Hi all!
Really excited to share with with you the Part 2 of the collaboration project that I'm working on with Kelfecil's Tales and D&Demetrius! Each month we'll be releasing a triple-threat of adventure - a written GM resource for a region within the Broken Expanse, a close up regional map, and a battlemap of a core location, provided by yours truly. Over the year it'll build up into a complete GM toolbox for the Broken Expanse world.
The Broken Expanse is a location-focused mini-setting for the Starlight Chronicles. Each monthly release zooms in on a specific area, giving you lore, points of interest, tables, and a featured battlemap without turning it into a full scripted adventure. You can drop these locations into an ongoing campaign, explore them out of order, revisit them later, or ignore parts entirely.
This is the second release - The Verdant Reach!
Heroic Map Patrons - this battemap is this month's Third Map for you guys. Look out for another post later today with the full versions and Foundry etc.
Verdant Reach is the most fertile stretch of land within the Broken Expanse. Dense grasses, shadowed woodland, and rare flora once made it a place of study and guarded reverence. At its heart stands Earthwound Shrine, where travelers prayed before descending into the caverns below.
Now parts of the land have turned hostile. Dead Flats stand barren. Whispering Reeds hide poisoned growth. Heartgrowth pulses beneath the soil, and the Broken Spire watches over Wardens who no longer remember their purpose.
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Verdant Reach is the second release in The Broken Expanse, a location-focused mini-setting built around exploration, environmental pressure, and escalating corruption. Rather than presenting a fixed adventure path, this release provides a fully developed region to explore, complete with interconnected points of interest and a featured battlemap set within Earthwound Shrine.
This material supports open exploration, repeat visits, and player-driven consequences. The blight spreads unevenly, creatures mutate, and the land itself reacts to intrusion.
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The Broken Expanse is a collaborative content line created by Kelfecil’s Tales, D&Demetrius, and Heroic Maps, developed through coordinated writing, regional cartography, and battlemap design. Each release expands a shared region one location at a time, keeping the setting modular and table-ready.
The content is system-agnostic at its core, with optional guidance written for use with 5E. Skill checks, encounter structures, and original blight creatures are provided as tools rather than requirements, allowing Game Masters to adapt freely.
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Included in this release:
- A zoomed-in regional map of Verdant Reach
- x6 detailed points of interest with lore, usage guidance, and situation tables
- A featured battlemap set within Earthwound Shrine
- Three original blight monstrosities (CR 1/2, CR 3, CR 5)
- GM-facing environmental pressure, corruption behavior, and reactive tables
- Recommended Use: Regional exploration, corrupted wilderness, reactive dungeon threshold
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Lore, writing, PDF and cover design: Kelfecil’s Tales
https://www.kelfecilstales.com/
Regional Map Artwork: D&Demetrius
https://www.patreon.com/c/dndemetrius/home
Battlemap Artwork: Heroic Maps