Higher and higher we go! There are three more levels left, but before that, I’ll be drawing a ranger outpost for you. Anyway, I’ve been drawing all day, I’m really tired, my wife has a bottle of rum and I could use a drink. So, until next time!
Here’s the non-annotated version. There’s also a Patrons’ Edition of this map with all the rooms of the numbered buildings marked and labeled available on Ye Olde Patreon.
Here’s the second level of Brazenthrone at last. Sorry, this took me longer than I’d have liked. The illness I mentioned in the last post declined to go away, which is not conducive to productive mapmaking. In any case, I think it’s over and I should have the next map up in around 4-5 days.
Next up is the third level of the Great Hall, then I’ll be doing a ranger outpost, which I think I’ve got an interesting idea for. Alright, back to work!
Here’s the non-annotated version. There’s also a Patrons’ Edition of this map with all the rooms of the numbered buildings marked and labeled available on the patreon.
Well, here it is, finally. I promise you won’t have to wait this long for any other part of Brazenthrone. This is easily the biggest piece of the city.
Here’s the non-annotated version. There’s a Patrons’ Edition of this map with all the rooms of the numbered buildings marked and labeled (it is monstrous), as well as a VTT version, and all the other usual stuff available on the patreon. There will be DM notes as well, once the upper floors are finished.
Also, here’s the first edition of Brazenthrone’s History and Lore. I’ll update it as I write more throughout the process of making the map:
I remade the Gates of Brazenthrone for two reasons. One, there was a mistake in the annotated version. And two, the more I looked at it, the more I started to dislike it. So I decided to simplify the background and make the whole thing vertical (which I don’t normally like to do, since this is a website and your monitor is horizontal).
Anyway, I hope you like it. Also, here’s the non-annotated version. Alright, back to it.
Here’s the black and white version and the non-annotated version.
This is the basic layout of the map I will be drawing over the next year. Keep in mind that this is at a 70 foot scale, which means that each tile here will become 196 tiles when drawn at a 5 foot scale. To illustrate how big this will be, the Great Hall, marked as (4) here, is about the size of the ground level of Finbarr’s Marsh (including the surrounding water).
A few things to mention:
I will be alternating between drawing maps for this and drawing other maps. My next map will be an airship. After that, Brazenthrone’s Surface Outpost. Then something else. Then back to Brazenthrone. And so on.
Alright, let’s do this.
Here’s the final map of Tortuga: the overview. The image above is the gridless version because I think it looks better. I’m not sure why. Here’s the gridded map.
Also, I’m giving away the DM notes on this one because they explain some important things about this map, as well as my thoughts on the ways it can be used in a campaign (especially as a traveling home city for PCs). Here they are:
So, now that the six-story turtle town is out of the way, it’s time to start on something much, much bigger: Brazenthrone. I’ll have a map of the layout of the city up on Monday.
These are the last two levels. Tomorrow is the overview map, similar to what I did for Finbarr’s Marsh.
Other versions: gridless annotated, gridless non-annotated and gridded non-annotated.
Here’s level four. Here’s the gridless version. Check back tomorrow for the fifth and sixth levels, then Friday for the overview map.
There’s an annotated version of this map available to patrons.
Here’s the third level of Tortuga. I’ll have the fourth level up for you tomorrow, the fifth and sixth on Thursday and a full overview map on Friday. Then we get started on Brazenthrone.
Here’s the alternate versions: gridless, no annotations, gridless without annotations.
There’s a fully annotated version of this map with 16 rooms marked available to patrons.
Here’s the second level. Just as a heads-up, this may take me until Friday to get finished. Anyway, I hope you’re liking it so far.
Here’s a gridless version, a version without the annotations and a gridless version without annotations.
There’s a fully annotated version of this map with 21 rooms marked available to patrons.
