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4-Year Celebration: Community Asset Pack

Hello folks!

As some of you long-standing supporters can attest to, this March we have hit our 4 year anniversary on Patreon. I started creating and receiving generous support from awesome patrons like yourselves back in March 2017 and it has been a crazy journey getting to where we are today!

As I have grown into the habit of doing, this benchmark demands recognition! I have a number of bonus releases and other exciting announcements planned for this month, but...

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Crystalline Throne Room - Photoshop File

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Crystalline Throne Room

Hello and welcome to the Crystalline Throne Room!

This frozen audience chamber represents the collective efforts of three phenomenal creators in the TTRPG scene. The cartography artwork is brought to life by Venatus Maps, your scenes are immersed in the musical creativity of the Boy King of Idaho<...

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Expiring Posts (Jan 2019)

With the end of the month drawing near and after a series of new maps  introduced, the maps that have grown older than 2 years will expire from the Patreon page to become only available on the website. To ensure that all of you have the opportunity to download those expiring maps before they're no longer available here, I've collected the links for them below for you. If you're looking for a map that's now exclusive to the website, be sure to visit the View Post

Wave Echo Cave - Photoshop Files

Hey $3+ supporters! Sorry this one's going up a bit later than I'd normally release a PSD file after a map. As you'll see below there is a lot going on as would make sense for a release this big, so it needed some cleaning up before I wanted to put them all out there. 

Because of the enormity of the location and doing it all at once at a battle map scale I had to separate the cave into separate PSD files for both my brain's sake as well as my harddrive's. You shoul...

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Wave Echo Cave - Printable Heroes Minis

Hey folks! This is the miniature set for our Wave Echo Cave release.

Here are the 15 miniatures created by our partner Printable Heroes, including unique miniatures for NPCs within Wave Echo Cave such as the Black Spider, his minion Vhalak, and Mormesk the wraith.

The ...

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Wave Echo Cave - VTT Files

Hey Folks!

This post accompanies the debut release of the Wave Echo Cave from the the classic introductory 5E module Lost Mine of Phandelver. You can read more about the project in it's initial post, but this post contains all of the VTT-ready and compressed versions of the full-res files. 

Meanwhile all of the creatures within the entire cave have been created in partne...

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Wave Echo Cave - Print Files

Hey Folks!

Surprise! Over the last several weeks I've been working in the background, creating in collaboration with my 5E co-conspirator Printable Heroes to finally knock out a project I'd been wanting to do for a while: create a full-detail, battle-scale recreation of the famous Wave Echo Cave from the the classic introductory 5E module Lost Mine of Phandelver<...

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Dungeon Entrances pt.3

Hey folks,

This is the third installment of my ongoing Dungeon Entrances, one of my most favorite asset series ever since I started in back in 2018. The first four of this set are used in the Arkus Collaboration, but entrances 17 & 18 (the skull and the hedge demon) are exclusive too all of you lovely people. 

The premise of the idea is simple: rather than like...

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Arkus 2: Full Content

Hello again!

This post contains the full content of collaborators' work made for the expansion to the Arkus setting, except  for my own work on the Dungeon Entrances, which you can find here. I uploaded them to a separate post for organization's sake and because there are 2 extra entrances that are not Arkus-related and made only for you lovely people. 

Below,...

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Arkus: Epiphytic Ephemera

Welcome back to Arkus, the arboreal realm of intrigue and the arcane! Discover new subclasses, dungeon inspiration, and bizarre lore in this exciting new supplement to the Arkus campaign setting for 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons.

Equally useful for DMs and players, this document will help you craft character and adventures unique to this strange realm. Pla...

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Swamp Assets Workshop

Swamp Assets

Hey folks! We've got a lot of posts going live this coming week, but until then what better way to celebrate this holiday of romance than a lively swamp discussion! Per this last week's poll a swamp theme...

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Public Asset Pack Theme

Hey folks!

Apologies for the bit of quiet here at the start of February; I've got a big project coming out next week that I've been working on and am so excited to share, but means things will be a little back-loaded this month.

In the meantime, let's pick a theme for our next public assets pack! I've included the remaining options from the previous poll as well as an  option for a 2nd iteration of a previous pack. If that option were to  win there would...

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Expiring Posts (Dec 2018)

With the end of the month drawing near and after a series of new maps  introduced, the maps that have grown older than 2 years will expire from the Patreon page to become only available on the website. To ensure that all of you have the opportunity to download those expiring maps before they're no longer available here, I've collected the links for them below for you. If you're looking for a map that's now exclusive to the website, be sure to visit the View Post

City Walls Assets

Hello all!

