The Mapmakers’ Journal
The Tor Network | Downloadable Map
What better way to encourage your players to explore the world than by showing them the way. So, enjoy this map of the Tor Network.
The Ruins of Tol Fallent | Downloadable Map
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.
The Sunderking's Mappe | Downloadable Map
Is your campaign really complete without the chance to hand your players something to puzzle over? Well, check out this downloadable version of the Sunderking's Mappe.
Creating your D&D Worldbuilding
Creating your D&D worldbuilding can be the biggest challenge. After all, it's a role-playing game: it's supposed to give them the opportunity to do whatever they want. And maybe they will want to head away from the plot points and check out what's on the other side of the hill.
The Civil War | Downloadable Map
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.
Creating a D&D Map
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.
The Kingdom of Endon | Downloadable 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.
The Guide to the Undercity
As you hold the spluttering torch overhead, you press a cloth to your face and lean in to read the inscription on the wall - after all, you don’t want to breath the air down here freely. Welcome to the tunnels and chambers of the Undercity.
The Undercity of Eglarond | Downloadable Map
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.
The Guide to the Astral Plane
Welcome, adventurers, to this latest episode of the Red Quill's Guide to Fantasy Lands. Welcome to a realm where the very fabric of reality is woven from the threads of thought and emotion, where the laws of physics are but fleeting whispers in a starry wind.
The Realm of the Dreamer | Downloadable Map
Out in the darkness beyond the world's edge, you can find the strange expanse of the Astral Realm. Boundless and bare, the void of the Astral is filled with wonders of civilisations and gods long dead. In particular, one can make the pilgrimage to the Realm of the Dreamer, where she rests in a sleep so deep that it seems as death to mortals.
The Guide to Sunken Ruins
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.
Pel Dothair | Downloadable Map
Greetings, adventurers, and well met! This week on the Red Quills, we are diving, down into the deep places of the sea, to the ruins of Pel Dothair, as we talk about sunken ruins and fallen civilisations.
The Guide to the Realms of Faerie
This is the Realm of Faerie, like a dream come to life. And where there are dreams, there are nightmares.
Aerania of the Fey | Downloadable Map
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 Guide to the Underdark
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.

