If giving your world and players a coded map, something for them to puzzle over and sweat over, is the direction that your quest needs, here is our latest special: How to Draw a Coded Map.

If you wanted to hide your treasure, why would you resort to tattered pieces of paper, crudely-drawn landmarks, and ‘X marks the spot’? If you wanted to make sure that you could find your hoard again, but still keep it safe from anyone who wanted to find it, wouldn’t you think your way through it a little more? Isn’t there more to treasure maps than you may think at first? Here is How to Make a Realistic Treasure Map.

Welcome back, everyone! We've taken a couple of weeks break here at the Red Quills, and we're back with new maps, new tutorials - and an exciting new format. But more about that in a bit: today, we're bringing you our new treasure map, the Goldhunter's Sea!