The Depthless Maw! [Mini-Map Monday]

This supposedly bottomless chasm is known only as the Depthless Maw to the residents of the Deep Down Below. Strange arachnid monsters, supposedly ruled by the alluringly alien Scorpion Maiden have recently taken control of the surrounding caverns and chambers. Like the bottom of the Maw, their motives remain unfathomable.

Drawn will Faber-Castell illustration pens on scrap board my father-and-law sent me. (He sent lots!)

The Burial Mound of Gilliard Wolfclan [One-Page Dungeon]

I missed it last year, but this year I wanted to make sure I entered the One Page Dungeon Contest.

The Burial Mound of Gilliard Wolfclan is a short adventure for a handful of newbie characters that I've run in a couple different systems. I had fun redrawing the maps in that crazy isometric style. More importantly, the adventure includes an introduction by my favorite NPC, Old Tooley!

You can see some of the maps right on this here blog post, I've shared the entire dungeon over on Google Drive.

(EDIT: And already I find some typos that needed fixed. Well, they are fixed now!)

"I'm the oldest, tooleyest guy here!"

Vault of the Flail Snail! [Mini-Map "Monday"]

I've been sick most of the day, so I didn't get today's map out as quickly as I'd like. It's still Monday in parts of the country, though, so I'm going to count this as a win.

Deeper into the Deep Down Below lies a strange spiral labyrinth rumored to be the sacred home of the mysterious flail snails. A mighty guardian slug stalks the passageways to the shrines of invertebrate gods. The musty Snail Pit is said to lead to some weird molluscoid hell.

If I get around to writing a FLAILSNAILS complaint adventure for this map, I can be totally recursive!

Sanctum of the Secret Guild [Mini-Map Monday!]

Just outside the city gates lies a small, secluded farmstead. A trap-door in the cellar leads to the hidden Sanctum of the Secret Guild. The guild members may be thieves, assassins, necromancers, or other unsavory folk. Training rooms, living quarters, secret niches, and hidden treasure rooms abound!

Drawn freehand with cheap illustration pens on even cheaper board!

Leopard Women of Venus, in Color!

So a while back, my friend Leighton Connor and I wrote and illustrated a book for QAGS called Leopard Women of Venus, a gonzo-sci-fi setting based on the works of Fletcher Hanks. Leighton recruited  Lindsay Hornsby to help out with art, and I think her style really meshed well with ours.

We've wanted to do a print version of the book for a while, and it finally looks like that's coming together. One of the things we wanted to do was print the thing in color, which meant we needed color versions of all the black-and-white (and red) interior artwork. That job is finally done! Hopefully we'll have a dead tree editions of this thing available soon!

Check out some of the color art below!

Leighton Connor:

Lindsay Hornsby:

Into the Lava Caves [Mini-Map Monday!]

This here's a quick map I drew while roleplaying online this weekend. It's not my best work, but there are a lot of rooms, some caverns, a staircase upwards in the central chamber, and a huge lava lake of course.

Wednesday Morning Art Dump

I've got some longer posts I want to write up--more gamey goodness--but I don't have time to do that right now.  (I really oughtta' go to bed. Third shift is murder.)

I've been looking through my illustration files (making a futile attempt at organization), and found a bunch of stuff that still amuses me. Figured I'd share 'em here!

An American wizard for a Harry Potter game that never got off the ground.

Barbarian girl takin' care of bidnezz.

A bunch of king-fu cartoon bugs for last year's Gencon game. I WILL write this game!