I am about 4-5 hours into making this one - so I guess it is more of a half-way through process vs just the start. At this stage, all I want is for it to look semi-decent from far away - make sure my highlights, shadows, and shapes make sense. If you zoom in though - you can see how much of a mess it is. Next steps will be blending, cleaning up the shapes, and detailing as the last step.

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Portal Beyond

Tier 2 Daggerheart Environment

Tier 2 Event
The world cracks, and a mysterious blue light emanates from beneath the last jagged crack of stone hanging above it—a portal beyond awaits.

Impulses: Pass through, bring forth what lies beyond.

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Difficulty: 14
Potential Adversaries: Battle Box, Chaos Skull, Demonic Hound Pack, Failed Experiment, Mortal Hunter, Stonewraith, Juvenile Flickerly
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FEATURES

Otherworld Calling - Passive: Possibility bends here, and anything seems possible—but efforts to change the course of reality fainter.  Reduce the PCs’ Fear Die to d10 while the portal is open.

Do the PCs feel themselves letting go of fear?  How do they feel about it somewhat reducing their capabilities?

Arise from Beyond - Action: Foes are summoned through the gap—an enemy from beyond (suggested: Battle Box, Juvenile Flickerly) emerges, confused at their terrible new reality and attacking.

Is peace possible?  Can this entity long survive here?  What world awaits beyond if a PC hops in?

Veil Repair - Reaction: Countdown (6).  When the PCs approach the portal or the Arise from Beyond Action is taken, the rules that keep reality stable begin to kick into overdrive.  Start the countdown and advance it each time an enemy is Spotlighted, or when the PCs take an action that interacts with the portal or moves within Very Close of it.  Once the countdown completes, the portal slams shut.  

What force opened this portal, and for what purposes?  Is it the universe trying to close this rip in the veil between worlds, or an entity acting against that force?

Story Seeds

Far Gazer’s Notes
The party happens upon the scroll-trove of an ancient star-gazer.  Fantastical predictions of strange phenomena throughout history were made in these pages.  The last is soon to pass: a portal to another world will open within the ground soon.  What’s beyond is not recorded.

What sort of world is it?  How did this ancient star-gazer know?  What other lore can they glean from the trove before leaving?

Ancient Rites
Stories of legend speak of riders from a blue pool below that emerged to either burn or save the lands.  While some have ascribed this to deep-sea peoples, one of the PC’s contacts believes they were otherworldly—and someone is bringing them back.

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I took a little bit of inspiration from Skyrim's taverns!

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If anyone watches bdoubleo100, he recently did a similar build for his new mini-game, and I think he got the idea from a book, though I do not remember which one. I thought it would make a neat battle map!

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I think this is probably one of my favorite maps I've ever made! It reminds me of studio Ghibli a little bit, even though I wasn't consciously going for it. If you want to see how I made it, click here. Human-made from start to finish.

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Drowned Sanctum

Tier 3 Daggerheart Environment

Tier 3 Event
A stone shrine encased in saltwater, nature and chiseled slabs melding harmoniously.

Impulses: drown, creep, preserve.

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Difficulty: 16
Potential Adversaries: Greater Water Elemental
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FEATURES

Sunken Grandeur - Passive: Any time the PCs make a Roll to learn about this place and what happened here:

• With Hope, gain an additional insight into the civilization that built this place or the magic that preserves it.
• With Fear, the pressure and strain of the depths start to gnaw at them—they mark 1 Stress the first time this happens.

How is the party breathing and swimming down here?  Could this be imperiled by spells or accidents?  What preserves the stones?

Party Pass - Passive: Any time a Greater Water Elemental uses High Tide while another Greater Water Elemental is within Close of it, the knockback effect can extend to any distance within Close of any Greater Water Elemental. This can chain multiple times.; only 1 in the chain marks Stress.

Enter the Typhoon - Reaction: The first time the party disturbs the structure or makes contact with it in any way, the latent magics holding it firm against the water’s pressures manifest. Greater Water Elementals appear, a group four times the party’s size, and attack.

Are they guarding the stones, or awaiting something to feed upon?  Do these elementals guard this place deliberately, or as a simple mechanical function of their existence?

Story Seeds

Lost Rubric of the Deep
It is said that an ancient construct of glass and encased sea flora held the secrets to constructing civilization itself; this arcane artifact has long been derided as a fairy tale or else lost permanently to some disaster.

But when the party’s contact delivered them a trunk of old charts and journals, everything changed: the Lost Rubric is very real.  And what’s more, they know exactly where it is.

Who else wants the Rubric, and why?  Do the PCs suspect others know?  How do the PCs feel about this ancient guide to starting civilization?  Could it help modern people?  Does it even work?

Crushing in the Depths
Fishers disappear along a certain sea lane, torn from their boats by unseen forces.  A contact of the party believes that a strange ruin could be causing elemental activity.

Are the elementals an intentional part of this ruin, or a side effect of pressurized magic?

Last year a large tree fell in this spot - this whole area was a big ol' mess. I don't have any before pictures, because I hated looking at it. Once the tree was cleared out, a lot of the vines and weeds got pulled out by the machines, so I decided to take advantage of this little shady corner, and plant it out with shade-loving plants. Elephant ear, coleus, calla lilies, some ferns and astilbe in the back. I think for a first year garden, it is looking pretty beautiful already :D. Cannot wait to see how it develops over the years. Zone 7b.

