Hey everyone,
We may have got a little carried away with this...
Since the MotM is the Cave of Wonders, inspired by the Disney film Aladdin, we thought it would be cool if the Third Map also worked with that setting. So, we've got a rooftop chase, ideal if your 'street rat' is being chased by guards after stealing some fruit! You can also use it for stealthily entering the inner city by avoiding gate guards, following a merchant or spy, or a thousand other ideas. We've...
2022-01-22 11:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
Time for a preview!
The winning entry for the alt-version was to turn the Cave of Wonders into an underground opera house, run by a rakshasa, with a den of pleasure/harem behind the scenes.
It's been a really fun map to make. It's got a full opera house and stage, with lounge rooms to the side, and then behind the stage is a series of chambers decorated in a decadent style, with cushions, rugs and fountains. However, secret chambers conceal prison cells, and th...
2022-01-19 23:08:44 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone,
It's time for a return to Eyno Bleside - our desert world that may or may not be inspired by Tattooine...
We've got an iconic location - a huge Pod Race track. The map is 50x100 and has extensive twisting canyons and wide, hot plains.
This massive map will be in the Sci-Fi reward bundle in February :)
2022-01-15 17:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
We're really excited (yes, really!) to show you what we've been working on this week.
A new range of super useful maps (called the Essentials range) - and we've started with a set of 10 30x30 maps, the GM Starter Pack. It's got a great range of locations that are frequently used - a tavern, various lairs/dungeons, roads, forests, city stre...
2022-01-14 18:27:45 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
Thanks for all the cool ideas on how we should reimagine the Cave of Wonders.
We've picked our favourites for your vote:
Evil Villain Lair - inspired by 1980s cartoons, a very cliched evil villain lair
Aberration Mage Lab - lab for wizards creating aberrations and experiments
Tropical Submerged
2022-01-13 22:40:13 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
This is a map set we've wanted to make for ages, so we're happy that we've finally got round to doing it.
The Cave of Wonders - the magical resting place of The Lamp. We've been inspired by the wonderful depiction of the cave and entrance in the Disney Aladdin film.
2022-01-07 16:48:20 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
Please check your Patreon messages for your codes to claim the January 2022 rewards!
There's an awful lots of maps - I can't remember if we actually showed previews of all of them...
The main MotM is the Jungle Trading Post (which also has an adventure supplement, check the other post).
There are three variants of this - desert, mountain wilderness summer and mountain wilderness winter (the one-page supplement is for the winter one).
Then there's th...
2022-01-05 22:12:21 +0000 UTC
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Adventure supplements for maps released between January and March 2022
January 2022:
The Jungle Trading Post - Five page adventure supplement & regional map
Mountain Wilderness Trading Post Winter - One Page GM Supplement
February 2022:
The Cave of Wonders - Five page adventure supplement & regional map
Crosshilt Lane -One Page GM Supplement
March 2022
The Towers of...
2022-01-05 22:01:23 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone
Rewards are out really soon, but realised that we hadn't shared the preview of the first maps from the new Sci-Fi MegaMap, the Petraluna Corp Prison Mine.
The first map is the surface, with exterior and interior, showing the holding cells for new arrivals, a loading bay for the mine, and reception and admin.
2022-01-04 00:54:25 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone
Hope you all had a fantastic Christmas. We've got a couple of map previews that we delayed so we could take some time off for Christmas (plus Sarah was unwell), but here's one of them - the first level of Saint-Gerrin Sewer. We've got big plans for this set - including a bonus surface map, but also ancient sewers and flooded catacombs. Lots of mystery to uncover!
...
2021-12-31 17:20:25 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone.
Another day, another preview!
We said last month that the runner up in the alt-poll for Blackwhelk Bay would be the Third Map for January. The winning alt was the coastal watchtowers, and the runner up was an active shipwreck
This large 30x60 map features rough seas and a floundering ship. We'll also be giving you the map without the ship, because stormy coasts are useful!
This will be in the January reward bundle :)
2021-12-21 16:56:30 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
Hope you're all excited for Christmas!
We've got a preview of the SciFi map that people on the Sci-Fi tier will be getting in January - a 30x30 jungle landing platform, sitting above the jungle canopy.
We reckon this will be a really great location for a running battle or firefight, ducking behind crates, defending a spaceship that's getting refueled or intercepting a fugitive before they board...
2021-12-20 17:08:27 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone,
You may have noticed we've been a little quiet lately - that's because we've been working on a massive Christmas set of maps!
You might remember we set a SurveyMonkey questionnaire for you earlier this month, asking you to pick random themes and features. We then took the winning ideas and came up with a map for it.
The top words chosen were 'City/Waterfall/Ancient/Sacred/Altar' - and we came up with The Dead City, a 50x50 map of a ruined ancient city b...
2021-12-17 22:24:41 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
Thanks for taking the time to suggest an alt for the Jungle Trading Post MotM. We've picked through our favourites:
Jungle Fort - military outpost, very far from home
Underdark outpost guarding a bridge over a lava river
Underdark Duergar prison pens near mine/quarry
Lizardfolk settlement in jungle with swampy river
Temporary encampment for a jungle expedition...
2021-12-12 21:06:41 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
We're already looking ahead to January's maps and here's the preview for the MotM. Going with a jungle theme, we decided that a very useful map would be a trading post, beside a river and at the junction of a few paths. Useful either as the starting point of an adventure, or somewhere to resupply and rest between adventures.
We've already started working on the th...
2021-12-08 19:39:18 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone
If Patreon have processed your payment for December, you'll have a message in your inbox with links to claim your rewards.
