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Bandit Camp (Patreon)

Published:
2018-06-01 16:34:05
Edited:
2020-04-23 14:54:41
Imported:
2021-06

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Happy Friday, Patrons! Continuing down the list, this week we have the Bandit Camp. I wrestled with this one for a while because I wasn't sure how to make a camp seem bandity. The way I see it, if you're hiding your camp in the shadow of a rocky hillside, you're probably up to something suspicious (but that's just me). I also like making bandits seem like real dummies, which I think you'd have to be to make your camp here. 

What I like about this layout is that it begs for crafty ways to approach it. Want to slip by the sentry and sneak along the cliffs? Or how about climbing the cliffs elsewhere and approaching the camp from behind? 

Oh also, I've made another version of the map without all the man made props! I made it available for my $2 and $5 patrons and I'm considering doing this from now on. I want to make the $2 level more enticing, so I'd love to hear what you think about this. Or would there be something else you would like to see at the 2nd level? Let me know!

Adepts can find their post here!

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Anonymous

Another great map! I love the style and the general usefulness of the map. I can totally see me just dropping this in my world without having to do any adjusting. As to your question of what would make $2 more enticing: A PDF version that is easy to print. 2-Minute Table Top has a similar patreon to you and (almost) all his maps are in PDF with a printing guide. This makes it easy for me to just click and print without having to think about size too much.

neutralparty
>>12760783

That's good to know! I haven't tried printing out any maps, so I didn't know I was skimping there. I'll look into it and see what I can do to make it better.

bewby

Alternative versions of maps usually gives me a reason to up my pledge (like I just did). Some cartographers I back will do alternate versions of the map that change it in effective ways like changing the time of day or changing the season. An alt version of this that might not take TOO much work to implement might be a ransacked version, like maybe this was a camp that was raided/ransacked that the party comes across. I dunno that's just what came to mind right away. Another cartographer does an alt map a month where they vote to see what map they do a different take on, then have people make suggestions on what they'd like to see so maybe a goblin cave becomes a drow cult dungeon, do a second poll on the results that most appealed to the cartographer and then they do an alt map available to all patrons but only the higher level and above patrons have a voice there. I don't know how viable those ideas are to your model just throwing them out there.

Anonymous

Token packs are another big reason I up my pledges sometimes. If you do these in Photoshop I assume everything is on different layers, so if you release the individual tokens as well it makes it easy to customize your/other's maps.

neutralparty
>>12761970

Making regular alternate versions is where I was leaning actually. Changing the time of day sounds appealing (I didn't know people were interested in that!) but making ransacked or otherwise similarly changed versions is more what I had in mind. Changing up old maps sounds awesome actually, I hadn't considered that! I think that one is a definite possibility. I'm glad to hear that I'm on the right track, and thanks for upping! :)

neutralparty
>>12763032

Well dang, I feel stupid for not thinking of that! I'll see about having my first token pack up next week actually

Dungeon Mapster

This is beautiful. Are you applying gradient effects to the shadow layers? I can't get over your style. It's super clean and crisp.

neutralparty
>>12814585

Haha thanks! Actually I have two shadow layers, one is the crisp lines and underneath it is a softer brush that's about half as opaque. I think it gets across the idea of deeper shadow really well!

Anonymous

18x21 here, for interested parties