Welcome to Shiteton

I am behind now two weeks in updating the game sessions (though in honestly, they draw little visits to the site, so I may just stop doing them anyway) but I like to share the maps I am working on for my game. I have enjoyed the style used by Glynn Seal of Monkeyblood Design for use in the Midderlands products. For me it is quick, forgiving, and easy to throw a map together, I think this took shape over a few hours on Saturday and Sunday last week. If you like this style, I encourage you to check out the Handy Maps product from MB Design.

Shiteton (yes pronounced just like it looks) is so named because of the large, smelly, sulfur-spring feed muddy pool to the north of the little port village. I am not going to go into the details for this village as my players are just starting to explore the busy port. 

While small and of only a handful of buildings (the area east of the village is cluttered with dozens of farms), this is quite populous, busy, and a major hub of industry and commerce. The village sits along the northern coast of Goblin Head Lake, just south of the Troll Mountains, an area rich in ruins, caverns, barrows, and an adventurer's paradise. Additionally, the village has a couple large and well-known merchant companies located here. They offer explorers the opportunity to sell off larger than to be expected quantities of treasure than one would guess given the small size.

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Anywho, I hope you like the map and perhaps in the coming weeks we will see me posting more details and fleshing out the village as my players explore it. Take care!

Midderlands - The hamlet of Whorle

I have recently started up a 1on1 game with a friend, as we are both very busy, we figured this was the best way to get some gaming in. I have owned all three of the main Midderlands products and loved them, but just did not know where to start. So, on a fluke, I randomly picked a spot on the main Midderlands map and realized there did not exist a map in the booklet already. So, like any good cartographer, I started with a map.

As a side note, As of October 31st, I will be suspending my Patreon page indefinitely. Thank you to all those over the years who have supported me, I greatly appreciate all the support, kind words, and dollars you gave me. From this point forward, all the maps I draw will be posted here on the blog free for all to use in their games (non-commercial, etc etc)

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Dhul Crag, village map

Dhul Crag, a small outpost on the edge of the dangerous frontier. Released wthrough the support of friends on Patreon, for more information visit https://www.patreon.com/msjackson/

[map] The Village of Glynndale

Playing around with a style used by +MonkeyBlood Design and after dinner drew up a quick attempt. I decided to clean it up and share with everyone. Drew this on plain printer paper with a two fine Sharpie pens (one almost out of ink) from pens I found in my desk (too lazy to get my real markers).

I really liked making this one, fun, free and fast style. I think I made too many with fences and should have left more open but closer together, so it formed more of 'downtown' area.

If you dig maps like these, drop by my Patreon page and check out all the maps I make, maybe even drop me a quarter or two. Maps I post to the blog are reduced quality while maps posted to Patreon are full print quality images and most are posted with variations in style or background.