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New Giltwater - Patrons' Edition
🕑 Added 2023-08-02 14:08:23 +0000 UTCNew Giltwater is a gold mining colony in Tir Thelandira. After the last colony was burned to the ground by the island's native wood elves, the colonists have taken a few more precautions this time around, building a palisade and keeping a few companies of mercenaries close by.
There are only three more maps to draw before Tir Thelandira is finished. After that, I've got a few ideas on what to start on next and I'll probably let patrons vote on which one you want to see first. Here's what I'm thinking about:
- Dhasra. An incredibly wealthy city built across a river delta. The main location on the island would be the White City of Dhasra and I'd draw an overview of the city, then detailed maps of different locations within the city. There might be a couple other locations on the island as well.
- A very bleak island whose noble families all became vampires long ago. The peasants are little more than livestock for the nobles, who have established an upper caste of commoners to keep the rest in line. The nobles live in lavish palaces with fountains of blood, while the serfs live as prisoners in their own lands. A few groups of wanderers roam the forests, living free from the predation of the nobility. Deep in the shadows, there is talk of an uprising.
- A new version of Tortuga. I'll redesign it and it'll probably be a bit smaller, but the same basic idea. Since I'm drawing a world full of islands, it seems like an interesting way to travel between them. It lets the party stay on the move, while also having a community of people they know around them.
By the way, the runoff vote for the next location in Tir Thelandira is open, so if you're a patron, go over there and participate in democracy. It's really close right now, so your vote very well might change the outcome.
Anyway, I'd love to hear your thoughts on those three ideas. What you like, what you don't or what might make them better. I really want to draw all three, but I'd like to hear your opinions first.
Download from Google Drive here (under NEWEST PATRON CONTENT).
Comments
Silas
Oh I’d never expect you to give us free reign. I figured you’d curate any submissions down to the ones you’d be happy doing and then poll that list.
Silas
Oh I’d never expect you to give us free reign. I figured you’d curate any submissions down to the ones you’d be happy doing and then poll that list.
Milby's Maps
I'm not quite ready to hold a vote on patrons' proposals for entire islands yet. I'm always open to suggestions and I very much appreciate yours, but I want to make sure that any island on the ballot is one that I can do justice to. So for now, I think I'm going to keep having votes on patrons' proposals for locations, but not entire islands. That said, I am absolutely open to suggestions for islands. If anyone has an idea I like the sound of, I may very well put it on the ballot. But I do want to have control over what's on the ballot so that I can be confident that, whatever people choose, I can make something cool out of it.
Silas
Four island ideas from me: An group of connected atolls with lagoon maps and a smattering of trading and military outposts plus some aquatic beings living in the lagoons, a volcano island that has risen up from the sea floor due to tectonic activity, a treasure island that is basically a giant cave dungeon in the shape of an island, an island that’s become partially submerged by rising sea levels and had its population flee to the high ground. I’m sure I’m not the only one able to come up with ideas, so could be a viable one to have the Congress not just vote on but put forward ideas for.
Milby's Maps
Yeah, it might be better to plot an uprising in the afternoon. Nice, sunny day, maybe make a picnic out of it. Not the most thematically appropriate, but it's certainly the practical decision.
AN7
I feel like on the one hand vampire island has probably been done, but I don’t know, I am suddenly extremely pumped for seeing your version of it. Like a lot. Though I fear for the resistance forming deep in the shadows. I feel like of all the places to plot to overthrow vampire overlords that might be the worst place to do it from…
