The theme for the second week is Death. I resisted going with DEATH!!, and went for something more normal. Well, more or less… 💀💀💀 Anyway I decided a mine full of the undead would be good. In the Evils of Illmire the players shied away from the mine when they got freaked out by some lights on in the abandoned village. So I guess I’m playing that in my own treehouse, with blackjack, etc. It also gave me an excuse to draw minecarts and rails! ...
The theme for the first week is Ancient. I decided this would be a long barrow, as I was going to default to “temple” (which this still sort-of is). This uses the OSE entries for monsters (& treasure). ...
I make maps for my games. And sometimes, I just make maps because I like them. Hex Kit is a tool I use for that, because it’s so easy to get started! Now, I’ve not tried any other software, so I daresay Wonderdraft or some other mapper is better, but if you’re drawing hex tile maps, at a relatively large scale, you can do something easy very quickly indeed. Here’s a small starmap I made for a SWN game I was playing in. I think I spent about as long looking up the existing names as I did drawing it. ...
This post contains spoilers for the named adventure in the Bree-land Region Guide for Adventures in Middle Earth, by Cubicle 7 🙈. It does also have some maps I drew for the encounters in Hex Kit - maybe it’s worth you peeping? ...