MisjayMaps

Hidden Vale

A huge 60x60 battlemap

Here we go... after nearly 50 hours of growing this huge map out of nothing, I am quite pleased with how it turned out and hope that it will inspire some interesting plots or encounters in your games :-) 

Hidden Vale is a rocky valley at the downstream end of a small river canyon in hilly walking  trail country, you are going to struggle to get a cart through here,  however you are definitely going to find a ...

Fire in the Dark

This started life as an abstract painting ... when it was finished, I realised that it would make for a great encounter location, perhaps a place to battle fire sprites?
... So here it is... something dramatic to light up a dark place with
Have fun!

Variations for Defenders of Chaos HERE:

• Full colour_ Fiery (no grid ...
  2022-11-01 04:16:13 +0000 UTC View Post

November Plots & Plans

The Little Bit:

• 1st Map of the month will be a battelmap that started life as an abstract work
• 2nd Map of the month will be the big 60x60 battlemap in 9 parts (Work in progress snippet in the header)
• There are 6 hamlets on the work list from this month of collecting ideas from you all. 1st one up will be a viking settlement called Dragonthorp. 
• I finally set up a homepage for myself! 2022-11-01 03:12:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Wild Pool

Or is it sometimes a portal? Perhaps only at night? and if you jump in, where does it go to? .... Perhaps to a parallel world that has the same landscape, but a different climate? Or to a different time at the same location?

I had a big backing up session the other day and found this map lurking up a forgotten corner... seemed like it is about time to dust it off and set it on its way to find an adventure to be a part of.
I went a bit wild on variations for this one, so you guys are...

Just a little reminder :-)

There are already a couple of ideas on the list... This is a little reminder for everyone else... in case life got crazy and you forgot :-) 

Submission is open for Ideas for Thorp/Hamlet maps

This month, I would like to accept submissions from all Defenders of Chaos, old and new, for Thorps or Hamlets  that you would like to see me make. Wild ideas. or something you need/would like in your game worlds.   
I will then work my way thr...

Konrith

After brewing in for months, Konrith is ripe and ready to escape into the world :-)

This is a small unassuming town or perhaps the heart of an old  city, where the original gardens and orchards in the city center have  not been built over.
There are many small ally-ways, courtyards,  greenhouses, verandahs, a couple of ruins, extensions, roof-top terraces  ... And of course, the river (or canal) through the heart of it all,  with that 1 bridge as a choke poi...

Well of the Mind

Once again, the imaginative Jog Brogzin let me colour in one of his wonderful maps... This is Well of the Mind ....  Who's mind though? 

There are 2 main versions. One with a stary space background and one with a rocky solid background.... and then a few different mood variation of each. Including a Greyscale version of each for home printing on a B&W printer.
We hope that you enjoy explorin...

September 2022 Shield Challenge

Heya!  .... Here they are

I ended up with 28 Item cards in all ... some are variations on a theme, some are 2 states of the same shield. So, basically 24 different shapes ... Not quite one for every day of the month of September, but close! 

It was a good spontaneous break-out from drawing maps and I learnt a great deal about shading and painting different surfaces along the way. It seems like a great way to begin a slightly more creati...

October 22 _ Plots & Plans

The Telegram

• Apologies for so many posts all in a flurry
• New Single-Tier is live. On a wild whim I called it "Defenders of Chaos"
• The 4 Old Tiers (the 'Tiers of the Ancients') will be archived in about 24 hours from now - Members will continue to have access to old stuff as well as to anything that the new Tier does. 
• Going forward... Patreon supporters will be charged monthly.  Existing Patreons on the 1st of the month. New ...
  2022-10-01 07:17:31 +0000 UTC View Post

September Spring Clean Roundup

Short and sweet

• Work In Progress:
  - Next town map is nearly finished and will be out in full res for you all in the next couple of days.
  - I have drawn about 25 shields as items this month. they will be out in full res for you guys in the next few days as well.
  
• Current tiers will be archived once the whole world has made it into October
  - Tiers will remain active for current supporters who are on them
  ...
  2022-09-29 22:29:20 +0000 UTC View Post

Work in Progress

Good afternoon
It is nearly the middle of the month already.... not sure where it is flying away to!
To space out all these 'Spring cleaning' posts with something a bit more interesting, I thought I would show off a bit of what I have been working on recently ....

Sneak Peak at the the next 2 Settlement maps

These have both been cooking for a while now and I am glad to finally have some time for them…
The  left one is something a little different and is bas...

The Old Church Library

And here it is.... This one has been a long journey from woe to go
But is it complete. I love how it has turned out & I hope that you will find some interesting ways to put it to good use. 

The scale is actually 2m per square (6 ft) but that is close enough to 5 ft that it shouldn't matter I hope ... ?

The church is at that scale because it was a commission. It can also be found on the Frostbur...

September Plots & Plans

Hiya Everyone … It is Spring here in the antipodes and I have once again been mentally-spring cleaning & re-calculating how to keep creating the maps I love and fit them in around my currently unpredictable life (being basically homeless & doing random house-sitting is not conducive to regular hours)…

The Short cut:

• I am changing how my Patreon page works to hopefully suit my creativity method and unpredictable life better
• I will be chan...
  2022-09-06 12:37:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Bonus Map: Temple of the Sunken Queen

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Let all with eyes to read know that Jog Brogzin once again gave his blessing to my coloring of another of his maps... this gorgeous little sunken Temple in a mini-scene style ... 

Once coloured... I could not resist messing around with a few variations :-) 

2022-08-16 07:42:06 +0000 UTC View Post

August Plots and Plans

The Quick Skim

• Probably no formal map releases this month due to a few commissions
• Bonus map of cross-roads attached (20x20 @ 140pps)

The Nitty-Gritty 

Commissions are still my 'bread & butter'....  I will be giving them all my focus time this month
.... and none of them are top-down settlement maps... shock horror  !!
Actually, I am rather enjoying the variety... But it means that there won't be any settlement maps to relea...

Nukshan Atoll Dock-Town

Out in the middle of the ocean, somewhere tropical, is an atoll  called Nukshan. Named for the Captain of the first crew to stumble upon  the haven and grind their storm-battered ship up the beach. Nukshan has  since grown into a small, yet busy, port town with traders docking almost daily, exchanging goods from other parts of the world and buying seafood from the 4 rival fishing guilds that call this small atoll home.  Nukshan has become a cross-roads in the ocean and has...

Plots & Plans _ July 2022

The little version:

• I am still alive over here
• The atoll dock-town of Nukshan has progressed... but still needs a LOT of trees before I can let it out of my sight
• I have no idea when the next map will be out... Things are a bit up in the air for me at the moment... but it will probably be an encounter map of a 3-level library
• You are all amazing

The longer version:

I am still alive! ... I know that I ha...

Harkenwell _ Bonus Map

Perhaps not far from Ashthorp, Harkenwell, home of the Green Falcon Tavern and Inn, is another quiet little village with a pond, snuggled at the base of a hill rising up to the moors and surrounded on the other 3 sides by hedge-rowed fields.  

Seen on the Harkenwell town notice board:  
This year, on the 5th to 10th days of May, the Green Falcon is h...