Terrainmonkey Map showcase and Request Thread

[terrainmonkey]

After seeing a lot of you folks give up free maps and resources here, i figured i would get in on the action and test my creativity. I also think i will open this up for requests. I know a lot of you out there would like to dm but feel your map making skills are not that great. worry not. I am an experienced mapper, and some of the things below will show that. I now have a lot of time on my hands and i need practice for my own campaign. So, let me know what you would like to see. I do everything from multi level dungeons to cities and everything in between. Now, here are some rules. First: No huge cities. i like doing these for myself, but if i made them for folks here, the quality would suck. since i don't like campaign cartographer, i tend to make my cities in corel draw, because i like that look better.
Second: If i create anything for you, please give me credit. also, tell me what your other players thought about it. I love hearing feedback, good or bad, so if you have a thought, then by all means share. Im still working on the digitizing of the mapping progress, so any constructive critism would be great.
anyway, take a look


http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f127/terrainmonkey/wizards game maps/lavacaves.jpg

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f127/terrainmonkey/wizards game maps/treasuremap.jpg

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f127/terrainmonkey/wizards game maps/purplelilly.jpg

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f127/terrainmonkey/wizards game maps/goroton.jpg

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f127/terrainmonkey/wizards game maps/caves1.gif

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f127/terrainmonkey/wizards game maps/cave2sixth.jpg

there's also a couple of JPeg files listed and these are maps from corel draw. the dungeon one is fun because it reminds me of those old blue dungeons from 1st ed modules. I like the city because there is so much you can do with cities. This one took me about 14 hours straight through.

anyway, let me know what you think, and if you have any requests, le tme know.

 

[terrainmonkey]

here's another basic dungeon. i could do more, but it was done in a half hour. kind of an experiment in templating.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

Good use of red in the "basic dungeon". I'd be interested to see a manor - big house, stables, fields, etc.

 

[terrainmonkey]

okay, started working on it tonight. got a few ideas i'm sketching

 

[terrainmonkey]

okay, here's a manor house, though it is a work in progress. The grounds of Cherrystone Manor are in the process of being designed and i should have those up in a few days. Comments are welcome. There is also a cavern wine cellar system under the manor, with a secret way to escape. that is still in the process as well.

 

[terrainmonkey]

here's a PDF of the Trader outpost on the map of the Palemans woods. I'm also going to put on a set of caves for the fire scar hills, and i'm currently working on the elven town of deepwood. Here is the pic of the Paleman's wood.

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f127/terrainmonkey/wizards game maps/wolfwoodpm.jpg

next up after the fire scar caves, deepwood village, then the Hills of Mourn, then the Dragon Heights, the home of a particularly nasty Mature adult green dragon Druid named Ast'rax'noth. I'm also working on her lair, which is currently two levels deep.

 

[terrainmonkey]

here's an updated necromancer dungeon. comments are always welcome here.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

The manor is nicely done! I like the fact that it's a fortified house, and there are guard posts. Two comments.

1. Is there a rear exit? Even medieval manors usually had a second exit of some kind in case of a fire.

2. Is there a dining room? Does the Main Hall encompass that? (I'm thinking it does.)

Like the wine cellar idea too! Thanks.

 

[terrainmonkey]

Hello--

yes, the main hall acts as a dining room for the main residents of the manor. the door in the back is off of the servants kitchen in the rear of the place. i'm still working on a few things so i'll post an update here today or tomorrow. thanks for the feedback!

 

[terrainmonkey]

It takes a village

so here is a small village, town, thorp, etc. This is a request by someone on another thread so i figured what the heck. only took me about an hour to do. basic village with woods, mountains, hills, etc. plenty of opportunities to adventure here.

tell me what you think
i'm sure the scale is off a little bit, and since there is no grid or something, i'm not sure but it should be okay just for a black and white diagram.

 

[Stormrunner]

One thing I see in the manor (and it's a common problem in maps created by folks used to modern plumbing) is that you have rooms and passages on the first floor directly underneath garderobes on the second floor. The medieval garderobe is basically a pit toilet: it extends into the spaces underneath it, ending in a septic-tank or a city sewer. Since this is a manor house and thus presumably owned by a wealthy aristocrat, you might have a "water-closet", where the pit ends in a channel full of continuously-flowing water (much less smelly, but requires a source of water higher than the house).

