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Dungeondraft v0.3: 80 New Patterns + Tokens

Hello everyone! 

The past 2 months have been pretty wild on my end, I've been working double time creating a tonne more assets for Dungeondraft and working on a side project (more on that later). The assets for dungeondraft will finally be a bundle (full overhoal) of all the dungeondraft base assets. It's been on the list of things to do for some time, now I'm making my way through. 

I started with roofs and floors, including a bunch of color variations that adds up to 8...

Worldmap Assets (Tutorial + Free Assets)

As mentioned in my previous post I made 300 assets for you to create your own worldmaps in Dungeondraft! To adjust the tools to make this possible I included a little tutorial here to help you understand how I went about doing that! 

These assets are obviously available in the catalogue, but you can also download them for free on my website!

LIST OF ALL OBJECTS

People have asked me to update the objects lists for all my packs so you can see w...

Mother of all Updates

Hello, one and all!

It took longer than expected, but I've finally done it. This latest update contains 200 Topdown assets, 300 Worldmap assets, 600 Isometric assets, 200 animated assets, and much more! 

Let's get to it!

DIRE WOLF UPDATES

I've updated two asset packs called Death & Desert and Mechanisms. Death features just a couple more skeleton and bone-based assets for you to use in your maps and Mechanisms features a massi...

Brosha and the Orb of Gratuitous Leeching

Hey, all you fine folks!

As a special thanks to you, and everyone out there who has made the TTRPG space such a great environment to work in, I thought I'd address the whole DnD OGL debacle with an adventure! If you read between the lines very carefully you might spot my personal thoughts on the matter!

This one goes out to Luke/Limithron who put the idea in my head of doing another one-shot and honestly it's been the perfect outlet these past couple of days!

2023-01-14 11:13:29 +0000 UTC View Post

20 New Character Tokens + 200 Variations!

The second update of today is that I've finally finished the character tokens I was working on. I've been working together with Edwin to get him to create these tokens using my painting techniques in Photoshop so that we get similar results. Hopefully, this will mean that we can start releasing them on a steady basis again because I do really love these designs and would love to have one for each creature type featured in the Monster Manual.

2023-01-11 11:10:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Death & Desert v0.9: 200 New Assets + Contest!

Hello, one and all! 

I hope everyone had a lovely start to the New Year! The Christmas Holidays are always pretty busy at the Crosshead household with the little ones being home for 2 weeks, but I still managed to take some time here and there to keep working on the Desert (& Jungle?) assets for my latest asset pack!

As you can see this update mainly features lots of exotic flora for you to use in these maps, but it also includes a large set of Massive Statues (including ...

Contest Winners (from way back!)

Some time ago, we did a mapmaking contest and I only recently realized (in all the chaos of the last months haha) that I hadn't put the maps online or hadn't posted the results here! 

Take some time to check out the USERMADE MAP GALLERY yourself and take a closer look!

First Place - Shadow Creature 22

2022-12-23 18:16:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Crosshead Focus (post-Crossland)

The goal of Crossland, the project I launched this month with a couple of artists, is to take some of the weight of creating content of my shoulders and clear up some room to refocus. What my vision was to basically clear space and focus a lot more on building assets, cutting down the time of the mapmaking part. Working with the Crossland team means we get to build those massive maps and worlds I always wanted to but didn't have the time for.

Now what about Crosshead? 

I pref...

Death & Desert v0.7: 400 New Assets!

Hello, one and all!

I just finished another update on the Death & Desert pack, it features one of my favorite updates (something I plan on updating more in the future) and that is layered & colorable patterns, including colorable walls. These should really take creating rooms to the next level with hundreds of ways to combine them all. The more I create, the more combinations are possible. 

2022-12-23 17:52:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Update 3: Crossland Patreon

In the last update I've shared some of the isometric designs I've been working on (stuff you'll be able to download on this Patreon for Dungeondraft soon), and as mentioned these assets will also be part of a larger project I've been working towards for some time now. A collaborative project where we build a massive interactive world, that takes you from a world map, to isometric region maps into topdown maps with the click of a button.

This world won't just feature maps, but also illus...

Update 2: Dungeondraft - Isometric & Premade buildings

For the past couple of months I've been working behind the scenes with a good friend of mine (who worked on art for the Witcher games) to bring isometric to Dungeondraft. Something I've been wanting to do for quite some time now (I've actually worked on this with 5 different people over the years, something I decided to hold off on talking about until I had something actually coming to fruition). 

The goal of this project is to build a big collection of buildings for you to create ...

