Aonbarr Cartography

Yester Hill (Druid's Circle)

I broke Yester Hill into two areas so that I could keep the maps consistent with 5 foot per square on the grid - the first part is the Druid's Circle. I struggled a little with the Strahd Wicker Man, but I'm happy enough with the mass of sticks I went for in the end. I don't really like ...

Abbey of Saint Markovia

The Abbey of Saint Markovia was the first map I worked on that featured snow - it took some getting used to, and there were a lot of teething problems with regards making certain objects and pathways look like they'd been snowed on. Originally I just slapped the snow asset down on everything and...

Argynvostholt

Oh, Argynvostholt... until you came along, I had no idea what I was doing where levels and layers were concerned. You forced me to learn (well, sort of - my technique is still pretty questionable), but I do hate you for it. There are a lot of overlapping layers here, and it took me a while to figure...

Van Richten's Tower

I struggled with this one a fair bit during the early days of the process - I can't remember why precisely, but I think it had something to do with the slight change to the tower's size as it rises, and the inclusion of windows that weren't meant to be full-size. Whatever the case, I cam...

Wizard of Wines Winery

I really struggled with getting terrain right in the early days of the project - the Wizards of Wine Winery was what forced me to figure it out. I still came back and revised it later, but I kept the pathways through the vineyard as I had originally made them.I also had to Google images of medieval ...

Kasimir's Hovel

I separated Kasimir's Hovel from the Vistani Camp as I felt the map was quite unwieldy as it is in the module - a lot of unused space, and I didn't think the homes of the other Dusk Elves needed to be included in any battle maps. I may eventually make an alternate to Kasimir's Hovel, jus...

Vistani Camp

I took the liberty of separating the Vistani Camp from Kasimir's Hovel, as there was a lot of unused space between the two - not to mention the hovels of all the other Dusk Elves that didn't necessarily have to be included in the map. Kasimir's Hovel is named accordingly.

Coffin Maker's Shop

Wachterhaus

I think this was the first map with which I started to deviate from the descriptions purely as written when I began this project - wild stuff, like adding in rugs where there were no rugs mentioned, that kind of thing. Fiercely liberating stuff. Seriously though, I do find the official maps can be q...

Burgomaster's Mansion

Something I really struggled with in both the Burgomaster's Mansion and Death House was the inclusion of objects being covered by a white dust cloth. I don't know how it took me so long to try using the Pattern Shape Tool with a transparent white color, but it worked pretty well in the end. ...

Blue Water Inn

No alternates or anything fancy with this one - just an inn full of interesting characters. I may come back to this and make an alternate for post-uprising Vallaki at some point.

Old Bonegrinder

Another map whose name I felt the need to change - I called this one Durst Mill back when it was only intended for my players' eyes, and that stuck until I was getting around to uploading all my maps and remembered that's not the name the module gives the place. It's 'Old Bonegrinder...

Tser Pool Crossing

This map right here - this one was tricky.First of all came the question, which way does the river flow? It took a lot of Googling and studying the map to figure out that it was flowing from east to west. I think. Honestly, I still expect to be told that I'm mistaken on this one, but such is lif...

Tser Pool Encampment

I could not tell you much it pained me when I first made this map that I simply could not place some kind of flap over the entrances to the tents at the Tser Pool Encampment. When I came back to it at the end of the project, I had discovered the power of the Pattern Shape Tool and transparent colors...

River Ivlis Crossroads

There's not an awful lot to say about this particular map, bar the fact that I must have spent several weeks going back and forth between whether or not I wanted treetops to be transparent, so you could see exactly what was simply under the canopy and what was hidden behind tree trunks. In the e...

Church of Barovia

I couldn't tell you why, precisely, but for some reason this was saved as 'Barovia Chapel' when I began work on this project, and I didn't notice it was incorrect until I had already created so many versions of the map that the thought of renaming it physically pained me. As such, it...

Death House

The unfortunately named 'Death House' - I personally prefer to go with 'Durst Manor', as the original name is far too on the nose. Similarly, when I was running the area, I made a lot of changes, many of them taken from MandyMod's Fleshing Out Curse of Strahdseries, as I felt lik...

Map of Barovia

I think that when I decided to run Curse of Strahd, I started by recreating the map of Barovia through Wonderdraft, using assets I had drawn with my Wacom tablet.The scale is a little different to the scale in the module as written, as I wanted to increase the distance between the various locations ...