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Release: Maps and map making tools

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Gabriel P.
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Marketplace Creator
I have sets for you.  First up by request is more winter version of my wild wood maps .  For those of you who to make your own winter forest maps I have a winter mapper set.  For those of you who've seen enough snow for one season and can fly I have a set of sky islands ready to go.  Happy Gaming!
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Gold
Forum Champion
Looks great as ever. Top quality. Going directly to the timely winter pieces now, keeping the islands in mind for later. My players (AD&D 2E) are currently on a month-long adventure across a vast 120x180 wilderness area I assembled in Roll20 from the winter mapper packs offered by Gabriel. Looks like I may now need to add even more square-footage and overlay some of these moveable details like wintery trees and carts from the new Winter Wild Woods set. Gabriel, the large map we're playing now is similar in scope and patchworking to the Swamp map we demonstrated last year (incorporating and mixing mostly Gabriel's art with a few selected pieces from Web search or other Marketplace artists), but now we're in a snowy hilly forest. Last week they encountered Frosts, Pixies, Quicklings, wolves, and gorgon. Ice mephits and Yuki-onna are also present threats nearby. Next week they will meet the NPC's and the Giant from the cover art of Dragon Magazine, art by Larry Elmore title "Avalyne the Life Giver". Look it up in the google by that title (pictured here, if the pic works) and imagine playing on Gabriel's winter maps for your own version of that famous D&D scene.
Damn. I want to play in your game Gold.
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Gabriel P.
Pro
Marketplace Creator
"WM Pit 3" would make a good shallow grave cut into the frozen soil Gold, which I'm sure won't come up...
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DK Heinrich
Marketplace Creator
Sheet Author
HoneyBadger said: Damn. I want to play in your game Gold. same.
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chris b.
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Sheet Author
API Scripter
Weird I am also pushing my players through a frozen winter in Ustalav. Though right now it's November in my campaign and just very cold fall, I'm using Gabe's swamp maps with some fall foliage pics. But next I'm going to actually use these winter maps for the next module. Perfect timing! I love a lot of Gabe's maps, I also bought the sewer ones, they were the best out of all the sewers I looked at. (and filled it with Devin Night's ratmen) Just wanted to say thanks to Gabe for the awesome maps! Speaking of Gold's description, Gold, (or Anyone), have you played "Frozen Wind" a pathfinder (or maybe 3.5) module a few years old, I just sent my players through it, it is a good frozen horror module. The players are forced to seek shelter in a monastery during a blizzard, and things are not what they seem when everyone dies but them.  A Yukionna is the main enemy, with some Ice Oni and frozen zombies. Frozen Wind is actually free at the Paizo site. If you do try it and send regular players through it, I'd suggest changing the maps so instead of being in the walls of a valley, make the buildings just regular wooden buildings, to give the baddies a chance to bust through, and motivate players to keep moving. Roll20 really shined with the horror, being able to play music and lowering visibility due to a storm by using illumination and restricting the distance players could see. here is my mashup of Gabe's swamp tiles: players are in combat with skum at the top, fireball just went off, travelling south along a land bridge opened during low tide to the Drosskar temple from the early D series of modules:
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So I'm a bit green, but what are the most recommended map-making tools available? Aside from in-game mapping of course. 
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The Aaron
Pro
API Scripter
I use the GIMP, but Photoshop would work well if you have it.  Also Tiled is nice for many of the Marketplace Art assets.
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Gold
Forum Champion
Gabriel P. said: "WM Pit 3" would make a good shallow grave cut into the frozen soil Gold, which I'm sure won't come up... I followed your suggestion, found WM Pit 3, and used it for both the Hill Giant footprints and the depression where the swordsman's body lay! My players (of course) ended up defeating that hill giant. We're about to play our 4th session on the oversize winter-tiles map page, that's at about 4-5 hours per session. We've spent some serious game time fighting monsters & roleplaying in these snowfields.
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Gabriel P.
Pro
Marketplace Creator
Winning is good TPK makes for a mighty short story arc.  Glad those maps are providing you with some good terrain to set your parties exploits in hope the variety is adequet to keep their interest up, winter maps limit ones pallettte selection a bit.