I have been fascinated by the maps of imaginary lands ever since I was a young kid.
I discovered L. Frank Baum’s Oz books when I was in second grade. I wandered into the school library during recess one day and stumbled across Glinda of Oz, the fourteenth and last Oz book that Baum himself wrote. I knew her! From the movie with the scary wicked witch! I checked the book out and it was the first time I really grasped the concept of reading for pleasure. I became obsessed with all fourteen of Baum’s books (though to this day I have never read any of the dozens of Oz books written by his successors).
The book included a map of the land of Oz, and I would draw and redraw it from memory. I would also doodle other maps and floorplans, particularly cross-sections of underground fortresses inspired by the illustration of Père Noël’s home in Jean De Brunhoff’s Babar and Father Christmas.
I have been designing fantasy RPG maps since rolling up his first D&D character in 1979 at the age of 11. Around 2023, I began watching YouTube tutorials teaching how to use ProFantasy’s Campaign Cartographer 3, which I had purchased a few years before. I found the mapping to be so peaceful, maybe because it simultaneously exercises the creativity of my right brain and the logical reasoning of my left brain. It takes a lot of creativity to come up with an idea for a beautiful map. It takes logic and problem-solving to master ProFantasy’s tools and come up with the right special effects to render the map the way you see it in your mind.
I have started to sell maps through DriveThruRPG, but I also have dozens of high-resolution maps available for free through ProFantasy’s Community Atlas.
Maps for Sale through DriveThruRPG
I have begun to sell my maps through DriveThruRPG, a service designed for the sale of add-ons for tabletop role playing games.
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Maps for Free through the Community Atlas
ProFantasy has a Community Atlas where mappers can contribute maps to a collectively-built Atlas of a fantasy RPG world. These maps can cover an entire continent, a kingdom, a city, a neighborhood, or even the floorplan to a small cottage.
Under the Community Atlas’ licensing terms: the mapper retains the copyright to their maps, but is allowing their use for personal, noncommercial use (like printing out for gaming, or uploading to a private Virtual Tabletop server).
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Other Maps
Some other maps I’ve designed that aren’t on DriveThruRPG or the Community Atlas.
Most Recent “Other” Maps