Another Die Drop Wandering Monster Table!
After posting my remix of Kelvin Green’s Die Drop Loot Table yesterday, I figured it was time to finish off the die drop wandering monster table for the second node of the Mega Delve – that little...
View Article[MegaDelve] The Hematite Mines
Beneath the Venomous Hall lie the Hematite Mines – source iron ore for the dwarves who helped to equip armies to fight in the war against the elves. Also known as the East Mines, these passages link to...
View Article[MegaDelve] The Thunder Mines
Also known as the West Mines, the Thunder Mines are named after the sound of the waterfall that crashes down into the chasm these mines were built up around. Invisible from up here, the bottom of the...
View Article[MegaDelve] The Flooded Mines
To the north of the Thunder Mines and down the long twisting stairs from the Hall of Bronze are the flooded mines. These were the first set of mines worked by the local dwarves and were mostly worked...
View Article[MegaDelve] Lost River Again
I should probably figure out another name for this map. This is where Lost River (which travelled through the three Lost River Caves) re-emerges into the dungeon, a bit downriver from Lost River Cave....
View Article[MegaDelve] Home of the Muck Dwellers
Now we head southwest from the Flooded Mines, along the Lost River to the home of the Muck Dwellers. The muck dwellers actually consist of a few different amphibian races who worked together to build...
View Article[MegaDelve] The Water Temple
A little bit down the river from the Home of the Muck Dwellers is the Water Temple – where the Frog Priests cultivate their mutant frogs and worship foul gods of the depths. Water Temple (with Grid)...
View Article[Mega Delve] Dwarven Outpost
When the dwarves loaded up their Earthships and abandoned the city above, they intended to take all the clans that lived here with them. But in the months leading up to their departure there were...
View ArticleMad Mystics of Kwantoom 1
A while back I tried to run myself a solo D&D game using Mad Monks of Kwantoom and a playtest B/X D&D Psionics book from New Big Dragon. I drew a bunch of pretty pagodas, but didn’t document...
View Article[MegaDelve] Giant Citadel – North
To the east of the Hematite Mines and south of the Dwarven Outpost we arrive at the Giant Citadel. Originally listed in the node maps as a single map, I realized I really wanted this node to be about...
View ArticleThe House of Seven Larks
I spent yesterday mapping with my isometric graphing paper that my lovely girlfriend bought me for Christmas (you’ll see why I had the pad out on Tuesday when I post the map I was working on...
View Article[Tuesday Map] The Temple of Greed
Today we are taking a quick break from the MegaDelve to post up my most recent isomorphic dungeon map. Temple of Greed (with grid) I received four pads of isometric graph paper from my girlfriend for...
View ArticleOwen’s Mine Variations
I drew Owen’s Mine sometime around June of 2011. Wait… 2011? I’ve been blogging here for a while, eh? Anyways, yeah, Owen’s Mine. It was inspired by a game of How to Host a Dungeon that I played where...
View Article[MegaDelve] The Giant Citadel – South
Giant Citadel – South (with grid) Today we return to (and complete) the Giant Citadel. There’s a valley in the mountains that is avoided by sensible people and even adventurers (who are notoriously...
View Article[MegaDelve] The Crypts
We head back to the top-left side of the Dyson Mega Delve node map for the next three maps (although the last of the three may be delayed by a week or two as I post commercial-licensed maps at the...
View Article[MegaDelve] The Death Cult
Death Cult (with grid) Buried in the crypts and tombs under the ruins of Bryn Mynnyd is the Church of Silence (known be the few outsiders who know it exists as the Death Cult of Bryn Mynnyd or the...
View ArticleState of the Mega Delve!
Sometime back in November I figured I would finish off 2014 with a small megadungeon styled map. So I pulled out a post-it note and drew a basic node map for said. In time, that node map would evolve...
View Article[Tuesday Map] Titan’s Teeth
There is a stout tower along the Akkedis Trail that is decorated with massive white chunks of stone along its battlements. To those who pass through its shadow on the trail it has become known as...
View Article[Friday Map] The Summoner’s Lair
While there will always be wizards who are popular due to their fireworks and other magical manifestations, there are others who find no solace in civilized society. Necromancers, demonologists,...
View ArticleHexing all the hexes
Every now and again when I’m in the midst of drawing something, I get the urge to draw something completely different. Fortunately for me, yesterday that urge was easily contained into something...
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