Release the Kraken - The Ruins of Lawrence Hall (Patreon)

Every month that our funding remains over the $400 mark I sift through my back catalog and bring up a selection of maps that we all vote on as to which will be released under the free commercial-use license. We ended last month at the $500 mark, so I put the roster up with TWO old maps being re-released this month – so for Christmas morning I’m sending out the first; the map that took in the most votes for release this month:

Lawrence Hall was a place of worship dug out of the stone by demented deep gnomes trapped upon the surface. It was supposed to be a fortress and church of the Lord of Spades, Prince of the Eclipse, commissioned by Duke Lawrence of Three Hills... but in the height of warfare nearby, the work of the slave gnomes went mostly unmonitored and many side areas were not even noticed until the scaffolding was removed when the construction was aborted.

The resulting twisted and half-complete structure contains a number of odd shrines, convoluted side chambers, and bizarre incomplete bas-relief carvings of dark underworld gods and monsters.

This map was originally drawn (three and a half years ago!) in a 4″ x 6″ book where it spanned three pages (it is over 15 inches long) and was stitched together in photoshop. For the Kraken release I’ve gone back to the original scan, cleaned it up a bit and smoothed out some roughness in the lines. I’ve also included a version with a grid which I do for most modern releases, although I don’t think the gridded version will provide all that much help in play since the structure is so weirdly shaped and mis-aligned.

You can download both versions of the map (with and without grid) from the blog at http://wp.me/psUVp-2qy