Update 1: Death & Desert + Dungeondraft Fixed

Hello all you fine people!

For the past month, I've been getting some messages about the new update on Dungeondraft not being able to load my asset packs. Now what seemed like a simple error came with some more issues than I had taken into account and it took me a bit longer to fix them. (Packing the files in the new version apparently made them unusable to older versions, for people who don't update their software, so that was a no-go).

When I contacted Tom about these issues he ...

Update 4: Tokens!

This is an update for folks who don't check the discord. I've recently updated the token folder with an additional 100 tokens (that's 20 unique tokens plus all their variations)

I'm also working on my next pack already, which is a character focused pack. An update to some older character designs, with a female and male version of each character.

2022-10-29 03:18:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Update 3: Building your own ships (Tutorial)

To help you along in your journey to build your own ship, airship or spelljammer, I made this short tutorial with some tips and tricks! I've uploaded a full timelapse video, where you can see me built that big galleon (the Black Pearl) from scratch!

You can find that video right HERE 

2022-10-29 03:13:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Update 2: Animation - Foundry & Free Content!

One of my biggest projects this month was a return to animation. The animated ships I made some time ago, were a first trial of figuring out how to add simple animations to my naval battlemaps to bring them to life. This time around I've made over 250 animated objects and creatures, that will allow you to turn any ship map you make in dungeondraft into an animated map on the fly!

My animated as...

Update 1: Above & Below (1500 assets)

Hello all you fine folks!

For the past two months I've been working on a massive pack that contains my first forray into the Underdark and a return to some ship, mainly spelljammer themed assets. The full pack is over 1500 assets that you'll find in both the Above & Below pack and the updated Seasons pack!

The pack also comes with a bunch of mounts (...

Windmill [30x40] + 500 Assets!

Hello one and all!

I've just finished working on another 500 new Dungeondraft assets and although I had planned on creating a couple of maps first (as is usual, to test things out) I've decided to keep it to one for now and already upload everything before I am off for a week on holidays with the family! When I return I do plan on finishing up those maps I had planned and finally coloring some tokens while I'm at it!

This pack, an upgrade to the SEASONS pack (now at v1.0), feature...

Contest Winners (& Asset Previews)

Hello, one and all!

The discord users among you have probably already heard the news but the winners of last month's mapmaking contest have been announced! It was a super short contest, but one I'll be following up with another contest starting this Monday! So if you have any maps you'd like to share/submit, head on down to the Discord and submit your maps in the gallery (gridless and JPG versions preferably) to get a...

Fey Campsite & Seasons v0.9

Hey all you fine folks!

Just finished a quick update to the Seasons pack with an additional 100 assets! This includes more patterns for your buildings, carpet paths with colorable decorations, crystals and a whole lot more that isn't even visible in these first maps I made with this pack!

For those of you on the discord who have tested it out, I've actually just patched it so that the colorable assets are now actually colorable!

I'm leaving on holidays for a week in the m...

Social Map Making Contest

For some time I've been wanting to get back to running a little mapmaking contest, and I'd like to run a little experiment for this month where instead of having a separate place to submit maps I just stop by the DISCORD CHANNEL where a lot of you have been sharing maps made with my assets for some time now and use those in these contests instead! 

For the backlog of maps, I plan on hitting the creators up person...

Update 2: Forest Tavern+Inn

The original update of this pack was planned for release a bit sooner, don't get me wrong in size it's actually as big as the Team Pack which took me months to put together (due to all the handpainted terrain textures), but I had hoped to release the first part of it before my big move to another city. (Moving closer to my family with the kids, so was a rather big event)

Now to add a little bonus to taking a bit more time to iron out all the kinks in this pack (it will probably still ha...

Update 1: Seasons & Terrains!

Hello all you fine folks! 

Last month I started work on a Underdark asset pack, running into a couple of issues with how I could get the most out of my terrains in combination with height paths (the wall edges of a cavern or Underdark passage). I had already finished up a couple of objects assets with Marvin, but well the centerpiece of this pack would mainly be those paths and textures. 

That's when I decided to roll it back a little and figure out how to get the most o...

Free Foundry Multi-Level Adventure + Tokens!

Hey, all you fine folks!

With the help of some amazing people, I've put together a little free 1st level adventure that includes a multi-level map for FoundryVTT (must install the levels module by theripper93 for it to work), some unique homebrew creatures with custom tokens, and 4 magic items!

You can download the files for this adventure in the attachments down below and you can visit my WEBS...