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Draft of Black Mire
This summer I posted the (contest-winning) Challenge of the Frog Idol. The majority of the adventure takes place in the Black Mire, a swamp traversed by old wooden causeways that has featured in my campaigns since I was 14 years old.
As I wrote up the Challenge of the Frog Idol, I drew a map of the Black Mire and keyed it up to the best of my memory from my games. But this week I dug up an older version of the map that I had started to draw up a couple of years ago. This version of the Black Mire is incomplete, but includes some elements that I didn’t include in the Frog Idol version that I wish I had – particularly the standing stones by the forest and the raised island in the middle of the mire with the strange stepped temple upon it.
I love the increased detail I gave this map. The style of Coruvon by the forest, the trees in the swamp, the cool standing stones, and so on.
Draft of the Black Mire
HEY TAHT ARE PRITTY KEWL ACCEPT TAHT TEH HOLE SWAMP IS ON TOP OF A HEW-MUNGUS BEEHIVVE??!
-NUNYA
That is stone cold cool. It passes my 1st and only rule of RPG art. It makes me want to play!
I have characters in the Black Mire in my game right now. Is there a chance a full map will be available soon?
Unlikely. The map changes from campaign to campaign as the Mire changes to suit my needs in said game. Sometimes the mire is a massive nearly continental-sized swamp that works as a huge no-man’s land that the party must traverse as part of an epic quest, or merely to exist as “the edge of the world” beyond which they should not travel. In other campaigns it is smaller, navigable, and either an obstacle for an adventure, or the set-piece for said (such as in the Challenge).