Sneak Peek - "Restored" Berez Burgomaster's Mansion
Added 2024-04-04 17:00:03 +0000 UTC
Hello everyone, and happy Sneak Peek Thursday! I've been hard at work on my next massive project, and this time, I'm rebuilding the Burgomaster's Mansion that existed in the town of Berez before Strahd destroyed it. These locations are a great way to explore the history of the world and are also supported by the third-party content, The Interactive Tome of Strahd, which you can purchase on the DMs Guild. This PDF explores the history of Strahd, and the last chapter features the town of Berez before it was destroyed.
As with all of my mansion maps, these are massive projects that take multiple weeks to complete, so this will definitely be a two-part release. I'll have the exterior finished by Monday, and the interior (two floors plus the cellar) will be finished the following week.
This will be my grandest manor map to date, and I'm very much looking forward to creating the interior! Even if you're not using the Interactive Tome of Strahd, it's my hope you'll be able to make use of this mansion map in your own game sessions.
Cheers,
DM Andy
Comments
Thank you!! Makes me so happy to know you like it. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time and now I finally have the tools, skill, and assets in order to create more depth to my maps :)
Andy D'Amato
2024-04-22 06:11:45 +0000 UTCLike others, this isometric view for exteriors is just amazing! Gives the maps so much dimension
Miriam Feldhausen
2024-04-21 05:52:20 +0000 UTCOh that's fantastic! So far I have the town and church done and this will be finished up in the next few weeks. I also have plans to recreate the garden as well and create a "non-swamp" version of the standing stones so at some point, you could theoretically run Berez fully intact. I'd love to hear how that goes for your players once you run that encounter! Sounds really fun.
Andy D'Amato
2024-04-06 04:23:15 +0000 UTCWow, I'm speechless at your kind words!! It's great you've been able to find a source of inspiration for your own map work. That's how I got started was learning from other creators that I admired and found that very useful! The only reason I didn't do more angled perspective was lack of tools / assets to support this at the battlemap level. However, in working with my artist friend, we are developing tons of custom assets each month to support a more angled perspective and expand on the gothic architecture so I'm very excited to continue work on even bigger and better buildings. Most of the building detail is on the walls / building front so I'm very excited to have this new dimension to detail and create on. I think it gives a much better sense of height and depth to battlemaps when your players can see the facade of a large building looming over their tokens (rather than just a roof which sometimes can be hard to tell how tall or large a building it just by looking at the roof only). Thank you again for your kind words and good luck on your mapping work! Cheers
Andy D'Amato
2024-04-06 04:21:48 +0000 UTCReally looking forward to sharing it!
Andy D'Amato
2024-04-06 04:13:58 +0000 UTCI am blown away by your new isometric design while also severely terrified. lol. I have been teaching myself how to use Inkarnate and have been using your work as the standard to make the maps I have been creating for my own CoS game. (largely your older work you have not had a chance to revisit). Now you have advanced to a completely new higher tier of artwork that I will need to learn just to get my maps to match! lol. Please cease being so good at what you do immediately! (no please don't do that lol)
Nick Mason
2024-04-05 20:24:39 +0000 UTCI am really jazzed about this one
Michael Rozmin
2024-04-05 07:41:03 +0000 UTCI’m very excited! I’ve got a plan for the players to get trapped in an illusion of past Berez so I’d love to use this
xxMaxMorganxx
2024-04-04 20:54:55 +0000 UTCThank you! I can't wait to show it off! I'll have the exterior ready by Monday and I'm working on finishing up the interior which will include the 1st and 2nd floors and also the wine cellar. I love working on these manor maps and I think you're really going to enjoy this one :)
Andy D'Amato
2024-04-04 20:34:58 +0000 UTCDamn awesome work, can't wait to see it.
RJ
2024-04-04 20:18:11 +0000 UTCWhat do you have in mind by restored? Do you mean pre-swamp?
Andy D'Amato
2024-04-04 19:59:06 +0000 UTCLovely work! Will you do a restored megaliths as well?
Dungeon of Terra
2024-04-04 19:24:58 +0000 UTC
