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City Boulevard, Adept

Hi Adepts! This week I made the City Boulevard (35x34), formerly the Lush City Boulevard from the poll. When I imagined this map, I had in mind the sort of planter boxes you see in some cities along major streets, which I felt would be interesting cover on an open street. Also, you alternate version is one with Stormy effects, one of my long time favorite weather effects for spicing up encounte...

City Boulevard, Expert

I'm back once again with a new city map, the City Boulevard (35x34)! This is my biggest city map yet, which typically don't even get to 30 inches wide or tall, but it felt right for this concept. I expect this will be one of the most used of my urban maps since it fits in pretty easily for any street encounter and can connect to most of the other urban maps in some way, so this should be a soli...

Twisted Shrine

Alright, I'm back with the first winner from the poll, the Twisted Forest Shrine (25x25)! I wasn't terribly sure how I wanted to show it was 'twisted', but I chose to add some ominous crystals imbedded into the shrine, as well as some pointy vines/roots spreading outwards. On top of that, I thought that my spookier forest palette would be appropriate for this one, like the Pumpkin Patch map I m...

Twisted Shrine, Adept

Hello folks, this week's map is the Twisted Forest Shrine (25x25), the winner from the poll! I wasn't sure quite how twisted to make this one, but I felt that some creepy crystals and pointy vines would be a nice place to start. Partially, because I thought it wouldn't look unnatural in versions of the map with different, more cheerful, palettes, and wouldn't be too hard to present as the way t...

Twisted Shrine, Expert

Hello Experts and Masters! This week's map is the Twisted Forest Shrine (25x25), a fun little location you can use during your party's escapades through the forest. I can imagine several scenarios where a group of adventurers will need to end some evil enchantment which is affecting the forest here, or perhaps protecting the magic at play here which keeps out invaders. 

Anyway, you a...

Frozen Ascent

This week's map is the Frozen Ascent (25x25), a crisp new snowy map to slot into your Icewind Dale campaigns- particularly the yeti cave at Kelvin's Cairn. I decided to keep the colors nice and clean, with very few of my usual extra effects layered on top, and I think it came out looking extremely tidy and satisfying despite being a somewhat simple map. I hope you enjoy it! 

Also I'l...

Frozen Ascent, Adept

Hello folks! This week I made the Frozen Ascent (25x25), and you're in luck because I also whipped up an alternate desert version as well! It seems like people are ravenous for more desert maps, and I think this is the best way for me to make some more for you while also satisfying those people who are hankerin' for winter maps. Cheers!

2020-11-21 17:36:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Frozen Ascent, Expert

Hi Experts and Masters! This week I made the Frozen Ascent (25x25), a simple addition to most snowy campaigns or locations. In particular, I made this one after my party handled a quest at at Kelvin's Cairn, in Icewind Dale. Now that I think about it, it might be nice to make an extra version of this map with blood splatter and bones littered around the cave entrance, like the Wampa cave from S...

Map Poll 10

Come one and all, for another poll! Every few months I create a list of many of your ideas and suggestions and assemble them here for you to vote on which 7 I will make over the next few months. Also, notice that you can vote multiple times, choosing every option that sparks your interest! So, in a week or so, I'll end the poll and make a list of the 7 maps with the most votes, and from then on...

City Canal

This week's map is the City Canal (30x30), another of my somewhat rare city maps! While the concept for this one kinda limits how useful it will be for the average campaign, I thought it might not be too difficult to slot in. It's easy enough to fit a small river or series of canals into most cities, near the harbor or something like that, just to class the place up. Anyway, I thought it was fu...

City Canal, Adept

Hello Adepts! This week I made the City Canal (30x30), and your extra version is a nasty Grimy recoloring! The yucky brown water doesn't look nearly as appetizing as the original, perhaps even dealing poison damage to anyone who tries to spend a turn or two in there, which will add a little more danger for anyone who doesn't want to take the main roads. 

2020-11-14 18:05:27 +0000 UTC View Post

City Canal, Expert

Hello Experts and Masters, this week's map is the City Canal (30x30)! Little rivers and canals are a popular addition to fantasy cities as they make them feel much more magical, and while this map won't line up well with any of my other city maps it will be a fun encounter. 

Your alternate versions for this one are Necrotic and Sunset, handy additions for both X-treme settings and re...

Grimy Inn

Hello folks, this week's map is the Grimy Inn (18x16), the final winner from my last poll! It's been a hot minute since we've had a poll around here, so I'm sure many of you have some thoughts on which maps I should be making- and I want to hear them! I'll be putting together entrees for the new poll over the next week, posting it shortly after whichever map I make next, so send me a message wi...

Grimy Inn, Adept

Hi Adepts! This week I made the Grimy Inn (18x16), a terrible place to stay the night! I don't like the look of those beds, and the green stuff growing in the corner just winked at me, but at least the company here is great, right? 

Your alternate version this time is a Sunset recoloring/relighting, as per a request made by a patron a few months ago for a version that would fit well ...

Grimy Inn, Expert

Hello Experts and Masters! This week's map is the Grimy Inn (18x16), the least appetizing inn map I've made yet. I think I would offer this place to my players if they were looking for one of the cheapest places in town, making sure to mention the musty smell and hostile looks from the patrons. 

Your alternate versions for this map are Subdued and Subterranean- an unusual option that...

