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📜 Into the Depths: Darkest Dungeons, Week One / Initial Survey Feedback
🕑 Added 2025-07-03 20:00:07 +0000 UTCGreetings, adventurers!
This week kicks off a brand-new theme: Darkest Dungeons, where we delve deep beneath the surface to uncover what lies in the shadows. Inspired by your favourite classic dungeon-crawling experiences, this release includes four fully detailed underground maps, designed to plug seamlessly into your ongoing campaigns.
These maps were created to pair beautifully with last month’s standalone City Interior maps!
Rewards
Initiate Mapmaker ($1) / Journeyman Surveyors ($3) / Master Cartographers ($5)
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🗺️ This Week’s Map Set:
Each of these maps is set in a basement or cellar—perfect for when your players decide to poke their noses where they don’t belong…
🔮 Necromancer’s Workshop - 11 Variants
Beneath a crumbling apothecary lies a chamber of forbidden rites. Rows of dusty tomes and half-formed horrors suggest something—or someone—is being prepared.
Plot Hook: A missing corpse turns up walking. Tracing its path leads to this grim undercroft… but who—or what—is doing the reanimating?
🗡️ Thieves’ Guild Hideout - 11 Variants
A web of tunnels and backroom deals, this underground lair hums with tension, back stabbing and a gold or two.
💰 Plot Hook: A noble family’s heirloom is stolen. Clues point toward the underground lair—and the guild won’t give it up without a fight.
☠️ Cultist Hideout - 11 Variants
Beneath a quiet bakery lies a blasphemous sanctum. Candlelight flickers on blood-stained altars, and something ancient watches from the dark.
🔺 Plot Hook: People are vanishing. Locals whisper of chants in the night and a strange smell of sulfur from the baker’s cellar...
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📦 Cellar Warehouse - 11 Variants
This deceptively mundane storage space hides a bustling black-market operation—if you can navigate the maze of crates
🚪 Plot Hook: A merchant’s goods keep disappearing. Surveillance reveals deliveries going into the warehouse—but never coming out.
Map Enhancements & Community Updates
Thanks so much for the fantastic survey feedback! It's already helped shape some great improvements:
Searchable Archive: You can now search the entire map archive by name directly on the website. I have also updated the site is 80 more maps to search through. There a few more to come to get completely up to date but I'm getting there!
Better Downloads: Gridded maps for Foundry and Roll20 are now in separate folders to make things quicker and easier to access.
Upcoming Improvements: Biome and monster filters, for website searching are coming soon, and we’re planning a return to Foundry conversion releases and even short adventures to tie maps together!
🎉 If you haven’t filled out the survey yet, please do—it really does help shape the future of this Patreon. Free Member Survey / Patron Survey
🔑 Unlock These Maps Now
If you're not already a patron, now’s the perfect time to join! These maps are plug-and-play, packed with atmosphere, and ready to drop into your next session.
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