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Garden of the Tranquil Order

Tier 1 Daggerheart Environment

Tier 1 Exploration
A tranquil garden shrine hiding secrets in serenity.

Impulses: Calm the restless, reveal hidden truth.
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Difficulty: 11
Potential Adversaries: Construct, Jagged Knife (Shadow, Sniper)
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FEATURES

Place of Reflection - Passive: The world is well-ordered here, clear in its natural beauty and constructed aesthetics that complement it.  A PC may make an Instinct or Knowledge Roll here to gain insights about their present quest or information they have come seeking.  This takes the form of a meditative walk or silent reflection.  On a success with Hope, they receive a significant revelation.  On a success with Fear, they gain future insight but also reflect upon past oversights that may blossom into new dangers (make 1 stress).  On failure, a PC may mark 1 stress to gain slight insight.

• Insights on future enemy abilities, weaknesses, and plans can be presented obliquely.
• Doubts and imagined dangers about allies and neutral parties can be presented as imminent.
• A general sense that this is a mix of their own reflections and some indescribable presence in the Garden should be maintained: this isn’t a factual view of the future, but an imagined one.

What force provides clarity here?  Neutral or biased?  What isn’t it showing them?  Why?

Calming Anchor - Action: Pick a point in the garden: all within Very Close clear 1 Stress and cannot move beyond Very Close until after their next Spotlight without making a Strength or Instinct Roll.

How does this calming anchor manifest?  Is it visible, or only a feeling?  

Guardians of the Garden - Action: Spend a Fear to have a statue burst to life, ringed by agile warriors—1 Construct, half as many Jagged Knife Shadows as there are PCs, and half as many Jagged Knife Snipers as there are PCs, all form up.  They are attacking the party for disturbing the garden.

What did the PCs do to disturb the Garden of the Tranquil Order?

Story Seeds

Memorial of the Past
An old soldier of a lost cause has asked the party to return the personal effects of a long-departed comrade to a place of tranquility.

Who are they, and why not go themselves? 

Secrets of the Tranquil Order
Dusty scrolls and half-burned letters lead the party on a merry chase in search of enlightenment and clues.

Is this their own discovery, or are they being baited into coming by an unseen hand?

Hi everyone!

After some of you asked, last month we launched our Daggerheart environment Patreon! We now have 24 environments available to our Patrons! You can also get 50% OFF your first month! Which means you can get 24 environments for $3.50! https://www.patreon.com/cw/RestingDagger

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This is my once a month announcement in case some of you like our work enough to support us! And if not, I'll see you next time I post some free environments for your enjoyment!

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Art by me! Another Daggerheart environment and story seeds for you, folks! Hope you like em!

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Divine Feast

Tier 1 Daggerheart Environment

Tier 1 Exploration
A rich feast table set for giants.

Impulses: gluttonous consumption, polite reflection.

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Difficulty: 11
Potential Adversaries: Giant Rat, Guards (Bladed, Archer, Head)
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FEATURES

Made Much Larger - Passive:  PCs need to make Agility Rolls to make significant elevation changes, as there are no stairs or handholds intended for people their size; any motion requiring an Agility Roll normally performed here suffers disadvantage unless the environment is used creatively.

How do the PCs get on the table in the first place?  How sturdy is the food underfoot?

Sea of Rats - Action: Spend a Fear.  Unleash four times as many Giant Rats as there are PCs; they descend to eat everything on offer, PCs included.  This summons the Hand.

How are the Giant Rats moving around, and could the party travel via the same means?  What finally set them off?

The Hand - Reaction: A giant figure, incomprehensible in nature, is sitting eating.  Whenever a creature disturbs the food or a PC Rolls with Fear while out of hiding, the hand descends—dealing 1d10+2 damage to all within Very Close of the source of the disturbance.

Who, or what, is this giant?  Do the PCs know?  Do they want to?  Can they?

Story Seeds

Hall of the Mountain King
A giant who dwells within a tall mountain is known to hoard lavish wealth from across the lands—surely he wouldn’t notice a little going missing?  A trip looking for a treasure vault turns to a lunge to the larder as they navigate this too-large landscape, however, and finally they find themselves on a giant’s table set for a feast.

Are the PCs here to rob the giant?  Confront him?  Get something specific that they or a contact has a right to?

Cruel Shade of Size
The party has offended, wittingly or otherwise, a goddess of vindictive justice.  Passing under an awning’s shade at a crooked angle, they find themselves suddenly much shrunk.  Through happenstance, they quickly find themselves on a table set for dinner.  They need to figure out how to appease the goddess, regain their former size, and avoid getting squished or eaten by rats—all at once!

Who is this deity?  What did the party do to offend her?  What can be done to break her curse if she can’t be convinced to do so herself?  What could make amends for their transgression?

Just wanted to share how I draw my maps! This is a Procreate timelapse. I started the sketch in photoshop, which is why you don't see the sketch being drawn. I use Photoshop for the sketch because it has a better grid, and Lazy Nazumi makes it easier to draw straight lines and circles (though there aren't really any straight lines or circles in this map heh).

I've been working on my Mega Dungeon set since the end of last year, and I plan to continue adding tiles to this set for the unforeseeable future. Lately, I've been dedicating time to more boss-like rooms with more space that would allow for a larger battle. This is tile #6, and I have 5 more in the series.

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