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Booster Asset Pack Theme Vote

Hello all! Obviously we have a fairly well-established precedent of using patron opinion to determine the themes of each of our public asset packs, but I'm not sure if we've ever done the same for our patron-only booster packs!

So below I've listed several different themes that I have on my to-do list to see where the most interest lies. I'll probably end up doing all of these at one point or another, but figured it only made sense to try and let your collective preference dete...

Statue Assets Part Two

Hello all! While I've been on the theme of fleshing out some previously released asset packs I though I'd share with you one I've been tinkering with behind the scenes now for a little bit: State Assets pt.2!

Coincidentally it has been almost exactly a year since I released the original Statue Assets, and while I was happy with those it was clear to me shortly after releasing them that there wer...

Venomfang's Tower Photoshop File

Venomfang's Tower

Hello people!

For the first map of our fourth year on the patreon I had the inclination to revisit a trend I was practicing at the very beginning of the patreon: creating maps for WotC products. Lost Mine of Phandelver is obviously a pretty widely known, popular adventure for 5E and one that I've found myself falling back on more frequently as of late as I'm introducing new players to D&D. Way back when, I had made maps for a handful of the possible encounters in t...

Expiring Posts (February 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. The following maps will no longer be available one week from today:  

- Battle Map of 2020-03-01 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Dominion of the Deep Mother Photoshop File

Dominion of the Deep Mother

Hello people!

For the final map of February I'm going to be sharing with you the last addition to the reworking of the underwater dungeon maps from the classic 2E trilogy Evil Tide, Night of the Shark, and Sea of Blood. I started working with this series back in September of last year and in total it has produced the Upper Caves, 2020-02-29 17:33:23 +0000 UTC View Post

3 Year Giveaway: Final Update

 3 Year Giveaway: Update #3

Hello all! Earlier this month I announced the 3-Year Anniversary for the Patreon and its accompanying Asset Giveaway happening for all current patrons on 3/1/20.

This Saturday we reveal the final set of nine assets that will be given only to patrons that have been supporting for longer than 2 years:

28: Slain Deer

29: Sword in the Stone

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The Looking Glass Photoshop File

The Looking Glass

Heya folks!

For the fourth map of February (hold on for the fifth tomorrow!) I'm glad to have gotten to partner with 5E content creators Storm Giant Games-- a patron of mine as well as long-time creators of really cool D&D ideas!

The Looking Glass is a location of their own making: an interplanar demiplane where players can grab a drink, rub elbows with its exotic patrons, and de...

3 Year Giveaway: Update #3

Hello all! Earlier this month I announced the 3-Year Anniversary for the Patreon and its accompanying Asset Giveaway happening for all current patrons on 3/1/20.

Every Saturday this month we've been revealing a section of those assets to be given away. This weekend we see the first set of assets given to all patrons that have been supporting for at least a year: 

19: Captain Orglar'...

Dungeon Entrances Part Two Photoshop File

Dungeon Entrances Part Two

Hello all!

A good while ago when I first began creating 'booster packs' of asset themes one of the first such packs that I released was Dungeon Entrances Volume One. It was a fun one to produce and a theme that I had wanted to revisit as soon as I'd finished the first set, but with as many different asset ideas as there are to create, I've only just now gotten around to coming back to them!

As the name suggests, this pack is focused less on a larger number of more mundane, or broa...

3 Year Giveaway: Update #2

Hello all! Earlier this month I announced the 3-Year Anniversary for the Patreon and its accompanying Asset Giveaway happening for all current patrons on 3/1/20.

Every Saturday this month we've been revealing a section of those assets to be given away. This weekend we see the second half of the assets that everyone will be receiving: 

10: Tropical Maneater

11: Sundial...

Lair of the Sixth Scale Photoshop File

Lair of the Sixth Scale

Hello all!

Got really into some dragons this month and was so pleased with this one that I constructed an entire battle map around it! The Lair of the Sixth Scale is intended to serve as the coup-de-grace to your adventuring party as they delve into the draconic cult's lair of debauchery. 

