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Sneak Peek - Sleepless in Scarsnik - A Lunch Break Heroes Adventure

Hey everyone and happy Sneak Peek Thursday! I have something super exciting to share with you today that I can't wait to release on Monday! 

For my upcoming map release, I've collaborated with Lunch Break Heroes on their original adventures once again and this time we have three full maps that I will be releasing along with the adventure PDF! 

Your players will be in the city of Scarsnik and I'll have a full city map with a few interior location...

Champion Tier - The Haunted Hills - Switchback Road - 60x40

Hey everyone and happy Release Monday! 

For today's release in bring you; The Haunted Hills - Switchback Road. I wanted to provide an encounter map for both random encounters you might have or run encounters against your players while they hike toward the looming ruined keep on the top of the hill! You could have the buried remains of the knightly order rise as Wight's or Revenants, forever protecting their fortress from what they perceive as invaders. Or ...

Mapping Barovia Video - Part 1

Hey everyone!

I thought I would share an amazing video my wife made for mapping Barovia part 1. She plans to focus on an area of the Barovia map I made and showcase it on our budding YouTube channel. I thought it was a fun video to share with you all and I look forward to seeing her make all of the other areas! 

The music was used with permission by the amazing and very talented Travis Savoie and you can find his work 2022-06-18 01:51:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Seeking Feedback - Jpg Optimization / File Naming

Hi everyone! I have been reviewing the way I export my files and optimize my jpgs along with the naming convention of my maps. I'd like to make some changes but I want to gather your feedback on a test I created today to see which method you prefer. 

The first image attached to this poll, "Death House - Upper 8k" is an 8k export directly out of Inkarnate and the way I normally would export and name my files. The dimensions of this file are 5460 x 8192 px &...

Sneak Peek - Road to Argynvostholt

Hey everyone and happy Sneak Peek Thursday! 

Today's showcase is the next map I'll be releasing "The Road to Argynvostholt". I've always loved the idea of the treacherous journey to a long forgotten location. When I think of a ruined fortress to an ancient order of knights on top of a hill, I also think of a winding treacherous road on the way there. 

This map will come in on a 60x40 grid to give you plenty of space to run all sorts of encounter...

Special Free Map of Barovia & Thank you Post from DM Andy

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

Update, April 4th, 2023: After receiving an incredible suggestion from a member of our map community, I have created location tokens both with and without borders so you can use them to hide/reveal location names on the map as players discover them. You will find them in the attached .zip file...

Public Version - Interactive Tome: Chapter 7 - 60x60

All "Interactive Tome" maps are inspired by the well-written work of The Aciduous Adventurer, and the original adventure can be found on the DMs Guild here.

Hey everyone! Excited for another Release Monday as I bring you chapter 7 of the amazing supplement; The Interactive Tome of Strahd. If you have not yet seen or h...

Champion Tier - Interactive Tome: Chapter 7 - 60x60

All "Interactive Tome" maps are inspired by the well-written work of The Aciduous Adventurer, and the original adventure can be found on the DMs Guild here.

Hey everyone! Excited for another Release Monday as I bring you chapter 7 of the amazing supplement; The Interactive Tome of Strahd. If you have not yet seen or h...

Sneak Peek - The Interactive Tome of Strahd: Chapter 7

Here we are with another sneak peek Thursdays! Today I'm sharing a snippet of the next map in the Interactive Tome of Strahd series for chapter 7. This time, we get to explore the Gulthias tree before Strahd corrupted the land. This map will feature the druid grove pre-corruption so your players get to see the "before" version of what is now the twisted dead tree that looms over Yester Hill. 

This map (and tree) will be absolutely massive and on a giant 60x60 gridded map so your pl...

Public Version - The Fetid Swamp - Overgrown Garden - 60x60

Hi all and happy release Monday!

For today's release, I bring you the Overgrown Garden in the Fetid Swamp! This is a massive 60x60 map with plenty of room to explore and add monsters. I wanted this area to be large with lots of potential for encounters and exploration. From the creaky northern gates with the ruined manor looking over this garden area, your players will descend down stairs that once looked over a sprawling lawn and garden area. They will see the ruins of what was once a ...

Champion Tier - The Fetid Swamp - Overgrown Garden - 60x60

Hi all and happy release Monday! 

