This month's alt-map is now finished and ready for everyone to have a look at. The poll winner for the redux of the Map of the Month's ruined Perdingham Village was a make-shift military camp in the hastily fortified ruins, perhaps the scene of a last stand.
We decided to dub it Fort Perding, circled the camp with knocked together ba...
2018-03-21 22:47:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone. Today we have a few admin bits and pieces to run through and then a look at what we're up to.
Alt Map Poll
The poll was quite close this month, but the winner was the village ruins, hastily fortified by an army, perhaps for some kind of last stand. Yes, a snappy title!
We don't norma...
2018-03-17 20:46:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Two days ago we asked for your ideas for ways that we can alter the Map of the Month to make a second, different map for you in April, your Alt-version.
Thank you for all of your suggestions - the village setting threw up some good ideas and we ha...
2018-03-12 22:53:05 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time to reveal the first of your April rewards - the Map of the Month. We decided to make the ruined settlement mentioned in the March Adventure Supplement, Perdingham Village, abandoned to the encroaching forest and now lost deep within it. The map is a 30x30, so there is a lot of room for exploring the old buildings in this...
2018-03-10 22:59:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Winning entry
From almost 50 entries, listed in random order on a spreadsheet, fate chose entry 34. This was David Wilkinson's idea, which he described thus:
Some sort of ritual pool/sacrificial altar in a clearing in dense forest where the party would have to stop a ritual from being completed that would sum... 2018-03-07 23:59:39 +0000 UTC View Post
As we haven't given you any bonus tiles for a little while, we made you some while we were making our new Crystal Caverns set. Attached to this post you will find two long fissure caves (7x20 squares), one in a blue theme, one red.
2018-03-07 19:39:11 +0000 UTC
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So, as you receive March's rewards it is already time to start talking about April's. We will be revealing April's Map of the Month in about a week's time, but we want to get a head start on your Third Map, so that is why this competition is rather early...
2018-03-04 23:57:26 +0000 UTC View Post
March payments are now processed so, with a big thank you from us, it is rewards time. Please check your Patreon messages for your download links.
This month everyone is receiving the Dungeon of Mydstep 20x20 and adventure supplem...
2018-03-04 23:41:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey,
We've been busy working on a pair of Sci-Fi battlemaps the past few days. Orbital Station Scova 4 is a set of three 20x20 maps, each of a different floor in a military space station. We've also made a Red Alert version, with battle damage and atmospheric lighting :)
They're available as a 2018-03-02 19:24:14 +0000 UTC View Post
It is six months now since we started our Map of the Month Club on Patreon - we set up in September and your first rewards were in October. We made this graphic of all of the main rewards so far to post elsewhere but thought it would be fun to post here as it is a nice look back at everything we've done here so far. Your March rew...
2018-02-28 23:36:18 +0000 UTC View Post
The short month of February means we are fast approaching Patreon billing day and the delivery of your rewards a few days after. So we thought we had better show you the first installment of your extra reward, your Third Map.
This month we have mad...
2018-02-24 15:30:45 +0000 UTC View Post
The Arcane Library option won the poll for your March alt-version and the map is now ready - take a look at the preview below. This was a fun one to make the changes to and to illustrate. It's a bit hard to see some of the detail at this...
2018-02-20 21:19:32 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
Hopefully you had a chance to read our Mapping Journal that we posted a couple of days ago, and if you did you would have seen our preview of the Desert City Streets, Rooftops & Markets mod...
2018-02-17 22:01:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Poll results
The arcane library won the poll for March's alt-map. We're really excited about how that is going to look and should have the preview ready for you around the 20th February.
300+ patrons = extra map 2018-02-16 15:32:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to everyone that took the time to suggest an idea for the alternative version of the Map of the Month for March (The Dungeon of Mydstep Keep). Lots of interesting and unique ideas. We've picked a handful, plus one of our own.
Pick your favourite b...
2018-02-13 00:49:02 +0000 UTC View Post
300+ Patrons
Firstly, you may have spotted that we have met our next goal and have over 300 patrons. Yes, that means you will all be getting another map in March on top of your Map of the Month and its alternate version - ...
