January News and Map Poll

Hi everyone,

It's a new year, and it's time to start with some new goals and standards. 

Assets - Phase 2

A little more than a year ago, I started making sci-fi assets. Throughout 2021 I have learned a lot about making props and refined my skills, but there are still a few more refinements to do. 

In 2022, I will increase my focus on assets and modular content. I will also go through my old assets, and I will give some of them a minor facelift and organize them better by size.

This year, a single big project I will work on is to build a library of props, tiles, and modular ship sections to provide assets based on Starfinder's spaceship building rules. This means that there will be tiles and/or assets for creating spaceships of different sizes with various expansion bays and modules. I believe these assets will be usable in many other games besides Starfinder, but Starfinder rules provide a useful and comprehensive list of various ship parts. 

There will be other assets too. The Infinite Rocket project will continue, and I'll add a few new decks or modules every month. I have drafts for some Dune-inspired props, sci-fi/cyberpunk convenience store props, and alien jungle-themed props.

Map Pack Updates

The following changes will be applied to the upcoming map pack  releases and their content:

• I'm going to start using new size standards to make the maps easier for home printing. The map dimensions will be divisible with 8 and 11 inches/squares. For example, 8x11 will be the smallest map size, and a 16x22 map will be a 4 page (2-by-2) map.   
• I will favor other content (assets, mini-adventures, encounters) over variants. There will be at least a default and an unpropped version for each map, some might have more, but this will vary case-by-case.
• I will write a short (1-2 pages) encounter, mini-adventure, or location description for the upcoming map packs. These will be included in PDF and Foundry VTT format at the Hero tier. I plan to keep these primarily system-agnostic. Still, if game mechanics or stats are used, they will be mainly for Starfinder and the 5th Edition. These are currently the most popular and accessible systems. Occasionally there can be content for the Year Zero Engine or other open gaming systems.

Map Gallery and Map Library Updates

I have received some feedback over the past year  – and I'm painfully aware of the situation myself, too – that Patreon is not the best platform to browse visual content. To help with this, we are working on a browsable gallery (a preview can be found here: https://www.miskasmaps.com/gallery) and I'm going to update and reorganize the Map Library on Patreon in the next month or two.  More about these later. 

Pending December Releases & Map Poll

And last but not least, a little poll for you to figure out the priority of the upcoming releases. 

I have some maps done and being worked on from December. These will be released before new map projects:

• Geothermal Reactor Cave 
• Space Station Hangar
• Frontier Docking Bay
• A freighter deckplan

What maps (and relevant assets) would you like me to work on after these? Please vote for your favorite(s). The results will be used for the prioritization of the late-January and early February releases.