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Re-Working the Village of Barovia

Hi everyone! I wanted to get the collective thoughts of our community regarding the Village of Barovia. As I have been re-working my older CoS maps, I have been working my way back toward the Village of Barovia. It is such an iconic village, and I want to do it justice!

The previous map I did include three key locations: Bildrath Mercantile, Mad Mary's home, and, of course, the Blood of the Vine tavern, along with a number of homes within the central party of the village. 

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Sneak Peek - The Counts Manor

Hello everyone, and happy Sneak Peek Thursday! Today, I am showing a bit of the Counts Manor dungeon map I'll be releasing on Monday. This alternate dungeon for Death House was created by the amazing Pyram King! You can find a free copy of the PDF so that you can read up on the adventure here. This is a two-level dungeon, so I'll...

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Collection Pages Are Up!

Hey everyone! I finally sat down and spent some time organizing all of my map posts into categories to help you find what you are looking for. We all know Patreon's search is not the best, and sometimes, it can be hard to find the map you are looking for. 

It's my hope the Collections page (in addition to the map hub page) will both prove handy tools to help you find all of the maps I've ...

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Champion Tier - River Ivlis Wetlands [40x30]

Hey everyone, and happy New Release Monday! I'm back from a much-needed vacation and have been hitting the ground running with my map work. This month's focus was on flushing out some generic locations to give you plenty of maps to use in a pinch to flush out your overland encounters. This week, I have created a map for a location that I have personally run in CoS, but I also feel is generic enough ...

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Sneak Peek - River Ivlis Wetlands

Hey everyone, and happy Sneak Peek Thursday! I am back from vacation and ready to roll up my sleeves and jump back into work. As I've been flushing out a few generic locations for use in your various campaigns, I realized I had not yet made a map for the flooded river section south of the Village of Barovia, so I am showing a bit of my next map, River Ivlis Wetlands.

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Champion Tier - Los Muertos Tar Pits - [40x30]

Hello everyone, and happy New Release Monday! Today I give you a special map I've been working on I call the Los Muertos Tar Pits! This map was inspired by both my own CoS game and a real-world landmark that I live next to; the La Brea Tar Pits. 

In my own CoS game in t...

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Sneak Peek - Los Muertos Tar Pits

Hey everyone, and happy Sneak Peek Thursday! Today, I'm showing a bit of my next map, which I call Los Muertos Tar Pits. It is a generic encounter map that was inspired by my own CoS game by adding pools of black tar to Berez around the location where Baba keeps her hut. Her presence makes the swamp water black and viscous while the massive beast's bones stick out of the bubbling tar, warning the pl...

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Champion Tier - Snowy Rustic Church - [20x20]

Hey everyone, and happy New Release Monday! For today's map, I wanted to tackle a small building I was inspired to create, and I bring you my Snowy Rustic Church. My hope is this map can provide a small location for various encounters with a snowy backdrop, such as Icewind Dale or even in CoS in the town of Krezk.

I personally added a small church to Krezk in my own g...

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New Collections Pages!

Hey everyone! Patreon has launched a nifty new tool called "Collections." You can now find this at the top of my page under the "Collections" tab. Currently, I only have one collection for Curse of Strahd; however, over the course of the next month, I plan to organize all my map posts by module, genre, and style (such as "Forests," "Swamps", etc.). While I also list all my maps on my pinned map hub p...

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Sneak Peek - Snowy Rustic Church

Hey everyone, and happy Sneak Peek Friday! I normally do these on Thursday, but I had some technical difficulties with this map getting corrupted. However, the great news is that it was able to get fixed, and all my work was salvaged!

Today, I am showing off a bit of my next map: The Snowy Rustic Church! This map was purely inspiration from my adventures with Diablo I...

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Slight Delay on Sneak Peek

Hey everyone! I was going to export my current work I had done on my snowy rustic church map to show my sneak peek, but when I loaded my map, it was pretty much blank. It seems there might be some technical issues on the map software side, and I've pinged their dev team to take a look. I'm trying not to panic and let the fear of all my work lost creep in, so I'm putting on a brave face and hoping my map is salvageable! 

As soon as these issues are resolved, I'll get a sneak peek go...

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Champion Tier - The Temple of the Lost Fane - Part 3 | [30x40]

Hello everyone, and happy New Release Monday!

Today, I'm excited to share with you the third and final map for the special project Pyram King and I have been working on. The Temple of the Lost Fane - Part 3! 

This is our new dungeon we are introducing to Curse of Strahd to serve as a new adventure to lead your party up t...

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Sneak Peek - Temple of the Lost Fane III

Hey everyone, and happy Sneak Peek Thursday!! As you may know, Pyram King and I have been working together to design a new dungeon for Curse of Strahd. This three-part high-level dungeon takes place within the pillarstone of Ravenloft and features the fourth and lost fane of the Dusk Elves. 

You can view Pyram's video on part ...

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Champion Tier - Saltmarsh - Rough Waters & Skull Island - 100x100

Ahoy all, and happy New Release Monday! For today's release, I have two different maps I'm releasing for the Saltmarsh series I've been working on. I wanted to take a quick break from the (many) buildings of Saltmarsh and do something a bit more nautical, so today I bring you two different ocean maps for you to run various sea encounters on. 

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Sneak Peek - Skull Island & Rough Waters

Ahoy, all! Batten down the hatches and lash yourself to the wheel! Today's sneak peek features two maps I plan to release for the nautical / Saltmarsh adjacent side of things. 

