Release the Kraken on Serzen's Seven Stairs! (Patreon)

Every month that we keep funding over the $400 mark we sift through my back catalog to release a map or two under the free commercial-use license. This month we are releasing the Kraken on a pair of maps from 2014, starting with Serzen’s Seven Stairs!

There are times when you want a dungeon that feels like it could really exist, that it was naturally occurring, or that someone took natural caves and “enhanced” them to make a dungeon. There are other times, however, where you just want over-the-top fantasy architecture.

Serzen’s Seven Stairs is on the fantasy side of that spectrum – from the massive dragon-headed entrance into the dungeon proper to the central chamber complete with massive tree (or it might be a massive set of cracks in the floor where something slammed into the mountain ages ago) and seven staircases leading down to the lower levels. Rumour is that anyone who can descend each of the seven stairs and open the doors at the bottoms will either be struck dead or gain mystical powers over or against dragons. Of course the rumour is false.

For this re-release of the map, I’ve tuned up the image a bit from the original scan, and added a version with a grid (aligned as best I could) which the original didn’t have.

You can download the map (with and without grid) for your personal or commercial use from the blog post at https://rpgcharacters.wordpress.com/2017/08/26/release-the-kraken-on-serzens-seven-stairs/