2018-02-10 21:15:51 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
Thanks once again for all the support over the past month (and before that!). Thanks also for the way you all fully participate in discussions and polls about what sort of alternates you'd like for the maps, and your ideas etc - it's always very inspiring.
A link for your rewards for February have been sent by private message (if yo...
2018-02-05 23:56:13 +0000 UTC View PostHey!
Following the results of the poll to decide which rooms would be under the Sun Temple for February's Alt-versions, we've been busy putting them together and now can show you a preview. We had already planned to include a Solar Calendar ancient mechanism, and if you remember, the poll chose the Solstice Map Room, Portal and Moon Temple as the...
2018-01-29 00:18:41 +0000 UTC View PostPoll Results
As you will probably have seen, the three winning options for your alt-map are:
Interesting watching the results come in, as the top six or so juggled around quite a lot. Except, that is, for the map room, the runaway winner. I...
2018-01-24 23:40:48 +0000 UTC View PostWe've been really busy working on a huge new Modular Kit set, and we're really happy that it's finally gone online today. Taking a trip to the desert badlands, we've put together the Dry Ravine modular set, comprising four different products (Paths, Streams, Locations and Complex).
We've also made a Patreon Exclusive tile; the Magic Circle ...
2018-01-22 23:41:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok, so a quick reminder that your alternate version will be three different chambers/caves etc for the Sun Temple map.
There were so many great suggestions. Thank you once again for thinking up such interesting ideas. As usua...
2018-01-21 18:38:43 +0000 UTC View PostIt's map preview time! Please read carefully as we need something different from you all this month.
February's map is going to be the ruined Sun Temple mentioned in last month's adventure supplement. We thought it would be fun as it is quite different to everything you've had here on Patreon so far. The classic...
2018-01-16 22:39:07 +0000 UTC View PostYour rewards
Please check your Patreon messages for the links to your January rewards (if Patreon have taken your payment). We think the mine and the dwarf community are a really exciting pair of maps this month - we hope you get some good games out of them.
2018-01-06 15:46:40 +0000 UTC
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We wish you all a happy and healthy 2018 and hope the next year brings something positive for everyone. For us here at Heroic Maps we have lots of plans for the coming months and your support here is really enabling us to focus much more time on map-making.
A warm welcome to everyone that has joined us this month. Our patron count has...
2017-12-31 17:50:50 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
We've spent the last couple of days modifying January's Map of the Month (Black Scar Mine) into a dwarven settlement/outpost following the poll earlier this month.
The result is Farhill Dwarven Trading post, a small settlement on the fringe of a larger Dwarven hold, where inhabitants of the surface are able to trade with the Dwarves...
2017-12-29 15:40:12 +0000 UTC View PostThank you for all of the questions you posed yesterday - we’ll try to answer as many as we can here. We’ve grouped questions roughly by type and have combined a few where appropriate. Be warned, the post is very long!
Map-making process questions
Q. Do you use stock art to create parts of the maps, or draw it all? &...
2017-12-21 23:55:53 +0000 UTC View PostHey,
We thought we'd open up a post for you to ask any questions you might have. Put your question in the comments and we'll answer them tomorrow :)
Edit: Thanks for all your questions. We've answered them in a new post, so no more here for now!
2017-12-20 20:04:52 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone,
Just a quick post to let everyone know the results of the poll for the Alt Version you'll be getting in January. Thanks to everyone that took the time to vote. The original map (the mine, now called Black Scar Mine) will be tweaked to turn it into a dwarven village/outpost near the surface for the alt-version.
Our h...
2017-12-19 00:40:24 +0000 UTC View PostWe hadn't intended to court suggestions for the name of the mine, but some of you kindly gave ideas. Patrick Willoughby's suggestion 'Black Scar' was repeatedly praised and as we like it too it seems to have stuck - so Black Scar Mine it is. Many thanks to Patrick, who we feel should get a prize even though we weren't running a co...
2017-12-16 21:39:59 +0000 UTC View PostFirstly, just a word on Patreon. If you haven't yet seen, Patreon have listened to feedback from patrons and creators and have reversed their decision to change the billing system. Thank you for sticking with us, and Patreon, during this rollercoaster of a week!
Now on to something more fun - your vote for the alternate version of the...
2017-12-14 22:34:15 +0000 UTC View Post