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Saryer’s Overlook & the Sirenhearth Docks
In 2017 I needed a small fortified community for a game set on the Manticore Peninsula. A small fortification that … Continue reading →
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December 27, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Madrek’s Descent
This map was drawn as a set-piece for a climactic encounter where the PCs either rush for the ending while … Continue reading →
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December 23, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Scavengers’ Deep – Map 26
The Scavengers’ Deep is a reminder of the amount of work that went into underground structures during the great war. … Continue reading →
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December 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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The Greystone Ruins stand on a weathered rise above a wide, rocky plain, several days travel from any settled road. …

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<div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><a href="https://dysonlogos.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/greystone-ruins.jpg"><img alt="The Greystone Ruins" class="wp-image-43574" height="600" src="https://dysonlogos.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/greystone-ruins.jpg?w=400" width="400" /></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The Greystone Ruins (300 dpi promo)</figcaption></figure> </div> <p>The Greystone Ruins stand on a weathered rise above a wide, rocky plain, several days travel from any settled road. Beyond the rise, the land rolls away in low, scrub-covered hills punctuated by pale boulders, with only scattered trees clinging to the more sheltered hollows. At dawn and dusk, mist crawls up from distant ravines, filling the dips in the land and leaving the ruins like an island of stone adrift upon a gray, rolling sea. Travellers approaching from afar see the place as a jagged crown against the horizon, its broken walls stark and lifeless under a wide, empty sky.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><a href="https://dysonlogos.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/greystone-ruins.png"><img alt="The Greystone Ruins" class="wp-image-43575" height="600" src="https://dysonlogos.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/greystone-ruins.png?w=400" width="400" /></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The Greystone Ruins (1200 dpi)</figcaption></figure> </div> <p>Within the boundaries of these ruins, the faint remains of streets and courtyards can still be traced. A small lane, now choked with rubble and half-buried paving, runs between roofless shells of what were once townhouses, workshops, or modest shrines. Low walls outline former homes, their interiors open to the elements, their mosaics cling stubbornly to some floors, their patterns shattered. In places, the stone has slumped and cracked, suggesting that some calamity shook the neighborhood from below, tilting columns and splitting thresholds.</p> <p>A few structures stand more intact than others. The central building has thinner walls, but has held up better than the others with portions of the roof still in place. Around these ruins, narrow alleys twist away in unexpected directions, abruptly ending in heaps of fallen masonry or in open, empty spaces where entire buildings have been erased down to their foundations.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-large"><a href="https://dysonlogos.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/greystone-ruins-nogrid.png"><img alt="The Greystone Ruins" class="wp-image-43576" height="600" src="https://dysonlogos.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/greystone-ruins-nogrid.png?w=400" width="400" /></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The Greystone Ruins (1200 dpi, no grid)</figcaption></figure> </div> <p>The people who built these ruins belonged to the city-state of Thuran Ves&#8217;k, a coastal power built upon a foundation of trade, stonecraft, and the worship of a small pantheon of household gods. Their architects favoured hard, pale rock quarried from inland cliffs, carving it into clean-lined dwellings with flat roofs, internal courtyards, and rain-catching cisterns. The Greystone Ruins were neither the richest nor the poorest part of Thuran Ves&#8217;k, but a place of respectable artisans: bronze casters, textile dyers, scribes-for-hire, and keepers of modest shrines where day-to-day petitions were offered in exchange for oil and incense.</p> <p>Now, only the Greystone Ruins still cling to the hill, the rest of the city lost to landslides and the slow grinding of time. Birds roost in the hollows of fallen beams and shattered lintels; lizards sun themselves on warm stone; and at night the hill seems to climb above the mists like broken teeth out of the sea.</p> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" /> <p><em>The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 7,200 x 10,800 pixels in size (24 x 36 squares).<em>&nbsp;To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 140 pixels (for the recommended 10′ squares) – so resizing it to either 1,680 x 2,520 or 3,360 x 5,040 respectively.</em></em></p> <div class="wp-block-image is-style-rounded"> <figure class="aligncenter"><a href="https://www.patreon.com/dysonlogos"><img alt="patreon-supported-banner" class="wp-image-7380" src="https://dysonlogos.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/patreon-supported-banner.jpg?w=529&amp;h=145" /></a></figure> </div> <p class="has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background" style="font-size: 9px;">The maps on Dyson’s Dodecahedron are released for free personal use thanks to the support of awesome patrons like you over on Patreon. Every month over 600 patrons come together to make these releases possible. You can help too in order to keep the flow of maps coming and to improve their quality – and even get a map of your own!</p> <p></p>
