Happy newyear everyone! 2022 has been a very good year for me, I got to go independent making maps and writing my book full time. It has given me a level of freedom I never thought would be possible! Thank you for your support as always! My goal for 2023 is to create bigger more cinimatic maps with epic set peice proportions like the terrasque and War Froged collossus maps I did in the past! Epic maps for epic encounters is my theme for 2023!
I'll also be doing a lot more variation sty...
2023-01-04 00:24:23 +0000 UTC
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“The Illthid’s true strength is not their ability to quickly repopulate a hive, Their tactical genius, or even their psionic abilities. Their power is in their reach and secrecy. It is nearly impossible to know exactly when they will appear and it’s never when you're prepared.” - Ida Holly
This map is the first of a three part series I’m calling “The Battle of Tu’Narath” which imagines a chaotic clash between the powers of Wildspace all converg...
2023-01-01 06:00:06 +0000 UTC
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“He has many names and takes many forms. Where I’m from he’s Christoph the GIver and hails from the “Jolly Sphere.” - Ida Holly
This map was made originally for my own home game. The ruined variation was where a very dark dramatic moment happened in the frozen river between one of my players and their BBEG. So I thought “Let's make a santa’s workshop out of this very dark location.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays!
This map comes in...
2022-12-24 23:42:00 +0000 UTC
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“Yes, tampering with the natural order. I’m sure that went great for the ancient civilization who built this temple. Shame they were all mysteriously wiped out by unknown cataclysmic forces.” - Ida Holly
This map was the winner of my December patreon vote. Every month my patrons can add ideas to a poll on discord and then select maps from a poll and the winner is made! Elemental Nexus has been on there for quite a while and at last it gets its time in th...
2022-12-18 06:00:02 +0000 UTC
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“In my experience the more members of a party the harder a door is to open.” - Ida Holly
At the heart of the mountains, hundreds of miles from civilization and deep in an unforgiving forest was a gulch where the mountains split in two. The towering cliff side was sheared smooth and filled with mosaic tiles, ancient paintings, and unreadable script long eroded all surrounding a 50 foot tall solid stone door.
With the language of the structure not spoke...
2022-12-11 06:00:04 +0000 UTC
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December is here which means a whole new map poll! The map archive is live and will be featured at the bottom of each of the poll under the monthly updates so be sure to check that out and poke around through maps you may not have downloaded yet!
Comissions!
My rates on comissions are changing very slightly and I am opening up limited comssions first here to my patrons. so if your game has that one big moment you'd like to do something special for your players and h...
2022-12-05 06:01:24 +0000 UTC
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“It is my belief that we are simple vessels for hungry spirits, and it is our goal to feed them wonder. And perhaps it’s only me, but there is majesty and splendor in being lost in a book, just as in an adventure.” - Ida Holly.
This map pack contains many variations on the fantasy bookstore to allow all kinds of ways to use it. From a lair of a book hoarding dragon, A magic Item shop, a Hunting lodge, all the way to a spell bound tome that opens a litera...
2022-12-04 06:00:03 +0000 UTC
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“La Gaviota. Home of the Airship pirates who plague the skies from Prossporo to Daven. But you have to give it to them- Who wouldn't want a hideout that moves!” - Ida Holly.
The heart of the crews is the Covens. The mother matrons set the rules on the Mote here and all crews obey them. They may not have the mustering of our numbers or strength to fight us off but that isn't the point. Their power comes from the pirates, The hags set a rule and the crews al...
2022-11-27 06:00:04 +0000 UTC
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“The temperament of nature is calm until it isn't.” - Ida Holly
What sleeps below, The roiling powers of the earth that boil and churn away from our gaze. Inner chaos that hungers for release. The mountain waited for an age, far from mortals who would build their towers and fish the sea, where it could truly contemplate, and consider its turmoil alone, a few thousand years of thought.
Interrupted, a band of misfits comes to disrupt the silence. And ...
2022-11-20 06:00:04 +0000 UTC
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“Captain Goldfang. The legendary big boisterous cat-man pirate. I heard a tale that the guards finally caught him by employing a strategic use of Pspspspsps.” -Ida Holly
Here be the last will and testament of the dread pirate king Captain Goldfang Cronen, Terror of the seas and amasser of a horde of treasure that’d make a dragon blush. I lived a life of plunder and gluttony fat on the liquor of the land and never wanting for a single thing but now my time on this...
