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Galleon [58x38]

Added 2023-09-30 16:41:07 +0000 UTC

It is with great pride (and relief… SO many assets in this one) that I release the long overdue GALLEON map!

I knew I wanted to draw a galleon when I started this Patreon. It’s not actually a ship that made a lot of historical appearances in the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy, but it makes very regular appearances in Pirate pop culture. The Black Pearl is kind of a galleon, ghost ships are often galleons, one of the three ships you can pilot in Sea of Thieves is a galleon… you get the idea. There is even a galleon suspended on top of the castle in The Curse of Skeleton Point, the adventure included in PIRATE BORG.

I wanted to get it right so I took my time. Since I knew I’d needed to do a version for the Skeleton Point map set, I started drawing this massive thing on my iPad with the same old school hatch shading style of the rest of that pack, and WOW did that decision cost a lot of hours. The final map is 58” x 38”, and, for the most part, is entirely hand-drawn.

I knew this ship would get a lot of action in campaigns, especially Dark Caribbean ones, so you’ll find 17 variations including 2 ghost ships, all five of the major factions, and a derelict ship.

I’ve included both black & white and “low ink” versions, as some of you on the Discord server have been discussing using the low cost blueprint printers at places like FedEx office to print these out for use at the table. The low ink version is actually a little easier to play on as you can tell the walls from the floor a bit easier. I’ve also included a 10-page PDF for these low ink versions if you are printing all the Skeleton Point maps on your home or office printer.

Galleon Battlemap Scenes

I have plans to use this ship and other assets to make a 2nd release with ready-to-use battlemap scenes. Things like:

- The 1715 shipwreck from history (and as depicted in TV show Black Sails).

- The underground rocky lava ghost ship scene in The Secret of Monkey Island.

- An underwater shipwreck.

- Tentacles attacking.

- Naval combat with some of the other core ships like the Man of War and the sloop.

- Deep in the jungle like the Black Rock in the TV show Lost.

Do you have other ideas for scenes you’d like to see the galleon used for?

Online Shop is Open!

A reminder that PIRATE BORG is out now in retail, and you can get it plus a ton of new merch on our new online store. Check it out here: https://shop.limithron.com/