….”Friday’s Mystery Meat”….A Small Village….

~ Attention. Here’s an update on tonight’s dinner. It was veal. I repeat, veal. The winner of tonight’s mystery meat contest is Jeffrey Corbin who guessed “some kind of beef.”~

   Just wanted to post something for “Friday’s Mystery Meat”. I drew up this village a few nights ago, its just a small village. This village has the following locations:

1. A Mill

2. Stronghold with a tower

3. Blacksmith

4. Stables

5. Manor House

6. Temple \ Church

7. Inn

8. Docks \ boat area

Nothing fancy, just a map to use and abuse, if I had more time I would label it and write up some descriptions, but I do not….so I leave that up to you.

UPDATE: I realized there were a few minor issues with the map, so I pulled them into Photoshop and cleaned them up a bit. Nothing major….just some lines that needed to go (In my eyes) and a few tweaks here and there.

Click on the image for a full page PDF, and as always enjoy!!!

 

….Dungeonmorph Dice….Villages and Cities….On Kickstarter

I wanted to announce the new Kickstarter project that I have had the opportunity work on.  Joe Wetzel has started another Kickstarter featuring a new set of the Dungeomorph Dice, Villages and Cities.  Like the first set, I have made map/geomorph contributions to this set. This has been a fun set to work on so far, I hope you will all help to support it. Click on the Kickstarter link above or on the image below to check it out.

….Megamorph-3….is bigger really better….???

This is my 3rd megamorph, after doing the first two, I realized I could use the full sheet of paper making it basically 4 standard geomorphs tall and 3 wide. So I drew this monstrosity, it is a large dwarven style hall. There are huge columns, a large balcony on both sides, and a higher balcony for the dwarven king to stand up above the hall while speaking to his amassed subjects. Behind that balcony are some royal chambers for the king to get ready beforehand, with a secret escape route in case of emergencies. The megamorph also has several other large halls and some caverns. I have to admit that this is somewhat inspired by the Lord of the Rings \ The Hobbit movies. I really enjoyed the large vast chambers those movies portrayed. This is my attempt to get something like that on a map, though these are no-where near as large as what was seen in the movies. This would also be a bitch to map during a game session. Let me know what you all think?

Click on the image to get the full page PDF, and as always enjoy!

….MegaMorph-2….The Sacrificial Abyss….

Here is the second MegaMorph I drew a few months ago. In this one we have a large gallery type area with a huge balcony overlooking the gallery. There is also a huge cavern with a very large, very deep, crevasse. It can be crossed by either the wooden rope bridge or the natural stone bridge. Off of the gallery there are the sacrificial chambers. The north chamber has a statue, were the prayers/chants/rites are given before the sacrifice, the south chamber is the sacred pool where the sacrifice is ritually bathed and cleansed in preparation. The victim/sacrifice is then walked up the large stairs to the sacrificial platform the juts up high into the air above the crevasse, then thrown into the abyss below upon completion of the ritual. The platform is high enough up that a player could in theory jump from it, trying to land on the other side of the abyss (with the proper skill/ability checks and at the GM’s discretion) of course if a sacrificial victim is tied and bound they too could try to launch themselves to the other side as well, but success would be slim seeing as how they are tied and bound. Could be some interesting role playing with the whole thing.

Click on the image for a full page PDF, and always enjoy!!

Friday’s….”Mystery Meat”……MegaMorphs, Finally back at it again….!!

~ Attention. Here’s an update on tonight’s dinner. It was veal. I repeat, veal. The winner of tonight’s mystery meat contest is Jeffrey Corbin who guessed “some kind of beef.”~

     It’s been a very, very long time since I posted anything here, lets face it, I just suck at blogging. That being said, I have still been drawing, still creating….I haven’t quit. Between two jobs, 3 kids (two of which are in college now and my baby is now a junior in High School) throw in my 53 pounds of tail wagging dumb-ass named Sierra and voila, I have just been very busy for awhile now. I am also working on a new project that will be announced in the near future. Enough about that, I took the whole geomorph concept a little further, with megamorphs. These are very large geomorphs that can be used with the standard 10 x 10 ones. I have done this before on a smaller scale Here. These new ones are just larger, more room for me to play with, and less predictability for players who may have gotten used to standard geomorphs. Here is my first one, just some large long hallways, with some caves underneath. I am not sure what the hell I was thinking when I put a trap in the middle of the main hallway! Must have seemed like a good idea at the time….oh well!

Update: Chakat Firepaw, had this to say about my random-ass trap in the middle of the main hallway. I really loved his take on it so I am updating the post with it. Many Thanks to Firepaw for this!

Quoting Chakat Firepaw:

     “Presuming that the trap was intentionally placed, and does not represent a weak spot in the floor, I can see a reason for it:

It was intended, first and foremost, as a secret access to the cave below. At some point it was re-purposed to serve as a trap either to specifically target something like a ceremonial procession or on the basis of a badly placed trap still being better than no trap.”

For a full page PDF of this just click on the image. As always, Enjoy!!

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