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Call of Cthulhu "Dead Light" Image Pack

My regular group has a couple members on holiday so we're keeping ourselves entertained for the next two months by playing one-shots in other systems. First among them has been the classic Call of Cthulhu "Dead Light" available from Chaosium.

The set up
I wanted to set it in a modern period (the mid-90s) and set it in a remote forested region of South Africa just north o...

Wongo Shrine Mask correction + bonus masks

A tile overlay pack for the the Wongo Shrine. It swaps the location of the vulture and zebra masks from my first map (which was incorrectly positioned). I've also included a "no mask tile" so you can overlay whatever animals masks you want in whatever position.

There are 8 animal masks in total: Feline, Porcine, Equine, Avian, Formicine (ant-like), Ranine (Frog-like), Serpentine, Simian. 

Masks are all 1x1 : 100px grid
The overlay tile is 5x5 : 100px grid

jpg, png &a...

Destroyed Obelisk (tile overlay)

An 8x8 tile for the entrance to the Tomb of the Nine Gods, in the unfortunate event the players destroy/topple over/attack the Black Obelisk containing the Nalfeshnee demon.

At the first crack in the obsidian, have the Obelisk explode outward releasing the demon's aura which immediately kills the nearby vegetation, emitting an ungodly odour of burnt bodies and sweet rotting flesh... or... old cheese and sweaty socks. ;)

8x8 : 100px/grid
jpg, webp

DDAL07-18 Turn Back the Endless Night

Part 4 of the Broken Chain series.

All the 13 maps you need for combat, exploration and social encounters for this final module of the series. Including tiles and overlay extras. 

• 1 The Last Dream
• 2 The Peaks of Flame
• 3 Living Nightmares
• 4 The Lost Thayan
• 5 The Puzzle of the Maze
• 6 The Bargain of Ubtao
• 7 Windows of Time
• 8 Dinosaurs
• 9 Rest Step
• 10 Room of Pools
• 11 Elisande and Goat?...
  2023-03-13 21:42:45 +0000 UTC View Post

Update on Turn Back the Endless Night (DDAL07-18)

Hello all you wonderful GMs.

So I've been deep in the pixels making all the maps for the Adventurer's League final module of its Broken Chain Series, Turn Back the Endless Night and I still have some more to do. We're about two thirds of the way there, I reckon I'll be wrapping the last map by the following weekend (just over a week from now). What's fun about them is that the maze is crazy old place where just about anything can be found. As a result, this motley selec...

Session Zero: The Ties that Bind

This little 11pg pdflet is meant to help spark your player's imaginations in their next Session Zero.  It has helped my players to form a tight knit group of adventurers with interesting backstories and connections they may have not chosen otherwise. While this is brand spanking new and shiny with many more options than I have ever had in a previous campaign, I've used similar tables and doodads in the past to great effect.

In fact, for Tomb of Annihilation's Session Zero,...

Bag of Nails Ambush (Big 70x50 map)

A 70x50 square map for the Bag of Nails ambush encounter. It includes a roofed version of the Shrine of Unkh (cos it is right there in the Omu city map). 

70x50 : 100px/grid (7000x5000px)
jpg, webp. 

Various parts of the roof of Unkhs' shrine was made in Midjourney with lots of photoshop. The rest is all Inkarnate, Photoshop and layers of textures.

Text-to-image AI

I use Midjourney. Not for every little thing on this Patreon, but where it makes sense to do so, I do. I understand that this may not be to everyone's tastes — and well, you're free to obviously not use my stuff. While it is still legal to do so, I will continue paying them to use their AI. 

That said, I would prefer to use the tool as ethically as I can and I so I pledge the following: 

1. I will tag any post that has used AI with "ai-augmented" or "ai-made".

a...

OGL Controversy over

Grimmash and I were waiting on developing any D&D map modules for Foundry while WOTC was considering clamping down on creator's freedoms. Little point in doing hours of work to only have it pulled off the VTT a week later. Happily, that future has not come to pass with WOTC's announcement on Friday of putting the SRD 5.1 into Creative Commons, leaving the OGL1.0a as is and importantly leaving other VTTS well alone. 

This means you can expect to see a resumption in Foundry Map M...

The Fane of the Night Serpent

Ras Nsi's lair in Omu, filled to the brim with things that slither and slurp, slink and slaughter. Whether the heroes have an audience with Ras Nsi by invitation, or whether captured and kept with the slaves... the Fane is a very dangerous place. 

Enjoy. :)

Included transparent extra are: a boat (just duplicate it for the second) and a light glow (there are many sconces in the Fane, but I was loathe to bake in the light into the map art, because a stealthy approach is also po...

Bag of Nails ambush site in Omu (The Fallen Tree)

A fallen tree lies conveniently across a fast moving river, the perfect spot for an ambush. You can choose to have the upper foliage as a transparent png roof layer if you so desire, of just use the regular map. 

32x32 : 100px grid (3200x3200px)
jpg, png + webp

Poll: AI-generated art in my content?

