Meanwhile we posted two more free views that did not make it into the final map-PDFs. Find them on our Products page right above the respective map. (If you’re wondering at the posting dates… we backdated them to fit them where they belong).
The first one is for River in a Mountainous Landscape – II: The solitary dead tree, viewed from the river below.

And the other one belongs to our latest map, River in a Mountainous Landscape – III, and hopefully conveys a feeling of how dwarfed you might feel being there, sitting in a little vessel. (Oh, and the seemingly tiny little holes in the cliff’s face are, in fact, gaping entries to caverns, so click on the pic to enlarge – and get your climbing gear.)

 

 

 

 

 

With our latest map we continue the River & Mountains theme, but in a perhaps rather unexpected way, for it *is* about a river, but the map shows a hidden lake up in the mountains (fed from said river, though).

Click on the pic to browse through some of its pages.

Or (even better;-) get it right now (for $1.99) at RPGNow, DriveThruRPG & WargameVault (as always, Paizo and IPR will follow in a few days).

It’s the third map of the “River & Mountains-alignment”, and they all go well together. You might ask if our maps fit together exactly, that is, if one terrain begins where the other ends. No, that’s not the case. We assume the GM will take the PCs to the next map by describing the not so interesting parts of a voyage until fate strikes again. Actually, this map’s terrain might be the one that lies highest in the mountains, that is, upstream of RiaML-I and RiaML-II. But it’s always up to the GM to choose flow direction and altitude and thus, in which sequence the PCs will encounter our landscapes. Still, each of our map is a stand-alone, ready to play.

Concerning our next map, River in a Mountainous Landscape – III, which shows a crater lake in the mountains (see the recent preview) I had the idea of a grotto on water level that is behind a curtain of water, falling down from above… well, it took some time, but here it is. See this preview of one of the map’s four additional landscape views.

Waterfall and grotto are done in Photoshop, that is, post-hoc drawn in into the rendered 3D shot. So everything else, cliffs, the plateau above, etc. is “really there” (= 3D construction) and could be further explored, but the waterfall and the grotto are 2D, and created for this one special view. We like them all the same, and it will be fun to send the players right through the spray of icy cold water (and from there it’s up to the GM’s fantasy for now, or up to a yet to come add-on showing the grotto’s interiors).

See a first glimpse of our next one. We will continue the series “River in a Mountainous Landscape”, and this time the map will be about an especially forbidding part of the mountains, ready for adverse fate and impending doom…

Follow the river that winds its way through a narrow, gloomy gorge and – surprise! (unless one has a map;-) – suddenly the boat shoots out from the shadows into a wide glittering lake, sheltered by steep, seemingly insurmountable crags. Or approach the hidden lake from the land route, make camp on the high plateau… and finally dare to rappel down, canoe and all, to reach the isolated rugged crags that jut out from the cold and crystal clear water…
And don’t be deceived by the scale: This lake is large, the cliffs are menacingly steep! PCs in a small boat will feel dwarfed (if they weren’t dwarfs already).