SamuZai
Miska Fredman

Miska Fredman

patreon


Miska Fredman posts

Inktober is on!

As a sort of a warm-up practice for the #mapvember (map prompts & updated website coming soon!) I'm attending Inktober again this year. 

I'm going – at least for now – with the official pr...

View Post

Monthly Map Poll: October 2019 Maps

Here's a list of map concepts, which of these you would like to see released next? 

I will prioritize the maps based on the votes, and requests from Masterminds and Ultrapatrons will get an extra bump up in the list.  

View Post

Catacomb Passage

Under the city there is a vast and complex network of catacombs thousands of years old. Mostly these old tunnels are protected and preserved for the future generations as historical monuments, but with the right contacts and keys, the catacombs can be used to move around the city fast and unnoticed. 

Mortal Dangers 

The catacombs can be a location for a ch...

View Post

Secret Caves

 

Under the ruins of the old monastery, there are secret chambers and caves that hide a huge crystal with corrupting magical powers. Living creatures mutate into beasts with inhuman strength, and any dead creature brought close to the crystal will rise again as a soulless undead abomination.

The caves are taken over by a cult called the Children of the Glow. Recently the cult h...

View Post

Battle-mat Designs?

Hello! When I GM tabletop RPGs, we usually use miniatures and different kinds of battle-mats that can be drawn on with white board markers. I found that at least Deep-Cut Studio offers custom made battlemats with your own design. 

Is anyone interested in battle-mat designs?

The idea is that I would release de...

View Post

Cheloni-Class Transport Shuttle

Cheloni-class transport shuttle is a civilian medium-distance starship modeled after a four-winged Z-class military transport. Cheloni-class shuttle has larger cargo capacity and operating distance. It has two weapon modules, that are usually fitted with a focused tractor beam or an anti-asteroid missile launcher,  and a quad-laser turret for point-defense. 

The ship can be oper...

View Post

A Quick SitRep

We've been having a bit of autumn flu going on in the family, but I'm working on the last three black & white maps of the month and they should be out in a bit.

The PSD Archive is now set up and I'll start collecting PSD and PDF links into the archive posts whenever I have some spare time.

The PDF versions and the collection are in the works, but unfortunately late.

On...

View Post

Coloring a Map: Dragon Lair [Timelapse]

Here's a video of the Dragon Lair map's coloring process. This was actually supposed to be a video with me explaining every step in detail, but I messed up something with the settings. In the end, I think this turned out for the better, as a 10-minute video is probably a bit easier to watch.  :D

I hope you like the end result. 


View Post

Dragon Lair

A century ago a terrible dragon, Roihuzuamu, burned down and invaded the quiet and peaceful valley of Eloran. 

People of Eloran were close friends with their dwarven allies who had moved far from the North to mine the gold and silver from the mountains. Together they built a prosperous city that traded with the Northern Dwarven kingdoms and Southern city states alike. The va...

View Post

Let's Map: Space Cantina - parts 1 & 2

Here are the first two parts of drawing a space cantina battle map. 

Part 1 

Part 2 



View Post

Quick Update

Hi, everyone. Just wanted to give a quick update on the current situation. 

  • I had some unexpected extra work I needed to take care of and this got a bit in the way of my Patreon releases and other related work. (I wish I could tell you more about these. These are some super-exciting things I'm working on and definitely will reflect on my Patreon maps in a positive w...

    View Post

200 Patron Goal Reached!

A few days ago the 200 patron goal  Dropbox Upgrade and New App Integrations was reached.

This helps me to pay for an upgrade to Dropbox and ensure that I won't be running out of space anytime soon. There are also some other features I'm not so familiar with yet. Let's see if they could be used together with my Patreon somehow.

In addition to Dropbox, I dec...

View Post

"Undercity Pillar" - Part 1: How to clean up a scanned image (on Photoshop)

In this video I go through the steps I usually do to clean up a scanned image and make the lines clean. There were actually a few unusual cases with this map, which are good to know when trying to get rid of darker grid lines or when trying to clean up rough line art.


More videos coming soon! Please follow my Youtube channel to keep updated, or join my patreon to gain early...

View Post

Patreon Exclusivity, Early Bird Tiers and New Pricing

Hi, some news and updates as things have moved forward.


Early Bird Tiers and New Pricing (No action required from current patrons)

At first, some of my thoughts for context. 

When I switched from per creation model to the current monthly model on Patreon, I based the tier pricing largely on the per creation model, some statistics, and a lot of guesswork. ...

View Post

WIP: Mu-Class Cargo Shuttle BH-400 AKA "Bantha"

Here's the cargo transport taking shape. I left the interior unfinished, because I'm going to do the interior details on Photoshop after cleaning the line art. We are going to have a test at this today in our Star Wars campaign, as the PC are supposed to hijack this transport loaded with kyber crystals. It's not going to be easy, but when Empire is involved, it never is. 

