Heya everyone... here it is :-)
Thor has smiled upon me and permitted me just enough sunlight to feed my laptop via the solar panel to get this uploaded and released into the wild today
Dragonsthorp is the 1st of 6 settlement maps suggested by Patreon Supporters in October. This little Viking themed sett...
2022-12-01 09:39:05 +0000 UTC
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Quick Sip
- 1st map of the month will be Dragonthorp - the first in the Hamlet series
- 2nd map of the month will be a 5 phase rising lava boss-type battlemap
- The next settlement map will be a ghost Thorp with roaming mimic Werehouses in the surrounding forest, as suggested by ...
2022-12-01 05:52:26 +0000 UTC
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A huge 60x60 battlemap
Here we go... after nearly 50 hours of growing this huge map out of nothing, I am quite pleased with how it turned out and hope that it will inspire some interesting plots or encounters in your games :-)
Hidden Vale is a rocky valley at the downstream...
2022-11-13 12:41:40 +0000 UTC
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This started life as an abstract painting ... when it was finished, I realised that it would make for a great encounter location, perhaps a place to battle fire sprites?
... So here it is... something dramatic to light up a dark place with
Have fun!
The Little Bit:
- 1st Map of the month will be a battelmap that started life as an abstract work
- 2nd Map of the month will be the big 60x60 battlemap in 9 parts (Work in progress snippet in the header)
- There are 6 hamlets on the work list from this month of collecting ideas from ...
2022-11-01 03:12:37 +0000 UTC
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Or is it sometimes a portal? Perhaps only at night? and if you jump in, where does it go to? .... Perhaps to a parallel world that has the same landscape, but a different climate? Or to a different time at the same location?
I had a big backing up session the other day and found this map lurking up a forgotten corner......
2022-10-28 22:52:24 +0000 UTC
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There are already a couple of ideas on the list... This is a little reminder for everyone else... in case life got crazy and you forgot :-)
Submission is open for Ideas for Thorp/Hamlet maps
This month, I would like to accept submissions from all Defenders of Chaos, old and new, for...
2022-10-13 11:26:51 +0000 UTC
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After brewing in for months, Konrith is ripe and ready to escape into the world :-)
This is a small unassuming town or perhaps the heart of an old city, where the original gardens and orchards in the city center have not been built over.
There are many small ally-ways, courtyards, greenhouses, vera...
2022-10-13 11:01:05 +0000 UTC
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Once again, the imaginative Jog Brogzin let me colour in one of his wonderful maps... This is Well of the Mind .... Who's mind though?
There are 2 main versions. One with a stary space background and one with a rocky solid backgro...
2022-10-09 09:22:59 +0000 UTC
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Heya! .... Here they are
I ended up with 28 Item cards in all ... some are variations on a theme, some are 2 states of the same shield. So, basically 24 different shapes ... Not quite one for every day of the month of September, but close!
It was a good spontaneous break-out
2022-10-03 12:31:56 +0000 UTC
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The Telegram
- Apologies for so many posts all in a flurry
- New Single-Tier is live. On a wild whim I called it "Defenders of Chaos"
- The 4 Old Tiers (the 'Tiers of the Ancients') will be archived in about 24 hours from now - Members will continue to have access to old stuff as wel...
2022-10-01 07:17:31 +0000 UTC
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Short and sweet
- Work In Progress:
- Next town map is nearly finished and will be out in full res for you all in the next couple of days.
- I have drawn about 25 shields as items this month. they will be out in full res for you guys in the next few days as well.
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2022-09-29 22:29:20 +0000 UTC
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Good afternoon
It is nearly the middle of the month already.... not sure where it is flying away to!
To space out all these 'Spring cleaning' posts with something a bit more interesting, I thought I would show off a bit of what I have been working on recently ....
Sneak Peak at the the next 2 Settlement map...
2022-09-13 07:02:11 +0000 UTC
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And here it is.... This one has been a long journey from woe to go
But is it complete. I love how it has turned out & I hope that you will find some interesting ways to put it to good use.
The scale is actually 2m per square (6 ft) but that is close enough to 5 ft that it shouldn't matter I hope ... ?
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2022-09-07 08:31:36 +0000 UTC
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Hiya Everyone … It is Spring here in the antipodes and I have once again been mentally-spring cleaning & re-calculating how to keep creating the maps I love and fit them in around my currently unpredictable life (being basically homeless & doing random house-sitting is not conducive to regular hours)…
2022-09-06 12:37:59 +0000 UTC
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Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Let all with eyes to read know that Jog Brogzin once again gave his blessing to my coloring of another of his maps... this gorgeous little sunken Temple in a mini-scene style ...