2022-11-13 06:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Tried something new this year in October, alongside my usual 4 monthly maps I did an “Inktober” style challenge making 31 ttrpg battle maps. Some of the prompts were more designed for regional or world-style maps but I did my best to interpret them as maps that could be used for an encounter. Some came out really great and im quite proud of them all! There is sure to be at least one or two anyone could enjoy among the whole set!
2022-11-06 05:00:03 +0000 UTC
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October is over so things have slowed down at last! It was a very very busy month for me! Some quick updates we're going to see this month, I'll be starting a map directory which will be added at the bottom of the news sections here in the monthly poll.
Secondly, I've decided to try out adding other genres to my map catalog. While the vast vast majority will remain high fantasy/steampunk as my work as been thus-far I ran a poll on twitter to see what of my following would be intereste...
2022-11-05 22:33:43 +0000 UTC
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“So then, Every other day is the day of the living alive then.” - Ida Holly
Inspired by the horror movie this map includes the following 10 variations to allow for a variety of play and use cases for dms!
1. Daytime
2. 1968 B&W
3. Autumnal
4. Attack
5. Reinforced windows and doors
6. Storm 1
7. Storm 2 (Lightning)
8. Burning wagon
9. The Horde
10. Dead (The zombies won) CW: implied self-harm
2022-10-30 21:22:12 +0000 UTC
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“I was once lost in an underground, not unlike this. Survived by cultivating a grouping of roots and drinking drops from the ceiling. I don’t recommend it.” - Ida Holly
The creeping darkness closes in as the magic candles flicker out. The reliable fixes fail you. Darkvision painted black, Light spells flicker and die. Something isn't right with this darkness. The black of the penumbra seems to call to you. You know in that moment- if you get lost in that ...
2022-10-23 05:00:03 +0000 UTC
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“The real monster was the friends we made along the way” - Ida Holly
It’s Alive! The mad wizard screams as the platform is lowered from the blustering storm above. The body crackled with electricity and the flesh golem is complete. The wild-eyed wizard and his companion smile wicked smiles at your party.
“We appreciate your help! And you will be handsomely rewarded- well those of you who survive the first test.”
The minion throws a switch ...
2022-10-16 05:00:03 +0000 UTC
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“It came from beyond the stars in the darkness of an eclipse, It drinks blood and offers fame and riches. Oh, and it sings a mean Soulful solo.” - Ida Holly, Field notes from Worlds Beyond our Own.
The Oddities shop holds many artifacts from across the multi-verse. Trinkets collected from the adventures of its eclectic owner and sold to new up-and-comers who wish to explore the many mysteries of this and many other worlds. Truly artifacts have a way of coming into the shop more tha...
2022-10-09 05:00:03 +0000 UTC
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For all of October, the maps are horror-themed! Spooky maps and autumnal themes. Last year we did Cyre 1313, Vampire's Castle, Dark and stormy night, and the collab with Domille and Azzyfree The Pumpkin Hut. You can check those out here under the Spooktober tag.
A few small updates!
On the topic of spooks, I am attempting the Maptober Inkarnate challenge and will be up...
2022-10-04 00:43:57 +0000 UTC
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Well beyond the edge of the map, on an island you can only reach by wrecking your ship, your future waits.
Waking up on the shore buried in a layer of sand. The crew, and more importantly the star readers who can guide you off the island, have gone missing. Moldo is a tropical paradise but if you don't act quickly it will become your prison.
The star reader has been taken to Francisco's Landing. The Island in the middle of the Crater lagoon. He is being held inside the wreck of th...
2022-10-01 05:00:06 +0000 UTC
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“You want me to an Island that moves throughput time that can only be reached by those who wreck and can only be escaped by those who know how. I didn't get YOU anything!” - Ida Holly
“it seemed finding something yet unknown was your fate. but fate, she is seldom so kind. Months into your nautical journey you heard murmurings from the crew. Moldo, they said, was the island you couldn't reach without first wrecking your ship.
The place where lost sai...
2022-10-01 05:00:05 +0000 UTC
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“The baser instincts of humans to fight are so deeply ingrained even in times of absolute peace they still insist on beating each other up.” - Ida Holly
Below the tavern is a large whisky barrel that is actually a false door, behind it is an unused sewer path that leads to a cistern. Drained and rebuilt as its own little fortress the thieves guild had set up a hideout. For years they collected loot and spoils there but eventually had more than they knew wh...