With the drama of this dragon statue looming above, your players can clash head-to-head with the empowered cult leader before they're able to successfully summon t...

Public Asset Pack Theme Vote

Hello all!

With the release of the Sewer Assets pack this week we need to vote on our next larger installment of the public asset 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 need to be a followup poll to decide between the various options:  Forest, Tavern, Snow, Rivers, Urban, Caves, Ships, Castles, Mountainside, and Sewers.

As you probably realize I try to...

TableClicks Giveaway

Hello again! Hope I'm not spamming your weekend too much, but I've got another giveaway to announce for you all!

Over the last couple of months I've gotten to partner with Table Clicks to create a handful of battle maps that will be featured in their upcoming Kickstarter! As we've collaborated I've gotten a good glimpse into their design process and I'm excited for the new kind of modular map-building experience they're striving to offer: a 'clickboard' that can not only be cle...

3 Year Giveaway: Update #1

Hello all! Last week I announced the 3-Year Anniversary for the Patreon and its accompanying Asset Giveaway happening for all current patrons on 3/1/20.

Starting today and every Saturday for the rest of the month we'll be revealing a row of those assets! This weekend we see the first half of the assets that everyone will be receiving: 

1: Giant Footprint

2: Dragon Egg

3: Kwalish's Suit

4: Icy Crystal

5: Monstrous Bones

6: Arcanist's Tele...

Sewer Assets

Hello folks, here it is! The Sewer Assets.

This pack was built as a sort of spiritual successor to the Cave Assets released about a year ago. Like those, this pack mainly consists of 23 different tiles set along an 8x8 square grid, meticulously drawn in such a way as to make them seamlessly compatible with one another. These were of a slightly more complicated beast however b...

3-Year Anniversary Giveaway

Hello wonderful people!

It is FEBRUARY and I am so excited because that means that at the end of the month we will have hit our 3-year milestone for this Patreon page!

In anticipation of that and to help celebrate one of the things I have planned for you all is an asset giveaway! The graphic featured in this post more or less breaks down what will be a total of 36 assets tha...

Azerian Outpost Photoshop File

Azerian Outpost

Hello all! 

For the last map of January I've been having some underdark yearnings while sketching layouts for the upcoming Sewer Assets so I decided to put a map together for it!

I've recently been trying to integrate various pieces of D&D lore or creatures into battle map designs and I was particularly inspired by the Azer (page 22 of the Monster Manual), though I could just as easily see a DM using this for Duergar or several other underdark sp...

Throne of Teeth Photoshop File

The Throne of Teeth

Hey folks,

Those of you who have been paying attention the last several months know that I've slowly been working my way through remastering some older maps from a classic D&D trilogy featuring the 2E adventures Evil Tide, Night of the Shark, and Sea of Blood modules. So far I'd made the Upper Caves, 2020-01-27 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Expiring Posts (January 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. The following maps will no longer be available one week from today:  

- Battle Map of 2020-01-27 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Road Assets 2.0

Hello all! 

So a good while back ago when I was first exploring what it looked like to be releasing smaller packs of assets more regularly, I put out a series of Road Assets to supplement the ones already found in the original Forest Assets pack. At the time, these were my attempt to not just create a...

Golem's Waypoint Photoshop File

Golem's Waypoint

Hello all!

Pleased to share with you a fun roadside traveling map I've been working: the Golem's Waypoint. This major crossroads in your campaign's countryside is marked on most maps not just for the forking in one direction or another, but for the gargantuan stone golem that greets passerby! Apparently abandoned or 'deactivated' this golem bears some unfortunate breakage in a few key spots and is overgrown with foliage and even a large tree, but the faint glow of arcane energy...

Treasure Assets

Hello all!

Let me tell ya, there are few things more mind-numbing than painting detailed swaths of tiny gold coins for hours on end! But for you all, it's worth it! Before you I present the Treasure Assets, a combination of 24 sizes of coin piles (each in 4 color variations for copper, silver, gold, and platinum) ranging from small collections of currency to hillsides of coins covering 4x4 squares on a battle map. 

These coin piles are accompanied by: 3 new e...