The Darkling River works its way through the underdark beneath the grey hills to depths unknown. Darklingtown is a trading community built into a series of claustrophobically low-ceilinged caverns on the banks of the Darkling and a number of i...
2022-02-06 21:23:57 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised, I actually had this prepped and ready this month!
So head on over to the form and vote on your favourite choice from the map arc...
2022-02-06 20:10:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Ten more maps! All of this month's releases are in the three standard formats - 1200 dpi PNG, 1200 dpi PNG with no grid, and promotional 300 dpi jpg (oft...
2022-02-06 05:51:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we go through our back catalog of maps and you vote on which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. Today we are bringing back the The Dwarven Shrine at Mount Thorrien ...
2022-02-05 01:26:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we go through our back catalog of maps and you vote on which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. Today we are bringing back the Dwarven Folly that is Ruldroc Castle.
An exercise in pointless ...
2022-02-02 20:27:22 +0000 UTC View Post
So, once again I THOUGHT I had posted the poll and didn't. So, let's get... krakening!
I've pulled ten maps from the archives for you to vote on as...
2022-01-30 20:15:33 +0000 UTC View Post
There’s bound to be some level of miscommunication when dealing with the Kobold Tombs. After all, why would anyone have reason to try to raid the tombs of some lowly kobolds? But these are not kobold tombs, they are ancient tombs that now belong...
2022-01-30 02:17:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The Warlock Rosedriah never got along with their patron in the dark arts and thus sought any and all means to extend their life in order to deny their eternal soul’s torment in the patron’s servitude. In time Rosedriah became a lich and after ...
2022-01-28 00:52:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Twelve years ago I started posting Geomorphs to the Dodecahedron. Twelve years. I posted the first geomorph to the blog at the end of October, 2009. Here we are in 2022 and I’m still posting new ones to add to the mix. These new geomorphs are, o...
2022-01-25 01:07:46 +0000 UTC View Post
In a world full of dungeons and dragons, you never know when you are going to run into either of the above. In this case, here’s the root cellar under Grandmaman Crève-Cœur’s little hut. If one accepts a dinner invitation while visiting Gran...
2022-01-23 00:49:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Beneath the hexagonal tower from Monday’s post are three sublevels – the basements directly below the tower, the more extensive dungeons a good 25 feet below that, and an old set of caverns in the depths. The same set of stairs that leads up t...
2022-01-20 23:59:39 +0000 UTC View Post
This asymmetric hexagonal tower has eight floors. The height of the full tower is easily adjusted by choosing if the spiral stairs are 270 degrees (as shown) or if they include an additional 360 degrees of rotation between floors that isn’t show...
2022-01-18 02:10:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Oceanwatch was originally an outpost of the Masked Company, a mercenary force tasked with guarding against the encroaching forces of Baron Ossur. They marked off the small peninsula for later building and built their hexagonal fort where it still ...
2022-01-13 23:26:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The Tunnels District is the “low rent” part of Darklingtown. A set of twisting caverns instead of the wide-open areas of most of the town, residents have built homes into every widening of the passages they could fit into. Even being away from...
2022-01-11 01:16:22 +0000 UTC View Post
The Darkling River works its way through the underdark beneath the grey hills to depths unknown. Darklingtown is a trading community built into a series of claustrophobically low-ceilinged caverns on the banks of the Darkling and a number of i...
2022-01-09 01:27:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The Darkling River works its way through the underdark beneath the grey hills to depths unknown. Darklingtown is a trading community built into a series of claustrophobically low-ceilinged caverns on the banks of the Darkling and a number of its t...
2022-01-07 02:51:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I think I've said it before... but I need to switch that Backstage Pass graphic one of these days. It's been at least five years since Patreon rebranded....
2022-01-03 02:10:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month we go through our back catalog of maps and you vote on which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. The first release voted for in December is Krelava Manor – an older structure mostly drawn in 2015 and ...
2022-01-01 22:34:14 +0000 UTC View Post
In the summer of 2017 I was working away on the ultimate secret project for me… Drawing the maps for Waterdeep Dragon Heist, my first commission for Wizards of the Coast and the first time my work would appear in an official D&D adventure. F...
2021-12-31 01:49:30 +0000 UTC View Post
So, the January kraken releases hit the schedule for January 1 and January 3, 2022. Which, it turns out, is only DAYS AWAY!
So, for those who are n...
2021-12-29 00:03:13 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the fourth and final set of sewermorphs for 2021. This set of three geomorphs includes a standard 10×10 geomorph (lower left) a 20×10 geomorph (takes up the space of 2 regular geomorphs – upper left), and a 30×10 geomorph (taking up t...
2021-12-28 00:35:58 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the third set of sewermorphs – and decidedly the least exciting. In this set we focus on geomorphs where the sewer line just runs straight through the centre – no forks, no splits, nothing exciting except 100 feet of sewer across the m...
2021-12-25 00:58:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Twelve years ago I started posting Geomorphs to the Dodecahedron. Twelve years. I posted the first geomorph at the end of October, 2009 and now here we are in 2021 and I’m still posting new ones to add to the mix.
This is the second set of...
2021-12-20 21:23:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Recently my co-conspirator and AWESOME artist, James V West, suggested putting together an all-goblin zine. My immediate response was that I would do a series of goblin lair maps entitled “SHUT YER GOBHOLE”. This is the first of these maps. Wh...
2021-12-18 21:18:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Many things were lost in the deep halls of Kadar-Khalizad as the dwarven citadel slowly died after their Loremaster locked himself in the lowest levels and no dwarves would return there. Ancient stairs lead down from the burial vaults to the domai...
2021-12-17 00:58:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Roughly three hours trek into the badlands of Pantesh is the haunt of Daglan’s Daggers, a small group of ne’er-do-wells assembled around Daglan Alderpride, a mid-level high elven sorcerer. Not welcome in human or elven society, Daglan has set ...
2021-12-14 23:35:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the sewers… This complex of passages, sewers, collection pools, and drainage outlets is designed to be a central feature in a fantasy sewercrawl environment. You can link it up to the two sewer maps from Waterdeep Dragon Heist, add a ...
2021-12-11 23:16:36 +0000 UTC View Post
The Darkling River works its way through the underdark beneath the grey hills to depths unknown. Darklingtown is a trading community built into a series of claustrophobically low-ceilinged caverns on the banks of the Darkling and a number of its t...
2021-12-10 00:22:19 +0000 UTC View Post
The Darkling River works its way through the underdark beneath the grey hills to depths unknown. Darklingtown is a trading community built into a series of claustrophobically low-ceilinged caverns on the banks of the Darkling and a number of its t...
2021-12-06 21:07:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, thanks to your support, I have a selection of 10 new maps to release on the Dodecahedron this month.