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The Black Ziggurat
🕑 Added 2024-07-01 13:28:27 +0000 UTCThis map was heavily inspired by the Great Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu in Iraq. If you've ever seen a picture of a ziggurat, that's probably the ziggurat you saw. I designed this primarily as the headquarters of an evil organization, but it could be used as a temple, cult lair or just a dungeon in the desert.
I made a bunch of alternate versions of this place for patrons, one of which was unintentional. Here's how that happened. I was trying to make a version where the ziggurat was floating through the astral plane and I figured I'd do it by changing the colors. I'd make the sand blue so it'd look like nebulous waves of... you know, astral stuff in the background. My thinking was, it wouldn't look like sand anymore since sand isn't blue. Then I got up, grabbed a cup of coffee and, when I sat back down, I realized I had just made a night version of the map.
Anyway, I also made a proper astral version and another version without most of the interior (which is more accurate to the Ziggurat of Ur). Then there are unfurnished versions with and without the statues. Hopefully this fulfills all your ziggurat-related needs, whatever they may be.
Next, I'll be drawing a ruined mage's tower. I've got some ideas about how to make this place interesting, but let's see how they look on paper. It's definitely not going to be just a big cylinder, though. The world has plenty of maps like that. Once that's done, I'll get back to drawing more of the Stygian City.
All right, that's it for now. Hope you like the map!
Comments
Milby's Maps
Wow, that's a hell of an end to a campaign. Congrats!
Jay Farschman
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Milby's Maps
That sounds amazing, please do!
Jay Farschman
This is a great map. The site of my BBEG final battle. I placed it underground, a construction project built over the top of other buildings “Rising out of the gloom stood a monumental ziggurat, a dark monolith pulsing with arcs of purple energy, illuminating metallic guardians patrolling its angles. A guttural growl echoed from below, a monstrous bear guarding the stairway midway up its 120 foot length. This was the great cavern, but all of the earlier works of dwarven artisan were destroyed and replaced by the ziggurat.” I do have the full battle journaled and can share the link if you want.
