Good morning! Setting the record for the tallest map I've yet drawn by just four squares, this week's map (and the last map for June) is the Forbidden City.
This map is more like two smaller ones joined at the hip, really. I couldn't make up my mind whether to focus more on the courtyards o...
2021-06-25 17:05:18 +0000 UTC View PostWhoops, I almost forgot about this. I'm thinking of a few different maps I could top the eastern map theme off with, and I thought of putting up a poll for it. Pick your favorite, or just let me decide.
Good morning! Today, I bring you my own backyard.
That's not a joke, this map is pretty much just my backyard, fictionalized. I took the wildcard today and decided to draw a marshy shoreline with a dock. Nature is nice, and this is a weird niche I don't think I've seen done yet. Most of Min...
2021-06-18 16:52:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up on the first Destiny asset pack I released back in May, it was requested of me that I make a second pack - and here it is! Courtesy of the ...
2021-06-13 23:58:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, or evening! This is a quick notification that Kelfecil of Kelfecil's Tales has put together a low-level adventure featuring some of my work - the 2021-06-13 21:55:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning! This is the second map for June, a pagoda by a waterfall. It was actually meant to be a caldara, inspired by Roku's temple in Avatar: The Last Airbender, but by the time I realized it didn't look very caldara-y I had already finished the terrain/cliff lines and changing it wasn't po...
2021-06-11 22:46:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning! June's map theme poll came up as Eastern & Oriental Structures, so for the first week I thought I'd do the specific request that was made - a ninja temple/dojo!
Of course, this gave me a bit of a headache, since ninja dojos have very little historical basis, so I hacked so...
2021-06-04 16:38:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya! Over the last month, Instant Encounters wrote up a number of short-format encounters and hooks based off of the greeco-roman city maps I did back in March. Three were generously provided for free - attached in the .zip archive below - and 2021-05-31 02:17:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey hey, people. This week's map is May's belated wildcard, which is based on a bit of confusion over one of the theme entries last month! But it turned out nice, so that's good. It's a mesoamerican-inspired city wall surrounded by floating gardens - chinampas! These are large mats held together ...
2021-05-28 14:44:08 +0000 UTC View PostWow, it's time already. Time is moving too fast and I don't like it. Rules:
Good morning! Here's something a little bit more crypt-like, if you thought the graveyard month was missing out on the underground. There's also above-ground variants, too, of course.
This week's map is slightly inspired by the Mesoamerican market I did a couple weeks ago, though I'm not su...
2021-05-20 23:43:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Good evening! This week's map is a shady graveyard in a secluded forest area, based off of an area in Destiny 2. A gash cut into the earth gives way to a drainpipe, splitting the graveyard in two; connected on one side by a grass bridge near the top and on the bottom by a bridge across the runoff...
2021-05-14 04:33:55 +0000 UTC View Post
A couple days ago, Kelfecil - a writer and GM I know - released a short adventure segment based on the map I did last week! If you've got the spare change and are interested in pre-written content to drop into games (o...
2021-05-13 20:18:21 +0000 UTC View Post
From on high above the planet comes sailing down a meteorite, carved from green fire and filled with hate - the BARD LICH has returned, with technology incomprehensible and a fuckin' sick guitar.
Good morning! I hope this isn't too far from the graveyard/spooky the...
2021-05-08 02:25:53 +0000 UTC View Post
This is just a notice that I've successfully made the switch to Linux, so everything should be on schedule and there (probably) won't be an atrocious disaster that upsets my map release schedule. Next map will be next week as planned.
I have to say, I'm kinda impressed. Linux isn't so bad, ...
2021-05-01 05:57:41 +0000 UTC View PostIt's approaching May, so it's time for this again! Rules:
Good morning! It's the last map in April, and to finish off the Shops & Establishments theme, here's a whole bunch of shops in the form of a marketplace in a mesoamerican-inspired courtyard. Large flanking walls on all sides provide good locations for observers or snipers, while the ...
2021-04-23 17:01:52 +0000 UTC View PostGood morning! This is about the last map for April and scheduling.
I count my map schedule by Saturdays in a month. May has five, so I'll be taking a week off - next week, to be specific. I'm putting together a new and more powerful PC so that I'll be able to do larger maps comfortably agai...
2021-04-20 18:34:51 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's wildcard map got a little out-of-hand. It's a canyon delta! Except it's clearly not a delta, it's just a river mouth. Oh well.
I like doing these outdoors maps. They're flexible, consistently beautiful, I have a lot of material to work with for variations, and I'm really good a...
2021-04-16 00:17:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Edit: By request, I've attached a reference image containing labels for the function of each room and bath in this map!
Inspired by the bathhouses built by our resident foundation-of-basically-all-European-civilization, I bring you the Roman bathhouse - a public bathhouse b...
2021-04-09 23:40:25 +0000 UTC View PostStealing a trick Cze taught me here. All future map launch posts will have the actual archives uploaded attached to this post, and then they will have a direct link added into the launch post. This will cut down on unnecessary notification spam, reduce the bloat in my Patreon archives, make it ea...
2021-04-09 23:21:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Easter Sunday! This lovely skyscraper garden is a commission I finished late last night, and my client graciously allowed me to release the final product publicly for you to enjoy too.
Though intended for a rooftop confrontation with a long-standing foe, I have a feeling this map migh...
2021-04-04 14:41:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning! Or, evening, as it were - 11:30pm on a Friday night. "Shops & Establishments" won the last theme poll by exactly one vote. Someone must've snuck in an hour before it was set to finish and cast the deciding vote.
Anyways, this week I drew a shop lit by cascading ra...
2021-04-03 04:39:48 +0000 UTC View PostNew map's finally finished. I'll have the main post up in a bit!
2021-04-03 04:15:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Is it really a joke if everyone saw it coming? Or perhaps you knew there'd be a joke, but you didn't know what it was. Well, the joke is the silliest map I've ever drawn to my memory, which comes with a semi-complete scenario to drop on your players and a couple of monster tokens to go with it. 2021-04-01 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Rounding off the marble city maps this month is a map inspired by none other than the Roman Forum - a big, open plaza with lots of ceremonial pillars and a rostra from which important public figures may proclaim their latest triumphs - or, on a more mundane day, a town crier may declare recent ne...
2021-03-27 04:05:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Good evening, this is the week's map. I'll have the main post written up in a bit, and until then (and after then, actually), the download link is below.
2021-03-27 03:31:57 +0000 UTC View PostGood morning! This poll is for the theme of the maps to be drawn throughout April, with submissions harvested from last week's submission box. The rules are straightforward:
Good morning! I ran a poll last weekend asking if a wildcard map per month was an interesting idea, and it received utterly overwhelming support. So, well, here we are.
This week's map is not a city map, but it is a lovely and quiet lighthouse on a cloudy island inspired by an excellent fil...
2021-03-18 21:47:16 +0000 UTC View Post