It's so nice to work on tokens sometimes, they come together much more quickly and each one seems to look better than the one before! Plus I love using dragons in my games and this zombie dragon makes a great boss or villain :)
There is not a stat block for this creature as you can probably use the Dracolich templ...
2019-01-26 22:31:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I posted a few photos of this map yesterday which you can see below, but today I scanned it in, did some fixing up, added some names and here we are!
This was for the amazing Cole who runs a game of Dungeons and Dragons o...
2019-01-25 21:53:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the line art for the next two, three tokens that I have to finish up! A really awesome looking Zombie dragon that will have a bunch of different colours and glowy effects. Plus two versions of a Yuan Ti for jungle adventures :)
2019-01-20 23:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Another patron map all finished up!
This is another of my attempts to map out the Forgotten Realms setting with the northern areas of Faerûn, Vaasa and Damara! This is the main setting of Dungeons and Dragons and it's been incredibly fun to draw some of these iconic and beloved places!
This a...
2019-01-18 23:50:41 +0000 UTC View Post
As I was working on my Vaasa and Damara map I realised I needed to have a nice set of custom icons for locations. Previously I had only a village, town and city icon but I wanted more unique buildings and thus spent the last few days working on this set.
These might be super helpful for anyone else working on maps thems...
2019-01-14 20:31:55 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://www.blueswordgames.com/blog/mapmaking-geography-science/
This is more of an article than a blog.. but this is a quick link for anyone that wants some tips for making a world or region map using science...
2019-01-10 22:22:24 +0000 UTC View Post
One of my favourite maps from last year was my first attempt at drawing a map from a massive already established setting, the Sword Coast! It was a hugely popular map and I said at the time I would love to do the whole of the Faerûn at some point.
2019-01-09 16:24:57 +0000 UTC
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Happy new year to all of my amazing patrons! It's been a really wild year with a success here on patreon that I could only have dreamed about a year ago. Thank you all so much for the always amazing support each month, the kind comments and excitement for every map release... you guys are all amazing and I hope everyone has a...
2019-01-01 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a very slow month for releasing maps on my patreon but today after a few days of cooking food for family and enjoying christmas I’ve finished up the world map of Lhodos!
This is another map for a patron that took my mapmaking in a slightly different direction with a disk/floating through the void type ...
2018-12-27 13:46:30 +0000 UTC View Post
I have been super super quiet this month and today I’m going to show off a sneak peek for another world map that I've been working on as well as some updates on other projects!
So the above map is another patron map, it has so...
2018-12-18 19:47:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Before I carry on and concentrate on patron maps for awhile, I managed to do some line art for a really awesome token to go with the pirate cove map I finished recently!
Yesterday I managed to colour it, and today I made a ghostly version as well!
2018-12-03 18:07:05 +0000 UTC
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I've been very hesitant to talk about this for a while but this post is going to talk about my patreon, how I do things and some more changes. The last time I made some changes to my patreon people were very supportive and understood that in order to make things work and to make a living I had to cut back a little and cap off re...
2018-12-02 21:38:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Tomorrow I will be going to Dragonmeet! A convention over here in the UK that is focused on tabletop roleplaying games and board games. Not only will I be going but I will be selling map prints as well! This is the first time I will be selling prints of my maps to people in person and I’m really excited!
Hopefully this...
2018-11-30 16:49:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Todays map is the massive Caves of Gold, the pirate cove of many biomes and encounters! This map was also very much inspired by the Isla de Muerta or the "Island of Death" in The Curse of the Black Pearl, the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie where the Black Pearl’s crew hides the location of the Aztec treasure that has cur...
2018-11-26 14:45:44 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been a little quiet over the last couple of days, working on many different things all at once and one those things is a very large battlemap/town/encounter map I'm calling the pirate cove! :)
This map started out life as the lai...
2018-11-17 15:53:59 +0000 UTC View Post
To go with the Beastlands battlemap I finished yesterday, today's token is a celestial creature that you might find in the cave on that map!
