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My latest map, Inside The Worm, is a 40x25sq grisly delve into the guts of a dead purple worm, entering through the creatures mouth, adventurers will be able to journey deep inside the creature seeking out... who knows what!?. It's bottom half has disappeared down into the abyss below, the creature torn in half and something has tried to eat its insides, no doubt these carrion creatures are still in the worms guts somewhere! Variants include a classic Purple Worm and an arctic Ice Worm.

This map and variants are available in full through my Patreon, Fan Club members will get an unlabelled 70px gridded version of this version for free when they sign up to my newsletter through my website. I release four free maps every month and an additional 4 free maps to Fan Club members who can sign up for free to my newsletter through my website. When the newsletter goes out it contains exclusive download links as well as information updates and exclusive deals and offers on my shop content.

As with all my maps they are placed into Foundry to create full pre-built scenes with detailed walls, dynamic lighting and ambient scene sounds and specific sound FX. For my higher tier patrons I include additional maps, blanks, animated maps and asset packs.Each month I release dozens of maps and variants and convert them all into Foundry, with Patrons getting exclusive access to that pack for the month, after that the Foundry pack is removed from my Patreon and made available through my web store (maps are always available as back catalogue, just not the dynamic Foundry content).

Hope ya’ll enjoy!Alex | The MAD Cartographer

https://www.themadcartographer.com

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A spiralling path leading up to a frozen, snowy plateau, the howling winds that sting at your face have been a constant bane on this journey, but now they are also a blessing as ahead you see a gust swirl the powdery snow from a partially exposed stone altar buried in the snow. The wind blows harder and the snow shifts, breaking through the snow a glow emanates from the ancient stone work. After all this time, after months of searching… you found it.

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Another frosty / Rime of the Frostmaiden map today, a buried stone altar atop a spiraling mountain path. What is it? Who placed it? What happens if you poke it with a stick? I dunno I just make the maps, you tell me!You can get this 22x16 encounter map 140ppi VTT gridded from my 

Patreon:http://www.patreon.com/themadcartographer

Hope ya’ll enjoy the map!

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https://www.themadcartographer.com

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Just a little map I knocked up as part of my recent Curse of Strahd meets Rime of the Frostmaiden theme, a little fishing hole out on the dark ice of Icewind Dale trying to catch knucklehead trout!I figure a little encounter where the fishing hole is seemingly abandoned, shadows out on the ice in the cold mists loom... something dark this way comes!You can download this free version and more over at my

 Patreonhttp://www.patreon.com/themadcartographer

Enjoy!

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Continuing this month’s Rime of the Frostmaiden and Curse of Strahd themed maps, today’s 48x22” map is a reimagining of one of the RotF quests “Foaming Mugs” where players are tasked with recovering an abandoned sled of ingots from a bunch of goblins on a Goblin Wagon crossing the tundra of Icewind Dale! The patron exclusive variant was the Gates of Barovia from CoS!

Get the free 140ppi Grid version of the map from my Patreon:

http://www.patreon.com/themadcartographer

This map was created in collaboration with Adventure Music who composed an awesome track for our patrons to go along with the map, but you can check out a sample of it from my Patreon post and if you like their stuff then go check them out!

Follow my Patreon to get informed whenever I make a post and get access to plenty of free maps, or if you want access to all my variants and other content then consider subscribing where I release multiple maps every week, assets and fully built map packs for Foundry VTT.

Check out Adventure Music: https://www.patreon.com/adventuremusicjr

Hope ya’ll enjoy! Alex | The MAD Cartographer

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For the next two months I’m making a whole host of supporting maps for Curse of Strahd and Rime of the Frostmaiden, for the first release from the theme I tackled The Gulthias Tree from Curse of Strahd! I’m very conscious about mentioning anything about the modules due to the spoiler’ish nature, but you can check out more details about this monstrous tree on my Patreon post where you can also download this version of the map and more.

