This is our 10K YouTube subscriber celebration, Maps Traps, and Mishaps! For it, I'm looking making a dungeon crawl!

This week on the Red Quills, we're going back to the Mappa Mundi of old - making a Venetian map based on their styles and priorities.

We're revisiting that most popular of topics this week - How to Make a Megadungeon! It was the first truly popular video that we made, and there was so much more to say than Ryan got to explore the first time around. So he sat down and made a new map: the ruins of Tol Fallent.

This week in the Red Quills, we've been talking about worldbuilding - and specifically the kind of worldbuilding that you can do to allow yourself as a game master to improvise new information and areas on the fly with consistency. As we did so, Ryan went ahead with a new map, a heraldry map of the Civil War.

You have only just started on your fantasy journey: perhaps this is the first page of a new novel, or the crinkled parchment handed to you as you set out over the wild hills and dales. On its surface, scrawled in a spidery hand, are the secrets and civilisations of your fantastical world, all there for the exploration. Let's get to creating a D&D map.

This week, we're launching our next series - the Red Quill's Guide to World Design. And, of course, we'll be releasing a new map each week to go with the videos. Today's map is the Kingdom of Endon.

Alright, adventurers, welcome back to the Red Quills for this week's addition to the maps of Red Quill's Guide to Fantasy Lands. We've ventured to the peaceful lands of the Halflings, we've dived down to the bottom of the sea. Today, we're going to the slimy, murky tunnels of the Undercity of Eglarond.

Imagine a vast underwater city, once the pinnacle of an ancient civilization's glory, now lying in eerie silence beneath the waves. Schools of fish dart through crumbling archways, and the occasional glimmer of light catches on ancient, forgotten treasures. Welcome to the world of the Ancient Sunken Ruins, a place where history, mystery, and adventure collide.

Welcome, adventurers, to a new world to explore: the mystical land of Aerania, a corner of the Faerie realm. Here, the King - Auberon, the Golden King, the Leader of the Summer Hunt - keeps his prizes, his menagerie, and hunts for all eternity.

The ground beneath your feet is uneven, with hidden pits and treacherous drops waiting to ensnare the unwary. Welcome to the Underdark, a realm where danger and wonder lurk in every shadowed corner.

And we're finally at the end of the first season! This is the map of the Azure Throne, the end of the quest to find the Pirate King's treasure. Thank you to everyone for following along with the story of Yemoke and the Goldhunter's Sea - or, if you've missed out, check out the previous five maps and articles.

This is the Map to the Vault Key, a coded map designed to be given to players or readers early on, and take several weeks to solve.

Greetings, adventurers! We've had another productive week here at the Red Quills - releasing just now our latest tutorial, in which we revisit how to draw a fantasy city. To go with the learnings, Ryan of the Red Quills drew his latest map, Smug Rock - also known as the City of Ships.

This week's topic, How to Draw a Stunning Encounter Map, focusses on the creation of a handout map that you can give to your players, and in the video, Ryan of the Red Quills draws out this beautiful watercolour and ink map of Old Gvanlar's Hall.

For a worldbuilder, it can be tempting to allow your story to stop at the travellers’ comprehension. To use their assumptions and understandings to fill in the gaps before you move on. But if you want to do more than tread water when filling your world, it’s not as daunting a task as it may seem. 

Welcome, adventurers! For those keen to explore the natural sides to their fantasy world, this week's topic is How to Draw a Naturalist's Map. For that, I've created this map of the Drifting Isle, a sketch of the wyrd and wondrous island that I delve into in my main video.

In this post, I will be going into the methods that I use to create a heist map, the details that I include, the tips and tricks that will elevate your writing and gameplay, and why I go to the effort of making a map, when you could really just write all this down. 

This week, we're exploring how to draw striking dungeon maps for your fantasy world, tips and tricks for creating interesting sites!