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Dragon Heist Maps

Hello all! In last weekend's poll, about 60% of you opted for the next 'dungeon-series' battle maps to be based on the locations from Wizards' most recent adventure module: Dragon Heist. Since then I have procured my own copy of the adventure, read through most of it, and identified relevant maps...

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Dungeon-Series Theme (revisited)

Hi all!

Last weekend I posted a poll for you to choose between various preexisting Wizards of the Coast dungeons for me to recreate at a battle map scale, much like how I just finished working on Castle Ravenloft from Curse of Strahd. I still believe this is a good idea and would create an exce...

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Dungeon-Series Theme

Hello all! Apologies for spamming you guys over the weekend.

Now that Castle Ravenloft is finished I wanted to start putting some feelers out there for what might be a suitable next target for some battle maps from WotC content. While Ravenloft took much longer than I anticipated it taking, the end result I'm fairly proud of and hope that it will continue to be a helpful boon for DMs ru...

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Public Assets Pack Theme

Hi! With the Urban Assets Pack now solidly in the rearview mirror, it's time to start planning the next Public Assets Pack!

Please vote between the following options (you can vote for multiple)! I'm keeping these a little broader for now, and will likely put out a different poll in the near-future for you guys to choose between narrower themes for the private Asset Booster packs.

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Heart of Sorrow Photoshop File

Heart of Sorrow Photoshop File


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Castle Ravenloft on DMsGuild

Castle Ravenloft on DMsGuild

Hello beautiful weekend people,

Just yesterday after a couple of additional tweaks I posted our Castle Ravenloft package on to DMsGuild as a part of my desire to share the maps with others not interested in the Patreon platform (and to hopefully continue to rely more on map-making as a primary income tbh). 

If you're familiar with DMsGuild and have used and/or appreciated the Castle R...

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Castle Ravenloft (Complete set)

Castle Ravenloft (Complete set)

Hello all!

Been on a little hiatus at the beginning of October here as I've been finalizing all of the many steps necessary to completing Castle Ravenloft. Here you will find every floor compiled, all of the rooms organized by module labels with grid and no grid versions, different resolutions, and ready-made PDFS for print ~96% of the castle easily.

Altogether the entire thing is...

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Ravenloft -- Final Rooms

Ravenloft -- Final Rooms

Castle Ravenloft is now 100% complete! However, one of my worst habits is underestimating how long a project is going to take me, so I've documented all of the extra rooms I built to complete the castle here for your reference.

Check the very next post coming for the complete .zip file of the whole castle.

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VTT Grid

Hello all, happy October!

Random poll for those of you who play VTT (virtual tabletop): as someone who typically does not play via technology, when you're using my battle maps to do so, do you typically prefer to have them with the grid already, or without? 

By my understanding there are often options for both regardless of platform, so please vote below and let me know!

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Dungeon Assets Part 2

Dungeon Assets Part 2

Hello all!

With Castle Ravenloft mapped out and in the process of formal cleaning-up I took it upon myself to complete the previously released Dungeon Assets Part 1. By scouring through every room in the castle I have gleaned for you nearly 100 different asset pieces to add to your collection...

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Miscellaneous Rooms 2 Photoshop File

Miscellaneous Rooms 2 Photoshop File


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Ravenloft: Miscellaneous Rooms 2

Ravenloft: Miscellaneous Rooms 2

THE FINAL ONE.

What a fun month for finishing up long-lasting projects! What you see before you are the last set of rooms that I'll be publishing as stand alone maps from the infamous Castle Ravenloft from the well-loved WotC module Curse of Strahd.

I've been working on mapping out the castle's beautiful (but at times difficult to use) three-dimensional, whole-castle maps...

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Urban Assets Pack

Urban Assets Pack

IT IS HERE.

After many months of testing your collective patience I have finally managed to sequester myself away in order to finish off the remaining pieces of the Public Urban Assets Pack

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Crown of Zeviticar Photoshop File

Crown of Zeviticar Photoshop File


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Urban Assets Pack Preview

Urban Assets Pack Preview

Hello all!

As I'm sure some of you are aware of, I have been working on the next larger public assets pack for a few months now. The theme, Urban, seems to be a topic of great potential use for many of you and in order to hope and try to pull it off in the way that I envision it's required a little more work than I had originally envisioned.

