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Heart of Darkling - The Cove of Coals

The Cove of Coals is one of the last points of interest before reaching the Darkling Lake. At a confluence of the Darkling River and the Goblin Rill are ruins reminding travellers that these underground waterways have been in use for untold ages.

The structures here are of an imported (or transformed) volcanic stone, a glass-like black stone that...

January 2018 Backstage Pass

Thanks for the support everyone! Here's this month's backstage pass collection of maps in a 20 meg zip file!

I'll post the first one tomorrow and keep on posting them until we run out of January!

Christmas Kraken 4 - Javelin Hill

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 this month.

So instead I’m releasing one every day (exc...

My 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.

Along the river we have a sewer outlet, a secret exit of the thieve’s guild, and one of the city’s cistern systems (which are all upriver of the sewer outlets). One of the ben...

Christmas Kraken 3 - Queen Hazren's Shrine

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 this month.

So instead I’m releasing one every day (exc...

Christmas 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 this month.

So instead I’m releasing one every day (exc...

The Juicer

We never did figure out exactly who built "the juicer". A clever contraption using the water pressure of the underground river next to it, we did discover that the main chamber of the juicer could handle 16 myconids easily, and if you had someone to really pack them in it would probably "juice" two to three dozen at a time.

Honestly, with how fou...

Christmas Kraken 1 – Perrol on the Mount

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 this month.

So instead I’m releasing one every day (exc...

Vigilance Trail

Here is a somewhat rough and quick map of the Vigilance Trail as it comes down from Raven’s Pass in the Eastern Diamond Range. Not many use Raven’s Pass anymore – the major towns on each side of the pass have mostly died out and most trade now runs south of here to take advantage of routes through Yoon-Suin and the City of Copper Bowls.

Vig...

Thunderhead, the cloud city

Not all towns and cities are built along rivers, trade roads, and bays… Some boast the most spectacular scenery they can find, and in Thunderhead’s case, if the scenery isn’t good enough, the whole city travels to somewhere with even better views.

Thunderhead is built on magically resistant and strong “cloudstuff”. Once the domain of cl...

Prior's Hill

Eight massive standing stones loom around Prior’s Hill. Grasses never grow tall here, and according to those willing to track their travels through the forest, the druids’ paths all eventually lead to this one place.

On the right nights, with the right rituals, you can open the portal on Prior’s Hill and climb down the stairs to the black d...

Rosnar Hill

The patriarch of the cult of the White Archons retired to a tiny little thorp built up around a small bridge over an almost equally small river. He spent a small sum on fixing up the old church where he was first inducted into the order of the White Archons, and a significantly larger sum on a small tower on a hill overlooking the river and the tho...

Griffinwatch

Griffinwatch got its name from stories that the hilltop where it sits was once home a nest of griffons. Once a watch fort on the border between elven and human lands, Griffinwatch became redundant as the wars pushed back the elven empire and when many fortresses were moved primarily underground to defend against dragon strikes and elvish sorcery. L...

Pillars of the Temple of Rains

At the edge of the Falleck Promontory overlooking the Dry Badlands of Korush, a series of bizarre (and probably unnatural) stone pillars reach 60 feet up from the dry floor of the land and support a series of small bridges that in turn lead to the ruins of the Temple of Rains. Some say rebuilding the temple will bring water back to the badlands, bu...

Heart of Darkling - The Bandit Tower

This access point to the Darkling River comes from a small tower on the surface that is currently run by a moderately successful group of bandits. They combine classic banditry with adventuring and trade, as well as letting select people know that they have a link to the underworld that manages to avoid the drow at the Weeping Outpost that they can...

December Backstage Pass

Here's the backstage pass for this month - well, except for one map.

I was pushing pretty hard through the month on the #mapvember challenge, and didn't get around to drawing the next section of the My Private Jakalla project. I'll get it done this week sometime for an end of month upload, but it won't make it into any of the backstage passes. 2017-12-01 20:01:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Release the Kraken on Stariphos Bay!

Our second kraken release this month is Stariphos Bay - a lovely little city map I drew back before I started using technical pens. It was a wee little 4x6 drawing when I first made it, so it doesn't upscale all that well to full-page size.

Thanks to you, it is now available for commercial and personal use with new screen layers added (the water,...

My Private Jakalla - Map 1Q

While much of the maze of old structures, basements, and temple substructures in the undercity is technically the domain of “cults” of the various gods of order and change, there are some areas that are either ignored and in ruins… or in this case have been taken over by a small cult of one of the Pariah Gods.

Nestled beneath the streets of...

Brinkman's Cave

The clear waters of the Yashek Rill flow out of the hills south of town. If you follow the small river about two hours into the hills you come to where it flows out of a large tumble of rocks at the base of Purloined Hill - and if you insist on following it further into those rocks, you will find yourself in Brinkman's Cave.

Sages say that Brinkm...

Release the Kraken on the R-AN (NorthCott) Sociological Research Domes

[Like all Release the Kraken posts, this map is a freebie, not charged as a creation on Patreon]

Every month that we maintain funding over the Kraken mark we sift through and vote on what map or maps will be re-released under the commercial use license. This month we start with the R-AN (NorthCott) Sociological Research Domes w...

Headquarters

 “We found this place just sitting there in the wasteland… and wastelands being wastelands, we moved in because it was fairly defensible and gave us some cover from the storms and sun. But for some reason… every… single… villain… wants to take the place over, move in, and run their evil army from here. Running a small anarcho syndi...

The Banshee's Tower

The wail of the banshee can be heard through the fens for miles around. In the nearest village they pretend it is the call of a very persistent screech owl, but few actually believe it. 

On a low rocky hill near the middle of the fens is the old tower, scorched and partially collapsed. The banshee's home is in the second floor of the tower i...

Home of the Master

A powerful and evil spellcaster, “The Master” has ensconced himself near the middle of a city full of monsters and humanoids that serve him at some level or another. Thus, his security is somewhat lax – relying on walls, a few guards and animals, and his own potent magics.

One of the smaller tricks in keeping himself safe in his home is the...

Wreck of the Wight's Shadow

In the ruckus during and after last week’s incredible storm, it went almost unnoticed that a local pirate sloop, the Wight’s Shadow, went under. Not lucky enough to run ashore in the storm, Walford ‘Two Toes’ Shelley’s sloop ran into the reefs where she was badly holed, and sank.

This became apparent to a few locals when Walford Shelley...