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Poisonous Pools, Expert

Hello again, Experts/Masters! This week's map is the Poisonous Pools (30x40), a twisty little cave full of toxic sludge! I honestly can't think of many critters who would hang out in a terrible cave like this, but I can only assume they aren't particularly interesting to talk to or friendly to strangers.

Your alternate versions of this map are Enchanted and Open! The Enchanted variant has...

Haunted Mire Ruins

I'm back! This week's map, the Haunted Mire Ruins (40x30) combines with the previous, the Haunted Mire Altar, together making an extra large spooky and swampy map but separately making two individual and more focused maps (if that's what you're looking for). This has been an interesting and difficult pro...

Haunted Mire Ruins, Adept

Hi Adepts! This week's map is the Haunted Mire Ruins (40x30), as well as the fully combined Haunted Mire (40x60) which is the seamless combination of the Mire Ruins and Mire Altar. I've provided all renders of the two that I felt would be useful to you

I talked about this a lot in the previous 2023-11-04 20:04:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Haunted Mire Ruins, Expert

I return with the promised addition to the Haunted Mire Altar, the Haunted Mire Ruins (40x30)! This extra 30 vertical grid squares depict the approach to the altar site, a winding mire path among partially sunken ruins. I imagine there may be the remains of many of the previous residents below the surfac...

Haunted Mire Altar

Happy Halloween, everyone! This years Halloween map is the Haunted Mire Altar (40x30), a spooky outcropping with odd tablets, a bloody pentagram, and a cracked altar. Altarnately I've also provided versions of this map without any of that extra stuff, just an eerie raised clearing above a misty mire with plenty of room for activities. The question now is whether your players will be the sacrifi...

Haunted Mire Altar, Adept

I return with the most timely of my spooky maps, the Haunted Mire Altar (40x30), just in time for Halloween! This one features a spooky sacrificial altar raised above a misty mire- looks real ritualistic. The scene I'm imagining here involves the sacrifice taking place, and in response zombies begin to rise from the muck surrounding the outcropping. Beyond that however, I'm certain there's a to...

Haunted Mire Altar, Expert

Hi folks! This week's map is the Haunted Mire Altar (40x30), a spooky environment with a spooky centerpiece. I can imagine all kinds of horrible rituals here but I'll keep those to myself- you'll have to come up with your own for your players to interrupt/join in on/join in on as the sacrifice itself. 

Your alternate versions of this map are Bloody and Enchanted! I've been trying out...

Haunted Village Bridge

I'm back with another spooky map, the Haunted Village Bridge (35x40)! When I started making these Haunted maps back in June I didn't think I would keep it going until it was actually seasonally appropriate, but amazingly it's nearly Halloween already and I still have plans for several more spooky maps. We'll see if I'll still have the Halloween spirit once November hits- who can say?

This...

Haunted Village Bridge, Adept

I'm back again with a new spooky map, the Haunted Village Bridge (35x40)! This one is a continuation of the Haunted Village from a couple weeks ago, fleshing out this grim little town so you'll have lots of unpleasant streets to work with. 

And since I kinda felt that the basic Day version of this map somehow felt too cheerful for the dark, unfriendly village I had in my head, I made...

Haunted Village Bridge, Expert

A new map! This one is another foggy, grim village map, the Haunted Village Bridge (35x40)- probably not a nice town to settle down in but maybe a decent place to pick up supplies and learn about the evil that dwells in the forest nearby. More than likely though you'll be run out of town by suspicious village folk who don't trust strangers, so you'll probably be needing this map. 

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Rootbound Cave

I'm back! This week's map is the Rootbound Cave (35x40), a fairly simple map but filled with all kinds of little twisty roots, sorta building on the last map, the Haunted Tree, giving you a potential cave to place beneath that nasty evil tree. I think I'll probably make at least one more cave/lair map to...

Rootbound Cave, Adept

Hi Adepts! This is the Rootbound Cave (35x40), a linear cave layout with lots of twisty roots and a little stream cutting across. It's a very straightforward design which I think is quite useful nonetheless, good for simple encounters or quests where you aren't looking to stress exploring the environment. 

2023-10-08 19:08:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Rootbound Cave, Expert

Hi again, folks- this map is the Rootbound Cave (35x40), a little map that's perfect for small encounters. Is your party moving too fast? What's that over there, a cave? Surely the DM wouldn't just put a cave here without good reason, right? Let's just give it a little peek.

Your alternate versions this time are Subterranean and Stark! I like giving caves this Subterranean palette, it mak...

Haunted Tree

I'm back! This map is the Haunted Tree (40x50), another gigantic map, this time featuring a giant tree with a mess of twisting roots and a spooky hollow beneath. I naturally filled that hollow with glowing fog, for fun, but I assume some of you would prefer something a little more subtle for your adventure so I've also provided variants without this effect. Enjoy!

Adepts can find their po...

Haunted Tree, Adept

This week I made the Haunted Tree (40x50), another larger-than-normal map! This one features the roots of a very big tree as well as an ominous tunnel inside/below. Spooky!

Your alternate version of this one is Enchanted- which I thought felt right for a giant tree. No way a tree gets to be this big without a bit of magic, right?