December 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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The Muster Gatehouse
The Muster Gate, on the south side of the city, is where the troops of the Satrapy traditionally mustered when … Continue reading →
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December 16, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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One More Bot
If I draw when I’m feeling poorly, I tend to work more slowly and put in a lot more detail … Continue reading →
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December 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Robotic Character Illustrations III
More character illustration type pieces of robots. I swear, I’m putting more emphasis on the neck than any other part … Continue reading →
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December 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Fallen Temple of Sekhmet
The old temple of Sekhmet claws at the barren earth like the ossified remains of a primordial beast, its stones … Continue reading →
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December 13, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Blackglass Vein – South
This is the second of two linked maps exploring a small abandoned mine. Known as the Blackglass Vein, this was … Continue reading →
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December 11, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Blackglass Vein – North
This is the first of two linked maps exploring a small abandoned mine. Known as the Blackglass Vein, this was … Continue reading →
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December 9, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Robotic Character Illustrations II
More character illustration type pieces, so lower detail than most of my work to date as I get more comfortable … Continue reading →
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December 7, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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The Serpent Lands – Hex Map 3
The Serpent Lands are immediately south of the Autumn Lands. There’s no set scale for these maps, and the items … Continue reading →
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December 6, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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ApeBot47A
I started this piece on Thursday last week, but didn’t get a chance to get back to it until Monday. … Continue reading →
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December 5, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Robotic Character Illustrations
Originally I was thinking about taking on the Character Creation Challenge this month (since it meshes with the original theme … Continue reading →
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December 4, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Bad Optics
Quick one I drew Thursday morning waiting for our Fading Suns game to start. “Bad Optics”Digital greyscaleNov 27, 2025
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December 3, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Fingers
I drew this one based on a quick description “twisted by hate”. “Fingers Under the Black Sun” and “Fingers Alone”Digital … Continue reading →
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December 1, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Oubliette
This is an oubliette, the labyrinth’s full of them.Really, I didn’t know that.Oh don’t sound so smart, you don’t even … Continue reading →
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November 30, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Scavengers’ Deep – Map 25
The Scavengers’ Deep is a reminder of the amount of work that went into underground structures during the great war. … Continue reading →
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November 29, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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2024 Commercial Map Pack
The collection of all 48 commercially licensed maps released on the blog during 2023 is now available in a convenient … Continue reading →
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November 28, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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The Prism Burrow
Down deep where the miners refuse to return, light seems to take on different forms; to puddle, to glimmer in … Continue reading →
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November 27, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Axe
Another drawing today. I think the background detracts from the image, I went too far with it. Fortunately, I have … Continue reading →
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November 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Dreamspinner’s Nest
A place of velvet and rot, a palace of sleep where dreams are both banquet and battlefield. Corridors and galleries … Continue reading →
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November 25, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Twilight:2000 – Operation Thunderbolt Part 2
Trying to get the Rangers and the intel package out of here and back to US forces, we send out … Continue reading →
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November 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Iz Frog
Uhmmm… that’s a big honking frog there… I don’t think the chef was looking for THAT big of frog’s legs! … Continue reading →
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November 23, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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the Ossuary of Whispers
They built the ossuary where ley-storms gather, in a hollowed cleft between two black spurs of rock, lest the wind … Continue reading →
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November 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM