Lair of the Eater

Hello all!

As you will likely remember in September I released a dungeon map for the Drowned Caverns and its companion before it in October, the Upper Caves. Both of those maps were modern reenvisonings of locations from the original AD&D 2E adventure Evil Tide. That module is actually the first adventure in a 3-part series, the second installment being the Night of the Shark module. This location, the Lair of the Eater comes from that adventure!

There are lots of cool elements about this map that make it a little different than others I've done, the primary being that this is not a top-down map! As you can see from the indicators on the compass, this is actually a side view portraying several spiraling caverns and tunnels, all of which comprise the lair. Like it's companion maps before, most of the areas here are underwater, so that as players swim deeper into the lair the overlapping tunnels you can see featured here are not going over or under one another, but rather around.

Knowing that piece of information might clarify the green-ish mounds you can see scattered amongst the bottom of most of the major chambers. Those are actually accumulated particles from the eater itself, so abundant that they accumulate in piles like that along the bottoms of the lair. And in case you're wondering, that skeletal structure you see in chamber 12 is in fact the necrotic stinger of a dead purple worm of all things.

Without going into too much detail about the Eater itself, I love the weird, chaotic horror of this particular dungeon and how it continues to build on the themes from the first two. In the pack below you'll find versions without grid or labels, a player-friendly version, a blank, empty version you could even play with as a top-down map, and all of those in a bluer, more 'underwater' color palette too.

Enjoy!