Ettercap Caves

Old Firth Road has been a shortcut between Three Rocks and Greenhill for generations, but only the bravest (or those in the most need) dare to take it since all manner of creatures call Karrelfirth home. About midway along the road, the Resting Caves have offered shelter and a fresh spring to travelers.

Recently, a pair of ettercaps have taken over the caves. They have cultivated a number of giant spiders which they use to help protect their lair. The nearby forest is suffering under the predations of these creatures and is nearly barren of any life larger than a squirrel.

d4 things you might find on an ettercap
1)  50 of silk cord
2)  a silk garotte
3)  a silk bag (can hold 100 gp encumbrance)
4)  a small sac filled with one dose of extruded spider venom

d4 things you might hear about the Old Firth Road
(you can decide if any of them are true or not)
1) A pair of trolls are attacking travelers on the road.
2) Grigor Lightshadow, a local thief, disappeared along the road while carrying a bag of stolen jewels.
3) Goblins riding giant spiders are hunting dwarves and gnomes along the road.
4)  Willem Smith will pay well for an armed escort to protect him along the road so he can make a delivery on the far side.

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The Rat Warren Mines

I posted this map to twitter a while ago and in a recent poll, folks asked me to write some lore and post it next.  Here we go.

I think my favorite take on this map is from @wrinklewroes:

You expected danger to lurk around every corner. Instead, it’s nothing but an hours-long rat killing exercise. You exit the dungeon and look for the man who offered you gold to slay the monster within but can’t find him. Suddenly you’re coughing up blood.

The mines ran along the course of a fissure and series of small caves that led deep into the cliffs. No one thought too much of it until the miners broke through into the tiered cavern, and then the rats came on in earnest. The mining company also dug out a set of office space and a vault, that work also connected to the rats nest off of the cavern making a full circuit. That's when the rat problem really took off.

Rumors persist that the mine's treasury is still hidden, behind the swarms of rats, giant rats, and rat-men that now inhabit the complex.

2d3 things in a ratman's purse:
2)  A lucky rat's paw. (will allow the holder to reroll 1 attack each month)
3)  A small pewter locket w/ a picture of a young human family (worth 15 gp)
4)  A bronze key.
5)  A leather cord strung with knucklebones and a plain copper ring (worth 5 gp)
6)  A bag of dried mushrooms, if consumed will heal 1d4 damage.

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Overland Geomorffs

To make twitter's #FF a bit more interesting, I'm going to start dropping some Overland mini-maps to go along with my Underdark mini-maps. I'm calling them - geomorffs. They're not quite geomorphs since they don't align on the edges, but you could certainly string them together.  Each will be a small encounter setting you could use in your own adventures, or to expand a published adventure. They'll also be useable with any of my other Overland maps.

The first set was published on March 29th, 2019:

I published three more on April 5th, 2019:

I published three more on April 12th, 2019:

I published three more on April 19th, 2019 - and the awesome @Molvayaana created a set of tokens and bespoke magic items for the red-rock desert setting

If you like these, check out my Underdark Geomorffs.  You might also find something you like on my page of favorites.

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These maps are available for personal or commercial re-use with attribution. Please let me know if you use them for a personal game, I love to hear that my maps help people enjoy gaming. If you use them commercially and let me know, I'll post a link here.

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Crypt of the Doomed Warrior

My version of the #MapChatCrew map - the Crypt of the Doomed Warrior.  It's a location in my campaign that hasn't been played yet, so I don't want to give too much background lest one of my players stumbles across it.  Suffice it to say that it is a crypt and is the resting place of a doomed warrior, it's just not the warrior's crypt.

The Crypt is a three-level dungeon. It is fronted by a tower built into a cliff face which provides five distinct entrances into the dungeon proper.  There is also a staircase hidden above the cliff that leads down to the uppermost level of the dungeon and a tunnel that leads from a cave 1/4 mile away into the lowest level of the dungeon.

There are two distinct sections on the lowest level of the dungeon, with a sublevel attached to one of them.  The front section can be reached from the basement of the tower, the aforementioned tunnel, or the rear section of the middle level of the Crypt. The rear section can also be reached from the rear section of the middle level or the upper level.  It can also be reached from the front section of the middle level via a pit and chute trap.