2022-09-25 05:00:03 +0000 UTC
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“These creatures are hardly creatures at all. It feels more true to call them walking disasters.” - Ida Holly.
What horrors slumber in the soil of our world, resting, waiting to reawaken and unleash a new age of chaos? The Tarrasque has attacked this world so many times yet few remember the last, 1000 years pass after each time it falls before it returns to slumber. Generations of beings speak of it, the tales turn to legends turn to myths. And again it is...
2022-09-18 05:00:02 +0000 UTC
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“Abraham Dune, He calls himself “Snake eyes”. He’s a dwarf stricken with the Yuan-Ti’s curse and he runs that place. I need to talk to him. The thing is- The cost of admission is a bit…high for me. Help me and I’ll help you!” ~Ida Holly, During the events of Shrive Débauche
Infante’s Dice is already the unofficial town hall of Tankren. Ruling from up and down the river and draining the town of all their hard-earned chips. And that is made do...
2022-09-11 05:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Time for another Map Poll! This time I'm honing in on maps I've had in the wings and Ideas I've been playing around with for a long time. Including some suggestions from Discord if you're not already a member you can join as a patron by linking your discord here on Patreon or check it out HERE. 5$ members have access to my Work in progress posts where I drop maps that are still baking for f...
2022-09-05 22:46:48 +0000 UTC
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“Endlessly fascinating the minds of the creators of dungeons such as these. They never make them impossible to enter- but never safe either. Perhaps the lure of the possibility of success is what brings in more adventurous victims.” - Ida Holly, Lichs and other megalomaniacs
Delving the deeps of the Tomb of horrors or the Tomb of annihilation to simple for you? Well if the rumors are to be believed yet another Lich’s domain has been uncovered deep in the...
2022-08-28 05:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Updated: This map now includes a remasted variation with the filters creating the blur removed as well as a full intro campus dungeon as a single map.
“Every little Warforged reaches that age when they ask where they came from.” - Ida Holly
The facility has stood in the heart of Cyre for ages staffed by the greatest mages and Artificers. The laboratory existed long before the creation forges were used to create Warfogred and became one of Cyre...
2022-08-21 05:01:00 +0000 UTC
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“I consider myself something of a multi-versal explorer. I wrote the book on it. But I draw the line at “Space Clowns” - Ida Holly, Autor of Ida’s Guide to Worlds Beyond Our Own.
The Vale to at the edge of Wildspace pushes right up against the docks, and rumor has it there drifts a massive skeletal dead god. I don’t want to say it’s valuable without having seen one, But I know the Dohwar are sending a merchant fleet to scour it. So- I’m not sayin...
2022-08-13 05:00:02 +0000 UTC
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“Did I say I wanted to explore the oceans? In that? Uh- I think that's a misquote.” - Ida Holly, Who definitely said she wants to explore the ocean.
It is the pleasure of the Submersible Integration Nautical Keepers corporation to announce our latest and most effective magical artifice! The Greater apparatus of the Crab, Unlike the 5-person model of ages past the greater apparatus, is capable of any depth, any pressure, an endless air supply, and still has ...
2022-08-06 05:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Time for another monthly map poll! Remember our 5$ tier patrons are able to post in the discord to add suggestions to the poll or pitch fun ideas they might have for maps!
I've updated my Commission sheet for maps, Gave it a spiffy new look. If you're ever in the market for a personal handmade map I'll be taking 3 commissions a month first come first serve!
Ida's Gui...
2022-08-04 02:06:57 +0000 UTC
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“Some worlds I’ve visited across the multiverse have every possible luxury and advantage and still they discover new ways to suffer.” Ida Holly.
Towering skyscrapers framed in gold, Countless citizens moving across the streets and bridges like insects in a hive. The Metropolis was Utopia for those in proper standing. Lives of luxury, splendor, and decadence all visible from the streets below and always just out of reach.
I wanted to make something t...
2022-07-30 05:00:04 +0000 UTC
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“It is the most peculiar thing that a creature 5 times my size would be so easily distraught. Who among the gods I wonder decided that the noble horse should be a prey animal.” - Ida Holly
“The beating hoofs of the stallion could trample an adult man to death, But a simple thunder wave spell sends it sprinting full speed away. Even a well-trained horse can get spooked and now what was a simple encounter with a group of roadside bandits has devolved into a...
2022-07-23 05:00:03 +0000 UTC
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