New Map: Tomb of the Scribe

Hey folks.. For the past week or so I’ve been working on a new style of map (well, new to me). It’s based off ancient Egyptian tombs and is mostly meant to facilitate the creation of tombs inside pyramids. I decided to do a more classic dungeon style instead. There’s an entrance into the ground […]

New Adventure: Raid on the Fairy Mound!

Hi all. I’ve been away house-sitting over the last week, so I’m getting this up a bit late. I posted a new free adventure to my Patreon last Wednesday. It’s called Raid on the Fairy Mound! (the exclamation is part of the title). Since the setting is very early Celtic, I wanted to do something […]

Celtic Roundhouse Floorplan

As readers of the blog will know by now, I have been developing an island campaign setting based on ancient Celtic themes. The island, Oilinane, is modeled loosely on 6th century b.c.e. Connacht, a modern province in Ireland. I’ve been trying to work as efficiently as possible, but the one thing that’s bothered me a […]

The Underground Vault of Fiacha Ruadh

My most recent map is one of an underground complex that is the burial site of a famed ranger, Fiacha Ruadh. It’s a small collection of rooms and hallways that have become flooded over time. The concept I was going with here was a tomb with adjoining rooms where rangers could meet or stay the […]

New Map: Fey Mound

Hey, welcome to my little corner of the rpg world. I’ve been gearing up to write a second adventure in my Oilinane series, and put together a map of a fey mound. The idea is for it to be a kind of mini-dungeon, though instead of regular jungle walls the rooms have trellises with plants […]

Village of the Giants

I’ve mentioned before that I’ve been working on a hex crawl for my Dungeons and Dragons home group. In support of it, I’ve been making secondary maps for when the group blunders into suitable analogs. My latest addition to these is a battlemap that functions as a “village of the giants”, inspired by reading the […]

The Old Thunderfire Library

After a break to get things sorted on the new computer, I’m happy to present a new map I’ve been working on: The Old Thunderfire Library. The idea behind this ruined library is that it has been abandoned so long its original use will be unrecognizable. The shelves have been reduced to broken wood lying […]

The Ghost of Kinneigh

In recent posts I’ve talked about working on an introductory adventure to my campaign setting, Aiyedjembe. I’ve now posted it over on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nimirienbooks. The adventure concerns rumors of a farmhouse near the village of Kinneigh, being haunted. The farmer is offering some gold in return for the resolution of the haunting. Along the […]

The Trickster Sprite

Yesterday I talked about developing a campaign world through writing adventures. So far the approach has born some fruit. The adventure I’m working on, The Ghost of Kinneigh, has helped me detail the relationship between two different groups of elves on the island of Oilinane. Briefly, in years past one of the groups, the Aodh, […]

The Temple of the Three Shrines

An important element of worldbuilding is developing buildings centered around characters, and in role playing games this can be taken care of ahead of time by creating structures for different character classes. In my current campaign, I have a character who is a paladin/monk, and I wanted to have a temple for him to become […]