The front section of the middle level can be entered from the ground floor of the tower or through a set of giant rat tunnels that connect to the 2nd floor of the tower. It connects to the rear section of the lower level via a pit and chute trap. It also connects to the upper level via a staircase.  The rear section connects to both the front and rear sections of the lower level and to the upper level.  The crypt section can only be accessed from the upper level. 

The upper level of the crypt can be entered from two points on the 3rd floor of the tower or from stairs leading up to the ground above the cliff face.  There are stairs leading down to the front and rear section of the middle level; the crypt section on the middle level, and to the rear section of the lowest level. 

I know what inhabits this dungeon in my campaign world and what the Doomed Warrior has to do with it all.  I'd love to hear what you think it would hold in your game.

If you prefer black and white, you can grab those here too.

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Caves of the Trickster God

This labyrinth of caves and tunnels has been slowly expanded by the cult of a trickster god.  It is said that at the center of the labyrinth lies a natural cave grotto that serves as a temple to that god.  A variety of creatures, living and dead reside in the caves, and there are a number of traps to dissuade the unwary (only one is marked, a portcullis that will drop when anything larger than a dog steps on the trigger plate a bit further down the tunnel.

The actual entrance to the grotto/temple is hidden behind a pair of secret doors one on the upper level and one behind a false temple on the lower level.

The four caves behind the second secret door are used for ritual preparation before entering the grotto above.

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This map is available for personal or commercial re-use with attribution. Please let me know if you use it for a personal game, I love to hear that my maps help people enjoy gaming. If you use them commercially and let me know, I'll post a link here.

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Where can you find my maps in the wild?

This page is for listing the adventures using my maps, with links to where you can find/purchase them.  If someone publishes an adventure based on one of my publicly available maps, I'll also put a link to it on that map's page.  That being said, let the fun begin:

@BlackTomePress has published three 1-page adventures based on my maps:

• Tomb of the Undying
• Blackshatter Grotto is based on my #FootOfTheMountain1000 map
• A Guardian's Exile is based on my #FootOfTheMountain1500 map

Eric Niudan created

• La Nuit des Rêves Perdus (The Night of Lost Dreams)

@PaperAndDice created

• Scorpion Hunt and created a new monster for it
• Guiresk's Lost Lab a 1st level mini-adventure for 5e

@ScrivTheBard is working on a series of adventures based on my maps

• The Shifting Keep is based on my #FootOfTheMountain1000 map
• (upcoming) Welcome to the Guild

Soul Muppet Publishing is using my maps in Best Left Buried

• The Deluxe Edition includes Lord Edmunds Barrow and The Alchemists Tower.
• A Doom to Speak also coming soon.
• The Monster and the Monk is based on my #FootOfTheMountain1000 map
• Beneath the Missing Sea
• The Touch of the Beast
• Darkling Seas of the Islesmere
• (Upcoming) Behind Closed Doors

@KatKruger wrote and adventure in an upcoming anthology by @Jcorvinstevens

• (Upcoming) Tinker, Tailor, Goblin, Die

@TheKoboldSquad and @BettaGamesHQ are working on

• (Upcoming) a kickstarter

@stevenpankotai created

• The Wizard's Assistant (I even got to do a little writing for this one.)

@EmilyJeaHarmon and many others created

• The 12 Days of Midwinter (a silver best-seller)

@wereoctopus has published an adventure based on one of my maps:

• Sea Cave of the Selkie is based on my #FootOfTheMountain1000 map

@Wrinklewroes

• The Four Knights of the Four Pillars is based on my #FootOfTheMountain1500 map

Underdark Geomorffs

To make twitter's #FF a bit more interesting, I'm going to start dropping some Underdark mini-maps. I'm calling them - geomorffs. They're not quite geomorphs since they don't align on the edges, but you could certainly string them together.  Each will have varying sizes of exits from tertiary - primary passage sizes.  They'll also be useable with any of my other Underdark maps.

The first four were posted on March 15th, 2019.

These four were posted on March 22nd, 2019

Thanks to my patrons over at https://www.patreon.com/mountainfoot  - their sponsorship makes it possible for me to make more of my maps publicly available and re-usable.  If you'd like to help, and get access to additional maps available for your personal or commercial re-use, please sign up.  Sponsorship levels start at $1 each month.

These  map is available for personal or commercial re-use with attribution. Please let me know if you use it for a personal game, I love to hear that my maps help people enjoy gaming. If you use them commercially and let me know, I'll post a link here.

If you need an actual license with terms, this works for me: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/