New Collaboration - The Broken Expanse! Part 1 - The Unmoving Vale (Patreon)

Hey everyone,

Really excited to share with with you the first part of a new 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.

The first release, The Unmoving Vale, focuses on a ruined capital city and the land surrounding it. It’s quiet, restrained, and deliberately incomplete. Things were abandoned here rather than destroyed, and whatever corruption lingers did not arrive all at once.

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The Unmoving Vale lies in the south of the Broken Expanse. It is a region that remains accessible but largely abandoned. Roads still lead into it, paths remain open, and the land holds the shape it had when oversight ended. At its center stand the Ruins of Eldwark, once the region’s capital. The city was not destroyed, but deliberately emptied. Records were removed or burned, authority withdrew, and the structures were left standing without purpose. What remains is a quiet, unstable place where echoes surface, corruption appears unevenly, and fragments of unfinished history linger without offering clear answers.

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The material is designed to support repeated visits, shifting circumstances, and player-driven decisions without locking events into a fixed sequence or outcome.

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The Broken Expanse is a collaborative content line created by Heroic Maps, Kelfecil’s Tales, and D&Demetrius developed through close coordination between writing, regional cartography, and battlemap design. Each release focuses on a single area within a shared region, allowing the setting to expand gradually while remaining easy to use at the table.

The content is system-agnostic at its core, with optional guidance written for use with 5E. Skill checks, encounter suggestions, and creature reskins are provided as tools rather than requirements, allowing Game Masters to adapt freely.

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A zoomed-in regional map of the Unmoving Vale

x6 detailed points of interest with lore, usage guidance, and situation tables

A featured battlemap set within the ruins of Eldwark

GM-facing investigation hooks, encounters, and environmental pressure

Location-specific tables for rumors, complications, blight behavior, and discovery

Recommended Use: Drop-in location, regional exploration, investigation, slow-burn horror

You'll find the files as attachments to this post. Heroic Maps Patrons - you'll be getting the full versions of the battlemap later today, as your regular 'Third Map' release.

Hope you enjoy this! Let us know in the comments!

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Regional Map Artwork: D&Demetrius Cartography

GM Supplement - Writing by Kelfecil's Tales