Witch's Hut

Alright, I'm back with the final Halloween-y map of the month with no time to lose! This time I made the Witch's Hut (20x20), a squat house in the swamp. I decided to get a little funky with the colors for this one, since I haven't really settled on a swamp palette that I've been very happy with. I think I'm pretty happy with this one, but I bet by the next time I make a swamp I'll have some id...

Witch's Hut, Adept

Hi folks! As I promised, I made another spooky map before the month was over- the Witch's Hut (20x20)! This is a map that's been requested many many times over the last year or so, so I thought it would be the perfect time to slip it into the schedule since it felt thematically perfect for the month. With that in mind, your alternate version of this map is recolored with vibrant Fey colors! I'd...

Witch's Hut, Expert

Hello folks, I'm back again with yet another map- the Witch's Hut (20x20)! This is my 4th and final spooky Halloween map of the month, released just in time for the end of the month and hopefully just in time for some of you to integrate it into your Halloween adventures. If not, this is a map that has been often requested over the last year or so, so I'm sure it will be a welcome sight for man...

Creepy Crypt

Hi folks! I'm back a little early with the Creepy Crypt (25x19), a small series of chambers filled with lots of sarcophagi  and cobwebs- a solid little location to discover below a temple or graveyard. I like these types of maps for low-level players to try their hand at dungeoneering, clearing a couple small rooms of ghosts or undead for a few gold pieces, or as a quick encounter for high...

Creepy Crypt, Adept

Hi! I'm back with a rare mid-week map, the Creepy Crypt (25x19), with just a few days to spare in the spooky month. And, your alternate version is an icy Frozen recoloring/reshading, with more vibrant blue coloring and plenty of eerie blue lights! I like the thought of this version being lit from cracks or large holes in the ceiling above, allowing little safety from the blizzard outside, but t...

Creepy Crypt, Expert

Hello Experts and Masters, I've got a mid-week map for you just in time for Halloween, the Creepy Crypt (25x19)! This shadowy series of chambers will be great for placing below temples or graveyards, giving another level to the location for enterprising adventures to delve into. I like to use these types of maps as early jobs for beginner players- a priest is in need of some warriors to rid the...

Infested Orchard

Hello folks, I'm back with my next Halloween-themed map, the Infested Orchard (25x35)! I've been making these spooky maps with Curse of Strahd in mind, which I can only assume many of you are currently playing, and I think this one in particular is good for the Wizards of Wine Winery, despite it not being a vineyard. Perhaps they also maintain an apple orchard for ciders, or something like that...

Infested Orchard, Adept

Hello Adepts! This week I made the Infested Orchard (25x35), a dark and web-clogged place where your low-level parties can face off against a couple giant spiders and your high-level parties can battle a squadron of driders backed up by phase spiders. 

But every once-in-a-while you don't want a haunted orchard, but rather an idyllic orchard where you can battle more happy creatures, ...

Infested Orchard, Expert

Hello Experts and Masters! This week I made the Infested Orchard (25x35), my next spooky map for the Halloween month, as requested by the Master patrons on the Discord! I plan on making two more before the month is out, and this time I'm taking requests from everyone, so let me know what you'd like to see!

This time around you're getting a Feywild as well as a Grim recoloring. I haven't m...

Modest Chapel, Oceanside Ruins, & Small Farm Revisited

Hello Adepts, Experts, and Masters, I'm finally back with another Revisted post! It's been a while, but I've gotten a chance to whip up a huge and spicy post for the spooky month- Eerie and Grim redoes of a few recent maps that I thought would fit nicely together in a Halloween-y story. 

Specifically these Eerie and Grim versions are based off of my recent 2020-10-19 18:27:20 +0000 UTC View Post

Pumpkin Patch

I'm back! This week's map is the Pumpkin Patch (25x30), which was recommended by the Master patrons on their Discord! In fact, they've let me know that they demand many Halloween-y maps, so I've got a few lined up for the rest of the month. I doubt many of you would disagree that it would be nice to have a few stock spooky maps for my library, so buckle in for some solid seasonal choices!

Pumpkin Patch, Adept

Hello Adepts! This week I made the Pumpkin Patch (25x30), a very standard map that will fit perfectly into your spooky campaigns. I imagine a party being sent off to plunder a witch's magically-enhanced pumpkin patch in the forest so that the townspeople can make a giant jack-o-lantern to appease some angry, but festive, spirit who really loves Halloween. 

Your alternate version for ...

Pumpkin Patch, Expert

Hello Experts- this week's map is a suggestion by the Master patrons, the Pumpkin Patch (25x30)! We've decided on their Discord that I should probably whip up a set of solid Halloween maps this month, so expect some other spooky usual suspects over the next couple weeks, the kind of maps that are the bread and butter of grim campaigns.

Your alternate versions this time are an Eerie and Fa...

Small Farm

I'm back early this time with this week's map, the Small Farm (20x25)! While simple, this fits nicely with many of my other maps, and is also one of the very few farms I've gotten to draw, so I thought it would be a handy addition. Additionally, I've included versions of this map both with and without the roof after a suggestion I received this last week. Let me know if this is useful or needed...

Small Farm, Adept

Hello Adepts! This week I made the Small Farm (20x25), a quaint little map for your players to stumble across while on the dusty trail, perhaps earning themselves a nice meal from the owner if they can help with some chores around the house. It's always nice to have guests who can cast Mending or Prestidigitation, so I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to make friends around a farm. 

Al...