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Carver’s Cave was converted into a secret fortress by a group of bandits decades ago, but with their dissolution (most probably due to internal strife) the cave and their fortress was forgotten. Now something strange and insectile has moved in and converted the back of the cavern into a bizarre hive.
But now it has become known that the signet ring of Count Moreland was among the treasures that the bandits stole and research has pointed to their excavations in Carver’s Cave as their home. Thus a hardy band of adventurers is required to find the cave and then find the fortress and the lost ring.
Cavern of the Hive
The fortress remains unexpored by the hive. But as soon as the residents of the hive detect the smell of the encroaching adventurers, they will track them to the fortress and attempt to repel them from the caves entirely. Even if the adventurers do keep these strange and massive insects at bay, they will discover sooner or later (through the diary of the commander of the bandits) that he stored his most valuable loot in the depths of the cave, where he felt it was safe from his own gang.
This map was drawn free hand using a 0.5mm gel pen on plain white paper (from the dollar store) in a single draft over roughly 90 minutes.
As usual for my maps, this map is the copyright of Dyson Logos but is released with a gentleman’s agreement for you to use this map in your own blog and stock it as you please in your choice of systems. You cannot use this in any other form of publication except for your own blog, and you must credit me for the map along with a link to my blog. Tell me about it, and I’ll try to pimp your reuse of my map here too.
I really like those free hand drawn maps. Very inspiring. This one is beautiful. Have to try draw one myself someday!
It’s really good to see you working on stuff again, Dyson. I’ve missed seeing these maps.
Wow the back story is as good as the map, very cool stuff
Do you come up with the back story first or the map?
In this case, the map came first and I built a story around it as I drew it. This is the case for 90% of my maps.
How do you get your maps to look so “clean”? Are these maps scanned from your moleskine notepad? If so, what process do you use to produce such a nice map image?
This map was drawn on plain white paper (printer paper) that I bought at the dollar store. I get the clean look primarily by working with black gel pens to get maximum contrast from the get-go, and I scan the maps and turn up both the brightness and the contrast.
I was thinking of doing a blog about what came first the story or map. I think I do the map first most of the time myself.
It’s good to see you back Dyson. Now you can get back to business making fantastic maps and winning all the contests.
Another nice one, good to see you back on the net!
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