Sneak Peek - CoS Reloaded: Eastern Barricades | 30x20
Added 2024-11-07 18:00:02 +0000 UTC
Hello everyone, and happy Sneak Peek Thursday! Today I am excited to show a bit of my next map, this time for the DragnaCarta Reloaded Series!
Dragna reached out to me and asked if I would map out all of the areas of his incredible supplement "Curse of Strahd: Reloaded" and this is the first of many maps to support this series.
The Eastern Barricades are a portion of barricades constructed around the Village of Barovia to fend off the hordes of horrible creatures that have been assaulting the town. Your party must stand guard with other villagers of the town to hold off wave after wave of the undead, building the tension of the campaign from the very start!
I'll have the full version ready for release by Monday so keep an eye on this space.
Cheers,
DM Andy
Comments
Sooo glad you're excited about our collab!! I've been a big fan of Dragna's work since I first started CoS (Dragna and LBH were my two core resources when I first started) so I was honored when he reached out to ask me to work on this project. Also, I'm SURE your Barovian voices are great! I always appreciate any DM that tries to do accents and we are our biggest critics. I'm sure your players love it :)
Andy D'Amato
2024-11-13 17:58:30 +0000 UTCDragna commissioning DM Andy! Pretty sure I just messed my pants out of excitement for what DM Andy is going to do. Thanks to him my game's wow factor already went up over ten fold. First better maps, then showing me up with Barovian accents in the Burgomaster's video... sure now my Barovians sound like drunk Russians, but its better than nothing!
Guru Sarx
2024-11-10 02:34:28 +0000 UTCI have been asked about sharing it. Give me an email address and I will share some of it (the initial story) on my Google drive. I am still adding graphics to the tome in Photoshop. I will share the initial story and if you want more after that I will be happy to share with you.
Michael Rozmin
2024-11-08 04:23:28 +0000 UTCGoing to change it to a blighter seige (using LBH stat blocks) bringing swarms of them will be fun I think!
Dungeon of Terra
2024-11-08 02:33:29 +0000 UTCOh yes! Zombie siege time for VoB!
Andy D'Amato
2024-11-08 02:24:35 +0000 UTCAh dang!! I'll be creating a version without the barricades so if you need a village outskirts or even just a generic road map with a few gothic-style homes, hopefully you can still use this map.
Andy D'Amato
2024-11-08 02:24:15 +0000 UTCOh awesome!! There are plenty of VoB maps to explore in the meantime :) I'll be working on the Town Square map for the siege as well and am working on a custom-commissioned statue asset that is similar to the artwork that Caleb drew for the Reloaded module.
Andy D'Amato
2024-11-08 02:23:16 +0000 UTCHey Michael! Thanks so much for your feedback. Fear not! These maps are not replacing my continued work on CoS and Dark Fantasy maps and you can still look forward to Vallaki, Berez, Krezk, and more as V2.0 maps. In fact, I've already started working on my map for the gates of Vallaki and I'll be working on all the Vallaki locations. Additionally, for the Reloaded maps I'll be making, I will also try to create variants that are less specific to the written supplement. For instance, this map will come with and without the barricades so you can use it as a generic town outskirts/road map for your own games. My goal is to have these maps as versatile as I can possibly make them so I'm hopefully you'll find a lot of use for these, even without using Reloaded. Your dedication to running your CoS game is so impressive and just goes to show the love and passion we, as DMs, bring to the hobby. And a wow! A 450 page Tome of Strahd?? That's IMPRESSIVE! Are you planning on sharing that on any social platforms like Reddit?
Andy D'Amato
2024-11-08 02:21:45 +0000 UTCOh nice!! Great timing :) I can't wait to have these additional maps to support Reloaded and it's always a pleasure working w/ Dragna
Andy D'Amato
2024-11-08 02:17:19 +0000 UTCThey might be going back to the Village of Barovia in a couple of weeks so I will be able to add this change too ^^
Dungeon of Terra
2024-11-08 00:26:42 +0000 UTCJust finished the siege last week. Unfortunate timing for our group but it looks fantastic!
Greg Arnason
2024-11-07 23:45:21 +0000 UTCBeautiful! My players just finished the death house and will be entering Barovia Tuesday, so couldn’t have had better timing! Should spend atleast a session or two before needing which will give me time to modify what I had for yours once it’s fully released!
Justin Ware
2024-11-07 20:41:08 +0000 UTCAndy - You know I LOVE your maps. Out of all the map makers of Patreon, I feel you do the best job of visually capturing the gothic aesthetic I associate with Barovia . I praise your work all the time - on FB groups and on Reddit. While I will likely enjoy any map you make, and may very well find a use for SOME DragnaCarta story based maps, I am hoping that - moving forward you aren’t going prioritize DragnaCarta maps over RAW COS maps and highly anticipated v2 maps. For a while, I thought I would use Reloaded as the base for my upcoming campaign. I supported him on Patreon for a while as well. However, the Reloaded storyline now deviates so far from RAW, I am just picking and choosing bits from DragnaCarta (and other community contributors) to use in my own campaign. But the major changes in my campaign are ones I have made myself. I wholly understand how Reloaded is a labor of love for DragnaCarta. I feel the same about my own campaign. I have been working on it since April Of 2023 creating miniatures, handouts, props and storylines. I don’t know of anyone else who would want to use the massive 450-ish page Tome of Strahd I have written. It’s extensive. It’s going to be an integral part of my campaign, but it also includes extrapolations, clues, spells, information and storylines that are unique to the Strahd story I intend to tell. Hopefully I will find a use for whatever DragnaCarta maps you are planning. I guess we will see what you come up with. However, if the maps begin to become DragnaCarta Reloaded niche maps, then I might just have to look in a different direction for the maps I need to run my own campaign.
Michael Rozmin
2024-11-07 19:14:20 +0000 UTCI am running Reloaded right now, so this is perfect!
vvulfmann
2024-11-07 18:50:11 +0000 UTC
