Greyhawk Grognard’s Darlene-style Maps

I just wanted to call your attention to the great work Joe Bloch of Greyhawk Grognard has been doing in his “Mapping Beyond the Flaneass” series.  The series is his attempt to create  Darlene-style maps (like those in the 1985-ish World of Greyhawk boxed set) for the rest of the Greyhawk world.  These are areas not on the World of Greyhawk maps which were mapped or described in other products in the years since that boxed set was released.

And of course, he’s doing it using Hexographer. 🙂 (Free version available that lets you do everything you see here; Pro version has power-user features.)

Here are direct links to the Greyhawk Grognard map posts to date:

• Sea of the Dragon King
• Zindia and the Golden Jungle
• Eastern Suhfang and Orcreich, Gulf of Ghayar
• Low Khanate and Central Suhfang

You can read more about the techniques to make maps in this style in this Inkwell Ideas post.  (Although I’ll have to ask Joe Block for updates/further insights into the process.)

Furthermore Joe Block also has a Kickstarter going for his “Adventures Dark & Deep” project.  In short, it is his attempt to re-envision D&D 2nd edition, or more accurately maybe 1.5 as if Gary Gygax stayed in control of the project.  It uses Gary’s comments in Dragon, his later games and other notes as its sources.