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Two New Projects
🕑 Added 2021-05-25 05:25:44 +0000 UTCFor the Community
For as long as I've been posting my maps online, I've tried to support the RPG community as much as I can. Not just my patrons, but those who can't afford to support my work. Younger DMs, broke college students and so forth. Anyway, I've decided to do a little more by making a gift for the community.
Over the last year, I drew about 300 tokens (preview/download). Mostly, I made them for my own game, but I posted them here for anyone else who wanted them. I want to expand that set of tokens to cover everything in the Monster Manual. And I want to give it away for free, as a gift from me and from the patrons who enabled me to make it.
The plan is to do this over time, spending a day or two each month drawing tokens so they don't get in the way of the maps. I'm not sure how long it'll take, but the tokens I've already drawn cover about 25% of the book, so I'd say I have around 200 or so to go.
Once that's done, I'll draw some more tokens for patrons, covering everything in either Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes or Volo's Guide to Monsters. There'll probably be a vote to decide which when the time comes. I know some of you play RPGs other than D&D, but, with several hundred tokens, I'd say you'll find something close enough to the monsters you're looking for.
A New Historical Map
It's been a little while since I've done a big historical map and I've got plans for a new one: the Chateau de Chenonceau. It's a French castle and it is glorious. Yeah, they just built it across a river. Because why not.
This place has everything I'm looking for in a historical map: it looks amazing, it's got a unique character, the interior is interesting and-- most importantly-- there are good floor plans available. I'll start working on this sometime next month, after I'm done with the map I'm drawing now and the one after that.
Next Up
Speaking of which, I'm currently drawing a deep gnome settlement for the Black Loch. It's basically a deep, narrow pit in the ground with a spiraling staircase leading down into it. The homes are dug into the sides and there's a mine at the bottom. I decided to make it abandoned because, honestly, it'd be such an interesting dungeon that I almost think it'd be wasted as a town.
After that, I'll be drawing the Cobalt Flotilla, which is a floating community made up of a bunch of ships lashed together, forming a sort of island. Your players will love setting it on fire, I'm sure.
Anyway, that's everything. If anyone's got any questions or comments about any of this, let me know!
Comments
Milby's Maps
Thanks, I love drawing them! There's a tower in Spain called the Torre del Oro that I've been wanting to draw for a while and I think I might be able to get around to it in the next month or two as well.
Tom Mechler
Your historical maps, in particular Mont Saint Michel are what drew me to this patreon. So excited for Chateau de Chenonceau. Keep up the great work!
Milby's Maps
Yeah, I'm really pumped to draw it. It feels like the kind of design that an architect would propose it and, 99 times out of 100, the response would be, "God no, that's crazy, are you serious." But this was that rare time where they were like, "Yeah, perfect, build it."
Robert Harrington
That chateau is amazing! Can't wait to see your work on it.
