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Drow Underdark Manor $10 Rewards

So we haven't worked out a definite schedule for our Campaign Connoisseurs yet but for now here's the campaign notes for last week's Drow map. It's a bit later than expected but we've had a lot of changes this week that needed organizing first, like the new Discord!

We think we'll be releasing the $10 rewards mid-week, usually a Tuesday. That post will contain the upgraded version of the campaign map, with journey markings and place names, as well as alternate grids. You'll also get the...

Updates, Special Offers and Discord!

Updates

This is a loooong post about the updates we’re making to some of the tiers and some other patreon related things. We value all the community input, so please give it a read and comment. :)

Map Scouts: Discord access.

Intrepid Explorers: Discord access.

Master Cartographers. We’re adding Discord access, this tier and higher will also have access to their own room for discussing map poll su...

Weekly Poll #9

Lots of aquatic and naval based suggestions coming in this week from everyone excited by the new Saltmarsh campaign. And we've added the three runner up suggestions from last week's poll.

If you're a $5+ patron remember to send in suggestions you have by next Sunday for the next poll.

Underdark Drow Manor $5 Rewards

You'll be receiving the whole Drow stalagmite which stretches over 11 floors and comes in multiple segments. If you don't know much about the Drow, this is a great place to start: https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Drow

But i'll also be posting some campaign ideas in a few days if you need extra ideas for running a Drow/Underdark campaign. Included in the rewards folder are all of this week's map a...

Underdark Drow Manor $3 Rewards

This week you'll be receiving the Drow manor but also the ballroom and a fighting ring with stables and a ring of viewing seats. Enjoy!

Underdark Dark Manor $1 Rewards

So this week Map Scouts are actually getting 3 different maps instead of a day/night version. Battle your way up and destroy the Lolth high priestess on the top floor!

Drow Manor

Hey map hunters! The Underdark Drow Manor is complete!

See the lineup above! And here's a side-view:

We decided instead of creating variations this week that we'd add more floors instead. Being in the Underdark, day and night versions just didn't make much sense... So we've created a giant stalagmite that you can battle your way through, with 11 floors altogether! 

$1 tier gets...

Where'd you find us?

Hey everyone, there's a new community question! This might seem like a marketing question, in a way it is, but we're also genuinely curious. We get messages occasionally that say 'hey I saw you on...' and it's always interesting to hear about. Sometimes people find us on websites we've never been to, the Russian social network WK being an example of that. I guess someone was sharing our work there? We'll never know!

We're also considering rewarding patrons who've recommended us to a fri...

Library of Marauding Wizards

Just dropping in with the latest campaign notes. Took a while to complete and I didn't think I could do it but I managed to squeeze all the information onto one side of A4! I still don't want to promise these as a regular thing as they're quite time consuming but it's nice giving out more community gifts when I can.

Hopefully this inspires some ideas for running the latest map in a campaign. For those who haven't used a sheet like this before it's simple, read the spiel on the lefthand ...

Do you print out our maps or use them with a VTT?

Time for another community poll! We've had a lot of questions over the last few weeks about using our maps and if people print them or use them digitally. So we thought we'd ask!

We've had a lot of Americans ask us about where to go to get them printed but we're over here in Europe and have no clue, so if you have some suggestions share them in the comments!

If you use a virtual tabletop (VTT), let us know which. :) 

We were sent the photo below by the awesome Thibaut, ...

Ancient Wizard Lair $5 Rewards

All the $1, $3 and $5 tier maps are contained in the zip below. Enjoy! Thanks again for all your support!

We've included a version which is unfurnished, you can access all of the Endless Wizard Tower props here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/magic-wizards-5-24767829 just download the props.psd file and design your own lair. When you try this, please send us the finished map, it'd be great to s...

Weekly Poll #8

Here are the options for this week's poll. I think this is all of them, including the most popular suggestions from the last poll. We had so many this week. If I have forgotten any, please nudge me in the comments below.

If you're a $5+ supporter, remember to message us your suggestions during the week for next week's poll.

Ancient Wizard Lair $3 Rewards

All the $1 and $3 tier files are in the zip below along with this week's campaign map. Enjoy!

Ancient Wizard Lair $1 Rewards

Thanks everyone for your support. The day/night versions are below in the zip file. :)

Ancient Wizard Lair [35x35]

Hey map hunters! Here's the Ancient Wizard Lair for you all. After creating all those variations for the Wizard Tower it was quite a creative push to come up with something novel for this map. But we're always up for a creative challenge.

We decided to make an ancient floating wizard library for the base map, suspended by giant crystals. This old wizard library is a suspended 8 pointed star-ziggurat. The number 8 is of vital importance to all magic (not only because octarine is the colo...

