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Release the Kraken on The Whispering Outpost

Added 2023-06-02 17:28:46 +0000 UTC

Every month we go through our back catalogue of maps and YOU vote on which two should be re-released under the free commercial use license. Our first release this month is this ruined outpost and experiment with colour palettes from 2019.

Once a defensive border fortress looking over lush fields, the whispering outpost guards nothing but sand and scrub now – far from any borders.

Not destroyed by siege or strife, the Whispering Outpost has been left to collapse quietly as the lands around were stripped of life by the Efreet Aznakath Flamehenge. As the last troops were moved from the area, they dismantled the main gates of the outpost to prevent it being used as a strongpoint by bandits or rebels. The rest of the damage to the structure are the markings of neglect and age.

I decided to try a colour version of this map using a simple colour palette taken from a Willy Pogány illustration from The tale of Lohengrin, knight of the swan, published in 1914.

The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 13,200 pixels (44 squares) wide. To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 140 pixels (for 10′ squares) – so resizing it to either 3,080 pixels wide or 6,160 pixels wide, respectively.

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