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Fantastical Maps

Added 2019-08-15 12:14:08 +0000 UTC

So I've been working on this design for a set of "Planar" / "Feywild" jungle theme inspired type maps. The idea I'm going for is this chain of floating islands, surrounded by a purple mist. Now for this first set I'm going green / with jungle elements but what I wanted to go for with this series in the long run is a set of unique locals / elemental places that create a varied chain of islands.

Maybe walking across a bridge here takes you into the mist and where you end up is either random or determined by the character that takes the lead or something of that sort. In the long run the bridges are a way of really using the islands both as separate locations and combining them in a single playable map where moving from one to the next comes with certain dangers.

What is also fun about this design that it allows me to introduce a lot of elements one can play around with in a combat situation. Including some mysterious features a DM can build a story around.

I've also added the first tiles for this to the Back Catalogue Supreme including a portal map, reusing the portal I had designed in one of my original outdoor maps. I'm planning on having these empty island PNG's for each shape so they can also be reused to shape your own locations. Could even drop some of the buildings I've made in here as well.

I'd love to hear what you think of these designs. I plan on having a couple more by the end of the month / beginning of September and after that we can always have a vote to see if we continue the theme or not.

Creating these also gave me a great idea to do an underworld series of similar islands but surrounded by lava with more demonic elements. On the other end introducing some celestial elements to this series of fantastical maps could also be a blast.