Miska Fredman

Did You Know How Amazing You Are?

I would like to thank you for supporting my work. 

It's been almost a year since I started drawing maps again after a long break of almost 20 years or so. I really appreciate your support because without it I would have probably quit drawing the maps again. But having an audience for my maps has kept me drawing more maps. And an audience that is willing to support my work ...

058 - The Fallen Keep

The Fallen Keep

The Fallen Keep lies on the edge of the Veles Bamjar or the Spider Forest. It once were an Volodorian outpost guarding the trade routes that went through the deep forest from the coast to the capitol of Volodor in the shadows of the White Mountains, but for three hundred years it has been abandoned and after that it has been a home to a many kinds...

September 2016 Collection & News

Yet another month has passed byand I have some maps for you :)  You can find the maps released in September attached with this post or on Dropbox HERE. 

News

I've been super busy since last May and it will still take some time to finish the...

Dune Bandit Lord's Palace

The Dune Bandits rule the great Plains of Rust. They have taken over an abandoned monastery deep in the wasteland. The bandits call it the Palace and it is also the den of their lord.  An evil and savage tyrant of the wastelands who will feed all who oppose him to his vile beasts. 

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 Ever since I saw The Return of the Jedi as a little kid, I thought that t...

Dune Bandit Lord's Palace (WIP)

I'm working on this map that I should get done and posted on Patreon this evening. I used Jabba the Hutt's palace from the Return of the Jedi as inspiration, but I'll see if I can make this a bit fantasy-ish, so you could use it as some sort of bandit lord's palace in fantasy settings as well. But, I would gladly hear from you ideas if for certain rooms and details that definitely need to be ad...

Smuggler Base 404

The Smuggler Base you are looking for was not found. Yeah. That's the origin of the name of this map :)  This map started out as a quick doodle on coffee break, but it ended up as a "real" map. My intention was to release this as just a quick doodle, but I got an idea about trying to use textures with the hand-drawn map. This idea originates from a dilemma I've been thinking ...

Testing a new technique

I was about to post this smuggler hideout as a black & white map, but then a got an idea. I quickly bashed together some textures, like in the Halls of the Mimics that I released awhile ago. I have to say that I kind of like the end result. It has the hand-drawn lines and shadows, but the textures bring nice additional details there. And as a bonus, I think this would make a nice virtual ta...

Buried Under the Twin Suns

During the last #mapvember I made a map of a spaceship buried in snow or ice. I find the idea of something buried into the ground waiting to be found very interesting and this was also one of the first things for me to write down to my idea list on Tre...

A Dozen Dungeons, vol. 1 Available as Print and Pdf

A Dozen Dungeons, vol. 1 – a collection of twelve fantasy themed maps now available as print and pdf on DrivethruRPG and RPGnow. 

Check it out on DrivethruRPG here:

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/189747/A-Dozen-Dungeons …

Warzone Bravo-Zero-Five

//TRANSMISSION INCOMING

Infiltrated enemy combatants detonated an IED when our convoy escorting a VIP was passing through the hot zone bravo-zero-five. The detonation blocked the convoy’s path and the hostiles overpowered the convoy quickly with further RPG and high-caliber AMR shots at the convoy. The initial fire exchange took out four EXO suits and disabled the APC transporting the V...

Landing Pad 12

September starts a bit late, but I already have a bunch of maps done and I just have to finish them. I've started to experiment a bit more with color maps. I must admit that I got really inspired by the maps of Mike Schley as most – if not all – of his maps are color maps. 

I'll try to color at least a map or two ...

August 2016 Patreon Collection

Hello all! Again a month has passed by and some maps were made. August was a bit more productive than the summer months as I had a bit more time in my hands. 

You can find the maps published in August in a zip file attached with this post or you can get them through Dropbox, ...

Halls of the Mimics - style test

Hello, I wanted to make a quick test on how to do these maps that look like they are generated by kitbashing various textures and applying layer effects on Photoshop. Well, it was exactly that :)

This map has no greater idea behind it. I just went on and added some rooms and corridors and then splatted on some textures and added a few light sources and the location IDs, etc.

I do no...

Colony Outpost

Like most of the other early colony complexes this small outpost is made out of modular units housing a dozen colonists or corporation professionals. The modules are pressurised so that they can maintain higher atmospheric pressure inside the buildings. These units are designed for thin atmospheres, so they do not have actual separate airlock units.

This colony outpost could be, for examp...

