The Monster Lair
Welcome to this vibrant all-purpose cave lair, home to your countryside monster of choice!

Be it a bandit camp furnished with our camping and 2018-06-25 02:35:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this vibrant all-purpose cave lair, home to your countryside monster of choice!

Be it a bandit camp furnished with our camping and 2018-06-25 02:35:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Ever since I began the dungeon tiles, people have been asking about natural cave tiles. Well, I'm happy to kick it off with this set!
They print out as one 8x8" tile per page (with more paper-efficient options in the *-Multi.pdf), and join seamlessly at all edges.
We're starting out woefully generic with these four simple different tunnel o...
2018-06-18 08:42:34 +0000 UTC View PostWow, at long last I am making videos again! Thank you to everyone here for cracking that Patreon milestone.
You will probably immediately notice a change in style; this video is deliberately casual and slow-paced, and there has also been a drop in audio quality. See, I have put video-creation off for so long because of the setup and interruption ...
2018-06-06 11:06:17 +0000 UTC View PostI had a lot of fun this May, even if my predominantly grim maps don't reflect it! Despite their dangerous appearance, I'm sure they make for fun encounters for the players controlling their imperiled characters.
But, it's June now, and I am back at my heavy-duty work station and excited to dive into projects new and old.
2018-06-02 05:36:30 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone! I've been applying my rock-drawing practise from the Rocky Descent and created this Jagged Cave battle map. I hope you like it as much as I do.

Worry not, it comes with your regular grid options in addition to the funky grid seen above. T...
2018-05-28 03:22:44 +0000 UTC View PostAn ancient platform abandoned long ago to the frozen wastes, its purpose lost to time.

It's been rather hot lately, and one of the ways I cope is by drawing cold-looking maps. This Snowy Sanctum is another "get the MacGuffin" map, where I imagine the pla...
2018-05-25 03:18:21 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Sorry for the long hiatus. I was temporarily locked out of my Patreon account on PC, but everything is working well again.

So, once again, my maps releases are all going to be in the last stretch of the month! You can look forward to hearing...
2018-05-21 08:11:02 +0000 UTC View PostI hope everyone had a fantastic April! It's been flat out for me, to be honest. I've hosted a bachelor party, been a best man at a good friend's wedding, moved house, and been planning a trip for next month.
Sadly I didn't hit my goal of four maps this month, but I hope that the extra-large Oakenspire Treetops and the free Pirate Assets make up f...
2018-05-01 05:10:24 +0000 UTC View PostA few weeks ago I asked you all to help me come up with ideas for a bachelor party pirate-themed one-shot I was running for my good mate Jeff. Well, it went exceptionally well! And, as promised, attached are the sketchy assets I threw together.

This is t...
2018-05-01 04:06:33 +0000 UTC View PostA pool of blood trickles endlessly from an ancient skull. How perplexing!

As you can see, this is another isometric map! That said, if you are unfussy with perspective, the PDFs also include the regular square and hex option.
So, is it a dungeon en...
2018-04-29 12:10:27 +0000 UTC View PostI've been playing around with pens again, but the real fun was in painting this one!

It's a beach, obviously, but with a lot of space dedicated to bushy dunes, an excellent place for an ambush. Whether travelling along the shore or landing in a boa...
2018-04-26 13:31:03 +0000 UTC View PostA black sand beach for a more exotic shore. A fun alternative to the bright and sunny Beach Dunes!
2018-04-26 13:30:55 +0000 UTC View PostThis enormous battle map was made in collaboration with Evan Carothers, creator of the recently-successful Forest of Oakenspire Kickstarter 2018-04-13 07:39:13 +0000 UTC View Post
There's 21 hours to go on the Forest of Oakenspire Kickstarter!
I am the one responsible for one of their supplementary 2D battle maps. The one you see previewed above, it turns out! You can thank...
2018-04-10 15:39:35 +0000 UTC View PostHello there, I need your creative help!
My good friend is getting married in a few weeks and has asked me to throw him a casual one-shot for his bachelor party. We've settled on pirates as the theme, since the session is basically a complex drinking game, he is a big fan of One Piece, and it seems like a perfectly chaotic theme for one day of D&a...
2018-04-05 10:34:59 +0000 UTC View PostMarch is done, and we're another four maps up. Despite the dense late-March release schedule, I'm rather proud of each one.

