Battlefield Corpse Mound (20x20, 200px)
Added 2022-08-31 21:36:57 +0000 UTCThis morning I issued myself a challenge. I was listening to the soundtrack for The King, and I found myself thinking of some of my favorite moments in the film. Inspired by this, I decided I was going to try to put together a battle map in a single day while listening to the aforementioned soundtrack. It was a little frantic, but I managed to pull it off, and I'm pretty happy with the results. I hope you like them too!
I provided variants with flames scattered around the field, and variants (plus overhead tiles) for smoke or mist, depending on what vibe you're going for.
When I was running Curse of Strahd myself, I intended on incorporating a vision of the last stand of the Order of the Silver Dragon - though this isn't intended to suit that scene, it could easily do so.
Now, to rest my weary wrist - I could not begin to imagine how many individual shadows I had to place in this thing...
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My maps are made with assets from Forgotten Adventures and AoA (bolstered with assets of my own making here and there), and they come with grid/gridless, day/night, edited/unedited, and light/lightless variants, plus JPEGs, WebPs with transparent backgrounds, and UVTT (DD2VTT) files for Foundry VTT.
Comments
Thank you so much, Miriam - I really appreciate that! I do think it's perhaps the most grim scene I've ever mapped - I may have to do a nice pumpkin patch or something in preparation for Halloween to lighten the mood a touch!
Vincent - Aonbarr Cartography
2022-09-06 14:38:36 +0000 UTCI have to say, there are dozens of maps for the classic CoS campaign areas, but I love that you are providing niche things like this to help fill in gaps for random encounters, side stories, or to enhance existing content. Thank you! This one is particularly grim--the variations are great.
Miriam Cox
2022-09-05 22:48:33 +0000 UTCThank you so much, friend! I was hoping the shadows would help to conjure an idea of scale, so I'm glad it worked! :)
Vincent - Aonbarr Cartography
2022-08-31 22:17:01 +0000 UTCReally great job on this one! I also love the deep shadow which really shows how large the pile of bodies is
Andy D'Amato
2022-08-31 22:05:24 +0000 UTC