The Icon of Deception

What looks like a dull and ill kept old stone keep hides a beautiful garden and a giant statue made of gold inside its cold walls. But like its outer appearance, everything in this temple is not as it looks. 

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Originally I drew this temple to try out two things: a sort of inner yard and  thick castle walls.

I don't know why, but I find it somehow difficul...

The Broken Bridge - Part II

Deep inside the Shard Mountain and beneath a towering spire are the dungeons and the halls that once acted as the entrance to the great tower. Now the bridge connecting the inner halls to the entrance on the side of the mountain, is broken and the the abandoned halls and chambers are inhabited by vile creatures and horrible monsters. 

This map can be used with the Broken Bridge map o...

Oops! I accidentally Society6

I thought I give a try at Society6 and uploaded some of my maps there.

For now you can order canvas and framed art prints of my maps here, please, have a look see: https://society6.com/miskafredman/prints?show=new

I'll see into adding other options like t-shirts, phone covers, blankets and wh...

The Outlaw Artificer's Hideout

Hi all and good to be back from vacation. I did not draw any maps during the holiday, so I already had a couple of ideas on my mind that I wanted to draw right away. 

The first map of this map is a hideout for some outlaw artificers. I thought the artificers could be somekind of alchemists or warlocks even, dabbling with wondorous items, magic potions and such. This might even be a w...

July 2016 Collection

Hi all! Sorry about this collection coming a bit late this month. I've had a ton of stuff to take care off after the vacation (ended on the 8th), but its looking good already. I have two maps in the works and one under playtesting before I finalize it. All fantasy-ish so far, but I'm getting some sci-fi in for this month too. At least a star map of sort should be done by the end of the month.&n...

News and Updates

Hello all! The biggest RPG convention in Finland and the Nordic countries is now behind us and I have some news related to that and the upcoming month.

Ropecon and The Golden Dragon

Let's get to this first:  I 2016-08-03 05:25:32 +0000 UTC View Post

The Goblin Lair

Here's the first actual adventure map we played through with my kids in our D&D5e summer campaign (although, I have feeling that this campaign will be much longer than the notoriously short Finnish summer). 

The adventurers went to investigate strange thundering noises and lights coming from a narrow pass in the nearby mountains. What they found was a mostly abandoned goblin lair...

Map of the Northern Volodor

Here's a map I did as a handout for a D&D 5e campaign I'm playing with my three oldest kids (8, 11 and 13 year olds). 

The adventures take place in the world of Argouna, that we are designing and expanding as we play. Basically this is your typical fantasy world seasoned with occasional flying airships, steam engines, clockwork devices and muskets. 

Th...

Shrike-class Scout Ship

This ship is my first proper blueprint style map ("whiteprint" provided also) and made as a custom map for Kyrinn S. Eis, one of my $5 tier patrons. 

The assignment I got had a list of requirements, such as:

- A starship with room for about 40 people.

- It is an narrow, arrowhead / delta shape, with the central portion as the bridge, crew stations, engineering, l...

The Broken Bridge

This map is dedicated to Sophia, one of my very first patrons. She was  entitled to request a custom map, but instead of giving me instructions she replied: "I don't have any preference. I mostly want to support your work".  This was of course very kind and generous of her, but still I wanted to make a map for her. So, I asked what is her favorite genre and I ended u...

June Collection 2016

Another month has passed and a bunch of maps were made and releaseased, thanks to you!
HERE, if you prefer Dropbox. 

You can get the collection of the maps published in June as a single zip archive attached with this post or

River Mausoleum

The River Mausoleum was built to preserve the mummified corpse of Sir deVarjes, a great paladin and his six knights who sacrificed their lives to protect the city of Alamar from the Undead King of the Iron flats. 

In the great fight of the Blood Valley the Undead King tried to posses Sir deVarjes' body, but before it was able to do so, the brave paladin threw himself into his own hol...

The Secret of the Small Farm

By a stream running through the woods there’s a small farm with a small two-storied house and a barn with a pigpen and a small cattle pen for cows or horses.

This remote farm can be used in a fantasy or contemporary setting with ease, and why not in some near future or post-apocalyptic settings too.

Even though this looks like a harmless little farm, who knows what mystery it hide...

Hive Scout

I've supposed to draw a map of an organic ship for months already, but a few weeks ago I gave it a shot. This was not really in my comfort zone, as I've never done anything like this before. 

This is a saucer shaped ship that has bioluminescent lights pulsating on the surface. Its interior is composed of weird organic materials and surfaces. The ship's outer surface and some part...