Hello all! There have been so many new patrons lately that I'm curious to know how did you find about Miska's Maps and eventually ended up here?
To be frank, it's been amazing to follow this kind of growth as it has once again started to feel like I could actually become a full-time cartographer one day. Currently, I have to split my free-time between my family, hobbies, and cartogr...
2020-08-31 20:03:35 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! I just wanted to make a quick post to inform you that the last map (Mines of Cthonus) of the Premium Map Module vol. 1 is coming very soon and I target to release module vol. 2 later this week with all of August's releases.
In the future I will probably aim to keep the number of maps per module around 10 or so, so Forge users can also install them without capping their ...
2020-08-31 19:46:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Ages ago, before mortals could master the secrets of magic, the titans ruled the world. They were the flesh and blood of gods and looked after their mortal followers and made sure that gods got their share of the riches of the world they had created. As gods grew more distant the power of the titans grew and eventually some of them claimed the place of their creators and challenged their might....
2020-08-31 16:07:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Locals know the creature by the name of Ironbeak. It is said that the monster can bite through plate and chain mail and it can snap swords in pieces with its amazingly strong and iron-hard beak.
The creature dwells in a cave under the old ruins on top of the cliff. There should be an old cellar beneath the ruins and there you should find a way through the tunnels to Ironbeak's lair....
2020-08-30 23:02:37 +0000 UTC View Post(This post is a work in progress. Until the older post rewards are added here, you can find links to all releases here.)
This post collects all Fantasy Explorer tier rewards including the map packs, extra variants and any bonus content included with the release.
2020-08-30 22:43:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Udo Station is a notable spaceport located in the Third Expanse between several major trade routes, syndicate clans, and corporate houses. Udo Station is controlled by Sedemirgi, a clan of outcast alien crime lords, who have managed to keep the station under their rule for several hundred years despite the multiple attempts to seize its control by the clans and corporation houses alike. 2020-08-30 17:32:27 +0000 UTC View Post
This post collects all Forgemaster (previously Adventurer) rewards including the map packs, and extra variants starting from map pack 240. A full list of all releases can be found here.
You can find links to all the released PNG asset packs in the 2020-08-30 16:46:10 +0000 UTC View Post
This post will collect all the Roughneck (previously Explorer) tier rewards, and you can find a list of all releases here.
Map packs are listed at the end of this post as attached zip files.
These map packs include all Roughneck tier map variant versions in 1...
2020-08-30 16:43:17 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, while I'm working on a few new maps for this month, I also did a quick test to see if I could make true-scale printing of my maps for tabletop and miniature use easier.
I attached a quick test for you to see. The "printable" is one large file and "printable-pages" are divided into A4 pages in this case. It's also quite easy to print the pages yourself from the big "prin...
2020-08-27 07:07:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok. I admit it. I have done too few battle maps with suspension bridges, so here you go :)
This is a simple encounter map with some elevations and places to hide.
I made five different versions of this 20x28 square battle map (140 px/square), each with and without a grid:
Here's a map for a scenario with a ruined highway overpass blocked with abandoned cars.
I did four different versions of this 28x40 square map with and without a grid (140 px/square).
This post includes only the map pack with all variants. If you are looking for the collaboration version with tokens, a music track, and scene illustration, you can find it here.
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This mini-adventure is designed to be system-agnostic and does not offer specific rules or rec...
2020-08-16 09:08:33 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! In July I needed to take a sudden short break for personal reasons and after that, I've been working on several things on the background related to my tabletop RPG games and this also affects my cartography (more about this below).
Besides maps, I've been publishing RPGs in Finnish since 2006 and I have two (or three) major settings + one more ...
2020-08-12 15:47:04 +0000 UTC View PostI just realized that with the new variant picker feature it makes sense to include the starter kit battle maps to the premium module with all the variants, so I updated the module. And while I was at it I did some minor changes and tweaks to a few starter kit maps.
The Premium Battlemap Module (PBM) for Foundry VTT now ...
2020-07-16 06:07:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hundreds of generations ago the Ancestors built the great web of fargates that allowed them to move with ease around the world. After the Last War, the fargates went silent. No one could travel through the portals until many millennia had passed. No one really knows why the lights of the fargate pillars started glowing again faintly. Still, it took many years before the first gate opened and th...