2022-08-16 07:42:06 +0000 UTC
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The Quick Skim
- Probably no formal map releases this month due to a few commissions
- Bonus map of cross-roads attached (20x20 @ 140pps)
The Nitty-Gritty
Commissions are still my 'bread & butter'.... I will be giving them all my focus time this month
.... and none of...
2022-08-02 02:42:16 +0000 UTC
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Out in the middle of the ocean, somewhere tropical, is an atoll called Nukshan. Named for the Captain of the first crew to stumble upon the haven and grind their storm-battered ship up the beach. Nukshan has since grown into a small, yet busy, port town with traders docking almost daily, exchanging goods fro...
2022-07-14 13:34:12 +0000 UTC
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The little version:
- I am still alive over here
- The atoll dock-town of Nukshan has progressed... but still needs a LOT of trees before I can let it out of my sight
- I have no idea when the next map will be out... Things are a bit up in the air for me at the moment... but it will pr...
2022-07-06 01:31:16 +0000 UTC
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Perhaps not far from Ashthorp, Harkenwell, home of the Green Falcon Tavern and Inn, is another quiet little village with a pond, snuggled at the base of a hill rising up to the moors and surrounded on the other 3 sides by hedge-rowed f...
2022-06-02 13:16:37 +0000 UTC
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The short version:
- Half a month late... Bonus map of the village of Harkenwell will be out in the next few hours
- Next paid release map, Nukshan, will be a floating/pontoon/jetty town in an atoll (WIP in header).... it may or may not be finished this month due to ongoing commission maps
2022-06-02 07:31:29 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone, This is a re-make of a little encounter area map I was commissioned to draw early last year... A dam at the confluence of 2 rivers in a park area, overlooked by 2 platforms... and no bridges in sight
It was a fun little location to draw
Patrons can find an un-gridded/no logo version of the free map shown...
2022-05-09 06:12:36 +0000 UTC
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The terse bit
- May is a Commissions month, so there probably won't be a formal 'paid' release this month
- I do have a little village practice-map that will be out as a bonus map in a couple of weeks
The longer burble bit
Deveros Update:
I am g...
2022-05-04 00:40:32 +0000 UTC
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The sky-islands settlement is here!
... and as a special treat, Adventure Music (who composes lovely background music for TTRPG settings), has collaborated with me again to compose a wonderful...
2022-04-30 15:05:43 +0000 UTC
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Thought I would drop you all a line... just letting you know that I am still alive!
Progress on the realm of air map (The Dragonfly Cluster) continues in drips and drabs between assisting a family member who has been ill ... they had an op a few weeks ago & have been home for 2 1/2 weeks now. They are starting t...
2022-04-15 00:09:25 +0000 UTC
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A couple of Patreon supporters asked if I could make my hand drawn grids available as transparent overlays... so here they are available for anyone who needs them.
The difference between dpi and pixels per square/hex is messing with my head.
... but essentially, the '300/140/72dpi' in the file names i...
2022-04-07 02:13:40 +0000 UTC
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Now that we have got past the dreaded Fools day... it's April news time.
Summary:
- Realm of air settlement map planned for March didn't happen due to illness in the family (not me) .... It is in the works and will probably be the main and only Patreon funded release this month.&...
2022-04-02 11:31:53 +0000 UTC
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A quiet little village in the middle of farming country. Not even big enough to have a dedicated church yet.....
Where they may or may not be having problems with the many-eyed creature that in lives in the village pond. It used to be friendly, unfortunately, in the last few months it has become more a...
2022-04-01 11:35:38 +0000 UTC
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Hemlock Hall is set in a similar landscape to the last 2 map releases, Tamrin Crossing and New Hope...
It is set upon the cliff tops, with 2 small hamlets (Marshton & Haketon) in the marshy coastal land below. Hemlock town has grown up at the gates of the small manor house, which is set within its own walled ...
2022-03-15 10:08:46 +0000 UTC
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SUMMARY:
- All going well, the March Map will be a floating islands/Realm of air settlement cluster
- There might also be another one set in the same landscape style as Tamrin Crossing & New Hope (we shall see what time allows)
The Slightly More Wordy Vers...
2022-03-04 09:04:53 +0000 UTC
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