2023-09-26 20:11:52 +0000 UTC View Post

Haunted Tree, Expert

I'm back! This map is the Haunted Tree (40x50), a big ol' tree in that Haunted Forest which I simply can't get enough of. This time I wanted to put whip up a potential 'heart' of the forest, a gigantic tree with huge, twisting, tentacle-like roots reaching into the woods. And, as a bonus, I made additional versions of each variant both with and without the magical fog emanating from the hollow ...

Haunted Farm

This week's map is the Haunted Farm (35x35), a map which my wife actually described as 'cozy' despite all my best efforts. This run-down little farm is just the sort of thing you'd find in these spooky woods I've been drawing, with withered plants, poorly-patched roofs, and a dirty farmhouse. I expect the farmer here won't be too happy to see adventurin' folk coming around, but maybe there's a ...

Haunted Farm, Adept

Hi Adepts! This one is the Haunted Farm (35x35), a bustling farmhouse with a big red barn, lots of chickens, and lush fields full of plump vegetables. But actually it's a dingy little place with dead crops, a stable with holes in the roof, and a damp little house. Probably not the kind of place where you could expect a little hospitality, really, and in fact you could much more likely expect a ...

Haunted Farm, Expert

Hi Experts! This week I made the Haunted Farm (35x35), a pleasantly gloomy farm in the Haunted forest. Who even knows if someone is still living here- the farmhouse looks terrible, most of the crops are all withered, but at least the wheat seems to be doing well!

Your alternate versions of this map are Enchanted and Stormy! You know both of these, I've made them several times before. The ...

Sacred Pool, ft. James' RPG Art

This week's map is the Sacred Pool (40x45), another Haunted map! This time however, I was joined by James of James' RPG Art, who created a painting to accompany the map, giving players a 1st person perspective of the environment. His painting is particularly helpful here, considering how complicated terrain can get when...

Sacred Pool Adept, ft. James' RPG Art

This week's map is the Sacred Pool (40x45), featuring art by James' RPG Art! It's been a little while since we've worked together and I really enjoyed doing a collaboration again- it's nice sometimes to be pushed a little out of your comfort zone and I'll almost never draw statues into my maps unless prompted to do so. ...

Sacred Pool Expert, ft. JamesRPGArt

Hi again, Experts! This week I made the Sacred Pool (40x45), a basin in a Haunted wood with a radiant, angelic statue glowing at the center. I imagine that this bad boy has some serious magic involved which can bring some peace or healing to adventurers traveling through this awful forest. But.. why then is this a battlemap? Are there guardians protecting the statue from outsiders? Will the sta...

Haunted Bridge

Hi again, everyone- this week's map is the Haunted Bridge (35x50), which also comes with a bonus variant! In addition to the regular Haunted one, I also made one where the bottom half is 'Unhaunted', just a regular forest. Kinda fun, I thought! 

Side note: I won't be releasing a new map this week, so I'll be back with a new one in September- be back soon.

Adepts can find their ...

Haunted Bridge, Adept

Hello again! This week's map is the Haunted Bridge (35x50), a pleasant wooden bridge in a pretty awful forest. Also, as an added bonus, I made you an extra variant, seeing as the $1 patrons got extra content as well. So, you're getting both the Bloody variant, with nasty red water and extra spooky effects, and a full Unhaunted variant! The $1 patrons are getting a version that's 1/2 Unhaunted, ...

Haunted Bridge, Expert

I'm back! This map is the Haunted Bridge (35x50), a nice and big map with a big ol' bridge, perfect for chucking adventurers off of. Or alternately it's a great place for dramatic standoffs or foreboding entrances to haunted forests, just off the top of my head. 

Also, I was having some fun with this one so I whipped up a couple extra variants, ones where the bottom half of the map i...

Haunted Stream

This week is the Haunted Stream (50x50), my largest forest map yet (and maybe the biggest map in general), nearly 3x the size of my recent maps! Honestly, it's almost so big that I could have made it 4 maps that seamlessly fit together if I had planned ahead a little better, increased the size further, and took an extra week to work on it. Maybe someday!

Anyway, I took a lot of time and c...

Haunted Stream, Adept

Hi Adepts! This one is the Haunted Stream (50x50), a jumbo-sized map with lots of room to move around. It's so big that I actually had a hard time making sure each part felt appropriately detailed, but I think it pulled through eventually. We'll talk more about that below.

Your alternate version is another Unhaunted variant! I took a few weeks off on this style of variant to work out some...

Haunted Stream, Expert

Hi folks! This is the Haunted Stream (50x50), a very very big one. It's so big that because of it I'm sliding days behind schedule as we speak, so let's keep this moving! This bad boy's got a meandering stream cutting through the Haunted forest, which seems somewhat thinner here. Mostly that's because I wanted to leave some room to maneuver around the edges of the map due to the middle being ta...

Haunted Village

This week's spooky map is the Haunted Village (30x30), featuring the border of this misty forest I've been drawing for several weeks! From what I've drawn of it so far I can't imagine it's a particularly pleasant forest to live near, but maybe looks are deceiving? I kinda doubt it, this looks like one of those forests where wolves outnumber people. 

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Haunted Village, Adept

Hey there, Adepts! This week's map is the Haunted Village (30x30), a somewhat grim-looking town which lies on the edge of the Haunted Forest that's been the focus of my recent maps. I suppose the people here probably have all kinds of rumors about what lives in that forest while only a few locals actually dare venture far into it. In short, these people probably have a job or two for foolish ad...