2020-07-12 08:43:46 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
These are the top 3 maps from the latest map poll, and also the next three maps I'm starting to draft soon:
I'd like to hear your wishes and suggestions about their details and specifics for these three maps.
2020-07-09 19:19:42 +0000 UTC
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Rescuing someone from a high-security prison or escaping one is always an interesting adventure type. This map introduces a special prison facility located in a remote location and surrounded by a hostile environment.
Besides being an imperial prison, this could be a place where dangerous super-powered mutants are hidden away or a slaver prison where slaves are stored until they are...
2020-07-09 09:38:29 +0000 UTC View Post
If you are a Foundry VTT license owner, you can download my Battlemap Starter Pack for Foundry VTT here. See the installation instructions below, if necessary.
Hero and higher tier, patrons can acces...
2020-07-02 09:37:38 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! I hope you all are safe and well.
I did some updates on my tiers. For the most part, these affect new patrons only and no actions are required from you. Summary of changes below after the foreword.
There are several reasons for these changes.
When the explorers pass through the fargate they find themselves in a hexagonal room with three collapsed corridors and one closed door. The fargate pillars are on a raised platform, as usual, and the pillars are surrounded by fading arcs of electricity and glowing steam as they start cooling down.
The walls are smooth but covered in weird geometrical carvings and paintings and the door s...
2020-06-30 20:43:13 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
June in Finland has been exceptionally sunny and warm, and because all big events for the summer were cancelled, I decided to have two weeks of proper summer vacation with my family and put everything else on hold. I haven't had a full summer vacation in years and now I felt like I really needed one.
I got back to making maps a few days back, but I've been having so...
Hi everyone!
I spent last week just taking it easy and enjoying the rare Finnish summer weather with my family. Now it's time to get back to work and start churning out some maps. Previously I published a list of planned maps, which was quite long. I'm pretty sure already that I can't make through the whole list, but some of it will be pushed to July.
What I'm still plannin...
2020-06-22 10:02:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This map is based on an old #mapvember map which I used a base, but because it was drawn on a different scale with regular ink pens, the lines were too thick and I decided to redraw the map from scratch. I also wanted to play a bit with the perspective using the statue at the center as a focal point.
This map is based on a scenario we played in our Star Wars campaign. A ship carrying padawan refugees was shot down from the orbit by a pirate squadron and the heroes embarked on a rescue mission to search for survivors. One of the investigated sites was a landing pod that had landed in the middle of blood wasp hives and even broke a few of them. The survivors were trapped inside the escape pod...
2020-06-13 22:03:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the largest map I have done so far. It's a 50x100 square map with 100px squares. This map comes also with an ambient track by Music d20 and two different visual versions. There are more options available with the layered .tif file here, ...
2020-06-11 13:24:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone,
Sorry for the radio silence. I've been working on some new maps and collaborations to bring you some fresh special content, finding out about new stuff, and wrapping up things at work before my summer vacation begins.
Let's start with the upcoming maps.
Currently, I have the final version of the Escape Pod Landi...
2020-06-10 13:40:10 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a gallery of my public map versions which I'm updating every few months. I thought that it would be helpful to have a collection of my maps as a sort of portfolio to present my work and general artistic style and map design. I hope you find this useful.
If you like what you see and would like to have un-watermarked maps and some variants (grid/no grid, night/day, alternative colo...
Hi everyone!
This map is something I did for my own Star Wars campaign set around 5 years after the Jedi Purge. The PCs got an old holocron in their hands and it has a map of old jedi temples and locations with a strong presence of The Force. This is the first temple they are visiting and it is actually a beacon of sorts that amplifies the flow of Force emanating from a powerful kyb...
2020-05-26 14:39:35 +0000 UTC View Post
This is not directly related to my maps, but I thought I'd share this here also.
I guess I'm more known for my cartography outside Finland, but in my home country I'm probably more known as an RPG publisher and designer. I've been running my own small-press publishing company, Ironspine Press, since 2006, and ...
2020-05-25 09:45:20 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
I thought I'd drop you a quick line. Lately I've been working on all kinds of stuff and I got a few unexpected collaborations that created a little twist to this month's releases.
I'm working on the Ice World Prison map and it's going to be a three-part map: it has a landing pad, the operations & staff floor, and the detention level floor ...
2020-05-24 00:17:56 +0000 UTC View Post