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The Generalife Palace: Ground Floor (Work-in-Progress)
This is the first floor of the Generalife colored. There's still a second floor left to draw, but that shouldn't take more than 3-4 days to get done. I'll release the whole thing once that's finished.Okay, I'm gonna get on that. Let me know what you think so far!
The Generalife Palace in the Alhambra (Work-in-Progress)
So, the Alhambra is a fortress in Andalusia, Spain with a number of palaces inside its walls. The largest of those palaces is the Generalife, which is what I've been drawing a map of. I've been to this place and it is absolutely epic.There's a staircase called the water stair, which has ...
The 49th Cartographic Congress Runoff Vote
We've got hot dwarves, wet dwarves and two historical forts. Pick your poison:Dezzicus proposes the Indian island fortress of Murud-Janjira.Parker proposes a dwarven town built around a vertical shaft that descends into a cauldron of magma. Buildings, platforms and bridges are suspended over the...
The Next Big Project
So, let's talk about the next big project that will follow in the footsteps of Brazenthrone and the Black Loch. I want to do something bigger this time. A lot bigger. I want to make a world.It's not going to start as a world, though. That'd be a lot of blank space to fill at once, so we&...
The Black Loch is Finished.
I'm giving away the Patrons' Edition stuff for this map to everyone. You can download it all here. When I drew those cave and tunnel maps earlier, I was thinking about giving those away, but I decided I should give you a good map instead. So here it is.With Charwall finished, the Black Loch ...
The 49th Cartographic Congress Vote
I've been really caught up in working on the next map and I just realized that I hadn't posted the vote yet. I'm really sorry, but here it is now. Of particular note this month are two separate proposals for spelljamming turtles. Feel free to discuss below.Andrew proposes a Turtle Ship s...
Charwall (Work-in-Progress)
This is Charwall, the last map in the Black Loch. The underground canals are on the right. I hope you like it so far! Well, I'm gonna eat something and start coloring.
The Complete Black Loch Token Collection
These are the rest of the tokens for the Black Loch. You can download the complete collection here.The collection also contains the previous tokens I made for the Black Loch, as well as the ship tokens, so there should now be tokens of every creature I've mentioned in the lore, as well as every ...
The Black Loch: Caves and Tunnels
I'm fully prepared to admit that these are some of the most uninteresting maps I've ever made, but that's basically the point. There are plenty of interesting maps in the Black Loch, but sometimes that's not what you need. Sometimes you just need a cave or a tunnel without anything s...
The Black Loch: Caves and Tunnels - Patrons' Edition
I'm fully prepared to admit that these are some of the most uninteresting maps I've ever made, but that's basically the point. There are plenty of interesting maps in the Black Loch, but sometimes that's not what you need. Sometimes you just need a cave or a tunnel without anything s...
The Black Loch Codex - Free Version
You can download the free version of the Black Loch Codex here.The Black Loch Codex compiles the Black Loch History and Lore Overview, as well as all the DM notes, in one PDF.I made a version for non-patrons as well, which has all the DM notes I've given away for free so far. I also threw in the...
The Black Loch Codex - Patrons' Edition
The Black Loch Codex compiles the Black Loch History and Lore Overview, as well as all the DM notes, in one PDF.I made a version for non-patrons as well, which has all the DM notes I've given away for free so far. I also threw in the DM notes for the Grinning Widow, since I think some of the sug...
The Black Loch: History and Lore Overview - FINAL UPDATE FOR REAL THIS TIME
Somebody told me there was a location missing from here, so I double-checked it. As it turns out, there were four locations missing. Anyway, it's all fixed up now.Here's the new PDF version.
The Black Loch Overview Map
Okay, here's the final version of the Black Loch regional map with all the proper location names written in. There's no Patrons' Edition version of this map, I'm just going to give everyone all the stuff I made for it. You can download it here or from the attachment below.There's...
The Chronomancer's Tower
There are a lot of possibilities for this map, but I feel like the most interesting would be for this thing to be a time machine. You turn a few wheels, set some dials and you're off to the future. Or the past. This could allow the party to get some ancient, lost artifact or talk to that one guy...
