlers unload the morning's catch from their holds, preparing for their evening return to the waters. Even the larger shipwright's office is expecting spe...
2023-04-30 14:24:52 +0000 UTC
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Cleric Krissa's Pilgrimage
"After yet another stair summited, finally I collapsed from exhaustion of both my body and mind. I abandoned the provisions brought on my journey, for they have proven useless as I do not hunger or fall victim to drowsiness, even after what I perceive to have been at least three weeks time. The fatigue from exertion still weighs upon me, however. Each stair stands nearly twice my height, and upon climbing each, another illusory scene plays out before me. It's as if I'm thrown into th...
2023-04-15 23:58:43 +0000 UTC
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"We have always delved into dangerous and dark places to find that which glistens, the riches that inspire our hearts with lustful greed. The objects of greed, however, are as varied as those who seek them. For the most loathly and appalling of souls, such desires have been twisted into deviant and heretical obsessions. For one such as this, what hellish place would need to be uncovered to find such aliment to satisfy their corrupt appetency? To what corner of what plane of existence would one seek out such madness?
2023-03-31 22:29:20 +0000 UTC
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"To exist in this realm is to live within the forge. The sweltering, intolerable heat permeates everything. Precipices of burned stone radiate with it, and even the air sparks as if ready to ignite into a blaze at the slightest catalyst. When the tide is low, the ravines that separate the precipices emit acrid fumes, rising visibly above the scorched plateaus from the caverns surrounding them.
Such a place should seem inhospitable enough, but it is when the tide rises that the crucible truly shows its contempt fo...
2023-03-25 14:17:17 +0000 UTC
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Hey all!
Time for another one of those them there map votes.
Mountain Sky Fort + Griffin Stables - For those high fliers.
Extraplanar Locations - Abyss, Mount Celestia, Pandemonium, the plane of the Modrons.
Laboratory of an Artificer / Inventor - The mad scientist and their inventions have to be housed somewhere!
Ice Dragon Lair - Frozen remains of adventures and piles of gold locked...
2023-03-05 23:26:52 +0000 UTC
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"In all my years in service to the king, I've never witnessed a conduit such as this. The magic keeping the breach open is unlike any portal we can manifest, and it's magic certainly doesn't stay in the confines of the conduit. Rather, it seems to exist in ubiquitous unison with it's surroundings, growing it's influence day by day. It's as if it's within me now, even as I write. This existence is not sustainable, I fear. I worry that by the time Your Highness receives my report, I will have dissolved away, or be twisted into eldritc...
2023-03-01 03:05:26 +0000 UTC
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".... and as we beheld, we were encompassed by the sense of tranquility that this chamber contained, as if encapsulated from it's dark and ominous surroundings otherwhere found. An oasis of peace in a labyrinth of terror and darkness that we had thus far endured. At first, surrounded by the calm aura emanating from the water, the knowledge that we had delved into a tomb had fully escaped us.
The inscription on the sarcophagus spoke of a young lady of noble quality, taken early fro...
2023-02-28 16:42:06 +0000 UTC
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"Ye want to know about Blieth Dúmata, the Damned Bridge, eh?"
The dwarf replies with a tankard in hand, slurring through his ale-soaked beard.
"Aye, I can tell ye of it. No doubt ye know we built it in alliance with the neighboring humans centuries ago, in the interest of "trade" and "peace". Ye also likely remember that peace was short-lived, and Blieth Dúmata was the chokepoint that kept our beautiful cities safe. Our ire from betrayal fueled our grudges, and we cared not for their...
2023-02-23 01:16:40 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
Time to get voting on what series of maps you'd like to see next!
Mountain Sky Fort + Griffin Stables - For those high fliers.
Extraplanar locations - Abyss, Mount Celestia, Pandemonium, the plane of the Modrons.
Dark Fortress Entrance and Lava Mountain - A bleak and barren rocky landscape with hard fortifications and lava.
Subterranean caverns - Underdark themes / dungeons.
Feywild...
2023-02-04 19:31:38 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
Last map of the month for you! The interior, and basement with hidden ritual room, to The Stables.
This map will be great for when your players just want to drop off their horses but things end up going a little sideways and they accidentally unveil a secret death cult. Just your standard adventuring day!
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2023-02-01 01:51:07 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
It's been a longtime coming! I've wanted to do a stable map for some time. I don't know about you but my players seem to spend a lot of time either picking up or dropping off their horses. This one could either be place on the outskirts of a village, town or even city.
The next map coming up, hot on the heals of this one, will work very nicely with it! :)
Map Download Links:
2023-01-31 01:43:41 +0000 UTC
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