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Westernos' Deep: Chambers of Ascension

Westernos' Deep: Chambers of Ascension

Hello all!

Quite pleased to share with you all the beginning of the culmination of a project I've been tinkering with for the last couple of months: Westernos' Deep! The Chambers of Ascension you see above is the first map in a 2-part dungeon layout, the 2nd map for which is still in progress and will becoming out next month. 

This location was first i...

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Market Assets

Market Assets

Hello all!

Pleased to share with you an asset pack that I feel has been waiting in the wings for a while--Market Assets! I had visualized a marketplace scene a couple of years ago during an 'urban battle map' series, so I started by isolating pieces from there so I could paint back i...

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The Hallowed Braizer Photoshop File

The Hallowed Braizer Photoshop File

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The Hallowed Brazier

The Hallowed Brazier

Hello all!

For this week's battle map I'm so happy to share with you the product of a collaboration between myself and musician Will Savino from Music D20! Will reached out to me a little while ago after having become a fan of the content I work on and after listening to his own work the feeling quickly became ...

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Royalty Assets

Royalty Assets

Hello all!

Glad to be able to share with you all the Royalty Assets booster pack I've made for you! As you can probably imagine I made these specifically with the recent Castle Assets in mind in order to expand your stronghold's interior design options, but as with all assets there's no reason you coul...

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Drowned Caverns Photoshop File

Drowned Caverns Photoshop File

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Drowned Caverns

Drowned Caverns

Hi all!

Gonna go ahead and bookend September with the counterpart dungeon map to the Upper Caves released at the beginning of the month: the Drowned Caverns! As you'll see in the first post, this is a re-envisioning of one of the dungeons from an original 2E AD&D adventure module, E...

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Devil's Bay Photoshop File

Devil's Bay Photoshop File

Sorry I forgot to upload this over the weekend! 

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Devil's Bay

Devil's Bay

Hello all!

Not too long ago I stumbled upon a few different collections of drone photography curated for D&D as 'photo-based battle maps' and thought it would be fun to try and using one as a reference for a hand drawn map. Thus.. Devil's Bay! The reference for this  rocky shoreline was originally shot by photographer View Post

Expiring Posts (September 2017)

 With the end of the month drawing near and after a series of new maps  introduced, the maps that have grown older than 2 years will expire  from the Patreon page to become only available on the website. To ensure   that all of you have the opportunity to download those expiring maps  before they're no longer available here, I've collected the links f...

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Westernos' Deep Design Feedback

Westernos' Deep Design Feedback

Hello all!

In the polls we did a little while back for our growth reward you all chose for me to work on a mini-module that would expand on adventure opportunities within one of the dungeon maps I've made. You all ended up choosing an upcoming dungeon I had then been working on, a desert...

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Public Asset Pack Theme Vote

Hello all!

With the release of the Castle Assets this month we need to vote on our next larger installment of the public asset pack. I've included the remaining options from the previous poll as well as an option for a 2nd iteration of a previous pack. If that option were to win there would need to be a followup poll to decide between the various options:  Forest, Tavern, Snow, River...

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City Assets Pt.2

City Assets Pt.2

Hey folks!

Ever since we put together the initial City Assets Pack at the end of July I've wanted to return to it in order to help supplement some areas of what I otherwise thought of as a very useful collection of assets. Since this is not the pack voted on by you all for the Public p...

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Castle Assets

Castle Assets

Hello all!

Per our poll last month, assets for a Stone Castle were voted the next focus of our patron-supported Public Assets pack. As was noted in the poll, this pack features a little less on smaller, 'decorative' (not sure if that's the best word) assets in favor of larger, more structural piece...

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Upper Caves Photoshop File

Upper Caves Photoshop File

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Upper Caves

Upper Caves

Hello all!

For the first map of September I share with you the Upper Caves, my re-envisioning of one  of the dungeons from an original 2E AD&D adventure module, Evil Tide. Evil Tide was a part of series of aquatic themed adventure modules alongside Night of the Shark and Sea of Blood (gotta love those pulpy old school titles) and you ca...

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Tree Assets (part 2)

Tree Assets (part 2)

Hello all! Trying to continue the recent trend of 'normal, but deeply useful' assets with a followup on the previously released Tree Assets pt.1 (which was itself a followup to the original Forest Assets). It's obvious that the most useful, universal assets are bound to see the most use and therefore you ...

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Expiring Posts (August 2017)

With the end of the month drawing near and after a series of new maps introduced, the maps that have grown older than 2 years will expire from the Patreon page to become only available on the website. To ensure  that all of you have the opportunity to download those expiring maps before they're no longer available here, I've collected the links for them below for you:  View Post

Hollowfang Keep Photoshop File

Hollowfang Keep Photoshop File

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Hollowfang Keep

Hollowfang Keep

Hello all! 

Was recently asked by a $5 patron to take another stab at the classic player-reward keep and we went above and beyond this time.. resulting in Hollowfang Keep! This growing stronghold boasts a three-story keep, blacksmith, stables, and barracks, all well defended by the towered walls of the keep. 

This map pack contains not just the map of the keep fea...

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Farm Assets

Farm Assets

Hello all!

After settling down from the end of our Magic Item Assets series in July, I've wanted to return to something a little more mundane... farms! A theme that's been requested a few times in the past, I've always thought that there was enough of a niche here to help fill some usefulness while not being quite enough to constitute an entire Public Pack. In this assets 'booste...

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Public Asset Pack Theme Vote

Hello all! Since our Asset Pack for City Assets was churned out so quickly last month we already need to vote on the next one! As per usual, I've included options for major themes that we've yet to explore thus far in the Public Asset Packs, but this time around I've also included a voting option for those of you who would like to revisit a previous theme seeing as how it's been 2 years...

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Low River Bridge Photoshop File

Low River Bridge Photoshop File

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Low River Bridge

Low River Bridge

Hello all!

Pleased to present you with another of what I hope will fall into the 'universally useful' category of battle maps with the Low River Bridge. How many times do we have players roaming the countryside and have to cross a river like this? Whether you need a scene for a bandit ambush, to set the stage for a traveling caravan teetering across the stone bridge, or f...

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Rauthurthorp Photoshop File

Rauthurthorp Photoshop File

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Rauthurthorp

Rauthurthorp

Hello all!

Been a while since I had sat down and worked out a classic countryside town map such as this. Rauthurthorp (Rauthur = red & thorp = village, i.e. Red Village) is like many small clusters of civilization in that it boasts of common services like a smithy, general store, tavern, etc. What really puts Rauthurthorp on the map (amongst the local provinc...

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City Assets Pack

City Assets Pack

Hello all!

I can't guarantee every public asset pack is going to have this quick of a turnaround moving forward, but I was surprised and inspired enough from the last poll for asset theme that I wanted to jump on this one right away.

May I present.. the City Assets Pack View Post

Expiring Posts (July 2017)

With the end of the month drawing near and after a series of new maps  introduced, the maps that have grown older than 2 years will expire  from the Patreon page to become only available on the website. To ensure  that all of you have plenty of notice and opportunity to download those  expiring maps before they're no longer available here, I've collected the  l...

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Dungeon Choice for Goal Reward Module

Heya people,

Per our most recent poll, a mini-module for one of my dungeons squeaked by as the most preferred option for the next goal reward now that the Public Asset Packs are a part of the mainline stream of posts.

Our next step here is to now vote between the available dungeons to see which you'd prefer to see a module for! Please vote between the available options (I'll leave t...

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Deep Passing Photoshop File

Deep Passing Photoshop File


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