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.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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/

Announcing the Map Chat Crew

A small group of cartographers has pulled together to read a series of dungeon design philosophy based on the work of Jenell Jaquay and collected by Justin Alexander - you can start reading them here.  We’re hoping to learn from each other and have fun drawing maps.

Our goal is to each create a 3 level Jaquaysian dungeon based on the prompt: “Crypt of the Doomed Warrior.”  We’ll be posting our individual maps more or less together (given the vagaries of living in different timezones) in late March.

Hopefully, this will become an ongoing thing where the #MapChatCrew can continue to encourage and teach one another while producing cool maps.  Want to get involved? Please reach out, we’d love to hear from you.

Thanks,

The Map Chat Crew

Eri twitter, blog, and patreon

Pat Eyler: Foot of the Mountain Adventures on twitter -  blog & patreon

Abigail LaLonde: Alien_Sunset on twitter, Artstation & Patreon

Patrick McGill: Role_Play_Craft on Twitter & 9thKeyPress on Instagram

Nathan Usselman: Usselmaps on Twitter & Instagram

Update - March Results - the Crypt of the Doomed Warrior

• Abigail - https://www.patreon.com/posts/map-chat-crew-of-25713896
• Eri - https://corruptedquill.com/2019/03/31/crypt-of-the-lost-holds/
• Pat - https://footofthemountainadventures.blogspot.com/2019/03/crypt-of-doomed-warrior.html
• Patrick -  https://twitter.com/Role_Play_Craft/status/1111689681626902528
• Nathan - https://twitter.com/usselmaps/status/1127690515921522688 (pt 1)

Favorite Posts

As I continue to post maps and other game-aids, I thought it would be useful to flag a few favorites so that they're easy to find.  I'll update this page on occasion to include more recent items.  You can always start by learning about me.


Maps:

• A Last Night in an Unquiet Home
• The Caves of the Trickster God
• the Crypt of the Doomed Warrior
• The Knot and the Node
• The Pennyworth Mine 
• The Rat Warren Mine
• Roomscapes in a Ruined Castle 
• Roomscape Temple

Other Stuff:

• Spell Variations
• Sentient Weapons
• 4d4 Minor Magic Weapons 

Collections:

• Roomscapes
• Overland mini-maps  
• Underdark mini-maps 
• 1500 Twitter Followers 
• 1000 Twitter Followers
• MapChatCrew
• The Best Left Buried Collection 

My patrons help to fund these and many other things, and get access to a number of maps, magic, and other game aids each month.  If you'd like to help out, consider becoming a patron for as little as $1 a month.  

Hvalrif - a Myrkland settlement on the Underdark sea

Hvalrif (whale rib) is a small Viking settlement on the underdark sea. When @DungeonsPossums mentioned this setting on his blog I fell in love with it and decided I needed to start drawing some maps.

The higher side of the island is the setting for a small graveyard, fenced with whale ribs. The settlement itself is bounded by an embankment offering some protection.  There are several homes and a two-story watchtower. Just outside the embankment lies an inanimate orca skeleton.

Three longships hail from Hvalrif, one or two are generally at sea. At least one is always at the island to provide security.  Another defense the island enjoys is the pod of animated whale skeletons that live in the waters around the island.

Skeletal Whale
Frequency: Rare
No. Encountered: 1d8
Size: Large (30-40 ft long)
Move: 180 ft swimming
Armour Class: 4
Hit Dice: 12
Attacks: 1 bite or 1 tail
Damage: 8d4 (bite), 3d8 (tail)
Special Attacks: Swallow Whole
Special Defences:
  Immune to cold, sleep, charm, hold and other mental based attacks.
  Cutting weapons do ½ damage
  Piercing weapons do 1d2 damage
Magic Resistance: Standard
Lair Probability: Nil
Intelligence: Low
Alignment: Neutral
Level/XP: 13/ 1900 + 16/hp
Skeletal whales can “swallow” their prey, holding them in their mouth and diving to disgorge them at greater depth.  They attack the living, seeking to knock sailors into the water where they can be attacked directly or left to drown. The villagers on Hvalrif have trimmed their boats with whale ribs on the bow and stern, which keeps the skeletal whales from attacking them.  Anyone in the water will be attacked as normal, nearby whale bones or no.

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.

This map and monster 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 need an actual license with terms, this works for me: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/