One of the main crutches of that labor ...

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Spires of Ravenloft Pt.2 Photoshop File

Spires of Ravenloft Pt.2 Photoshop File


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Spires of Ravenloft Pt.2

Spires of Ravenloft Pt.2

The second to last Ravenloft map! Only one more to go!

Here is the companion to the earlier Spires of Ravenloft Pt.1-- part 2! Featuring a number of delightful rugs and increasingly concerning beds. As with all previous Ravenloft rooms, each one is separated into an individual PNG file and I went ahead and combined the rooms that are adjacent for your convenience. 

As I've sa...

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Community Library V.1

Community Library V.1

Hello all!

I still have plans in the making for organizing maps, resources, guides, and other links on a separate platform for easier access for you all, but as that may still be a ways off I wanted to be able to share a small bit of the fruit of your collective efforts!

A little while ago I had posted about starting a 'Community Library' of maps made by you all using the assets that I've ...

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Castle Ravenloft -- Dungeon & Catacombs

Castle Ravenloft -- Dungeon & Catacombs

With Castle Ravenloft nearing a complete state within the next couple of posts for it I've begun to compile the rooms into complete floors. 

Here's a peek at what's to expect when the entire project becomes available! High-res PNGs of whole floors.

*Note that I'll be working to provide convenient paper versions as well as testing them with sites like Roll20 to make sure they ...

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Ravenloft Chapel Photoshop File

Ravenloft Chapel Photoshop File


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Ravenloft Chapel

Ravenloft Chapel

Hello all!

Here is the latest addition to everyone's favorite immortal vampire infested fallen-from-grace castle: Ravenloft. The castle's tarnished chapel area is one of the largest single rooms in the entire castle and gave me the chance to experiment with some more interesting stained glass lighting effects.

Those of you who have been following along with this very extensive project now ...

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Longsaddle Photoshop File

Longsaddle Photoshop File


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Longsaddle

Longsaddle

Hello all!

For the 2nd map of July I was commissioned by a fellow patron to recreate a map of an older location in the history of D&D--the town of Longsaddle. Being a preexisting location within the Forgotten Realms setting created by WotC we are lucky that it is already rife with backstory, NPCs, and previous references you can look through at your own reference on its View Post

Download Links Breaking

Hello all!

At what may be the worst possible timing, there appears to be a streak of download links breaking among older posts. I have no idea why this may be happening and am in communication with Patreon support regarding the issue. 

Due to the recent move (in combination with us being fairly nomadic at the moment) I do not necessarily have easy access to all  files up...

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Lava Forge Photoshop File

Lava Forge Photoshop File


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Fire Giant Lava Forge

Fire Giant Lava Forge

Hello all!

Apologies on my brief hiatus this month--it's been a busy season for me and mine, we're moving! So while this is just the third map I've put out this month, I'll hope to be able to get out the final two before the end of the week, but we'll see.

Regardless, here is the dungeon map I've been working on for a Fire Giants' forge! Commissioned by fellow patron Alex Embrey, this map ...

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Ravenloft Spires Pt1 Photoshop File

Ravenloft Spires Pt1 Photoshop File


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Spires of Ravenloft Pt1

Spires of Ravenloft Pt1

The June installment of Castle Ravenloft!

Getting up into the higher parts of the towers that loom above the rest of the castle, we have here the roof of one of the towers as well as the rooms the comprise the witches' lair below. As with previous iterations of Ravenloft's rooms, I've separated the rooms into individual PNG files and in the case of the adjacent witches' rooms, have comb...

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Community Collection: Battle Maps

Hello all!

Through the process of creating assets for you all to use I've heard story after story of awesome battle maps that you guys have made for your campaign using said assets. Sometimes I'm lucky enough to see a picture or a Roll20 screenshot from that battle map's use and that sincerely encourages and excites me that I get to contribute to a community of like-minded makers.

As those...

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Blacksmith Assets

Blacksmith Assets

Hello all!

For this month's 'booster pack' of assets I've decided to start on a series of "shop assets"--a collection of venue-specific items and assets that are originally intended to help populate a store area, but like any other assets, can be creatively used far beyond that.

This month, I decided to start with the 'blacksmith assets'; using these specific assets in combination with the...

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