The Chronomancer's Tower - Patrons' Edition
There are a lot of possibilities for this map, but I feel like the most interesting would be for this thing to be a time machine. You turn a few wheels, set some dials and you're off to the future. Or the past. This could allow the party to get some ancient, lost artifact or talk to that one guy...
The Chronomancer's Tower (Work-in-Progress)
Here are the drawings for the next map. While I was looking at various clock towers for inspiration, I discovered the Prague Orloj, which is an astronomical clock. It was too cool to not include it in the map, so I drew it in. It's based on a geocentric model, but I think we can let that go, sin...
Cinderfork Foundry
Cinderfork Foundry is a duergar armorsmithing operation built around an exposed magma vent. Is that safe? No, it's not. But pumping a bellows is hard work and it's nice to have a pool of molten rock do the job for free. Well, it's free if you don't count the expense of a few people d...
Cinderfork Foundry - Patrons' Edition
Cinderfork Foundry is a duergar armorsmithing operation built around an exposed magma vent. Is that safe? No, it's not. But pumping a bellows is hard work and it's nice to have a pool of molten rock do the job for free. Well, it's free if you don't count the expense of a few people d...
The 48th Cartographic Congress Runoff
We have two proposals that pulled well ahead of the pack this month and I'd love to draw either of them. Since I'm about to post the next map, I'll just leave it at that. As always, feel free to ask questions or discuss your choices.Jon proposes the Barre Sinister, a spelljammer pirate p...
Duergar Outpost (Work-in-Progress)
Here's the art for the duergar outpost. It's built in front of a magma vent, the heat from which is used to melt and cast steel to make duergar screamers. A screamer is a metal construct with a dwarf trapped inside. The dwarf is in constant agony and it channels that pain into screams that c...
The 48th Cartographic Congress Vote
We've got 10 proposals for you this month, but before I get to them, I wanted to ask you all something. The 50th Cartographic Congress is coming up and I was wondering what you think I should do? I want to do something special and I had a few thoughts, but I was curious if you had any ideas. If ...
Clogwyn Prison
Clogwyn Prison was once a dwarven prison in the Black Loch. It used to be above the water, but a giant hole opened in the roof of the loch and the surface sea above started pouring water in. This hole was called the Great Breach and the rise in sea level it caused put quite a few places underwater.T...
Clogwyn Prison - Patrons' Edition
Clogwyn Prison was once a dwarven prison in the Black Loch. It used to be above the water, but a giant hole opened in the roof of the loch and the surface sea above started pouring water in. This hole was called the Great Breach and the rise in sea level it caused put quite a few places underwater.T...
The Sewer's Terminus
So there are two unusual things about these sewers. First, they run through the ruins of an ancient dwarven settlement, which makes them a little more interesting to explore and gives a little space for things to happen.And second, the sewers don't flow out into a lake or a river. They flow down...
The Sewer's Terminus - Patrons' Edition
So there are two unusual things about these sewers. First, they run through the ruins of an ancient dwarven settlement, which makes them a little more interesting to explore and gives a little space for things to happen.And second, the sewers don't flow out into a lake or a river. They flow down...
Sewer Running Through Dwarven Ruins (Work-in-Progress)
Here are the drawings for the next map. I wanted to design the sewers in a fairly realistic way, so I did some research. It turns out that, for most people, your toilet does not lead to a place that would make a good fantasy map.There are some exceptions, though. Are you in London? Your waste actual...
The Sanctum of Psor'il
For a number of reasons, I don't draw monsters in maps. It might look like that's what I did here, but... it is and isn't a monster. Allow me to explain. Psor'il, the aboleth who resides here, is trying to bring a creature from a bizarre, hostile dimension into the Black Loch.To allo...
The Sanctum of Psor'il - Patrons' Edition
For a number of reasons, I don't draw monsters in maps. It might look like that's what I did here, but... it is and isn't a monster. Allow me to explain. Psor'il, the aboleth who resides here, is trying to bring a creature from a bizarre, hostile dimension into the Black Loch.To allo...
The 47th Cartographic Congress Final Runoff
We're down to two proposals this month: wizard and clocktower vs. wizard and volcano. Pick me a winner.Odd proposes an ancient, rusting, arcane clocktower, sitting forgotten amid the dark ruins of a destroyed city. Underneath, there is a chronomancer's workshop and laboratory.Shawn proposes ...
