We’re excited to be part of a Kickstarter launching today, run by our friend and patron Lou Anders. You may well know Lou from his novels or his Hugo award-winning editing and you’ve probably seen him around here in the comments sections. We first got to know Lou around 6 years ago when Joe and our eldest daughter read Louâ€...
2021-02-09 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
We've just released a map which we think covers a pretty rare location. We've depicted a castle under construction, with partially built walls, cranes, platforms and building material. Aside from being an interesting and unique location for an adventure, it also offers lots of tactical and encounter situations - walking...
2021-02-08 22:48:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
Time for a preview of March's MotM!
An oft-requested location, we decided it was time for a timber fort in the wilderness!
Fort Torriwatch is a 30x30 map, with both interior and exterior views of the buildings. It's a nice wooden fort guarding the road and also a river, with plenty of space for guards to patrol the pal...
2021-02-08 18:36:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Thanks for the dozens of ideas for the Third Map around the theme of 'Hideout'.
We randomly picked a winner - which was :
Rainer Rösch
An urban hideout, the old bookshop with ancient tomes and dust like suggested above. Maybe a ... 2021-02-06 15:21:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone!
We've just sent reward links to everyone - so check your Patreon messages!
Again it's a bumper bundle of maps! (we keep getting carried away lately!)
This month, the rewards are:
We've been busy working on some new goals for our Patreon that we're ready to share with you all. Your support is helping us make so many maps and we want to make sure we give more of those maps to you! As our Patreon grows, we'll be able to commit even more time to rewards for patrons and we've got lots of plans!
Hi everyone,
First, we want to say hello and welcome to everyone that has recently joined our Patreon! Your welcome message contains links to the Year 1 vault, and you'll be getting the February reward bundles along with everyone else in a couple of days :)
Third Map Ideas
For this month's Third Map...
2021-02-03 10:18:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey,
We're continuing wandering along the Dark Road, and after ignoring some ominous tunnels we've discovered that the road is blocked by rubble, and we'll have to go through the tunnels after all!
Are those cobwebs?
T...
2021-01-29 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Last month you got the ground floor of the cyberpunk New Atami Heights apartment block, with some residential and commercial rooms, as well as some street areas. Before we go up, we wanted to go down and map the two lower levels. For February's level, you'll be getting the car park level. It's a 20x20 map that sits under the ...
2021-01-29 19:38:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
We had great fun reading through the Third Map suggestions (there must have been 100!). We had asked you which locations do you have trouble finding maps for, and not only did it give us a good map for the Third Map but also ideas for other areas to work on in the future, so thanks!
We noticed that lots of you suggestio...
2021-01-26 10:52:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
An adventure-writer we work with asked if we'd be happy to produce a couple of 'collapsed' bridge tiles to go with our Goblinstair Cavern megadungeon - and we figured why not have them all collapsed, and give the tiles to Patrons too!
So, if you're using Goblinstair Cavern, one of our MegaDungeons, you now have a set of...
2021-01-24 16:39:23 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
Just wanted to update everyone with a couple of updates about various bits :)
Year 1 Vault Links
Lots of you have either commented, or messaged, to say that the links for the Year 1 vault were displaying 'max redeemed'. We actually went through all of them a fortnight ago, updated all 31 lin...
2021-01-24 15:54:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Time for a preview, eh? The winning entry in the alt-version poll was to create a Navigator's Guild house, ideal for sailors and other nautical types.
We had great fun creating this - hopefully it can fit into your adventures!
2021-01-21 17:18:35 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
We had great fun working on the variants for the MoTM (The Wizard's House). We wanted to make a couple of very useful urban maps with the nice building we had, and we thought back through various suggestions we've had over the years. We settled on a pair of day/night maps of a noble's urban residence (works well for a w...
2021-01-18 17:24:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
We've been keen recently to do another set like our Explorer Beaches & Coves which is a set of maps that join into a seamless long map, but are usable on their own...
2021-01-15 17:00:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
For February's Sci-Fi map we wanted to do a location that would be really exciting to play on, and also doesn't really exist much out there as a battlemap.
