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 […]

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 […]

New Map: Silverlight Caves

I’ve been organizing a hex crawl for my party. I made several different tables to roll what would be found in each hex, and some of them are locations that can be explored: some ruins, an abandoned library, a village, for instance. To support this, I’ve been organizing some secondary maps, and today I’m posting […]

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 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 […]

A Monster Inspired by Horror

I wanted to create a monster inspired by the old horror film Poltergeist, by Steven Spielberg. It would have be a monster capable of attack in several different areas of a location. My solution was to imagine a ghost-like being that was haunting a large area, but made up of several smaller monsters. Implementation was […]

Nimirien Books is on Patreon!

Hey folks, I’m very excited to announce the next step in my plan to develop Nimirien Books. I’ve started a Patreon page where I’ll be providing free resources for Fifth Edition and other roleplaying games. Check out the link here: https://www.patreon.com/nimirienbooks. My first offering is a downloadable cavern map which I developed for an adventure […]