This month I have a forest-themed map lined up, a custom dungeon room tileset in the making, and I'd like to experiment with anoth...
2018-04-02 08:48:10 +0000 UTC View PostFor my last map this month I wanted to draw something vibrant and lines-free, and these moody woods are the result. I must say, I adore getting to focus so much on color and form.

Not even the trees or fog dare tread on this soil, but is there a gardener...
2018-03-31 07:48:49 +0000 UTC View PostSome mundane, grassy green birchwoods, better suited for a peaceful camping site than mortal combat with a profane plane-treader!
2018-03-31 07:48:43 +0000 UTC View PostToday your dungeons get a whole lot more interesting! There's fifty one tokens in this pack, ranging from annoying to deadly, ball bearings to spheres of annihilation.

You can look forward to more dungeon bits and bobs next month!
Thanks to you, th...
2018-03-30 03:53:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe perfect place to hide your important blue-glowing macguffin is deep in the earth, probably surrounded by ethereal spirit guardians and runic traps.

Let us know in the comments what encounters you build for this map. Enjoy!
Thanks to yo...
2018-03-26 10:46:54 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone. Here I am leaving everything to the latter half of the month again, sorry!
I'm pretty excited to show this one off. It functions a lot like our 2D set piece buildings, except it also features walls (inside and out) and a removable roof. The level of immersion is at an all-time high!
2018-03-20 07:53:57 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone! This isn't a map post, but I hope that you still find it valuable.
For the past few months I have been involved with Michael Kane of Geek Tank Games in creating these poly-vinyl token packs. My part has been small - basically just allowing my art to be used - but I'm still excited to share the result.
This is my first collabora...
2018-03-09 11:31:23 +0000 UTC View PostI'm working on something pretty cool. It will be worth the wait, I hope!
2018-03-08 11:04:40 +0000 UTC View PostI just spent a refreshing month in Japan, and am home now and raring to put pencil to paper once again!

I went to Japan with the goal of hitting my map-making quota despite the exciting pace of travel, and I am proud to say that I managed it! In fact, I ...
2018-03-01 09:15:36 +0000 UTC View PostI'm back home now, but here is another map inspired by my travels in Japan! It's a peaceful pool fed by a little waterfall.

I painted most of it during the 13 hours I spent yesterday on a plane, and used it as a case study in rocky terrain. I also ...
2018-02-28 07:59:17 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to the Snowy Plaza, where townsfolk gather under the lamplight to watch travelling performers ply their trade on stage. But wait, what are those nefarious shapes approaching from the shadows across the canal? Probably something for the party to fight!
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A distant winter sun casts long, cold shadows across the plaza. An obvious and useful companion for the night version!
2018-02-22 07:07:43 +0000 UTC View PostA small village inspired by my travels this month. It's only very small, and more of an overnight stop between two cities with an economy built around catering to travellers.

In my mind, it has an inn, a shrine to a mercantile god, a bell tower, and a ba...
2018-02-19 11:10:12 +0000 UTC View PostAt long last, this month's first map is here! This is the Dwarven Hermitage, my experiment in a heavier style of line art.

Whereas my Oasis map was an experiment in color, this is an experiment in lines. It's rather inspired by Darkest Dungeon, and...
2018-02-17 01:54:49 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
As I announced in my post at the start of the month, I am spending this month exploring Japan, enjoying myself and collecting sooo many reference images and ideas.
There will be maps this month, and soon! I am happily drawing in-between sightseeing, and soon will have one ready to share. I just thought I would let you all know ...
2018-02-14 12:49:00 +0000 UTC View Post