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Town Market

Hey everyone, my map for you this week is the Town Market (26x26)! A small and jumbled marketplace where all sorts of urchins will no doubt be preying upon hapless adventurers. I've made a few changes in style since my last urban map, but the two are similar enough that one could lead into the other without any problems. Oh, and make sure to check out the Adept version! It's another stormy weat...

Stormy Town Market, Adept & Expert

This week my alternate version is another one with stormy weather, which is the same as last time, but you can't deny that noire city feel is awesome. Actually recently in my campaign, which is set almost entirely in a single city, I had a huge storm pass through while my players were trying to track down a pirate friend of theirs who had dumped a black dragon egg onto them and ran away. Fortun...

Ancient Altar

Hey there folks! This week's map is the Ancient Altar (30x30), a fun adaption using several of the assets from a commission I made this week for the Curse of Strahd subreddit (check them out sometime at r/CurseofStrahd, they've posted the map there as well!). I would bet that this place is infested with cultists when there's a full moon, but druids would do just as well. Either way, you know th...

Stormy Ancient Altar, Adept & Expert

Hey there Adepts & Experts! This time around I've got a couple alternate maps for you: the stormy version you see above, as well as the day and night versions with a dry river bed.  Truth be told I originally made the map without water at all, but about 2 hours before I planned on posting it I wanted to try it out with a stream in the trench. Turns out I think it works better as the re...

Elegant Courtyard

Hey there everyone, this week's map is the Elegant Courtyard (20x20)! Now, before you burn me at the stake, yes this was listed in the poll as the Castle Courtyard, but I believe I pivoted for good reason: I didn't want the presence of a castle to limit the usefulness of the map. As it is, this map can be used in more situations than if it was set inside the walls of a castle, such as in a clas...

Cheerful Courtyard, Adept & Expert

Welcome back! This week the alternate version of the map is with palette that more closely matches the rest of my library, vivid greens and pale beige stone. This version should lead into the rest of my maps a little easier and has a more fun and cheerful vibe than the regular version. I'm actually not too sure who I would pit my players against in this version of the map, it really doesn't have t...

Autumn Forest Clearing, Revisited

Hey there Adepts and Experts, I'm back today with my third revisited post! This one is a palette swap for the Forest Clearing, giving it fall colors instead of its regular verdant green. I really enjoy the way my forest maps translate to this palette, but that may or may not be just because fall is witho...

Ancient Catacombs

Hey there folks! This week I'm back with the winner from the poll, the Ancient Catacombs (29x25)! This crypt will be the envy of every undead on the block as comes complete with various shrines and alters and better yet it's only slightly collapsed around the edges (don't worry, we can buff out those scratches). I've been looking forward to this one for a while because I've been itching to make...

Brown & Propless Ancient Catacombs, Adept & Expert

Welcome back, Adepts and Experts! Your alternate version for this week's map is special because I prepared two separate versions: a different warmer palette and without all the caskets, columns, and the other assorted props. I'd like to say I planned on doing this, but shortly before preparing to post this map I had a premonition of some of you telling me that the gray stone version was more a cry...

Roadside Clearing

Hello everyone! Due to the holiday, this week's map is free and the adept rewards are also available to everyone! Consider this my thanks to all my patrons for supporting me, just a year ago the thought to start this hadn't even occurred to me and I couldn't be happier with how it's turned out. Thank you very much, and I hope you'll stick around for a while to see me make some more neat maps :)...

Crumbling Facility

Hey folks, I did something a little different this week and made a little dungeon map (35x35, 33x35 print)! As requested by one of my Expert-level patrons it's an old and decaying facility, overgrown here and there with moss and lichen. I left many of the rooms empty, because as many of you know I don't like making too many assumptions as to the story behind my maps, so it should be somewhat ea...

Crumbling Facility, Adept & Expert

Hey everyone! The alternate version of this week's map is a fairly simple palette swap from gray to orange, which I usually do when I make maps that are almost entirely stone or rock. I do this because the gray version, while pretty, has a more aged and cold feeling to it. For me, that would be great as that's the way I imagine my dungeons anyway, but the orange version has different uses. I co...

Map Poll

Check it out, it's my 3rd poll! Due to your suggestions in the last poll, this one is made up almost entirely of patrons' ideas, all of which I thought sounded excellent. If you have any more ideas put them in the comments below and they will have a great chance of showing up on the next poll, or at the very least like the ideas others post so I know which have more interest than others.

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Forked Road

Forked Road Ambush, Adept & Expert

Welcome back, my most wonderful patrons, and feast your eyes upon a wagon!  That's right, a wagon has been placed smack dab right in the dang pass, surely something nefarious is behind this event?! My money is always on highwaymen but maybe it's more benign than that, it could just be someone in need of a hand or a merchant who's being assaulted by bandits from the cliffs on either side.&n...

Forest Shack

Welcome back, Patrons! My (35x32) map this week is a nice little shack in the woods, just a little ways back from the road among a couple rocky ledges. This may or may not have been inspired by all the little cabins you run across in Red Dead (which I highly recommend, those environments are beautiful). 