 

[terrainmonkey]

heres one of my more recent ones. it's a wizards tower, and i'm still working out the details for the interior. i should be finished within the day or so, and if anyone has any suggestions, let me hear.
thanks!
tmonk

 

[terrainmonkey]

here's another shot of the wizards tower, now with interior walls and stairs. i know it seems a little convoluted, but once you see the numbers and room detail, you'll understand more about the architecture.

Also, the wizard's dungeon level is attached. comments always welcome here.

 

[Imagicka]

Greetings...

so here is a small village, town, thorp, etc. This is a request by someone on another thread so i figured what the heck. only took me about an hour to do. basic village with woods, mountains, hills, etc. plenty of opportunities to adventure here.

tell me what you think
i'm sure the scale is off a little bit, and since there is no grid or something, i'm not sure but it should be okay just for a black and white diagram.

I love the way you draw mountains... Would you care showing/sharing the technique?

 

[terrainmonkey]

okay, it's been a while. work work work.... no time for fun. but, occasionally, i do get the grand burst of creativity and find a style that i feel works for me. included in this post is a player and dm map for a place called mariner's bluff. the numbers are laid out so you can populate it any way you want. take a look.

also, if anyone wants pdf's of any of the maps in this thread, PM me with your email addy and i'll send them on. i'm currently putting together a pdf map collection for sale, but that is a long way in coming, and i'm not trying to advertise this here.

anyway, here's the player map

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f127/terrainmonkey/marinersbluff.jpg

and the DM map.


http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f127/terrainmonkey/marinersbluffdmmap.jpg

have fun stormin' the castle!

 

[terrainmonkey]

Greetings...



I love the way you draw mountains... Would you care showing/sharing the technique?

actually, in that map, i used a theory of "less is more". basically, i wanted to keep it as simple as possible becasue that was what the client was asking for. so what i did was draw a few polygon shapes, filled them in with a basic grey color, then added a few lines here and there. then, i copied a few of the mountains a dozen times or so, changed the shape of the outlines, put them all together and then just moved and pasted and copied until i had something that i was satisfied with. as all drawings and all artwork is never really finished, i find myself going back over stuff that i did earlier in the year and changing it. this is an artists curse, i guess. anyway, thanks for the praise. as far as a tutorial about how i did the mountains, it's mostly just an organic process where i experiment with things just to see what i like. i've been working with the corel program for about 6 or 8 months now, and most of it is just knowing the techniques and seeing what looks good visually from an aritst's point of view. and that as we all know is subjective. what looks good for one looks awful to another. anyway, i've rambled on long enough. thanks again.

 

[terrainmonkey]

here's another work in progress map i'm currently working on. i'm seeing about certain effects and how they might work out. let me know what you think. and if anyone has anything else they might like to see, let me know.

comments are welcome as always.

the map scale on this one is 1 square=10 feet, and the red doors are secret.

 

[catsclaw227]

These are nice. What tools are you using to create your maps? I like the city one in the first thread, was that CC2 Pro?

 

[terrainmonkey]

the city of bryest was done in corel draw. i don't use CC2 anymore, because i like to have more originality in my maps and i can do more artistic style with programs other than cc2. don't get me wrong, it's a great program, and i have used it before but i tend to think that the graphics are a little basic and don't allow me a feeling of individual style. CC2 is great for people who need a map in ahurry and like to use the basic template for design that the program gives them, but after a while the maps tend to have a certain generic look to them and there really isn't anything different from one drawing to the next. i'm sure there are those who would disagree with me, but i've been using corel and i like the results better. it jsut seems you can do more artistic work with paint programs like photoshop and corel than you can with cc2. That's why i don't use cc2 anymore.

now, when i get the cc3 software for landscapes i'll use that, but still use corel for the dungeon and city designs. corel doesn't really do a great job with landscapes and i'm still working out the details for that, so maybe i'll post some pics of WIPs in the future.

 

[terrainmonkey]

here's another work i'm doing for an upcoming adventure. trying to get the cave effects and fills right.

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f127/terrainmonkey/wierdung1.jpg