The Historical Reference of Dungeon Worlds Map #1

Welcome to my blog, you're likely here to read about the first Kickstarter, how it came about, how it grew and the results.

Make-100: Fantasy Locations.

For the Make 100 Challenge I was thinking: I could ask you, as backer, for your ideas to turn into locations, medieval buildings (or.. see below). These I could turn into a map... a massive collaborative city map (and more).

Like I did in 2019..

After a phenomenal 1000%+ success of the First Make 100 Fantasy Locations, I was asked repeatedly to go again, this time we've decided on a city map (maybe with sewers!)

I've been drawing fantasy maps for roleplay games for years now, not just my own. For authors, artists, role-players and games-masters.

For the 2019 Make 100 Challenge I thought If I could get you, the backer, and your ideas to turn into locations. These I could turn into a map... a massive collaborative map.

With 300+ backers and 150+ locations on the first map, It was an awesome project, lots of fun to do, and most importantly, Kickstarter Experience.

It took a little under a year, what with life events and world events along the way, to get the planning done to achieve this:
Lots of little tiles, placed, moved, tweaked, moved again, resulting in this 'plan' map.


On to Drawing, pencil in where it all goes, then draw it in


Almost done, just checking over various backers notes to make sure its all exact

Then, using the plan, I drew out the first Map. I am still a little surprised I drew it, to me the maps are awesome, fantastic, a little over the top, but just right for many styles of roleplay.
Sitting on my largest table, 912mm x 1479mm, the green area is of the picture below


Zoomed into the bottom left corner of the map, almost to scale

For scale,
And in the Image below, that red box


An interesting place, with some very interesting quests.. where will your adventurers go next?

Not only that, but I was able to flex my artistic skills to include some varieties we unlocked from stretch goals, While not 100% complete (awaiting an owner, to draw in their character) I have a Sepia toned copy, a Colour copy, a Redrawn from 100 years on, after a war with undead, and a Cataclystic/Post Apoc/Caveman version based on the popular game Kingdom Death Monster, Set in my own KDM world "Cataclyzm", for my own roleplay system Dungeon-Delvers-Twelve




Well, I was considering doing another of these, for another 100+ people, but, I got thinking.. Hmm, maybe it might get too big (again)? So, first up, I'm going to try something different.. a City Map.

Inspired by city maps such as this:


A map of Moscow, from the 16th century, I've been working on a roleplay map for it.

and this:


This Map is one of many that inspired me.

I thought it would be fun to draw a range of buildings this time.

At the same time, I'm working towards a pet project, my own roleplay system, I have a campaign, set in this town, so its going to add a major theme to the whole city. So I'm going to include the campaign along with the city map.