There's some massive maps this month, and lots of them!
Blackwhelk Bay barbarian village, in summer and winter, plus attacked version. There's also an empty coastline, plus a watchtower set.
The multi level Sharpsight Hi...
2021-12-06 22:07:53 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
We wanted to get your help with deciding the special Xmas map we'll be giving to all our Patrons as a Christmas Gift!
But first, an explanation of the idea around it.
A while back we made a set of roll tables with different themes, locations and features, and sometimes we roll on it, see what comes up and then brainstorm possible ideas using some or all of the suggestions.
This month, as part of our Christmas sale, we'll be making three new winter m...
2021-12-03 00:19:53 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone, new and old Patrons!
So glad to have you all with us. As we've said before, we really appreciate your support - it's amazing.
It's been a pretty busy few months. In September we were working hard to finish all the maps for the amazing Thrones & Bones project, then in October we were working hard on Halloween maps (including our massive
2021-12-03 00:19:25 +0000 UTC
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Hey,
Time for you to see the final section of Brooklime Gorge!
Another pair of 30x60 maps, both the surface and underground. On the surface are the crumbling remains of a temple, whilst below is an extensive temple dedicated to a water spirit - who may still dwell in the original cavern pools.
We'll post a pic of the full Brooklime Gorge soon, but it's by far our largest map ever - the surface is 60x150, with nearly all of that also mapped below.
This will ...
2021-11-25 13:01:04 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
Time for a preview, and once again it's a pretty bumper map!
If you recall, we had a poll at the start of the month where we asked you to pick a location from Saint-Gerrin that had been described but not mapped, and you picked the Sharpsight Hideout. This was the hideout for a group of child assassins - recruited from the orphanage in the town, and trained beneath it, linked to a strange cult.
So, this map has a 30x30 orphanage (or school), with a lower cellar....
2021-11-23 21:37:28 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
December is the final piece of the current SciFi Mega Map (The Crow's Nest) which means we'll be moving onto a new one for January 2022 (running for 6 months).
We've picked three previous ideas, and added two more. You can vote for as many as you'd like.
The options are:
The Wreck of the Sheerwater - a huge derelict spacehulk, with a grimy industrial aesthetic, spread across a single level
Petraluna Corp - Prison Mine 81-80
2021-11-19 20:22:47 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
We're coming to the end of the Brooklime Gorge megadungeon (December is the final piece), which means we'll be moving onto a new one for January 2022 (running for 6 months).
We've picked three previous ideas, and added three more. You can vote for as many as you'd like.
The options are:
The Sewers of St Gerrin - a sprawling sewer system beneath the city with ancient areas, secret chambers, hideouts etc
Caves of the Sea Beast...
2021-11-19 20:17:39 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
We've gone for something quite different this month, we reckon. Not sure this type of location has been mapped much before.
In December, if you're on the SciFi tier you'll be getting this 50x50 map - New Atami Container Port. We imagined dodgy meetings in the shadows, heists, chases from container top to container top...
It should also be perfectly usable for modern settings - spy games, criminal gangs, investigators...
Hope you'll find a place for ...
2021-11-18 17:26:27 +0000 UTC
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An update...
Fixed!
Thanks for those who got in touch
2021-11-15 12:44:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
We had such a hard time narrowing down the ideas for the alt-version of Blackwhelk Bay
We had such a hard time in fact, that we've picked nine options!
You'll have as many votes as you'd like, plus the runner up in the poll will be January's Third Map, so two of these options will definitely get made.
So, without further ado, ple...
2021-11-13 10:41:31 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
We've just released three brand new sets on DTRPG, and we wanted to let you have a Patreon exclusive discount if you'd like to pick them up.
We've released three new Explorer sets - each one consisting of 5 30x30 maps which join together in a sequence, but this time we've also put in some connections between the sets in case you want to string them together into a huge map.
The three sets are 2021-11-12 00:16:43 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
Well - we may have gone a little overboard with this month's MotM and it's variants.
We had the idea for a nice coastal icy barbarian settlement, but decided that we had to expand it to 30x60 in order to get in everything we wanted.
And then when it came to variants - we had the idea for no-village, destroyed village and summer - but then had to also do destroyed summer village and no-village summer. - so, a huge number of maps!
2021-11-08 17:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
We've begun the bulk messaging - the rewards are on their way!
Once again, thanks so much for your support. We've got a massive set of maps - not only a lot of maps, but also lots of levels for each map!
The Ghost Hunter office (2 versions), a rural tavern, an abandoned tavern, a museum, a dwarven forge/pub, huge amounts of mega dungeon in the gorge, and for the Sci-Fi supporters lots of spaceship!
2021-11-05 20:54:39 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
Whilst writing the supplement for the Saint-Gerrin Ghosthunters map (which will be out in a few days!), it was fun to look through the supplements for other Saint-Gerrin locations and see how much the city has grown. And whilst doing that, we were reminded of other locations that were named on the city map, but not yet made. We're keen to flesh out Saint-Gerrin entirely, and a Third Map would be a good opportunity for one of them.
So, we've picked four of the p...
2021-11-02 10:58:01 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone, new and old Patrons!
Here's a few housekeeping notes, and the schedule for November
--Claiming Patron Benefits/Reward Bundles--
We use DrivethruRPG to deliver our reward bundles. On Rewards Day (usually the 5th of the month), all of the maps you help fund are uploaded to DrivethruRPG. Then we'll send you a set of codes for your maps. Clicking these codes will claim the maps and add them to your Drivethru account for free. You can then down...
2021-11-02 10:49:29 +0000 UTC
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