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Faint chanting can be heard echoing through the stone bricked hall. This is where it all lead to. The kidnappings, the murders - a hidden chamber below the surface. The air is thick with the smell of burnt hair and dried blood, this ceremony must be stopped!

You gather your party, and get ready to storm the chamber.

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Greetings, Nim here!

I'm back at it again with battlemaps! The first of this month, an occult ritual chamber, Perfect for a final fight against an infernal cult or using the variation - an eldritch cult!

What do you think? Will you use this map in your upcoming campaign?

For more information, you can check out my Patreon, but don't feel pressured!

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Bastion of Grendol

The grand Bastion of Grendol looms over you, it acted as the last line of defense against the greater evils of the world. Now it is abandoned, an obstacle to those desperate enough to cross its stone bricked halls. Are you driven by desperation, or perhaps a yearning for the leftover treasures within? Be wary, it is said that Grendol himself cursed the structure against those who would pillage its contents.

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I've been working on a new project that I hope to release in the upcoming days. I won't spoil much, but here's a hint: I ain't done with battlemaps!

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Castle Blackwater

The famed Castle Blackwater towers above you as your ship creaks into its dock. The legendary home of renowned royalty. The cold water traps you on this rocky fortress, will you ever get to leave?

A terrible secret lies within these stone bricked halls and rooms, a secret you were tasked with investigating.

Greetings, Nim here!

Welcome to Castle Blackwater, an isolated castle on the sea! Perfect place to have your party invade and pillage.

The third of my collection of Location Maps that can be easily inserted into any campaign to make it more unique. Maps in this collection are made to be easy to insert into any campaign as a visual aid for players and dungeon masters alike.

What do you think? Will you use this map in your upcoming games?

For more information you can check out my Patreon, but don't feel pressured.

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Stagwood Farm

I welcome you to Stagwood Farm! A local farm that produces the city's supply of wheat, rye and barley. A central windmill grinds the grain into flour which is then sold to baker shops and caravans.

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Tawny Mountain

A small mountain in the forest that houses a wise Wizard at the mountaintop! Some say he brews his secret ale from hops gathered by his army of little owls. But that must be a lie!

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Ruined Tower

This map is the herald of greater things to come in the next year. I have so many great ideas to enhance roleplaying games! I won't share all of them with you, but one of them is the reconstruction of this tower. I'm debating whether or not to create an alternate version of this tower in its hayday, before its fall. Alongside that variation, interior battlemaps!

If I do decide on that, it would come at a later date though. I have a couple more things I want to do before jumping into another project.

Anyway, this is the last map of the year. For my next year's resolution, I will publish 2 maps every month. It will be hard next to already having a full time job, but I'm going full throttle!

If you're interested in more of my work, feel free to check out my other socials.

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Griffon's Nest

I released this map once before, it was the last map before I completely remade my Patreon page. Some time after I realized that all of my maps were unusable due to the bad resolution scale I used. So I had a choice to make. Do I reformat all the maps I made or start anew?

I decided on the latter. With the new release I picked a new name and a better style.

Now I rereleased this map, although I didn't really want to release the same map as it was, so I improved the background view and added some more variations.

If you're interested in more of my work, feel free to check out my other socials.

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Calm Beach

When naming a map there are many good names I might sift through to pick one, but with Calm Beach, I had a really hard time. So hard in fact that I considered not even releasing it, since its kind of bland.

Other battlemap cartographers often draw maps with a clear "theme". Like having a specific geology, an interesting curio or having there be a building. I tend to shy away from such themes more because how many times do Dungeon Masters really use something so specific like for example a "Crumbling Seaside Restaurant".

Its a cool map theme, you might even write your adventure to include that place. But chances are most people won't tailor their games around cartographers' ideas.

I think the most useful of maps are simple. Like the classic "Road Ambush" which is a common scenario that can be inserted easily into any campaign.

This isn't to say that more complex maps are worse. They are grandiose and allow for epic fights to happen. But leading up to that? You might just need your party to be attacked by a swarm of crabs on the beach.

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(Before) Red Griffon Inn - (After) Roadside Inn

A year ago I made my first battlemap.

Now, after countless hours spent learning techniques and practicing I've decided to revisit it. I remade this map with my current skills.

I wanted to keep most of its current form while polishing aspects I could. Sadly I needed to cut the concept of having a "red griffon" head displayed above the fireplace. When I first made this map I wanted to have the head be the centerpiece of the whole map, however I couldn't manage it with such little space.

The other big issue was the sizes of beds. In the first version the beds are hilariously small. In the new one I couldn't fit as many as I hoped, but still managed to squeeze in a couple. The double bed is still too small for my liking, but I wanted to have at least one in the new version.

Funnily enough, the new version took me around 40 hours to finish while the older one took a whole month. I'm still unsatisfied with my speed, but looking back now I realize I've come a long way.

In the future I want to make an homage to the "Red Griffon Inn", in a completely different map which will have a very large fireplace, above it a detailed and fearsome head of a "red griffon".

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