At the end of November's poll you all opted for the City Walls asset theme for our next public assets pack and it has arrived! Like its structural predecessor before it in the Castle Assets, these assets were more about making 'building blocks' that would be fully modular and able to do prett...

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Burning Eyes - Photoshop Files

Heya $3+ supporters! Both PSD files of each of the Burning Eyes maps are a bit of a whopper so I've had to include them as Google Drive links below due to Patreon's pesky upload limit. Enjoy!

Courtyard PSD 

Inner Chamber PSD <...

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Burning Eyes - Duergar Tokens

Hello all! Here are the 100+ tokens and variants made available for use with the Burning Eyes maps, created by the wonderful Alex Coggon

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Burning Eyes Collaboration

Hello all!

Today I'm so happy to roll out a larger-scale collaboration between myself and illustrator Alex Coggon! I was first introduced to Alex's work when we both participated in a broader-collaboration of other creators during which I created the Elemental Phylactery, inspired by Alex's compelling icy-l...

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Mapmaker v. VTT-ready maps

UPDATE: With a final 60% favor for Dungeondraft that appears to be where I'll putting the priority of my focus for now (with Foundry coming after asap). I'd love to be able to help put together a team of users who have already begun, or would be interested in beginning to convert our content to dungeondraft-readiness. Crowdsourcing this effort will make it easier on my end, go more quickly overall, and thereby allow us to all get to a state of usability sooner and move on to...

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Rooted Hollow Photoshop File

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The Rooted Hollow - Jan Loos Collaboration

Hello all!

Pleased to share the my second collaboration of 2021, this time with a new friend: Jan Loos. Jan is an artist from the Netherlands creating top-down tokens of all varieties and I was really excited when we were able to connect last month and start to work on what a project between the two of us could look like. The result?

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Garden Assets

Hello all!

Very pleased to get to start off 2021 by sharing an asset pack that I've had quite a fun time playing around with and I hope translates to even more fun for you and your players. The Garden Assets lands in a unique area between the Forest, the Feywild, and the Urban, expanding a number of established sets while also introducing a few entirely new ones (why haven't I made grass patches yet?!).

To top it all off this particular set is also acco...

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Expiring Posts (Nov 2018)

With the end of the month drawing near and after a series of new maps  introduced, the maps that have grown older than 2 years will expire from the Patreon page to become only available on the website. To ensure that all of you have the opportunity to download those expiring maps before they're no longer available here, I've collected the links for them below for you. If you're looking for a map that's now exclusive to the website, be sure to visit the View Post

Church of Endless Winter Photoshop Files

PSD files for both the Light and Winter variants of the church are attached below, enjoy!

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Church of the Endless Winter - LBH Collaboration

Hello all!

For the final map of the month and the year I bring you the lovechild of yet another collaboration between myself the good people of Lunch Break Heroes. Today's post will be the last contribution to our exploration of the Rime of the Frostmaiden module which began with the Bremen Docks location in...

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Larry's Lease-a-Lair Warehouse! ~ Free Collaboration Project

Welcome to Larry’s Lease-a-Lair Warehouse, where everyone from Lizardfolk and Liches to Wraiths and Wizards alike can find the Lair of their dreams designed to thwart even the most villainous of adventurers! Here at Lease-a-Lair, we recognize the demands on the time and attention of our customers and not everyone has the schedule to learn how to magically shape their environments and carve their lairs into the depths of volcanic mountains. So we bring the lair to you! Choose from our ma...

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Astral Train Car Photoshop Files

Hey $3+ supporters! PSD files for the original holiday car and its two variants are attached below. Enjoy!

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Astral Express: Patron-Only Variants

Hey folks!

As a fun bonus to the holiday-themed hot coca train car from the Astral Express collaboration I have created two variants using the cocoa maker (aka forge furnace and alchemical machine) as an anchor. The variants and the hot cocoa original can all be found in the .Zip folder below with or without grid overlay.

Enjoy!

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The Astral Express | A Festive 5e Adventure for 5th-Level Characters

UPDATE 12/21: The missing bar/lounge car is uploaded separately below and the whole adventure has also been formatted for immediate plug+play on the Shard tabletop platform here

All Aboard The Astral Express!

Every year, Klaus the Kindhearted travels across the planes visiting all the good...

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Canyon Assets

Hello all!

So I've really been wanting to put together a pack of Canyon Assets for a bit now as yet another way of fleshing out our Great Expanse content library (and selfishly I needed some myself for creating scenes for my own campaign!). So I've gone full-dictator and taken the Canyon theme out from the Public Assets pack poll rotation (don't worry, you're still getting the City Walls theme in January) and am releasing it here as a 'booster' pack!

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