Just like generic maps for Dark Fantasy, I want to create a series of large ocean maps to be used for your nautical adventures around Saltmarsh or any other seafaring campaign you might have going. Eventually, I'd ...

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Public Version - Death House v2.0 - Basement - [30x40]

Disclaimer: All content controlled by Wizards of the Coast IP is available for free in compliance with the Fan Content Creation Policy. 

Hey everyone, and happy Release Monday! Today is the second part of my revisit of my older CoS maps, and as part of this, I am releasing the basement dungeon for Death House v2.0 from 2023-08-14 17:37:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Champion Tier - Death House v2.0 - Basement - [30x40]

Disclaimer: All content controlled by Wizards of the Coast IP is available for free in compliance with the Fan Content Creation Policy. The free post for this map can be found here.

Update Aug 30th, 2023

Hey everyone! One ...

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Sneak Peek - Death House v2.0 - Basement Level

Hello everyone, and happy Sneak Peek Thursday!

As I continue to re-work my older maps, Monday, you got to see the v2.0 of Death House, and now I'm working on the basement dungeon below (one of the deadliest encounters in the book!). 

Today, I'm showcasing the Strahd statue room, where the shadows attack anyone who touches the statue. I wanted to create a statue that looked like it w...

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Public Version - Death House 2.0

Disclaimer: All content controlled by Wizards of the Coast IP is available for free in compliance with the Fan Content Creation Policy.

Hey everyone, and happy Release Monday! Today, I revisit a map I originally made over two years ago and a very iconic dungeon from Curse of Strahd; Death House.

It's always a treat to revisit my previous...

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Champion Tier - Death House v2.0 - 30x40

Update: March 20th, 2025: I've attached a .zip file with all of the printable PDFs for both the House and the Basement maps.

Disclaimer: All content controlled by Wizards of the Coast IP is available for free in compliance with the Fan Content Creation Policy. The free post for this map can be found here.

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Sneak Peek - Death House v2.0

Hey everyone, and happy Sneak Peek Thursday! Today, I'm working on re-doing a classic dungeon from Curse of Strahd and a map that was amongst some of my earliest works years ago; Death House.

I'll be working on a two-part release for this map: the full house first, then the dungeon underground.

My approach to this map will be a little different than my first map with the following key di...

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Champion Tier - Old Misty Road - 40x60

Hey everyone, and happy New Release Monday! Today, I am releasing a new road map called the Old Misty Road. I have been doing a lot of building maps lately, and I don't want to leave out these general-use locations that DMs so prominently use.  There are a ton of forest road maps out there, and while I do intend to do a few more updated forest roads, this time, I wante...

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Sneak Peek - Old Misty Road

Hi everyone, and happy Sneak Peek Friday! I know I usually post these up on Thursday, but I have been feeling a bit under the weather the last few nights, so a little behind. 

I wanted to flush out some generic maps for my next map, which I'll be peppering in with my other releases. I realized it has been a while since I did a good ol' fashion generic map, and initially, I was going to do...

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Champion Tier (Free) - Update: Village of Dawnvale

Hi everyone! Here we are with another update post from a previous map. This time, I've made some updates to the Village of Dawnvale used in the Lunch Break Heroes adventure "The Hunger." (You can get the PDF of this adventure on this page here). 

For the village, I added more file compression to r...

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Champion Tier - Temple of the Lost Fane - Part 2 | 40x60

Hello everyone, and happy Release Monday! Today, I'm super excited to release part 2 of a really exciting project Pyram King, and I have been working on. 

We have been creating our own dungeon for Curse of Strahd, which takes place within the massive pillar stone that Castle Ravenloft sits upon. This ...

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Sneak Peek - Temple of the Lost Fane - Part 2

Hey everyone, and happy Sneak Peek Thursday! For today, I'm showing just a bit of the central chamber in the next map in the Temple of the Lost Fane series for the new encounter Pyram King, and I are working on. 

If you are unfamiliar with this project, Pyram King and I are working on a new dungeon fo...

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Champion Tier (Free) - Map Update - The Rugged Runner

Hey everyone! I have made some updates to my Rugged Runner map and wanted to share these with our awesome community here free of charge to my patrons. 

I made a few edits to this map, including enhanced shadows, tweaks to the Captain's Quarters to make it more general-use, updating my night lights, and updating the weather along with creating different colors moods. 

With my wo...

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Champion Tier - Saltmarsh | Eliander's House [30x40]

Hey everyone, and happy Release Monday! For today's release, I bring you my fifth map for the Saltmarsh series I've been working on. This time, we venture into the coastal home of Eliander's House

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For Eliander's House, I wanted to build something ...

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Update - The Wistful Way Inn (Free Update) [20x20]

Hey everyone! Got a new update post for you for an older map I did a while back for the Lunch Break Heroes adventure, Death by Lanternlight, which you can find here

These updates are a free reward to the awesome Patreon community as a thank-you for your continued sup...

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Sneak Peek - Eliander's House

Hey everyone, and happy sneak peek Thursday! 

First, I wanted to thank those who participated in my poll. Your feedback is a huge help to drive the channel in an effective way, and I really appreciate that. If you have not yet voted, you have about an hour left from the writing of this post, so make sure you get your vote in! You can find the poll 2023-07-13 17:02:43 +0000 UTC View Post