Posts by crossheadstudios
Slumberhaven
GET THIS MAP (HIGH RES, WITH CAPTIONS AND WITHOUT) & MORE ON MY PATREON FOR $2 When drawing maps for my campaign I usually just stick to the basic top down formula because in D&D I always tended to favor function over form, as I wanted to make sure that everything I made for players was optimized…
Read MoreMatt Mercer – Craftsman
Introducing my latest patron backed creation: The Craftsman I’ve always spent a lot of time behind my desktop, either at work or working on my personal projects. While at first I always listened to music or standup during these long hours, I eventually started looking elsewhere for content. It was here, in my quest…
Read MoreThe Roadstop Inn
GET THIS MAP (HIGH RES, GRIDLESS, ALPHA LAYERED) & MORE ON MY PATREON FOR $2 Recently I’ve decided to step away from creating more convoluted and expansive adventures, most of the campaigns I’ve DM’ed were played over the span of a year or more, and started focusing on designing more compact adventures. Drawing up battlemaps that are…
Read MoreHouse of Worship
GET THIS MAP (HIGH RES, GRIDLESS, ALPHA LAYERED) & MORE ON MY PATREON FOR $2 This battlemap for a church is the most excellent spot to start an adventure involving an attempted murder on a bride and a bunch of female assassins. Maybe even an antagonist by the name of Bill. The church was my first attempt…
Read MoreRyan Reynolds – The Big Mistake
Introducing: The Big Mistake Making series and movies about superhero franchises, and other nerd culture, has become so popular in the past few years, that I thought it might be interesting to reflect on the days before the “golden age”, when it felt like a lot of the productions were handled by buffoons, who didn’t…
Read MoreSmall Castle + Animation
GET ALL THESE MAPS (HIGH RES, GRIDLESS, ALPHA LAYERED) ON MY PATREON FOR $2 Watching shows like Acq Inc. live or Critical Role I just love watching those massive 3D maps of dungeons or castles in action. I always wanted to replicate that experience in my own home games, but the real deal can cost…
Read MoreForest Road + Roll20 setup video
GET ALL THIS MAP (HIGH RES, GRIDLESS) ON MY PATREON FOR FREE For the last couple of months I’ve been working on figuring out a way to create an interesting perspective that combines a more visual isometric approach with a standard topdown perspective for battlemaps. Especially when it comes to designing multistoried buildings. In my…
Read MoreTerry Crews – Bardbarian
Introducing my latest patron backed creation: Terryan Wrecs’al. The story behind Terryan the Bardbarian started a while ago, when I first came across the meme of Terry Crews in armor saying something in the likes of: when you put all your points into strength and charisma. Quite a sharp joke, but what made less…
Read MoreCreatures – PART 1
GET ALL THESE TOKENS (HIGH RES, PRINTABLE & DIGITAL FOR VTT) ON MY PATREON FOR $1 So I’ve decided to start doing backgrounds for my creature tokens, my printable miniatures, to illustrate them in their natural habitat when I realized these illustration are great for creating DnD related puns or memes. I’ve decided to start…
Read MoreDwarven Ruins + Roll20 Tutorial
GET ALL THESE MAPS (HIGH RES, GRIDLESS) ON MY PATREON FOR $2 The Abandoned Dwarven Outpost – or Dwarven Ruins – is a massive battlemap I drew, consisting out of six smaller, interconnected, battlemaps one can either use as separate maps or as one massive map. The basic idea is that one could either use…
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