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: Kinneigh Sept

Hello folks! It’s been a couple busy weeks for me, as I started a new part time job. Sadly, that’s meant I haven’t posted here in almost a week – far too long! I have been working on a regional map to support the village map I shared this past Saturday. As mentioned before, I’m […]

The Village of Kinneigh

It’s been a few days since I’ve been able to update everyone on what I’ve been working on. I had the good fortune of starting a new job, and have been focused on incorporating new activities into my schedule. I have managed, however, to extend my worldbuilding efforts by designing the village of Kinneigh, outside […]

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, […]

Nimirien Presents: The Kobold Enchanter!

I’ve been working away at my first adventure, a level one affair that will introduce folks to the campaign world I’ve been working on. I’ve come at worldbuilding a few different ways, and got a lot of mileage off of a top-down approach, which I will describe in the future. For now, I’m trying an […]

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 […]

World Systems and Rpgs

Much of the stuff on this blog so far has concerned my primary interest in role playing games, worldbuilding. Like a lot of you, I love a good map, and I love to imagine what different places on the map might look like. I have a rather complex procedure of developing landforms and elevations for […]