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Cult Assets 2

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Earlier this year a new asset pack series, Adventure Assets, was born from patron feedback in our annual survey (part 2 of this set released in August). This series was designed to address specific asset needs for creating maps fitting to different adventures and settings developed for 5E. In hindsight, it has also helped serve a difficult role of bringing in a collectio...

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Adventure Assets 3

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Earlier this year a new asset pack series, Adventure Assets, was born from patron feedback in our annual survey (part 2 of this set released in August). This series was designed to address specific asset needs for creating maps fitting to different adventures and settings developed for 5E. In hindsight, it has also helped serve a difficult role of bringing in a collection of more niche d...

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Oneshot Wonders Map Pack 3

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For this project I've been very lucky to work with the folks at Roll & Play Press, an ENNIE Award-winning, independent publisher based in London, UK. You might already be familiar with some of their previous work, including the Game Master's Fantasy Toolkit. Their kickstarter for 2023-12-19 13:18:08 +0000 UTC View Post

Monthly Recap November'23

Hello all! Here's your recap of everything released in the last month:

Woodland Assets 3: Trees, Bushes, Roots, Leaves, Forested Terrain // Direct Link to Post 

Teslite Cruiser (+ Adventure!)

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Pleased to share with you all another product made with our friends at Arcane Minis, the Teslite Cruiser. This airship makes a prominent feature in Arcane Minis' latest adventure, Toymaker's Terror, which you can also download here as a part of our collaborative release.

2023-12-06 13:40:49 +0000 UTC View Post

Temple of the Restful Lily

UPDATE 12/22/23: The linked ZIP download file below has been updated to include the new floor PNGs for the shrine's basement and levels 2 + 3 of the tower. Enjoy!

For the last map of NovemberI present to you the main grounds of The Temple of the Restful Lily, our second-to-last location from the Candlekeep Mysteries module. Like the other locations that we're wrapping up at the end here, this map is somewhat large, clocking in at 34x37 square...

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Monument of Howls

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Monument of Howls is an original location that I originally developed as I began musing on locations that would be fitting to specific player options like classes, subclasses, etc. This one specifically being born of the spirit of the Path of the Totem Warrior subclass of the Barbarian. 

I generally enjoyed this process of building with specific player types in mind (at least, narratively) and am quite pleased with the res...

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Regional Assets 2

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Earlier this year in June I was able to release to you all the initial set of Regional Assets 1, unique in their style, purpose, and the auxillary software we've designed the assets to work within (Wonderdraft). While the initial set did include more than 500 assets, I was nevertheless still eager to expand the new series as there are just so many types of places a DM may wan...

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Oneshot Wonders Map Pack 2

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Back in December of last year I released a pack of maps for "One Shot Wonders". While that initial pack included more generic biome-related scenes, I've since been working on a lot of more story-specific maps that I'm excited to begin to start sharing with you all over the next several months. Each release like today's will feature multiple maps...

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Woodland Assets 3

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I'll be the first to admit that I've got a bit of soft spot for assets in the forest/wooded theme as I think is evident in my mapwork sometimes. It's for both that fondness as well as their undeniable usefulness that I've brought another expansion to our Woodland Assets theme in Part 3!

Part 3 Includes:
  • Two new full-page, seamless terrains for "leaf ground" and "tall grass ground"
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L'Arsene's Ledger of Tokens: Part 7

Hello token users! I am pleased to get to share with you the FINAL portion of tokens attributed to L'Arsene's Ledger, the module I have been contributing to for the last few months. Want to know what adventure could combine the likes of jellyfish, humanoid murder crows, and celestial rules with far too many arms for my liking?? Check out the link below.

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Monthly Recap October '23

Hello all! Here's your recap of everything released in the last month:

Ruin Assets 3: ruptured ground, more wall caps, many more ruins // Direct Link to Post

Cloud Giant's Keep pt.2

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For the last map of October I present to you the second floor and basement of Cloud Giant's Keep, one of our last locations from the Candlekeep Mysteries module. These are obviously intended to accompany the ground floor of the location that was released last month.

In the module, the Cloud Giant's Keep is the fin...

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Dreamspire Apogee

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Dreamspire Apogee is the result of a recent creative collaboration between myself and one of my Adventurer tier patrons and I'm super pleased with the results. The peak of this spire is intended to represent the personal quarters of a sinister wizard BBEG and boasts a specific combination of "opulent evil". Nestled amongst its many finer furnishings you may notice chains, occult relics, curiously deified artifacts, and machinery se...

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L'Arsene's Ledger of Tokens: Part 6

Hello token users! I am pleased to get to share with you the next set of tokens of what's come as a result of the newest Kickstarter campaign from the same team that I worked with last year on the tokens for Heliana's.