What is your campaign setting?

Hey everyone, thanks for the feedback on the last poll. Here's a new question for you all. Some patrons were discussing recently how they'd like more desert maps and it surprised us just how many people use that setting. So we thought we'd see what settings you guys are playing right now.

The options are pretty vague and might overlap a bit (there's desert in the wild west and East Asia for example) but hopefully they'll be clear enough to answer.

Next map will be out tomorrow and...

Labyrinth Campaign Notes

A guide to help you come up with flavour for each of the rooms within the labyrinth. Most of these are purely aesthetic but hopefully they'll help you and your players get into the right mindset for a dungeon like this.

Below are notes specifically for a variation of the map given out to the $5+ tiers.

This is a more complete quest with ideas for loot, traps and monsters as well as hooks ...

An Architect's Guide to the Guildhall

Hey everyone, by a strange quirk of events I ended up writing the campaign notes for the guildhall before the minotaur labyrinth. That's still on its way. Perhaps it'll be ready tomorrow...

Still not sure if these campaign notes will be a regular occurrence but hopefully this helps everyone who was struggling with identifying the rooms or coming up with side-quests for this location. Feel free ...

What are the main reasons you joined our Patreon?

Hey everyone, thanks for all the great responses on the Discord poll, we're really pleased you're all so keen on joining us there. We'll be setting that up over the next few weeks along with some other changes.

For those who didn't see it, the Ancient Wizard Lair won this week's map poll. That'll be released on Sunday.

I've got the next community-wide question, for anyone who'd like to chime in with an answer. We're curious what everyone is interested in when signing up to our pat...

Would you join our Discord server?

Thanks to everyone who answered the last community poll. So many 5e players! 

We've been asked by several patrons if we could start a Discord server and we'd like to get more community feedback on that idea.

I'll be frank, neither me nor Peku are very fond of chatting over a microphone. It might happen! But we would rather chill in the server rooms and type away with you all.

We'd like to set up rooms so that people can role-play online, maybe through FG or Roll20. That...

Weekly Poll #7

As suggested by Joshua Crouch from now on we'll be adding the top 3 runners up from last week's poll into the next.

If you have any suggestions you'd like to see in next week's poll, suggest it either by message or commenting below before Sunday.

Adventurer's Guildhall $5+ Rewards

Greetings Master Cartographers, hope you enjoy all the variations we created for you this week! It should serve you well as a hub base. Beware all the invading monsters.

All maps are in the zip file below (including the $1 and $3 tier variations) and the .PSD is attached separately. Enjoy!

Adventurer's Guildhall $3 Rewards

Hello Intrepid Explorer's, welcome back from your dungeons! Hope you can find rest and relaxation in your new guildhall. All the map files, including the $1 rewards and the campaign map are zipped in the file below. Enjoy!

Adventurer's Guildhall $1 Rewards

Salutations Map Scouts! Thank you for your gracious support. The day and night, gridded and ungridded versions can all be found in the zip file below. Due to the nature of the map there's actually 4 night variations, so you get some extra this week! Enjoy scouting your new guildhall.

Adventurer's Guildhall [33x24]

We're running a bit late tonight (3am!), but here's the Adventurer's Guildhall for you all. We hope it serves you well as a base of operations between trips to the deep dark dungeons.

We've included bedrooms for party members (a master bedroom for the guild leader) and a dorm for your retainers. There's meeting rooms, secret chest rooms, a library, a map room, a chapel for your Cleric/Paladin, a blacksmith, stables, training grounds and more. Outside is even a little behest board for vi...

Minotaur Labyrinth Process GIF

Thought you might like to see our map-making process. 

There's usually a lot of sketching that goes on before this but that was all lost when moving house recently. 

After the sketching stage it's all digital. Blocking in, line work, details, flats, lighting, shading and finally vfx. That's how we do it!

Enjoy. :)

What games do you play our maps with?

In case you didn't see the write up in the last post, this is the first of a series of polls we'll be running asking you guys about RPGs, our maps, Patreon and more, so that we can get a better idea of what our community is like and what it's interested in. All polls are anonymous and voluntary too. If you don't feel like answering, that's fine. We just want to get to know everyone better. If anyone wants to start a discussion in the comments, go for it!

Minotaur Labyrinth Patron-Only Variations [26x50]

We did it! The Minotaur has been defeated. The map has been looted and now it is ready to be placed in the Map Room on the altar of Boss Maps, ready for whenever you brave souls require it.

This map is huge. HUGE! Our biggest so far.  It took a long time to get it finished but we hope you all enjoy it. Contained within the zip file is also a Minotaur token for you to battle against. 

Thanks again to everyone for joining us here in our map-making community, we couldn't ha...