Heya everyone... here it is :-)
Thor has smiled upon me and permitted me just enough sunlight to feed my laptop via the solar panel to get this uploaded and released into the wild today
Dragonsthorp is the 1st of 6 settlement maps suggested by Patreon Supporters in October. This little Viking themed settlement on a river bend was suggested by SirLittleDragon - which is why...
2022-12-01 09:39:05 +0000 UTC View Post
A huge 60x60 battlemap
Here we go... after nearly 50 hours of growing this huge map out of nothing, I am quite pleased with how it turned out and hope that it will inspire some interesting plots or encounters in your games :-)
Hidden Vale is a rocky valley at the downstream end of a small river canyon in hilly walking trail country, you...
2022-11-13 12:41:40 +0000 UTC View Post
This started life as an abstract painting ... when it was finished, I realised that it would make for a great encounter location, perhaps a place to battle fire sprites?
... So here it is... something dramatic to light up a dark place with
Have fun!
Or is it sometimes a portal? Perhaps only at night? and if you jump in, where does it go to? .... Perhaps to a parallel world that has the same landscape, but a different climate? Or to a different time at the same location?
I had a big backing up session the other day and found this map lurking up a forgotten corner... seemed like it is about time to dust it off and set it on its way to ...
2022-10-28 22:52:24 +0000 UTC View Post
There are already a couple of ideas on the list... This is a little reminder for everyone else... in case life got crazy and you forgot :-)
Submission is open for Ideas for Thorp/Hamlet maps
This month, I would like to accept submissions from all Defenders of Chaos, old and new, for Thorps or Hamlets that you would like to see me make. Wild idea...
2022-10-13 11:26:51 +0000 UTC View Post
After brewing in for months, Konrith is ripe and ready to escape into the world :-)
This is a small unassuming town or perhaps the heart of an old city, where the original gardens and orchards in the city center have not been built over.
There are many small ally-ways, courtyards, greenhouses, verandahs, a couple of ruins, extensions, roof-top terraces ... And ...
Once again, the imaginative Jog Brogzin let me colour in one of his wonderful maps... This is Well of the Mind .... Who's mind though?
There are 2 main versions. One with a stary space background and one with a rocky solid background.... and then a few different mood variation of each. Including a G...
Heya! .... Here they are
I ended up with 28 Item cards in all ... some are variations on a theme, some are 2 states of the same shield. So, basically 24 different shapes ... Not quite one for every day of the month of September, but close!
It was a good spontaneous break-out from drawing maps and I learnt a great deal about shading and ...
2022-10-03 12:31:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Good afternoon
It is nearly the middle of the month already.... not sure where it is flying away to!
To space out all these 'Spring cleaning' posts with something a bit more interesting, I thought I would show off a bit of what I have been working on recently ....
These have both been cooking for a while now and I am glad to...
2022-09-13 07:02:11 +0000 UTC View Post
And here it is.... This one has been a long journey from woe to go
But is it complete. I love how it has turned out & I hope that you will find some interesting ways to put it to good use.
The scale is actually 2m per square (6 ft) but that is close enough to 5 ft that it shouldn't matter I hope ... ?
The church is at that scale because it was a commission. It can also...
2022-09-07 08:31:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hiya Everyone … It is Spring here in the antipodes and I have once again been mentally-spring cleaning & re-calculating how to keep creating the maps I love and fit them in around my currently unpredictable life (being basically homeless & doing random house-sitting is not conducive to regular hours)…
The Short cut:
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Let all with eyes to read know that Jog Brogzin once again gave his blessing to my coloring of another of his maps... this gorgeous little sunken Temple in a mini-scene style ...
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Commissions are still my 'bread & butter'.... I will be giving them all my focus time this month
.... and none of them are top-down settlement maps... shock horror !!
Actuall...
Out in the middle of the ocean, somewhere tropical, is an atoll called Nukshan. Named for the Captain of the first crew to stumble upon the haven and grind their storm-battered ship up the beach. Nukshan has since grown into a small, yet busy, port town with traders docking almost daily, exchanging goods from other parts of the world and buying seafood from the 4 rival fishing...
2022-07-14 13:34:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The little version:
Perhaps not far from Ashthorp, Harkenwell, home of the Green Falcon Tavern and Inn, is another quiet little village with a pond, snuggled at the base of a hill rising up to the moors and surrounded on the other 3 sides by hedge-rowed fields.
Seen on the Harkenwell town notice...
2022-06-02 13:16:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Not entirely sure what happened to May......
2022-06-02 07:31:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, This is a re-make of a little encounter area map I was commissioned to draw early last year... A dam at the confluence of 2 rivers in a park area, overlooked by 2 platforms... and no bridges in sight
It was a fun little location to draw
Patrons can find an un-gridded/no logo version of the free map shown below here: 2022-05-09 06:12:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Deveros Update:
I am going to take most of May to work on commissions, especially Deveros, a...
The sky-islands settlement is here!
... and as a special treat, Adventure Music (who composes lovely background music for TTRPG settings), has collaborated with me again to compose a wonderful, gently playful, uplifting soundtrack to accompany The Dragonfly Clus...
Thought I would drop you all a line... just letting you know that I am still alive!
Progress on the realm of air map (The Dragonfly Cluster) continues in drips and drabs between assisting a family member who has been ill ... they had an op a few weeks ago & have been home for 2 1/2 weeks now. They are starting to be able to do most things for themselves again now ... which is grea...
A couple of Patreon supporters asked if I could make my hand drawn grids available as transparent overlays... so here they are available for anyone who needs them.
The difference between dpi and pixels per square/hex is messing with my head.
... but essentially, the '300/140/72dpi' in the file names is referring to how many horizontal pixels wide each cell in the grid i...
Now that we have got past the dreaded Fools day... it's April news time.
A quiet little village in the middle of farming country. Not even big enough to have a dedicated church yet.....
Where they may or may not be having problems with the many-eyed creature that in lives in the village pond. It used to be friendly, unfortunately, in the last few months it has become more and more angry. Now no one dares even step onto the village green...
2022-04-01 11:35:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hemlock Hall is set in a similar landscape to the last 2 map releases, Tamrin Crossing and New Hope...
It is set upon the cliff tops, with 2 small hamlets (Marshton & Haketon) in the marshy coastal land below. Hemlock town has grown up at the gates of the small manor house, which is set within its own walled grounds.
In the past the hall was the site of a small monastery, wh...
SUMMARY:
Well, February happened! and we had t...
2022-03-04 09:04:53 +0000 UTC View Post