This isn't a creature from the normal Dungeons and Dragons line up, instead the Buraq is or...
2018-11-11 20:29:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Todays map is my take on one of the Dungeons and Dragons neutral/chaotic good aligned planes of existence called the Beastlands.
“The Beastlands is a plane of nature and animals. Peaceful alpine forests and a varied climate exists across the plane, providing a suitable environment for many species of animals and plants...
2018-11-10 16:12:58 +0000 UTC View Post
I didn't manage to get a hex done yesterday, but I think I’ll be able to do 30 of these maps in month if I keep it up, I’ll just have to do a couple more to make up for it when I can :)
This hex was made with the following combinations: Forest + Mountains + Giant Tree!
2018-11-05 20:43:48 +0000 UTC View Post
This now my favorite token I've done to date.
Following on from the super long lair map I posted a few days ago this is the Beholder monster token that goes with it! The main eye is of course the focus and really came out well, but the little eye stalks are also really cool as you can match a beholders abilities to each eye! 2018-11-05 17:07:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Another post today!
Two more of the region hex maps i've doing for the month of mapvember, inspired by the following combinations Coast + River Delta + Cliffs!
These are coastline hexes but I do realize I will need to do more in order to surround and make everything connect up once more tiles have been made :) ...
2018-11-03 22:50:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Part of me loves these long maps but another part of me hates that you can't see much until you zoom in XD
But anyway! Todays map is the Lair of the Beholder and has a really nice little self contained dungeon feel to it, including a really awesome trap corridor that has its own trap token for use online! There are curre...
2018-11-03 18:13:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Todays map is kind of plain without a huge amount of detail (Gotta have some those!) I think this one took me less than 2 hours from start to finish :)
Todays map was inspired by the following combinations: Grassland + Savanna + Corruption
As you can see, this one does follow on from yesterday's map but not all the...
2018-11-02 15:29:16 +0000 UTC View Post
So am I going to try and do 30 of these this month.
Or.. well... I'm certainly going to try :)
I might miss a few but I would love to do 30 of these little region hex maps so that people can mix and match and create their own world really quickly. The goals is for someone to simply pick one and place symbols ...
2018-11-01 16:32:44 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ve already posted a sneak peek of a three part battlemap that I finished the line art for and these little books and scrolls are the assets i've made that will make the final chamber really feel like a messy library!
There a few different colours and versions but I will be updating the pack as I use it with a few mor...
2018-10-31 16:41:33 +0000 UTC View Post
It was pretty difficulty to get some good photos of these three maps, the quality is pretty bad but you should be able to see what I’ve been working on!
I wanted to make something really epic for a dungeon map and settled on a beholder lair, for various reasons and this is the result :) I'm not great yet at perspective work ...
2018-10-29 17:17:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This month one of the most amazing and useful tools that I've ever found online is celebrating their first year anniversary!
For anyone that is new to my patreon and has not yet heard of World Anvil, check out the link below! I could not recommend them enough to anyone that does world building for books, roleplaying game...
2018-10-27 20:07:33 +0000 UTC View Post
A few people asked if there was going to be another colour version of this map and I decided to spend a few hours going over it and making a night/pink verion to try and make something a little different!
This version is just for patrons, to say thank you for supporting me on here! As always you all mean the world to me and th...
2018-10-14 15:42:34 +0000 UTC View Post
After a good long while my version of the City of Glass is all finished!
I love how this turned out in the end even though at first I was very unsure about how to get the colours right. I think going for an overall more combined look and feel was far better than trying to make each section or individual houses looks spec...
2018-10-12 19:33:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Its been some time since I posted a sneak peek but there are a few big maps that i've been working on recently and I wanted to show off the progress so far!
The above is the world of Thark, a truly colossal map mainly done in photoshop but with a few bits done traditionally as well. It is hands down, the biggest map I've...
2018-10-10 18:14:49 +0000 UTC View PostHere is the link to the building pack that contains everything I've done recently in terms of buildings and rooftops!
Instead of going through every post and downloading individually you can get the pack with everything all in once place on my website instead :)