For today's release, I bring you the Overgrown Garden in the Fetid Swamp! This is a massive 60x60 map with plenty of room to explore and add monsters. I wanted this area to be large with lots of potential for encounters and exploration. From the creaky northern gates with the ruined manor looking over this garden area, your players will descend down stairs that once looked over a sprawling lawn and garden area. They will see the ruins of what was o...

World Map of Etharis - A free map from the Grim Hollow Campaign Setting

Hey everyone! I have a special and fun free map I'm releasing to you all. This is very different from the battlemaps I normally do but I wanted to do a vintage parchment version of the map of Etharis from the Grim Hollow campaign setting. This setting was created by Ghostfire Gaming and if you are not familiar with their work, you can check them out he...

Sneak Peek - Berez - Overgrown Garden

Hey all! It's sneak peek Thursday and I'm excited to show you a snippet of the next map that will be released. This map is for the overgrown garden behind Burgomaster Ulrich's ruined manor in Berez. I made this map true to the size in the module and it comes in to a whopping 60x60 grid of a maze of overgrown planters and twisting vines. 

I'd love to hear what you all have planned for such a cool and creepy location!

Cheers,

DM Andy

Reminder - No Map Release Today

Hey everyone! I hope you are all doing well. I just wanted to gently remind you all that there is no map release today. Stay tuned this Thursday for a sneak peek at what is to come though!

And in case you missed it, be sure to check out my channel update post I wrote last week here. 

Cheers,

DM Andy

Channel Updates - May 25th, 2022

Hey everyone! It's been a while since my last update so I thought I would ramble a bit over text and give you all some updates on what's next and what direction we are headed in.

First and foremost, a huge thank you to you all for your continued support and engagement. I know there are so many amaz...

Champion Tier - To the Depths (A Lunch Break Heroes Adventure)

Hello everyone and happy Release Monday! Today, I have a very different and fun release for you in collaboration that I did with Lunch Break Heroes. LBH and myself have been partnering on some unique 5e adventures and I've had the honor of creating the maps for them.

Today's release not only comes with the maps, but as a patron of mine you also get the adventure and map tokens as well! 

This adventure takes your party on the high seas where they boar...

Sneak Peek - To the Depths (A Lunch Break Heroes Adventure)

Hey everyone and happy Sneak Peek Thursdays! 

Today, I bring you a sneak peek of the latest project I've been working on for the newest Lunch Break Heroes adventure launching on Monday! We take a detour from the misty realm of Barovia to sail the raging seas. Time to weigh anchor and hoist the colors as you sail into the newest LBH adventure which pits your players against a mysterious entity residing in the abyss. 

Stay tune on Monday for this map pack which will contai...

Public Version - Interactive Tome: Chapter 6 - 50x40

All "Interactive Tome" maps are inspired by the well-written work of The Aciduous Adventurer, and the original adventure can be found on the DMs Guild here.

Greetings all!

Here is my public release for the Interactive Tome of Strahd Chapter 6 (the adventure can be found 2022-05-16 18:04:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Champion Tier - Interactive Tome: Chapter 6 - 50x40

All "Interactive Tome" maps are inspired by the well-written work of The Aciduous Adventurer, and the original adventure can be found on the DMs Guild here.

Update May 16th, 2022: Looks like I have Monday brain today! I completely forgot to add the Exterior maps with the chapel roofs so I've updated the files below. Sorry if y...

Sneak Peek - The Interactive Tome of Strahd: Chapter 6

Hey everyone and happy Sneak Peek Thursday! 

For today's preview, I am showing off a bit of the chapel I built last night within Castle Ravenloft. This map is being created for the Interactive Tome of Strahd: Chapter 6 and will include the chapel (exterior / interior), the chapel garden and of course the overlook. 

This map features the crux of Strahd'...

Champion Tier - The Sanguine Inn - 30x20 (Custom DM Andy Content)

"What's that? What happened to the Martikov's you ask?" Ernst smiles slyly as he sits back in his crimson velvet lined couch sipping from a glass of wine. "As you can see, the Blue Water Inn has had a change of ownership. Welcome to the new and, dare I say, improved Sanguine Inn. Those Martikov troublemakers would have been the death of us all, always scheming and defying our Lord Strahd. Not to mention the disgusting mess left by all those insufferable ravens coming and going" Ernst paus...