I have in m...

View Post

Map Prompt Wishlist: #Mapvember 2019

Hey, have you heard about #mapvember? If you are familiar with Inktober, this is pretty much the same thing except with maps. For the whole of November, you draw one map per day and post it on social media with a hashtag #mapvember and/or #mapvember2019.
Like previous years, I'm going to organize the event and take part in it m...

View Post

Hacker Hideout

This cellar level maintenance room is refurbished as server space and a surveillance center. This complex system pulls data from a myriad of different hacked surveillance systems, drones, databases, and even cyber-brains. The data is analyzed by an AI expert software before streaming it on the screens and a neurolinked AR/VR system. This data is used to track and stalk potential targets.

...

View Post

New Goals + ULTRAPATRON Tier

First of all, after a slight drop the Public Domain Maps goal is again in effect! 

$750 Public Domain Maps 

Each month this goal is met, I will publish a single version of one of my older maps on my website.  I feel that this is an important goal because it allows i...

View Post

Name This Transport Class...

Here's a quick draft for a transport I did for our Star Wars campaign. This is going to transport a load khyber crystals and the PCs are going to hijack the ship for the local resistance to trade it for some coaxium (hyper fuel) with the Crimson Dawn.

But, what is the class of this ship, and are there any other interesting details on this particular ship?

I imaginened this ship i...

View Post

Shelter 17

Shelter 17 is one of the many small shelters built to function as outposts and emergency caches for small patrols or science teams. Most of these shelters are hidden underground to offer extra protection against environmental hazards and intruders. 

These small shelters are not designed for prolonged containment, but they still have a three-month reserve of consumables for six person...

View Post

The Nexus (Catalog, Links & Info)

This post collects all the maps and other conte

View Post

News & Updates

Hi all! I thought that I'll share some news and updates on what's going on and how my September looks like so far. 

A quick summary here:

  • Weekly Patreon releases from now on.
  • Some delay in delivering the PDF collections and the last maps for October.
  • Map Archive post with list of releases finally being worked on.
  • Old posts being updated to match...

    View Post

Crew Quarters

This can be a section of a space ship or a space station. It includes a few regular berths (quite spacious, actually), two high-end cabins and one luxury suite, in addition to a common area, a few storage rooms, and maintenance rooms. 


Layered PSD files and commercial licenses for this map are delivered separately. 


Thank you for your support!  View Post

Special Delivery

This truck is delivering a special cargo. Something out of this world. It is contained inside a trailer equipped with strange devices, some of which look quite mundane, but they are plugged into thick bundles of wire. 

Besides the equipment keeping constant electric static and rhythmically pulsating blinks and beeps, there are six people hanging from the roof in sturdy rigging. They ...

View Post

Reviewing My Goals vs Tier Rewards

Hi, everyone!

When I started making maps for Patreon I could make a map and release it during a single evening. This is not the case anymore because of certain requirements I have set for my maps. Now a single map can take a week or even two to make. 

The reason is partially that I make the maps on evenings and I have longer periods of free-time only on one or two nights each ...

View Post

The Golden Lotus

 This post includes the basic and variant maps for the Adventurer tier patrons.

Thank you for your support!

 

The Golden Lotus - Luxury Space Yacht

Golden Lotus is a Concord-class solar sail vessel manufactured by Mercury Interstellar know for its high-quality space ships. The ship has a modular design with a central spine structure that can ...

View Post

The Golden Lotus

Golden Lotus is a Concord-class solar sail vessel manufactured by Mercury Interstellar know for its high-quality space ships. The ship has a modular design with a central spine structure that can be fitted with different modules to meet the customer’s needs and wishes. The core structure comprises of the main module (Module A) and the drive module (Module D). 

The type-3 standard s...

View Post

Robotics Factory

 

Omnion Engramics is relatively small, but one of the most successful companies in the field of advanced cybernetics and general artificial intelligence. 

Most of the larger robot manufacturers have their mass-produced models assembled in large factories and the research and customer relations are often handled at separate locations, but the Omnion Engramics operates diff...

View Post

Map Discussion: Mooncore

Ok. We had a poll in May where we voted for the first map project and the winner was Mooncore. For this post, I did a quick draft of Mooncore, or of how it could look like. 

The idea is to make a bunch of maps that are all tied to one location or theme. I have written a short introduction of Mooncore below, but besides some loose ideas and one sessions where I have used this location...

View Post

Poll: Space Station Modules

Awhile ago there was a request on Discord to make a modular space station map. Now I have finally time to commit for that and I would like to know what modules would be the most interesting ones. 

Still, I must say that even though we are talking about a space station, I'll try to make the modules so that they could be used for larger space ships as well. Also, I'll see if I could de...

View Post