Hiya everyone
I mentioned in the plots and plans post yesterday that I am going to start releasing asset packs when I can, via the new shop-tab here on Patreon ... Asset packs will only be released in the 'shop' for now, not as a regular patreo...
The arid Savannah-lands fort and trading outpost in 2 eras
After a visitation from Murphy's Law, and the loss of hours of work... both era maps are nearing completion again and will be out ...
This month, a commission gave me the opportunity to work on a couple of region maps (The speckled Sea & The Ragged Isle) which made a lovely change of pace. The 3rd map below, Hollow Bay, was painted for a Cartographers guild challenge a coupl...
2023-08-30 04:30:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Because I feel like it :-)
These are the 4 paper scraps That I used for the Fort Eelry and Willow Hill maps.
So you can change up the title and key in the free poster versions of the maps<...
Here is a little hamlet that grew out of almost nothing over the last week.... Though, if we go by the ruins of the old settlement on the other side of the river and the general run down and patched up feel of the current buildings, the area aroun...
2023-08-06 11:48:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Lots going on at the moment :-)
The next in the series of 6 tiny settlement maps based on suggestions by Defenders last October is an arid Savannah-lands fort and trading outpost suggested by Amberlane. It is set in...
2023-08-02 01:41:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Set 6 has NO connecting roads... This is the spacer set that rounds out the first series of 150 tiles. Use these tiles to fill in the gaps in between tiles with roads
There are a few tiles with only a scattering of tre...
2023-08-01 06:05:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Fort Eelry is the 3rd of 6 small settlement maps based on ideas suggested by Patreon Supporters late last year. This one was suggested by Owen and started out as:
"... a remote border fort, where a settlement has grown up ... 2023-07-08 13:17:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Heading into the 2nd half of this year already! ... So where are we at?
The next map that will be out is Fort Eelry and it is closing in on the finish line. I am currently colouring the ground ... and all those rocks! Once t...
2023-07-03 02:24:28 +0000 UTC View Post
This set has connecting roads only 1 side... So here are 25 explorations of what a cul-de-sac might look like in this ever expanding city-scape: From a park with lakes, a palace, a temple, a jousting arena, and a densely packed wa...
2023-06-27 08:58:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the 'little' mountain pass (or canyon) at last.
I am hoping to come back to this map at some point and add the gate fort to it. For the moment however, the next settlement map is desperately calling my name and demanding attent...
2023-06-12 01:48:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hiya everyone... just a quick little summary of where chaos is at this month....
The mountain Pass battlemap (base landscape stage - snippet of it in the header) is very nearly ready. I just have a bunch of trees to...
2023-06-05 11:50:06 +0000 UTC View Post
yup... I ran dry on names.... This patch of countryside however, is not dry
Somewhere, along a road that passes through a rocky, grassy plain, you get caught by an unexpected rainstorm... after a while, puddles form betw...
2023-05-16 07:18:55 +0000 UTC View Post
100 unique tiles drawn!
To be honest, when I started this 'little' challenge for 2023 back in December, I thought I might have given up by this stage... Happily, I am still enjoying it and the city grows... aided and abetted b...
Since the April Plots & Plans update: April was about painted & ink-less battlemap experiments... a style I rather like and am going to continue exploring. We had 2 new map releases in that style, the Mystery Pool an...
2023-05-07 05:38:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Beside the lake, or perhaps on the sea shore or on the bank of a wide river is a clearing that over time, as the road has become more traveled, has become a popular stopping place and fishing spot....
This is a second experime...
2023-04-27 07:29:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Two little pools of water near a popular rest stop along a forest road.
Both, for no immediately apparent reason, strangely round.....
This is a first play with an alternative watercolour painted style...
(You know me... alw...
March... That was all about the final stages of Otsutan, the 3rd GeoCity tile set (connecting roads on 2 adjacent sides), and a little adventure collaboration with Elven Tower.
So, where are we at now?
Heya Everyone... here is something a little different for you!
This month my friends at Elven Tower dug through my map archives and found 3 that they were inspired to create a one-shot adventure with.
I love how it has...
75 unique city geomorph tiles finished...
We are on a roll towards a rambling countryside populated with villages and towns... maybe even a city...
This set, with connecting roads on 2 adjacent sides has more farms...
2023-03-23 02:54:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Otsutan Part 1, Was set in the times before the cursed swamps, when all was light and the forest was filled with music....
2023-03-13 10:30:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Otsutan Part 1, posted a couple weeks back, was set in the times before the cursed swamps when all was light and the fo...
2023-03-03 07:49:02 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been quite a month down here in Southern Tasmania. Various care for aging parents things derailed a great deal of my plans for the month
Luckily, these tiles keep me sane ... I have been able to sneak a few new tiles inbetween eve...
2023-02-27 07:04:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hiya Everyone...
Just a quick little post for everyone who is not a Patreon.... with the full set of 25 tiles from the 1st set of Geomorph city tiles that were released for Defenders of Chaos last month.
Each til...
2023-02-27 05:43:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Remember back in October I asked for ideas for thorps?
Otsutan is the 2nd one. It has grown somewhat from the original suggestion of "A ghost thorp with roaming mimic Werehouses in the forest".
Specificaly, it will be 2 maps, set ...
Well, we are off to a good start this year with the Town square market map and the 1st set of 25 Geomorph city tiles in January. ...
The next map is the forest swamp ghost-town. It has not quite made it into January ... Instead it has expa...
As you arrive in the small town you have been aiming for, you hear music and the noise of a happy gathering ... It must be market day! Arriving in the town square, you find yourselves swept into a small but busting market.
The bu...
2023-01-11 12:22:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Summary:
For those of you who are not on my email newsletter list or don't hang out in Discord much.... I thought I would drop in and show you what maps I am currently working on.
I have too many on the go at the moment. Ideas are flying every ...
2022-12-24 06:36:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Create a sense of drama and raise the intensity of an encounter by periodically raising or lowering the level of the lava in this circle of Fire ...
I think this might be the most obviously "Boss-encounter" map that I have ever created... &n...
2022-12-15 07:02:24 +0000 UTC View Post