I've been playing around with Midjourney from about October 2022 and I'm steadily finding more things it can be used for. This is due to my ability to prompt and Midjourney's improving algorithm. Initially it was just fantasy landscapes of Port Nyanzaru or a Jungle scene (which are admittedly quite rough and gestural), or another style of location art for my TotEM location cards. All quite experimental. Recently however, I've used dozens of images which I photobashed and painted to create the...

Trickster Puzzle Cubes (v.2)

I thought to try an make new Trickster God Puzzle Cubes that have more detail, variety and are more distinct from one another. It would make sense that even though they'd be similar in form, as they represent different Trickster Gods, they wouldn't be made by the same artisans. 

There are colour jpgs and colour transparent pngs.
Black and white transparent pngs.
And a A3 template to print out, trim along the edges, score & fold and finally glue to make table-ready hand ou...

We hit 50 patrons!

Greetings! The magical goal of 50 patrons has been hit and that means the Tor's Emporium discord goes live. (You should have been sent a notification to join, but if not click the link). Thanks to everyone for helping us reach the goal. Hooray! Even if we dip down below it that number, no take-backsies... the discord will remain up in perpetuity (and unlike others I mean it). It is for patrons only... at least I'd li...

Happy New Year!

The first year of my fledgling Patreon is in the bag. I found, lost and re-found my creative rhythm. I learnt a lot about how to make maps, finally wrote down my TotEM idea, added MidJourney to my creative process and am incredibly enthused to make 2023 even better; in terms of content, output and variety. Trying to see how I can get more time to make stuff. 

This last month has been especially good and we're fast approaching our first ever goal of 50 patrons to unlock our own Disc...

All 9 Shrines of the Trickster Gods

All the maps for all 9 shrines collated into two handy zips in one post.

All maps are 100px/grid; 24x24 or 32x32.
.jpg, .png + .webp

Obo'laka's Shrine map

The final ninth shrine and it is a biggy. 50 images for all the interactive overlay tiles and base layer maps (torches, open doors, secret doors, the water's surface of the pools if you want to animate a slight ripple using Token Magic FX and a petrified wizard or a pile of ex-wizard rubble and yet more). There are multiple ways for you to arrange how you want to make your map and switch things on and off. 

There's a banyan root covered roof and the treetops even further up, as thi...

Nangnang's Shrine map

The Nangnang Shrine found in the D&D 5e adventure Tomb of Annihilation (pg 108) redrawn to match the style of my Tomb of the Nine Gods maps.

I've included a separate roof and a couple door conditions (closed, open). [I'll add broken doors in my next update, it's been a full 12hr design day on this map. :)]

I've made the roof a fitting lair for Chief Yorb and his elite warriors. 

(The last, Obo'laka is next.)

24x24 100px/grid.
.jpg + .webp<...

Papazotl's Shrine map

The Papazotl Shrine found in the D&D 5e adventure Tomb of Annihilation (pg 107) redrawn to match the style of my Tomb of the Nine Gods maps.

I've included a separate roof and various door conditions (closed, open & broken)and two secret passage options (illusory & just open). Thanks Nildran for keeping me on my toes. ;) 

(Nangnang is next.)

24x24 100px/grid.
.jpg + .webp

Wongo's Shrine Map

The Wongo Shrine found in the D&D 5e adventure Tomb of Annihilation (pg 105) redrawn to match the style of my Tomb of the Nine Gods maps.

I've included separate portcullis tiles, roof and statue.

(Papazotl is next.)

24x24 100px/grid.
.jpg + .webp

I'jin's Shrine Map

The I'jin Shrine found in the D&D 5e adventure Tomb of Annihilation (pg 103) redrawn to match the style of my Tomb of the Nine Gods maps.

I've add the elevated stone highway on the left and some nearby buildings on the right, as seen in the map of Omu.

(Wongo is next.)

24x24 100px/grid.
.jpg + .webp

Unkh Shrine Map

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Update: Interior updated to have the correct number of keys. Thanks Ullapool for the heads up.
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The Unkh Shrine found in the D&D 5e adventure Tomb of Annihilation (pg 102) redrawn to match the style of my Tomb of the Nine Gods maps.

I've add the river on the left and some nearby buildings on the right, as seen in the map of Omu.

(I'jin's next.)

24x24 100px/grid.
.jpg + .webp

Needle's Bones

"A wide sinkhole yawns before you..."

Needle's Bones is a location in Tomb of Annihilation (pg 80). While I've seen many maps for this location, most seemingly disregard the encounter description which includes a 90' wide and 30' deep sinkhole, hundreds of goblin bones littered around the edge and a half submerged, vine, moss and lichen covered skeleton of the Adult Green dragon Ormalagos choked by a sea of lily pads (you will have to add your own frogs though). ;) 

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Moa Shrine Map

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UPDATE: Secret doors added.

Secret door operation: The doors are pushed against, back into their respective snake statue chambers, and once they've gone as far as they can go, can then be pulled on runners built into the wall revealing a 2.5ft gap that a medium-sized creature can squeeze through. The doors can be closed by reversing the operation; pulling laterally closed and then using hidden finger holes to pull the door back flush in line...