Free Map Friday - Cabin of the Dead

Its that time of year again. You've loaded up the car with Cheetos and Mountain Dew and you're headed off to the middle of nowhere for a Halloween weekend of rolling dice and Monty Python quotes.  This year the GM has reserved the perfect place - a spooky secluded cabin in the woods. What could go wrong?

This week I'm getting into the Halloween spirit with my take on a classic horror film location.  While this cabin takes its cues from a certain "Evil" film, secluded cabins are to horror like taverns are to fantasy - a perfect, if not typical starting point for adventure.  A coed weekend in the woods?  A sleep-away camp on the lake?  The home of that crazy old hermit in the Appalachian mountains? How will you use the Cabin of the Dead?  Drop me a line or tag me in a post to let me know. 

You can download this week's Free Map here.

This month Patreon supporters will be receiving high resolution copies of all the Free Map Friday maps as well as expanded versions of The Book Store and The HMS Surprise!

Be sure to check out our latest releases on RPGNow.

Valley of The Kings

Modular City Kit

Dungeon Tiles Kit 2

Free Map Friday - H.M.S. Surprise

You joined the crew of the HMS Surprise as she set sail to India to help save a whole East India  Convoy from a French Squadron. But after the battle, instead of heading back to port, you find yourself on a new course. Rumors travel about the ship as quickly as the rats that move almost invisibly throughout the shadows, but one rumor is more common than the rest—The Captain has plotted a course in search of the mythical Soul Cages, but you are not alone on the open sea...

Another first for me in crafting a tall ship. For this one I drew directly from plans and pictures of the actual HMS Surprise and models. It was a delicate balancing act between detail and playability. 

Let me know how you use this map and tag me in a post on social media with a pic or send me the link. At the end of the month I'll pick a random winner who will get the full High Resolution Kit (Patreon supporters will get 2-3 full decks in high resolution designed for VTT play or 2.5D Print & Play.)

You can download the HMS Surprise Free Map here.

Also be sure to check out our latest releases on RPGNow.

Valley of The Kings

Modular City Kit

Dungeon Tiles Kit 2

Free Map Friday - The Book Store

Its been a rough two weeks for me health wise, nothing too serious, but as I rebound I wanted to get a new map out for Free Map Friday so for this Free Map Friday, I present "The Book Store".

What better place to find paranormal and occult tomes than in a small dimly lit used book store. Be careful though you may find more than you bargained for. While this map is begging to be used for a halloween themed supernatural encounter, the hi-res modular kit for patrons at the end of the month will also have post-apocalytpic and paranormal/sci-fi options. 

For me it will become the centerpiece of a home campaign. Recently I bought a copy of The Strange and I've been itching to start a campaign where books act as portals to new worlds and like the old D&D cartoon, The Narnia Chronicles, or Jumanji, everyday people get pulled into an alternate universe of sorts. The Recursors on earth are just normal people; maybe they are kids drawn into a fantasy world one week, a sci-fi adventure the next, or perhaps they are agents of some local mundane law enforcement agency who go through a portal - maybe its a book in a "special library" in which all the books are actually portals to other recursions, or they are bystanders drawn into an x-files type mystery where at first its a normal investigation, missing persons, murder, theft, etc., but very quickly it gets weird.

You can download it here.

Free Map Friday - The Hanging City of the Night Below

Beneath the surface of the world lies a city hanging from an enormous cavern. Stone bridges arc across the darkness connecting rooms carved into stalactites. There is a legend that this city of the Shadow Dwarves is guarded by a giant stone golem standing watch at the only entrance to the city. 

That's just one story, what's yours?

I hope you find a place for this map in your game; and when you do, drop me a line or tag me in a post to let me know how it worked out.

You can download a copy here from my Patreon site.

Hanging Cities of The Night Below

I'm still rather new to the Underdark (I was always a Grayhawk fan) and recently a Patreon patron requested a map of a very particular part of the Underdark—Dunspeirrin, The City of Sunken Spires. For those of you like me who don't know anything about Dunspeirrin, it was a Duergar city built into stalactites hanging over an enormous pit.

Originally I wanted to present just one of the rooms and a bridge for Free Map Friday, but as it always happens, inspiration strikes and the map began to grow. While there will be more levels to come, I decided to first explore how a city such as this would operate. This city is fed my an underground river and highway system and the only way in or out of the city is through a single bridge that connects the edge of the cavern to a main gatehouse of sorts.

The more I work on this city, the more I can see other applications such as the sky bridge connected buildings in Ebberon, or perhaps a canyon city built into mesas on Mars. What other applications could you see this map being used for?

It's still a work in progress, but I should have level one done for this Friday.

Let me know what you think. Have you played in this environment before? How did it go?

Free Map Friday - Graystone Manor

This week's map is massive—as a mansion should be. I must admit this one put me a little out of my comfort zone. I wanted to add a lot of little details and working at such a large scale really taxed my CPU. The first floor of Graystone Manor has taken approximately 30 hours to complete and I still have a few more small additions in store for my Patreon patrons. I tried to keep it fairly genre/period neutral, but was completely inspired by actual mansions of the 1920's. This could be a fraternity house, the secret headquarters for a well known super hero team, the home of a wealthy noble, or the mysterious home of a mad scientist. What will this mansion be for you? I hope you find a place for this map in your game; and when you do, drop me a line or tag me in a post to let me know how it worked out.

You can download a copy here from my Patreon site.

Free Map Friday - Sunken Mound of the Secret Goddess

This week I had an itch to work on some water features, so I present the Sunken Mounds of the Secret Goddess. This map began as an experiment in random dungeon creation. I started with the tables in Barrowmaze Complete and used the Location tables from The Tome of Adventure Design. These were a mix of random rolls and inspiration.  Since I'm running a Barrowmaze campaign at home, I plan to fill this out using the Barrowmaze Complete tables for my game—Let me know how you use this encounter area.

You can get it at my Patreon page right over here.