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[Deset Gled]

This may be a weird thread to ask in, but the search function is letting me down with too many irrelevant hits, but does anyone know of a thread on here where people share battle maps for VTT use (like Owlbear Rodeo) or links to free ones?

The two threads I use:

D&D General Thread 'Maps, Maps, Maps! Dungeons, Ruins, Caverns, Temples, and more... aka Where Dyson Dumps His Maps.'

Jun 15, 2023

I draw and release 10 maps a month outside of my commissioned work. I'll be posting them here again, because it has been a long time since I routinely showed off my work here.

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Gascon’s Pit

Gascon’s Pit is a shaft in the centre of some old ruins. The pit was once under a roof, but the structure above the pit and associated understructures has long fallen into ruin – leaving the pit open to the elements. The ruins are at the end of a dwarven bridge over the Deepspike Ravine – the bridge having significantly better longevity than the structures that were...

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D&D General Thread 'Digital Maps for Roll20'

Jul 13, 2019

Greetings, everyone!

For the past few months I have been drawing some maps for Roll20 (and other virtual table tops) and I wanted to show them here as well, maybe some of you will find them useful for their online sessions.

Most of my maps are squared so it shouldn't be too much of a hassle to place them on Roll20.

Thank you for taking a look!

River Crossing 36x36



Mountain Pass 38x38



High Ground: Forest 36x36



Ancient Altar 42x42...

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[RealAlHazred]

This may be a weird thread to ask in, but the search function is letting me down with too many irrelevant hits, but does anyone know of a thread on here where people share battle maps for VTT use (like Owlbear Rodeo) or links to free ones?

I follow a few TTRPG VTT map makers on Patreon, and recommend checking there. If you find one you really like, you can always invest a couple of bucks to get the back-catalogue! Some of the ones I follow:

Miska's Maps | Patreon

VTT Battlemaps and Deckplans for Sci-Fi and Fantasy TTRPGs

www.patreon.com

Cyberpunk Maps | Patreon

VTT battlemaps for Cyberpunk, Modern-Day and Near-Future TTRPGs

www.patreon.com

Get more from Afternoon Maps on Patreon

Creating TTRPG battlemaps

www.patreon.com

Get more from Dungeon Mapster on Patreon

creating maps for pathfinder, tabletop games, and dungeons and d

www.patreon.com

Get more from Silver Compass Maps on Patreon

creating maps for D&D, Pathfinder, and other tabletop games

www.patreon.com

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Hot take: The most boring thing a third party product can do is be slavishly adherent to the first party lore. You are not beholden to the things the company is beholden to. Let your freak flag fly!

Just saw a third party thing that looks great except for saying that it's going to adhere to the least interesting part of first party lore, when it doesn't need to at all. The rest of the damned thing is bursting with wild ideas and this just feels like the creator is pouring water on part of the product for no appreciable benefit.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I follow a few TTRPG VTT map makers on Patreon, and recommend checking there. If you find one you really like, you can always invest a couple of bucks to get the back-catalogue! Some of the ones I follow:

I'd also suggest looking up Heroic Maps if you're interested in; they do excellent work. And if you're looking for modern maps, KidneyBoy is quite good. I've got such a ridiculous backlog of fantasy maps I'm not supporting anyone one but Heroic Maps right now, but when I switch from fantasy to SF mode in few weeks I've got a couple I'm going back to.

 

[el-remmen]

I think I just get easily overwhelmed looking for a battle map that fits what I see in my mind (or even gets close) - it really puts me off on using a VTT. I have no problem with Dungeons because I just use Dungeon Scrawl to create the version I want and sometimes I throw a Dyson Logos map into photoshop and muck around with it a little bit - but when it comes to wilderness scenes, I am never satisfied. I guess I have spent too many decades hand drawing my own maps either ahead of time or on Chessex mat that being able to decide all the details matters to me? I am not even talk about the quality of the art of the map.

Edit: I think this is why despite having followed a few map-making patreons I never subscribe (despite supporting other kinds of patreons) b/c I never find anything I want to use. It is like endless possibilities but nothing scratches the itch and I can waste hours looking and still come up with nothing.

 

[trappedslider]

“I am the machine that reveals the world to you as only I alone am able to see it”​

― Dziga Vertov (also spoken by The laughing man)

 

[FrogReaver]

Has McDonald’s improved order accuracy over the last couple of years? I feel like they went from getting my order wrong nearly always to doing much better.

 

[Mannahnin]

I don't want to repost the Don't Build the Torment Nexus meme, but there is literally a Black Mirror episode about why digital ghosts are a terrible idea.

I literally can't think of a single instance in entertainment where having someone's disembodied consciousness (or a facsimile thereof) existing in cyberspace ever ended well.

I was just thinking about that episode when I read that.

1:30 of this:

 

[RealAlHazred]

Has McDonald’s improved order accuracy over the last couple of years? I feel like they went from getting my order wrong nearly always to doing much better.

They've started using decanted people (like in that Black Mirror episode, where people about to die get uploaded) to do order parsing. They're slightly less accurate than AI, but much less costly in terms of computers and energy! This is the sort of job humans will have in the future: handling orders and other tedious tasks the AI don't want to do!

 

[Thomas Shey]

I just remembered that there was another Black Mirror episode ("San Junipero") that, on the whole, had a much more positive attitude toward potential movement of consciousness into a virtual space than the others. Mind you, there were some important differences in how it came about, too.

Edit: On the whole, I think most of BM's handling of the topic has been less "This is intrinsically horrific" and "This is an opportunity for humans to find a new way to be horrific to each other" when you start thinking about the plots in them as a set.