This map was made alongside a great composer, Adventure Music, who made a fantastic track to accompany this ominous scene! You can download the track for free along with the map!

Follow my Patreon and you’ll be notified when new maps from these two side-by-side themes are released, or subscribe to get access to multiple variations, asset tokens and monthly themed Map Packs for Foundry VTT!

You can download the map from: https://www.patreon.com/themadcartographer

Check out Adventure Music: https://www.patreon.com/adventuremusicjr

Hope ya’ll enjoy! Alex

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Hey all! The beginning of November marked 6 months since I decided to take the plunge and launch my Patreon making fantasy battlemaps, thanks to the amazing support I get from my patrons I’ve been able to do something I absolutely love and make a living out of it. In the last 6 months I’ve released a bunch of free maps, many you may have seen on here, many which may have slipped through the net, but I’ve put together every free map that I’ve ever released and made them available in a single download. Each map is available in 140ppi resolution, perfect for VTT use, and they’re available in squared, hex and even gridless versions. You can download your preferred grid type from my Patreon Post . I hope you all enjoy them! Thanks again to everyone who has supported me so far and I hope you enjoy my maps! Much love Alex (The MAD Cartographer)

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Hey all! Medusa’s Lair is my latest map for my monthly theme: 5 Room Dungeons, amongst a ruined underground palace a creature stalks the silent halls, able to turn adventurer’s to stone with but a gaze! You can download the 16x22” low-res version / watermark / grid version of this for free from: https://www.patreon.com/themadcartographer Patrons get access to higher res version with no grid, as well as variant options with Queen Medusa’s Chamber version where her subjects who have angered her are turned to stone and decorate her halls, as well as Royal Chamber version as well (a lot less snakey!). Hope you enjoy! Alex | The MAD Cartographer

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The Bloodmines is my newest free map from this month’s 5 Room Dungeons theme, where I’ll be making new 16x22 one-shot style dungeons all month that can be dropped into your campaign. You can download the free version of this map now from my Patreon:

www.patreon.com/themadcartographer

The Bloodmines offers a delve into a mysterious mine with two secledud secret areas; one behind a rock cave-in and the other through a smal pool that leads into a room with a gate that leads into some unknown abyss!Hope you enjoy!Alex | The MAD Cartographer

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The Frozen Temple is the first free map from this month’s 5 Room Dungeons theme, where I’ll be making ten new 16x22 one-shot style dungeons that can be dropped into your campaign. You can download the free version of this map now from my Patreon:

www.patreon.com/themadcartographer

This frozen temple map would sit perfectly in an arctic based campaign location, the variants include both a lava based Forge Temple to the Theros god Purphoros, and a cultist lair of 1000 Candles!

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Siren Sea is the final of of a four part Theros themed series from myself and sounds/music composer Michaël Ghelfi; each release comes with a free full res map and ambient sound to bring the scene to life.

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You can view and download the full map (detailed high res, gridded and gridless versions) along with with the accompanying ambience sounds from my Patreon. The thumbnail post is a cross section of the larger map to demonstrate the detail.

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What creatures fall asleep and go forgotten should be left to lie and remain hidden, for when stirred they bring nothing more than the end… - Rurek, Librium of The Silver Spire THE EXCAVATION - My first poster map for my monthly Caverns theme; as my first poster map I have decided to make it for free to everyone as an ideal accompaniment to the other free cavern maps I have been releasing every day this month. For some ideas on how to use this map and a few details on the main areas there is GM Notes map to go with it! Check out my patreon to download the 140ppi or 300ppi gridless version! www.patreon.com/themadcartographer

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Some free daily variants of my maps, including my three Star Wars themed maps: Mustafar, Hoth and Naboo!

More free D&D maps! Check out my 140ppi and 300ppi versions on my patreon!

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My first released map for my first theme: Caverns! This map came with three variations; lava, water and mines, all of which I released for free in 140ppi and 300ppi on my Patreon page. www.patreon.com/themadcartographer. I release new maps every day with a bunch of different variations like the ones above!