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Release the Kraken on The Delren Street Sewers
🕑 Added 2023-06-06 01:18:30 +0000 UTCEvery month we go through our back catalogue of maps and YOU vote on which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. Our second release this month is a section of sewers I drew in 2018 (shortly after I drew the sewer maps for Dragon Heist).
While much of the city is served by “surface sewers” to move waste and water, in parts of the old town there exist proper underground sewers that date back to the previous empire’s attempts to clean up the city as a whole. Basements in these neighbourhoods occasionally incorporate parts of the sewer construction, or vice versa. And of course, in the trope of D&D sewers, they have become home to wererats and other foul creatures that represent the decay and seedy side of civilization.
This map focuses on one of the more interesting parts of the sewers under Delren Street. The central location (top centre of the map) is an old basement that is no longer connected to the structure above it and that is linked into the sewers by a secret door. This basement is currently in use by Skittler, an old wererat sorcerer who maintains a small study and bedroom in a side chamber. The rest of the basement is kept fairly clean, with Skittler sweeping it out regularly (and leaving a small pile of dust right outside the secret door).
South of Skittler’s lair is the lair of a couple of less “human” wererats. The entrances to this lair are a pair of large rat holes in the walls of the sewer – however recently they’ve taken to bringing in larger items to make themselves more comfortable, and have had to enlarge one of their holes to do so – meaning that it is only a matter of time before someone discovers this hiding place.
To the right, we have a maintenance access to the sewers (a hatch leading downstairs to the sewers themselves. Extended sections of this area have been barred off with a permanent portcullis-type wall. At the upper-right edge of the map, we have a section of these structures that has been sealed off from the sewers proper and converted into the basement of a small inn above.
The 1200 dpi version of the map was drawn at a scale of 400 pixels per square and is 12,400 pixels (31 squares) wide. To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) – resizing it to either 2,170 pixels wide.
https://dysonlogos.blog/2023/06/05/release-the-kraken-on-the-delren-street-sewers/