L’Arsene’s Ledger enriches your world with bar-themed subclasses, adorable familiars, an...

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Ice Assets 2

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Today we've got Ice Assets 2 ready for release and to be added to your library. As in most cases, I generally try to either release asset packs for themes that are popular/need constant expansion or have not seen an update in quite some time and I would say the Ice Assets series very much falls within that second category seeing as how its original iteration was released 3 years ago. As you might imagine, I'd highly View Post

L'Arsene's Ledger of Tokens: Part 5

Hello token users! I am pleased to get to share with you the next set of tokens of what's come as a result of the newest Kickstarter campaign from the same team that I worked with last year on the tokens for Heliana's.

L’Arsene’s Ledger enriches your world with bar-themed subclasses, adorable familiars, an...

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Gloomknot Ruins

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Gloomknot Ruins is an original location that I envisioned as something fitting into the trope of "spooky forest", but with some optional twists to make it unique. As you can tell from the preview image I did manage to go a bit overboard with the roots as I got very into all of the lines and interweaving forms. My hope is that they'll provide a lot of creative bridges and means of quickly changing elevation in an encounter. 

You'll ...

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Ruins Assets 3

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Today we've got Ruins Assets 3 ready for release and to be added to your library. It's been 18+ months since the release of Ruins Assets 2 and since then it has only become increasingly clearer that the presence of ruined and destroyed set pieces in your asset library is quite important to many of you. My hope is that this pack will continue to help supplement existing tools and resources within this series as well as expand into newer area...

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Monthly Recap September '23

Hello all! Here's your recap of everything released in the last month:

Furniture Assets 5: Crates, barrels, pillows, tables, desks, etc. // Direct Link to Post 

L'Arsene's Ledger of Tokens: Part 4

Hello token users! I am pleased to get to share with you the next set of tokens of what's come as a result of the newest Kickstarter campaign from the same team that I worked with last year on the tokens for Heliana's.

L’Arsene’s Ledger enriches your world with bar-themed subclasses, adorable familiars, an...

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Cloud Giant's Keep

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For the last map of September I present to you the ground floor of Cloud Giant's Keep, one of our last locations from the Candlekeep Mysteries module. Like the other locations that yet remain to be mapped still, this giant's keep (as one might guess) is large, clocking in at 41x44 squares. Early next month you can expect it to be joined by its similarly scaled upper and lower floo...

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Sewer Assets 2

Update: Dungeondraft packs for Sewer Assets 2 are now available; see the bottom of the post for download links!

Today I've got an addition to the Sewer Assets for you, a theme that was originally debuted about 3.5 years ago if you can believe it. Like other asset themes that had gone a while without seeing some love, there were some quality-of-life upgrades in need here!

For part 2 I wanted to:
  • Generally explode...

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Bonus: The Boney Lass

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Got a couple other things coming down the pipeline at the end of September, but wanted to briefly share out to you all this vessel of The Boney Lass I made to accompany an adventure made by my friends over at Loot Tavern (the same creative folks behind L'Arsene's and Heliana's).

The adventure, Release the Kraken, is a fairly ...

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Elseridge Academy

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Elseridge Academy is the beautiful result of the latest efforts from my friends over at Borough Bound and the accompanying home to my latest map, Wrong Campus. If you're not already familiar with Borough Bound's work, you may remember th...

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Wrong Campus

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May I present to you the 29x47 square battle map for Wrong Campus, a particular section of the academic complex belonging to Elseridge Academy, a location designed by my friends over at Borough Bound. You can read more about Borough Bound, Elseridge Academy, and its bounty of accompanying lore and bonus content View Post

Furniture Assets 5

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Today I've got another addition to what must surely be the most broadly-used asset series in the library: furniture assets. A little bit of a misnomer at this point given that some of its contents stray from a strict definition of "furniture", but essentially these packs contain everything one could want regarding props, items, and furniture used in interior spaces. 

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Ryoko's Guide to the Yokai Realms: Kickstarter Tokens

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Today I've got an exciting new set of preview tokens made for the release of the already wildly successful kickstarter campaign for the upcoming 5E resource module, Ryoko's Guide to the Yokai Realms. While the campaign has clearl...

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Monthly Recap August '23

Hello all! Here's your recap of everything released in the last month:

Gallipot's Gulch: Arid valley scene with a unique vendor // Direct Link to Post 

Tomb of Valin Sarnaster

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Tomb of Valin Sarnaster is another location from the Candlekeep Mysteries 5E adventure that we are now really close to having completely mapped! This tomb complex exists as one of the adventure's higher-level adventures and takes place in a extradimensional crystalline world. The very walls, floors, and ceilings of the area are all formed of brightly glowing crystal, lending this otherworldly appearance throughout. Because the exact layout...

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