The Lost City has been found! Logan Bonner and Open Design have released their archaeological delve into the secrets beneath the sands this week and I had the pleasure of mapping the crazy locations that Logan and the patrons came up with. I’ve never before been given an art brief that involved drawing a deity – I’m just saying.
The Lost City takes place under the sands that hide the crashed remains of a flying city. As the PCs investigate they uncover the history of the city and must find out why the city fell from the skies.
A flying city is a wondrous location anyway, but the patrons and Logan pulled out the stops when coming up with fun sandbox locations for adventurers to explore. I don’t want to give away too many spoilers (but there are some – so if you’re a player you should look away now), but here’s a selection of some of the maps I created for the book:
The city of Kadrahlu buried beneath the sands. Only the shards of a single tower poke out above the surface.
The Phoenix Tower – I love this as a way into a dungeon. You think you’re climbing down into a dungeon, but actually you’re starting at the very tip of a buried structure. When the players figure out what’s going on they get a proper sense of vertigo.
Not all maps are entirely dungeon maps. This one is a map created by previous explorers of the water system, with specific dangers labelled and the magical gates and their destinations noted.
The Forbidden Archive, on the other hand, is a classic dungeon. Runic circles, statues of dragons, puzzles and a disturbing giant skeleton locked (with treasure) behind a magical barrier.
I even got to create a city map for the adventure with the city that sits at the heart of the fallen island.
This is a great book which does what a good adventure should – allows the players the chance to explore a fun dungeon with challenging foes, and provides layers of mystery that they can peel back as they venture deeper. I can highly recommend picking up the Lost City – definitely worth checking out.
Beautiful and exciting. Grat!
Great work on these Jon. I was one of the patrons on this project and really appreciate your work. I’m curious-is it possible to buy all the maps from you in jpg/pdf format? I run my game online (using Fantasy Grounds 2) and the maps in the pdf adventure I got, are simply too small to be of use.
Thanks
I’m going to have to defer to Wolfgang and Logan on this. I’ve got an agreement that I can resell the jpgs for KQ maps as map packs suitable for vtt use, but I don’t have an agreement like that for patronage projects. I’ll get in touch with Wolfgang and see if I can get a ruling on it. Of course, an email from you to him directly wouldn’t hurt either 🙂
Glad you like them! Jon