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Youtube Tutorial Poll

After COW I've had tons of people ask me about future content on youtube in the form of long & short youtube tutorials. This is something that has always been on the backburner but I'd like to start releasing videos on a regular basis. 

I'm going to start doing them soon but before I do, I'm very interested to see what people think I should focus on!

Now I've set the poll up so that you can vote on multiple things and I know you may want all of the things but try to vote ...

Dark Lord Map Competition Winners!

It's a wrap! :D

Congratulations to everyone that submitted to the contest, it's now over and it's time to announce the winners! 

I’ll start out by saying everyone who sent me a map did an amazing job, I was so impressed and happy with how the assets were used! 

Winners!

1st Place - X8xid - Ashton

Not only is this map massive,...

Quick Little Update!

Just a quick little update today about a few things!

I've spent most of the last two days updating my website and Patreon! Fixing a few things, adding other things and generally trying to make things much clearer on a few subjects.

For example you can now find my User Agreements nice and clearly on my website at the bottom of the page.

https:...

Zelda Creatures!

Brain not workie.

I got sunburnt today after being outside cooking on the BBQ for a few family members, (5 people thankfully - I think i've forgotten how to talk to people in real life).

Anyway, me and KTech have finished the creature tokens to go along with the assets and textures for the Legend of Zelda games!

Ktech did most of the line art and I did the colouring!

Hope everyone enjoys this little extra series, it was only supposed to be something light and fun to do...

Zelda Assets + Video!

Another light little asset pack today, with some of the best little assets I think Ive ever made!

(I love the chests and statues!)

To be fair however, both myself and KTech have been working on these and they have been very fun to work on, an excellent pack after the stressful Masterclass weekend and the mega Middle Earth map XD

These assets are made for and from the Legend of Zelda Game series, which I had to then recreate in my own style and colour :) 

There are...

Complete Pack: CR 2 (Part 1)

Hey everybody, KTech here again with the next recolour pack :)

I was actually really looking forward to redoing the Cult Fanatic because I was super happy with the idea of doing a cthulhu based thing! I'm also really happy with the elk redos, I had a bit of a struggle with redoing the antlers and not making them look too deer like, I wanted to keep the wider more moose like style going. I did want to do more with the gelatinous cube, but where id merged the colour layers together, i...

Circle of Worldbuilders Map File!

On the weekend I was part of an amazing undertaking called the Circle of Worldbuilders 2020 Masterclass! I mentioned this before and talked a little about what I would be doing and here it is! 

I spent 4 hours maing a map from complete stratch and then a further 2 hours adding little bits to it and going a little crazy. 

You can see the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-w7ROk...

Dark Lord Assets & Mapmaking Competition!

Hello everyone!

It's time for our next mapmaking competition using some new assets that you can find in the downloads below!  

In addition, these assets are available FOR FREE officially on DUNGEONFOG!

Make a Map!

The competition is very simple. Make a map and then send it to me! That's i...

Circle of Worldbuilders: Masterclass Stream!

http://www.circleofworldbuilders.com/

Next weekend on the 30th & 31st of May 2020 I will be part of a Masterclass of adventure design alongside World Anvil, The Great GM and Dungeonfog! 

I will be streaming the creation of a small region map from start to finish for 6 hours! (With a few breaks hopefully) 

The map I'll be working on is going to be used...

The Realm of Middle Earth

It's done! 

After four and half weeks and over 200+ hours of work, my version of the Middle Earth map is now done!

This is the same size as my Critical Role map at 7000x5000 px at 300 ppi. 

There are 2 major themes of colour & paper, and 11 overall versions of the map, including a version with the quote from the one ring itself. This is a faithful recreation of the original Middle Earth map by J. R. R. Tolkien in my own style. There are a few blank areas and th...

Creature Packs: CR 2 (Part 1)

Hey everybody! KTech here again with the CR2 Pack (part 1)

Firstly, this pack would've had over 50 tokens if I'd have done the entire pack in one go, so instead, I decided 2 smaller packs would be a little more managable. :)

Secondly, this is the first pack to use the new sizes! 

(Here's the post about the change incase you missed it! https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-plan-35521138)...

Middle Earth.. First Pass!

Hello everyone! 

Things have been pretty quiet lately, mostly because I've been working on the most detailed map I've ever made. And it's going well! 

I'm drawing my own version of Middle Earth, in my own style for people to use however they like!

I've so far spent the last 3 weeks working on it and I've finally got to the stage where I can colour it a little but I still think the line art could do with some work. 

Most of the important story areas are f...

Complete Pack: CR 1

Hey all, KTech here! :)

So, a little story with these tokens, I managed to save over the photoshop file with a version where all the layers were merged. essentially, This made creating the recoloured version an absolute nightmare and is also the reason why this pack doesn't have any design variants.

That said, considering I was working with flat images, I'm pretty happy with how much I still managed to change them around. :D Definately going to have to be more careful in future! 2020-05-08 19:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Creature Packs: CR 1

KTech here with the CR1 pack!

I feel like I'm getting better at these and I'm really happy with this pack. :) paticularly, humanoid posing for things like the dryad, the bug bear, the quasit and so on. Its surprisingly difficult to come up with unique poses from top down without them looking to stiff or boxy.

For some strange reason, I really love drawing spiders. something about having lots of intrestingly jointed legs? I had this idea that I wanted the Giant spider to be a giant...

Village Assets, 245 in Total!

Welp, I think this is quite possibly the largest asset pack i've ever made!

Using this pack, you can create your own villages and towns or even cities if you are feeling brave! (You might have to place quite a lot of buildings!) In any case there are keeps, castles, blacksmiths, ships, docks, trees, and just tons of other assets to play with to create something really cool. There are about 245 Assets in the pack overall and I've also included some png sheets and backgrounds to make the ...

