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๐ Kingmaker Begins! ๐ Week 1 - The Town of Roserun, Doctor's House and the Duelling Stone and an Early Preview of our GM Pack.
🕑 Added 2026-02-05 21:59:08 +0000 UTCToday marks the first release for our new theme: Kingmaker, and Iโm very excited to finally get this in front of your ball shaped eye doodads!
Much like the sandbox nature of Kingmaker itself, all of our maps this month will be focused on fleshing out one specific region, the Barony of Estania. Rather than hopping all over the place, weโre digging deep and building something you can truly live in with your players.
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๐บ๏ธ The Barony of Estania - Part of our Fallen Kingdom Setting
At 60 miles wide and 40 miles high, Estania is a big region, and weโre cramming it full of everything youโll need to run long-term adventures, political intrigue, wilderness exploration, and messy local drama.
Below youโll find a preview of the region map as it currently stands, but for now, letโs focus on the main event: todayโs releases.
๐๏ธ This Weekโs Maps
The Town of Roserun
A small but vital market town whose wooden bridge is the only reliable crossing of the River Ere for hundreds of miles. Control Roserun, and you control trade, travel, and trouble.
The Doctorโs House
Home of a well-to-do local doctor in the heart of Roserun, who definitely isnโt secretly a necromancer....absolutely not....for sure. Nothing to see here.
Note: I also made quite a bit of progress on mapping out Roserun Fort, but sadly three maps this week is all youโre getting out of me, but keep an eye out for that one later! ๐
The Duelling Stone
About 5 miles outside Roserun, an ancient standing stone sits atop a low hill. Placed there by persons unknown, for purposes long forgotten, but now used by locals as a place to settle grudges at the point of a sword.
๐ฆ GM Packs โ Early Preview
In my 2026 Roadmap post last week, I talked about wanting to introduce GM Packs as a way to add more value and utility to the Patreon.
To give you a rough idea of what that might look like, Iโve included a PDF in Master Cartographer's Rewards folder.
This is very much substance over style for now, but it should give you a clear sense of what Iโm thinking in terms of contents and usefulness.
๐ Please let me know what you think! Feedback at this stage is hugely helpful.
The Plan for Estania
Also included is our rough working plan for the Barony of Estania. Youโll see annotations all over the map with suggested Points of Interest:
Red โ Maps that still need to be made
Green โ Maps we already have in the archive
Orange โ Maps releasing today
As you can see, itโs already looking pretty fullโbut I want more ideas.
Drop suggestions in the comments below or hop over to our Discord, where weโve got a dedicated channel just for this project.
โค๏ธ Want More?
If youโre enjoying this direction and want to see Estania grow into a fully realized sandbox you can run straight from the page:
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As always, thank you for being here, and welcome to Kingmaker. ๐
Cheers!
George - RC
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