Nim's Maps

Buckford Village

The party treks through the hilly fields of the Moor. As you reach into your bag to retrieve a strawberry pie you received from an elderly halfling lady, you hear the party ranger call out to you - he sees trails of smoke across the hill.

You quickly climb up to see a cozy village located at the foot of Stagwood forest. You've reached Buckford, the first village of man marking the end of halfling lands.

In the distance, farmers leaving the walled village to work their fields, oxen carrying large saddles topped with harvested crop. Kids chasing geese, travelers approaching the entrance.

You bite down on the slice of pie, while sweet and warm, you crave something more bitter and cold. Your party decides to head towards the village tavern.

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Greetings!

I’ve released the Town map of Buckford, along with a HUGE Foundry module, allowing you to use this map as a battlemap.

As a traveling DM, I love this type of map terrain. Its highly portable, space efficient and best of all - CHEAP.

After making a crude cardboard test piece, I decided to make my own designs and share them for anyone who wants to join in on the fun.

Each design comes with a Colored, Black & White, Gridded, Gridless and Printable PDF version.

Dragon's Well [16x21]

Greetings!

Made a map where you can have your players find a dragon inside a well.

You can grab a Free Download at my Patreon.

Recently I've been in talks with print shops to manufacture durable maps.

These designs are a test for an Ultimate Dungeon Terrain line.

In the distance you hear the familiar sound of bleating. After days of delving into forsaken ruins the rays of sunshine feels like Lathander himself smiling upon you. You pass the cobbled stone fence and see the sheep's puzzled looks, a roadsign is standing in front of you. Carved upon it are direction, but only one interests you. The village's tavern.

Traveling along the overgrown road, you see a small cobblestone bridge crossing a tiny river. As you get nearer, you spot shadows on the high branches of the nearby trees. You prepare yourself for battle...

Welcome to the Forest Road Bridge!

Welcome to Yolmar!

A town nestled under Rosha mountains, a pilgrimage destination for the devouts of Bahamut who wish to regain his favor. Located at the edge of the Zantharian desert, its favored by caravans and adventurers alike as a place of rest.

The town is mainly inhabited by humans, but there are families of brass dragonborn, descendants of the first settlers of Yolmar who thwarted an outworldy invasion by destroying an ancient portal.

As a caravan stop, a bustling bazaar formed beneath the godly shrine. Here traders barter with pilgrims and travelers. Spices, shawls, exotic animals or weapons of dubious origins are a couple of all the things one can purchase here.

Castle Windpeak

High above the forest of Bragsworth stands a small castle upon a rocky outcropping that was abandoned by its former lord.

A secret entrance hidden within a hollow birch tree leads to an underground tunnel, now the only entrance to the mythic structure. Locals tell of strange phenomena originating from Windpeak Castle.

Glowing figures patrolling its towers, faint violin music humming softly in the night, strange winged creatures entering its windows.

Faint chanting can be heard echoing through the stone bricked hall. This is where it all lead to. The kidnappings, the murders - a hidden chamber below the surface. The air is thick with the smell of burnt hair and dried blood, this ceremony must be stopped!

You gather your party, and get ready to storm the chamber.

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Greetings, Nim here!

I'm back at it again with battlemaps! The first of this month, an occult ritual chamber, Perfect for a final fight against an infernal cult or using the variation - an eldritch cult!

What do you think? Will you use this map in your upcoming campaign?

Bastion of Grendol

The grand Bastion of Grendol looms over you, it acted as the last line of defense against the greater evils of the world. Now it is abandoned, an obstacle to those desperate enough to cross its stone bricked halls. Are you driven by desperation, or perhaps a yearning for the leftover treasures within? Be wary, it is said that Grendol himself cursed the structure against those who would pillage its contents.

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Castle Blackwater

The famed Castle Blackwater towers above you as your ship creaks into its dock. The legendary home of renowned royalty. The cold water traps you on this rocky fortress, will you ever get to leave?

A terrible secret lies within these stone bricked halls and rooms, a secret you were tasked with investigating.

Greetings, Nim here!

Welcome to Castle Blackwater, an isolated castle on the sea! Perfect place to have your party invade and pillage.

The third of my collection of Location Maps that can be easily inserted into any campaign to make it more unique. Maps in this collection are made to be easy to insert into any campaign as a visual aid for players and dungeon masters alike.

What do you think? Will you use this map in your upcoming games?

Stagwood Farm

Tawny Mountain

Ruined Tower

This map is the herald of greater things to come in the next year. I have so many great ideas to enhance roleplaying games! I won't share all of them with you, but one of them is the reconstruction of this tower. I'm debating whether or not to create an alternate version of this tower in its hayday, before its fall. Alongside that variation, interior battlemaps!

If I do decide on that, it would come at a later date though. I have a couple more things I want to do before jumping into another project.

Anyway, this is the last map of the year. For my next year's resolution, I will publish 2 maps every month. It will be hard next to already having a full time job, but I'm going full throttle!

Griffon's Nest

I released this map once before, it was the last map before I completely remade my Patreon page. Some time after I realized that all of my maps were unusable due to the bad resolution scale I used. So I had a choice to make. Do I reformat all the maps I made or start anew?

I decided on the latter. With the new release I picked a new name and a better style.

Now I rereleased this map, although I didn't really want to release the same map as it was, so I improved the background view and added some more variations.

If you're interested in more of my work, feel free to check out my other socials.

Calm Beach

When naming a map there are many good names I might sift through to pick one, but with Calm Beach, I had a really hard time. So hard in fact that I considered not even releasing it, since its kind of bland.

Other battlemap cartographers often draw maps with a clear "theme". Like having a specific geology, an interesting curio or having there be a building. I tend to shy away from such themes more because how many times do Dungeon Masters really use something so specific like for example a "Crumbling Seaside Restaurant".

Its a cool map theme, you might even write your adventure to include that place. But chances are most people won't tailor their games around cartographers' ideas.

I think the most useful of maps are simple. Like the classic "Road Ambush" which is a common scenario that can be inserted easily into any campaign.

This isn't to say that more complex maps are worse. They are grandiose and allow for epic fights to happen. But leading up to that? You might just need your party to be attacked by a swarm of crabs on the beach.

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(Before) Red Griffon Inn - (After) Roadside Inn

A year ago I made my first battlemap.

Now, after countless hours spent learning techniques and practicing I've decided to revisit it. I remade this map with my current skills.

I wanted to keep most of its current form while polishing aspects I could. Sadly I needed to cut the concept of having a "red griffon" head displayed above the fireplace. When I first made this map I wanted to have the head be the centerpiece of the whole map, however I couldn't manage it with such little space.

The other big issue was the sizes of beds. In the first version the beds are hilariously small. In the new one I couldn't fit as many as I hoped, but still managed to squeeze in a couple. The double bed is still too small for my liking, but I wanted to have at least one in the new version.

Funnily enough, the new version took me around 40 hours to finish while the older one took a whole month. I'm still unsatisfied with my speed, but looking back now I realize I've come a long way.

In the future I want to make an homage to the "Red Griffon Inn", in a completely different map which will have a very large fireplace, above it a detailed and fearsome head of a "red griffon".

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