Colour! Part 1

I've written an article on my website, all about how to colour! 

This is something people always ask me about and I think this might help at least a little bit! 

This is part 1 of 2 and if you like these little articles for mapmaking please let me know and I will do more! :)

Complete Pack: CR 1/2th

Hey everyone! KTech back again with the complete pack for CR 1/2th!

This one posed a bit a difficulty coming up with variants for some reason, but I'm still happy with what I got in the end. Funnily enough some of the Tokens I wasnt sure about the design for made the most fun variants like the piercer. Perhaps its bcause I was so happy with some of the originals... 

 An intresting Tid-bit for the Deep Gnome's Design and recolours, While I was growing up, we had a copy o...

Sneak Peek: Village Assets!

This is a very early post for me!

(Not early in the morning, but just earlier than normal.. )

This next pack is for the creation of your own little village maps, but I'm also going to use it for creating village and town maps for the future theme of the old kingdom.

The reason for this post is two fold though:

First, is to show patrons what I'm working on and because this little asset pack has been the focus of my attention for the last few days I wanted to show off wh...

Creature Packs: CR 1/2th

Hey all! KTech here again with the next monster manual creatures pack :D

I'm really proud of a bunch of these! specifically the Gnoll, Lizard folk and the Orc :) Let me know which is your favourite in the comments!

I had a bit of a struggle with the gas spore in particular, for some reason I just couldnt wrap my head around how to make it look the way I wanted.

I made the rust monster a little bigger than its supposed to be, partially out of misreading, and partially because...

Broken Walkway

Another map done now for the Heavens Halls theme and hopefully as more and more are released you will start to get a better idea of how connected these maps can be! 

This map is a corridor map and you can see what that might mean just below, but the general idea was to create an interesting passageway through the heavens, with something really striking to set a scene or make describing the location that much easier! In the center of this map is a dark portal in the clouds that has ...

Barroth

Another Monster Hunter World token done! :)

“Barroths seek out ants, their favorite snack, and mark their territory with mud. They attack potential rivals with their devastating charging attack.“

This is another one of the sketches that KTech did a little while back that I spent the day yesterday colouring and finishing up! The token im doing for MHW are huge and are meant to be used by those that either love the Monster Hunter series or just want a massive creature for their ...

Heavens Portal

Hello everyone! 

Firstly I want to say a big welcome and thank you to those that have joined recently and an even bigger thank you to the people that have been so incredibly supportive of my new direction, the messages and feedback has been just amazing.! 

This is the first new map i've done under the new plan and its a really good example in my eyes of what i'm trying to aim towards, this map is room 1 of the Heavens Halls theme and you can see...

New Plan

In the last post I mentioned some of the things that have impacted my life in the last few months, these have been pretty negative but in order to get back on track I’ve refocused my ideas and I’m going to approach my work from a new angle. I think this is a healthy thing and hopefully creates better and more useful content.

So today I want to tell people what is changing and how it will impact my patreon going forward. At the end of this post a poll with some specifics, just to see...

Space Colony Map Winners!

The second competition is now over and I'll be honest it was not as successful as my first one. The biggest reason perhaps is that Sci-Fi is much less popular than Fantasy and the prize may have felt a little lackluster, but I think I've learned my lesson on that front and I have a few better ideas for the next one! With that being said the maps made by everyone that entered were fantastic! 

1st Place - Filip Palla

This is a great use of the ...

Complete Pack: Goblins

KTech here!

Whats better than a whole load of goblins? Thats right, Variant goblins! The firey goblins would also work as magmins!

This time there a 3 extra versions of each goblin because you can never have enough of the little guys!

As Caeora himself has said in the previous post, things are a little all over the place in terms of motivation and generally getting things done. were both a little foggy brain and things are on a little go slow, but were hoping to get out some...

State of Caeora

Phew this has been a hard post to write.

Not that anything critical is happening right now per say but as you all know, it's a very weird and worrying time. Typically I don't like to input my personal life too much into my patreon as I understand that most people are here to support my ttrpg maps, tokens and assets and don't like to hear too much about the negatives. I like to try and keep things positive and work focused but occasionally these things are necessary to keep everyone upda...

Orc Assets

I love these assets so much!

I put so much effort and detail into them and think that you can make something that stands out and really wow’s your players! 

This is another example of a collaboration between myself and KTech and the result is so good! :D 

There is a texture that accompanies these assets so you can make maps that combine things I've done in the past as well as these to really bring an orc encampment of some kind to life. I will probably be doing a...

Space Colony Assets & Second Map Making Competition!

Hello everyone!

It's time for our second map making contest! :D 

Make a Space Colony Map!

The task is simple, if you choose to accept it! Create your own map using the included Space Colony Assets that you can download below this post! 

Prize: You get to pick the theme of the next asset pack!  

How to enter:

1. Download the assets below!
2. Included with the assets are textures and templates for you to use and I woul...
   2020-03-12 18:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Alpha Moon Base

As I was making the assets that make up this map I realized that they can be used on A LOT of different kinds of environment, from Mars to places like Venus or Europa in our solar system, and even more  exotic worlds.

Thus, this is a little example of the asset pack that is coming tomorrow and I will also be launching a new competition! The goal will be to create a base of some kind on an alien world and the prize will be the ability to decide the next theme for an asset pack!

Sneak Peek: Moon Base Assets!

Time for some more assets today, well a sneak peek into what I'm working on and what's coming up soon anyway! These are going to be Moon Base (and other planets types as well) assets that you can place together in a very nice little modular way to create colonies and cities. 

This is not a zoomed in battlemap scale and more of a settlement scale however, andI did include a grid which is about 5ft scale so you can roughly work out sizes. Annnd you could play with these at a battlema...