What I like about this one is even if you don't want to include the shack it's a...

Fall Forest Shack, Adept & Expert

Howdy Adepts & Experts, your alt map this week has got a nice little fall color swap because I just can't get enough of these colors! I like how the tone of the map changes with this palette, much more gloomy and a little foreboding. My personal campaign is set in a tropical climate, so consider this an outlet for all the yellows, browns, and oranges pent up inside me.

I think I would...

Volcanic Ruins, Revisited

Welcome back folks, for the second Revisited post: an alteration of the Jungle Ruins map! If you haven't seen the first, this is an ongoing series where I go back to one old map per month and change it as per your suggestions. 2018-10-29 21:35:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Big Island Shrine

Hey there everyone your map of the week is the Big Island Shrine (40x40), likely the final map I'll be making from the last poll. No longer will I be chained by the bonds of polls and I'll be able to draw whichever map I want, whenever I want! I think I'll shake things up next week, so be sure to stop by ;)

I was pretty excited to be drawing an island again this week, it's definitely my f...

Stormy Big Island Shrine, Adept & Expert

Hey team, your alternate map this time is stormy once again, perhaps my favorite way to alter a map. In my own campaign, I like to use weather as part of the challenge, and during heavy rain, I give a little more leeway to everyone's stealth (including enemies). Perhaps here the rain makes the rocks slippery like in Breath of the Wind, increasing the difficulty of scaling the cliff faces and pr...

Town Courtyard

Prepare yourself patrons, for the day is nigh; I've created an urban map, the likes of which I've been avoiding for many months! It has all the things you would expect in a town or city: buildings and streets, plus some bonus grass and trees for a sweet Whiterun vibe. I've started small here at 20x25 (partially because I've been sick this week and couldn't handle anything bigger), but I've got ...

Town Courtyard at Dusk, Adept & Expert

Hey there everyone, your alternate version this time is a pretty simple change to a different time of day. I think it's nice to have maps set at different times of the day, it's an easy way to keep immersion. With this extra dusk version, you'll be prepared for a fight no matter how much time your party spends comparing potion prices or hiding to let the heat die down. 

Let's talk ab...

Spooky Woods

Deep in the woods where the trees thin, there you can find a small canyon where all kinds of creepy things are bound to be happening. I swear I saw a coven of witches heading there just a few minutes ago, but as a rule, I try to be where witches aren't, especially when they're packing a cauldron big enough to fit all four of us.. Worse yet, that's where the townsfolk said a pack of werewolves g...

Autumn Woods, Adept & Expert

Welcome back folks, your alternate version this time is somewhat less spooky than the regular map, perhaps a 6 on a scale of 1-10. I wanted to make sure that this map would be usable for non-spooky encounters, so a simple swamp to more typical autumnal colors seemed like a solid choice which wouldn't need leaves for the trees. In fact this version is what I started off with, only after I took a se...

Swamp Path

Hello everyone! I'm back with this week's map, the Swamp Path (30x28), which was next in line in the poll (make sure you've voted!). Normally I like to make the difference between the day and night versions very clear, but this time I felt the need to make them double as two different flavors of the same map...

Island Path, Adept & Expert

Welcome back Adepts and Expert patrons, your alternate map this week is a nice and sunny version of the swamp path! The intent for this was to imitate the style of my Crumbling Fort map from a couple weeks back, and while the effect isn't quite the same I think it still will make for a ridiculously happy battle to the death.

Let's talk about how the map developed, shall we?

2018-10-05 15:46:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Tiered Waterfall, Revisited

Hello, Adepts and Experts! Remember that post from nearly a month ago where I asked for your recommendations of maps for me to return to? This is where that was going! For the first of these I went with the suggestion that got the most likes, 'Tiered Waterfall, but with a rickety rope bridge' (thanks for the idea, James)!

After this, I'll keep chugging away at your suggestions at a rate o...

Cozy Inn

Welcome back folks, here's your map for the week! The cozy inn (17x17) was next in line in the poll, 2nd overall, which wasn't unexpected. Is it just me or are inns the most used locations in anyone else's campaigns? 

My plan for this one was to keep it nice and simple, I went with a pretty unexciting layout with all the usual suspects. Notably, though, I didn't draw anything outside...

Empty Inn, Adept & Expert

Hey there Adepts/Experts, as you can see your alternate version of this map is completely devoid of all props (I kept the fireplace in there, I dug too deep a hole with my layers to remove it without causing problems). This way the map is a nice blank template for dropping in tokens, hopefully some of you find it handy. Oh, and I made sure to make the lighting for this one a little versatile, half...

Crumbling Fort

Hey everyone, here's your map for this week: the Crumbling Fort (36x36)! It's pretty dang crumbly as it turns out, crumblier than I might have originally intended, but I think it will make for interesting combat. As you might guess, I based this one off of Skyrim's many forts, which I like because of how simple their layout tends to be.

I imagine someone shifty is using the old fort as a ...