Quote from: Pseudoephedrine;461262I put a mount on your mountain so you can mount it when you mount up.

I dunno if you have fireball and blow-shit-up spells or gunpowder or something, but if I was a wizard who wanted to make a mint, I'd flood the shit out of that tunnel and then blow the top off the mountain so I could make a new one of gold from all the fees you'd have to pay to use my fucking awesome new canal on a new vital trade route crossing my highly defensible isthmus. Or even if you can't do the whole mountain, you Tunnel of Love it with a Passwall or Stone to Mud-type thing and then you charge even more for them getting to use a roofed canal protected from inclement weather.

There are things in that tunnel that even a powerful wizard would fear. That pass is the primary reason why there has been no full scale war (naval skirmishes and raids though) between Danardaia and Cathadon ever since Ruelodra died there (many thousands of years prior to the start of the campaign). It's not worth it to the kingdoms to risk men fighting against an unknown creature in it's own territory, when it was capable of killing a hero the likes of Ruelodra (who was later deified).

Do you have the monster clearly in mind? What does it do about water building up in there naturally? Why haven't the various states flooded it out with a well-cut canal?

Very nice maps, guys! Very cool.

Quote from: Pseudoephedrine;461268Do you have the monster clearly in mind? What does it do about water building up in there naturally? Why haven't the various states flooded it out with a well-cut canal?

Well being that the area is on an isthmus, the mountain underpass has a rather heavily flooded section/area. The monster is one that lives primarily in the water, but it's amphibious. It's content at this time to simply stay in the pass undisturbed, but it has tunnels throughout the underwater caverns that it's made where it has access to the Cathadon and Danardian oceans, and it can easily make it's way up estuaries and through rivers to get access to the Zwalius ocean as well.

The two kingdoms, rather than disturb the beast, would rather just let it stay there and feed on brave (or stupid) travelers who make their way through it, than to try and focus their efforts into destroying it. What they also don't know, is that there's more than one of them.

It's capable of being defeated, but with the death of Ruelodra, the leaders are simply saying "What's the point? We don't bother it, it leaves us alone, everything is great."

Cool man. Sounds well thought out then.

Shadow Court: an abandoned courtyard, a shrine to the religion of a dark deity, and the nearby home of Lais, an alchemist with an interest in the occult. The labels are: "The Plaza of Green Shingles", "Gloom Court", "2nd Floor" [floors are numbered differently around here] and "Rooftop".

Medium: AutoREALM, MSPaint.

I originally created this map in 2003 for a fantasy/RPG magazine that went under before I could submit my article; forgot about it for years, and found the file while looking through my archives. The English version will go into Fight On! or Knockspell; the Hungarian will see publication around next week (bundled into one package with The House of Rogat Demazien and Temple of the Sea Demon).

[edit]There is a definite Thief influence in this street structure.[/edit]

That's awesome. Some great stuff being posted in this thread lately.

The Wastelands of Arminius, the new Moragnian Frontier:

This is the massive DM's map with all the actual locations of things in the Wastelands marked.

Edit: Forgot I'd already posted the B&W close-up version earlier in this very thread. Just the big one here.

From Deathwatch: Operation Nidhoggr (the hunt for the arch-heretic Valentine Illst), a functional map of Styx High Command, the Imperium's fortified compound deep under the icy surface of the war world Styx.



BTW, Phase One of Operation Nidhoggr was the assault on the compound of Titus Hyle, Valentine Illst's hench-sorcerer, on the desolate desert world of Cocytus. This whole thing got nuked. It turns out the reason Illst had let Hyle set up a permanent base was to lure the Inquisition in to destroy almost all their local assets in one fell swoop.

That second map is pretty good; the first, not so much. Artistically speaking, that is.  A lot of times my maps are basically just flowcharts too.

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Yeah, it's no triumph of aesthetics. The important thing for that first one was to understand how one could move from section to section of the base. The internal layouts of areas were mostly crammed 1-4 level quadrilaterial bunkers made of reinforced concrete and cut into the ice with corridors of ancient archaeotech catacombs connecting them. The PCs were trying to prevent an assassin from killing a visiting VIP (they still are) and had to search different sections of the base, position guards, etc.