#critical role map

[thechekhov]

Essek Thelyss’ Estate - TTRPG Maps by Chekhov

Design and concept belongs to Matthew Mercer and Critical Role

Essek’s Estate has come up in the show, but has never actually been seen except in theatre of mind. I’ve created maps based on Matt’s descriptions and my own interpretations - with a bit of flair! 

Feel free to download and use them for non-commercial games! Our group of friends got together and made a party consisting entirely of Essek Thelyss’ staff, who then had to survive the horrors of.... working for the legendary Shadowhand! 👀 It can’t be THAT hard, right? Just a bit of political intrigue.... 

(Maybe I’ll write up the adventure and publish it someday....)

These maps are free to use for your home games, but may not be distributed for commercial purposes except by the Critical Role company who own the concept. 

[occidentalavian]

Full map of Exandria, 2024 update!

Map images and Wonderdraft file download [HERE]

Hi everyone! It's been about 4 years since my last map. In that time more of Exandria has revealed itself to us, and while it is still not a complete picture, we now have enough that I felt it was time to make an update.

The biggest change from my previous map is that I am no longer using the Elven Tower Cartography assets. This is because previously I installed them incorrectly, in a way that meant that people who downloaded the map file were unable to see the assets unless they installed it in the same weird way that I did. Rather than fixing this, I instead opted to use the default Wonderdraft assets, that way it can be viewed out of the box without having to download something else first!

As before, Tal'Dorei and Wildemount are the most accurate to official maps, and we also have an official map of at least one arrangement of the Shattered Teeth, which is re-created here. We have a portion of Marquet via the Oderan Wilds and Hellcatch Valley maps, but the rest, including all of Issylra is still mostly made up, based loosely on a very old and tiny map briefly shown on screen by Sam in episode 103 of Campaign 1! Naturally when any new maps come out, this map will (eventually) be updated to reflect them.

There are some locations that are new to this map as well, such as the Demithore Valley in Issylra from Campaign 3 and all the towns visited in The Re-Slayer's Take up to episode 10, these being Himblewood, Josgren's Hollow, Shoresight Isle, and the Hug Hive. Ta'Dorei has a few new towns, Mooren and Heldenfaire, which were mentioned in Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn, as well as a few unnamed village clusters, the Foramere and Vues'dal villages. For these and the Mornset Countryside I included some non-canonical paths connecting them to the main roadways. Also included in Mornset is Roch Mar, the village that Vox Moronica visited all the way back in Episode 12 of Campaign 1, before Critical Role even did separate numbering for one-shots and thus included this unrelated episode in the campaign. This town isn't officially confirmed to actually exist in Exandria, so consider it my headcanon and a paper town. Moving on to Wildemount, Vo Village got upgraded to proper town status, and I've also included Yardel from The Nine Eyes of Lucien, Ghostwall from The Tales of Exandria: The Bright Queen, and Galgarad from the Dark Star adventure on DnDBeyond!

I want to give a special thanks to Don Farland for his original fan map of Exandria, created all the way before the release of Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, upon which I originally based my map of the Shattered Teeth. Incidentally, I believe that this depiction of those islands was the basis upon which the official map by Andy Law is based upon. I would also like to thank Niko Vanhala for his fan-made maps of Marquet and Issylra, upon which I have loosely based my maps of those continents. And of course thank you to Andy Law and Deven Rue for the official cartography of Exandria!

[floweroflaurelin]

Aeor, vast and mighty: the last bastion of the Age of Arcanum…

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Happy Thursday! I spent two weeks on this huge painting of the whole Downfall cast (and Bolo!) and I’m so excited to finally share it! This took 21 hours, which is 10x longer than I usually work on a painting… though to be fair, there’s 10x as much stuff happening in this one 😆

Prints are available here! Closeups under the cut 😁✨

And here’s a version without text if that’s more your speed~

Prints of this version are available too!

[shorthaltsjester]

watching the sdcc panel and i am just very :) about how sweet their answers to “what are some of the micro moments from the game that have stuck with you the most over the years?” are. taliesin saying what the fuck is up with that which was the first like The Party Gets To Know Each Other moments of c3. travis saying asking his wife if he could kiss her in campaign. marisha going way back to the cannonball competition in campaign one. ashley choosing the beauyasha date but also just the silly goat noise matt made. liam adding onto that to compliment matt roleplaying grass so well and then saying his favourite moment was writing a story for laura and reading it to her as caleb for jester. and then matt saying that was his answer, and that his favourite moments of the game are when they find ways to give gifts to each other whether tangible or not. and sam saying his favourite moments have less to do with the story and is more so when he can just. see his friends across the table from him. when marisha perches and when laura and ashley are (badly) drawing dicks and liam saying he loves when sam sneezes and ashley tells him to stop it and just. yeah. they Are an extremely popular online powerhouse, but i’m so happy that they’re also friends building a world together out of gifts to and love for one another.

like i Am so enamoured with the characters and the world of exandria but the moments when you can feel the love that those people have for each other reach out from behind the stained glass of their performances (to steal a metaphor from brennan lee mulligan) are so extremely special and i am endlessly grateful that they decided to share their silly little home game with the world.

[playerkingsley]

map holders: fjord vs chetney

[devenrue]

The map of the Dwendalian Empire showing Matt Mercer’s original draft and the final color version I made for them.

[stupidlyinfatuatedonstorytelling]

Clips of Critical Role I saved on my phone part (44/?)

[thelonelywhale]

Smooch!

Pose inspo from theposearchives

[bixbiboom]

Build a ghost ship with Maps Mercer!

[ariadne-mouse]

Travis in his natural element

[criticalyasha]

MAPS - For Her with Ashley Johnson

[thechekhov]

So here’s the deal - I went a little off the rails and decided to design Essek’s entire towers for a little group project. It’s mostly just to see how well I can design and draw TTRPG maps from scratch, but I also realized that maybe people would be interested in this. So this is... a teaser! Full disclosure - the maps are not quite ready yet. (Or rather... they are...... but I’m not gonna post them yet. For reasons.)

If you’re interested, watch this space, I guess? Or follow me. I will post them by the end of March, and then you can unfollow me again. 

Why am I posting this before the maps are actually available? 

Bait. It’s bait. I just want to share SOME PART OF IT because I’ve been working on this for several weeks and I’m quite proud of the result! 

(There will be four maps in total, one per floor, plus a little bonus map, perhaps, of a fifth, secret floor. We’ll see.)

[kouichikimura]

Matthew, this is very sexy set

[imorphemi]

Fjord and Jester <3

[lesbeauien]

Robbie Daymond gifted 50 subs in chat on Matt's map room unpacking stream, and somebody must’ve told Matt about it, because he mouthed “Robbie!” And did heart hands into the camera, and held up the new Dorian mini 🥺🥺🥺

[artyapplebee]

Finally some imodna fanart !

inspired by bogfenwetland's wonderful fic Map on a wall on Ao3