We've finally reached the lowest level of the Fallen Stronghold! Started 6 months ago, we've gone down through the ruins of the stronghold, with crumbling barracks, gold-filled halls, the remains of a massacre, and then crystal-filled mines. The final level is where the creatures that destroyed this place have made their home. Beware!
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Time for another preview of one of June's rewards. The Third Map for June was decided randomly from a list of suggestions around the theme of 'Mythic', and the winning idea was Mimir's Well, tapped by one of the roots of Yggdrasil the World Tree.
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Hey all!
Here's the preview of June's Alt-version, a re-imagining of the Dwarven bridge fort that you'll get for the Map of the Month. The winning poll entry was to turn it into a trading post/inn, with a toll gate controlling the bridge. We've imagined this as a well-established trading post on the edge of the mountains, just before it be...
2019-05-23 20:10:54 +0000 UTC View PostThanks to all of you that took the time to suggest ideas for the theme of the next megadungeon. We enjoyed talking through the various ideas. There were some really good suggestions that, whilst not right for a megadungeon, definitely do deserve to be made at another point.
We have picked three options, and also brought in the two r...
2019-05-20 19:48:56 +0000 UTC View Post
June's reward bundle will see the 6th and final level of the Fallen Stronghold Megadungeon, starting with an overgrown ruined entrance, down through abandoned rooms, to evidence of slaughter near the mines, and then....
It does mean though that we need to start a new Megadungeon for July - and we want your ideas. L...
2019-05-18 12:58:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there, Sci-Fi Fans!
We've gone underground for June's Sci-Fi map, and put together a 30x30 map showing an abandoned and semi-derelict surveillance center in a bunker, with some emergency lighting in places and a few consoles still flickering.
What data is in the archives that's so important that it's worth visiting this dan...
2019-05-17 08:18:46 +0000 UTC View Post
You guys might be interested to learn that we've taken the plunge, and started making some maps for D&D modules, available at DMsGuild. The benefit of this is that we can make our maps for actual adventures and modules that people might be playing, whilst at the same time making maps that are fully usable even if you don't play those modules...
2019-05-15 22:27:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to everyone that suggested an idea for the alt-version of Fort Deepbridge. The combination of a fort and a bridge was a good catalyst for some very encounter-driven suggestions. We've picked our top 5. Have a good think about the...
2019-05-09 20:11:44 +0000 UTC View Post
We're pleased to let you see a preview of June's Map of the Month. We've gone subterranean this month, and have a 30x30 map of a Dwarven fort in a cave, guarding a bridge across a strange underground river. Just the sort of place you and your players might have to negotiate with when exploring the various deep caverns of the world!
2019-05-07 22:33:37 +0000 UTC
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We loved all the awesome ideas you put forward for June's Third Map, with the theme of 'Mythic'. Great mix of different settings and locations. We picked out all the ideas that met the competition criteria, randomly sorted them, and then randomly rolled to pick a winner.
And that winner was lost in numbers sugg...
2019-05-06 19:45:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey!
Yay - it's rewards bundle day! The day you get your hands on lots of new maps and adventures!
Check your messages for links, but as a summary you've got:
Well, this snuck up on us! We were thinking that tomorrow is May 4th, but it turns out it's actually today! Sneaky!
Anyway, we've got a good ol' May The 4th Be With You sale over at Drivethru, with 75% off all the maps in our Sci-Fi range. There are spaceships, terrains, bases, modular sets, ruins and more. It's only 24 hours though, so yo...
2019-05-04 15:21:37 +0000 UTC View Post
We're looking for your fantastic ideas for the Third Map that we'll release in June's reward bundle. Here's how it will work this month:
Hi everyone,
It's been quite a busy month, with lots of new things over at Drivethru - here's a little overview in case you missed something:
Hello everyone,
As is often the case when we work on maps, a simple idea becomes much more once we start planning it out in detail. So, what started on paper as a simple 20x20 urban tavern grew into a whole town district with a tavern at the core. So, instead of being a small tavern, the map is now a multi-level 30x30 town district, with a...
2019-04-30 17:36:32 +0000 UTC View Post
We're almost at the end of the MegaDungeon 'Fallen Stronghold'! (the last level will be in June). Before we finish it we will be asking you for your ideas as to the next MegaDungeon, so start thinking (but don't tell us yet :) )
So, for Sublevel 4, we're down to the reason there were barricades in Sublevel 3, and why the ...
