The Forlorn Cottage - Schleyscapes: Episode 1

[Schley]

wow. free samples : D

Are one allowed to use those for commercial use even?

As I said before in the other thread: super good work! Love the style and executions of it with Instagram games and kickstarters

Yes! The separate bonus .png suite is licensed for commercial use, unlike the main adventure PDF. In other words, the maps you make with the separate .png files can be used in homebrew mapping or for your own published adventures. Just include a byline indicating who created the artwork (me) if they are used in a commercial project.

[static]

Hey Guys,

Sorry it's been a while since my last post but It's been super busy around the studio. Here's an update of what I've been up to lately:

On top of my regular D&D map assignments, I've been working on a personal project called Schleyscapes that I've recently launched over at Kickstarter. It's doing pretty well so far and I thought I'd share some imagery and details from it here to see what you think.

The basic idea is to provide GM's with episodic system-neutral maps, artwork, and story seeds that can be incorporated into any fantasy RPG campaign. While the encounters can be used as stand-alone locations, I'm also weaving them into the much larger land of Fernweh, my new storyworld.

While the big 300 dpi versions of the imagery are capsulated in a pdf, each new episode will also come with additional .jpg and .png files optimized to 50 & 100 pixels per grid square for easy VTT integration. Each principal battlemap is provided in large format for poster printing as well as pre-tiled ways for easy print/cut preparation at home. Lots of extra "discoverable" areas are included along with the main map. Ink efficient black & white line versions are included to boot. Finally, the cartography comes in gridded and grid-free formats for virtual tabletop use and is scaled to 1" per grid square.

Did I also mention that each episode includes a ton of .png tokens/resources pulled from the episode artwork and ready to use with mapping applications like Dungeons of Schley?

That's the basics but you can find out more about the new project here - Schleyscapes: Episode 1

Here are a few sample images from the first episode. Let me know what you think!

I want to know more about the spiderbear! Great maps, too!

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[mat_r]

Wow I just love your coloring style!
You should do a making of video

[Tonnichiwa]

This is a really beautiful set of artwork Mike. Thank you for allowing us to download it for free.

May I ask you something?

Do you ever plan on making either a top down or isometric/perspective set of symbols for Profantasy's City Designer expansion for Campaign Cartographer 3+?

I know you made the overland style for CC3+, and the Dungeon style in your Dungeons of Schley expansion. I was hoping you would round it out with something for City designer so that people can start building entire worlds with your artwork.

[Schley]

This is a really beautiful set of artwork Mike. Thank you for allowing us to download it for free.

May I ask you something?

Do you ever plan on making either a top down or isometric/perspective set of symbols for Profantasy's City Designer expansion for Campaign Cartographer 3+?

I know you made the overland style for CC3+, and the Dungeon style in your Dungeons of Schley expansion. I was hoping you would round it out with something for City designer so that people can start building entire worlds with your artwork.

That's something I've been thinking about. I've just got to carve out the time.

[Tonnichiwa]

Cool! Thanks for letting us know