We settled on this - the Syiosys Dam. It's a large 50x30 map, with both interior and rooftop versions for the buildings either side. It's great for sci-fi, cyberpunk...
2021-01-13 19:02:48 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
Thanks for the suggestions for how to re-imagine the Wizard's House.
We've picked our 5 favourites:
Hey everyone,
Just days into January and we're already previewing February's Map of the Month. And boy, is it a bumper one!
Last month, amongst the many suggestions for January's Third Map (which was won by The Spring of Life) we spotted an idea from Daniel McCarthy who suggested a random circle of a wizard's workshop, in the middle ...
2021-01-07 20:30:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Happy New Year!
Check your Patreon inbox for codes to claim your maps on DTRPG. It's another bumper month, with between 7 and 9 maps for everyone, plus a bumper special adventure supplement.
This month you're getting:
Adventure supplements and supporting material will be uploaded to this post :)
January 2021 - The Elemental Shrines (uses the Fort of the Dragon-Egg Guard & Variants) - bumper issue! Also regional maps for the adventure.
February 2021 - Adventure supplements for The Ho...
2021-01-05 20:53:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
So, for February's Third Map - we'd like to hear your answers to this:
Name one location that you frequently want for your games, but have trouble finding maps for
Put your idea in the comments below, and in a few days time we'll pick one to make, and that will be the Third Map!
W...
2021-01-02 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
First we want to say thank you to everyone that is supporting us, and secondly, Happy New Year!
We have some new goals planned for Patreon, but we'd really love to hear what you have planned for your campaigns and adventures in 2021. Let us know in the comments below - it might inspire us to make a part...
2021-01-02 11:37:28 +0000 UTC View Post
We made a start on the Dark Road, a winding path that takes you through the Underdark and to some Drow ruins, past various dangers!
Unlike previous megadungeons, each map will connect horizontally, giving a better impression of a road. Of course the road is descending, but laterally rather than vertically.
We've tried to make sure th...
2020-12-29 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey,
January is always exciting because we get to start a new megamap, and for the next 6 months we'll be building up the popular New Atami apartment block.
Welcome to the ground floor of the New Atami Heights apartment building. Some of the external frontage is given over to shops, but there are some apartments on this floor. A set ...
2020-12-29 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
For January's preview we asked you to suggest any fantasy map at all, and then we picked randomly to see what we'd make.
The winning idea came from Nathan Mitchell, who suggested a deep frozen icy mountain range, but in one valley the Spring of Life, the start of a mighty river, brings a verdant oasis to the bleak landscape.
It's a v...
2020-12-26 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Preview time! The winning alt suggestion for the Fort of the Dragon-Egg Guard goblin cave complex was to turn it into a winter mountain slope, leading to a sacred barbarian site.
It's always fun to completely change the atmosphere and setting of a map, and so it was very enjoyable to turn a goblin cave into a mountain s...
2020-12-23 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Time to preview the three variants of the MotM (which, if you recall, is the Fort of the Dragon-Egg Guard).
The three themes we went with for the variants were icy, lava and water.
So, here they are :)
2020-12-21 15:21:05 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
Time for January's Sci-Fi preview!
We've gone cold, since it's winter, and put together a new colony map, consisting of hab modules on a frozen planet or moon. You could even use it for exploring a Polar region on Earth.
This 30x30 map has both interior and exterior versions, and uses the same architecture style a...
2020-12-15 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
First, we wanted to mention the winner of the random Third Map pick. We had dozens of great ideas, and we randomly picked a winner from all the entries. The winner was Nathan Mitchell and their idea of 'Th...
2020-12-11 13:03:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
We're excited to preview January's MotM. If you've had a chance to read the adventure supplement we made for Rochemont Quarry you might have noticed a little adventure hook involving goblins and a dragon egg they guard.
Well, we thought it would be really fun to make a cave system containing a dragon egg, and guarded by...
2020-12-07 16:30:11 +0000 UTC View Post