2019-04-28 09:59:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Is it just me or is it a little warm in here?
May's Third Map is a 20x30 taking you underground to the Lava Tombs - a complex of tombs and crypts in a volcanic area, reached via some tricky jumps across the lava-filled chasm! We were thinking it would be fun to encounter magma golems and flaming skeletons here - what would you populate thi...
2019-04-25 14:32:05 +0000 UTC View Post
May's alt-version is something rather different. Based on the 'Observatory' that will be the main map of the month for May, the winner of the alt-version poll was a hot spring and bathhouse, with a Japanese style. We've put a hot spring at the top of the hill (with plenty of thermophilic bacterial staining of the rocks!), and bamboo and maple fo...
2019-04-23 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We're working our way through some of the ideas in the Sci-Fi poll we ran a few months back. We've already had the cyberpunk streets (New Atami Streets) and the Casino (New Atami Casino). So now we've tackled something very different - an alien forest. We've looked around and seen that alien landscape/environment maps are pretty few and far betw...
2019-04-15 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
We've got two new maps on Drivethru, and discounts for Patrons!
A little while back we asked for ideas around the theme of 'Pirates' for the Third Map, and one of the suggestions that made it to the poll (but didn't win against very strong competition) was albedoequals' suggestion of two ships locked in battle. We really l...
2019-04-14 15:57:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok, time for a poll :)
Thanks to everyone that suggested something for the alt-version of Storriah's Observatory, the 20x30 Map of the Month for May. There was a nice range of suggestions, most of which made good use of the distinctive ...
2019-04-09 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We hope you liked your April bundle of rewards and that you find lots of great ways to use them in your games. It's already time to take a look at May's Map of the Month!
You've been asking for an observatory for a while, so we finally made one and we think it's a really special little location (20x30). There's an observa...
2019-04-07 20:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
If you check your messages you should have some lovely download links for April's rewards :) It's another bumper month, with a 20x30 Grain Goddess Temple map (with a 5 page adventure supplement). The alt-version is the Sea Temple, and the Third Map is Hope Quesnard, a floating pirate settlement. We've also got SubLevel 3 of the Fallen Stro...
2019-04-06 19:24:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey,
Whilst you wait for your April rewards (which will be coming to you on Saturday), we thought we'd share with you our latest Drivethru releases, plus discount codes for you.
The Alt-Poll for the Grain Goddess temple had some fantastic ideas, and the winning option was the Sea Temple. However, it was a close poll, and there were s...
2019-04-03 20:34:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone,
Here's our plan for releases, polls and posts for April:
6th April- Everyone that had their payment processed by Patreon at the beginning of this month will receive their rewards download link. This will contain all the maps, the Adventure Supplement and the one page GM reso...
2019-04-03 08:30:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Morning!
We had meant to preview this a couple of days ago, but wanted to make sure everything was perfect before doing so. If you recall, at the start of the month we asked for your ideas around the theme of 'Pirates', and the winner of the subsequent poll was an island settlement made of old pirate ships.
So, we designed Hope Quesn...
2019-03-31 11:26:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Time to go a little deeper in the Fallen Stronghold!
The last level featured a huge hall filled with gold. But venture another level down and you reach the barracks and training rooms for the garrison that once lived here. But what's that? Barricades? Facing the stairs from below? And why are there so many bones? What t...
2019-03-25 13:29:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Preview time :) The alt-version was a super-close run event, and the winner won by just 1%! The winner was a Sea Temple, with a portion open to the sea, with steps down where initiates (or victims) can go down into the sea.
Hope you can see how this could fit into your adventures :)
2019-03-20 18:56:29 +0000 UTC
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Hi Sci-Fi Fans!
Time to preview your April map. We were really pleased to get such positive comments for New Atami cyberpunk streets that we wanted to have something with the same visual aesthetic (but suitable still for a range of sci-fi genres). We also loved all the ideas from our Sci-Fi ideas poll a few months back, so we decided...
2019-03-15 13:45:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Time for the alt-version poll!
We've gone through your suggestions for an alt-version of the Grain Goddess temple, and we've picked out our top five. Details of those are below, but we also wanted to mention a suggestion that hasn't made it into t...
2019-03-10 14:22:15 +0000 UTC View Post