D&D Battlemap Deep Dive || Enter to win a Nintendo Switch
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Giveaway entries valid thru November 30th!
I rely on digital battlemaps for all of my games, so I interviewed a professional cartographer to learn more about them! Come with me as I talk with DM Andy about how battlemaps are created, what's important, what the industry is like, and more. Oh, and you can enter to win a NINTENDO SWITCH!
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I remember over 2 years ago when I decided to run my 2nd module ever (1st was Lost Mines) and I googled "How best to run Curse of Strahd" and I see this strange bald man giving amazing tips on running the module. I went through your vids, followed you on Patreon and implemented tons of your ideas into my game which my players loved. I never thought I'd go from there to working with you to build battlemaps for your amazing adventures! I'm honored you'd have me in one of your videos and I can't wait to see what LBH comes up with next! Thanks Steve for the adventures and looking forward to many more. Cheers!
I've been thinking a lot about maps and going in the opposite direction of high - detail. The reasoning being - sometimes I feel like if every little thing isn't displayed on a map, then the players assume it isn't there. Instead of searching and exploring in character, they're just visually looking as a player. So to get them more into character, I'd have the map very low-detail, basically just boundaries and any obstacles/large furniture if indoors. That way the description that the DM gives is coloring the view, and the players can ask questions and explore to find the deeper details.
Thanks for this video. DM Andy's maps are amazing and I am fortunate to have him as a partner in our Legends of Barovia guides.
I'm starting CoS soon. I ran a first session and we're on hiatus till new year now. You've been a wealth of knowledge that absolutely made Death House better in every way. Thanks for your work in the space LBH!
I love using cartographers' maps in my games. Honestly, I rarely make maps of my own now because I've built up such a good collection but when I do the assets that many cartographers give out as well are super useful. Love the work that they and other D&D creators do!
I jjust want to thank both you and DM Andy. I'm getting ready to run my first campaign as a DM and I'm tackling Curse of Strahd. I can't wait to run the campaign and admit I would be completely out of my depth without your awesome advice and DM Andy's amazing maps!
I really thought this was a great, encouraging video. Thank you both for sharing your experiences, uplifting the community and helping out others!
I just finished DMing my 2 year Curse of Strahd campaign, started and finished on Halloween. Thanks for all you do!
I really love maps in the VTT! I think when you combine them with dynamic lighting it can make the game feel so much more real. I've had a PC run around a corner only to see a hoard of monsters, and then run off in the opposite direction. The next PC said "Oh it can't be that bad." only to round the corner, and then run off as well.
Thanks Andy for the advices ! I'm beginning to draw my own maps for my homebrew campain ! And thanks Lunch Break Heroes for the advices on my 2 runs of CoS !
My friends and I started Curse of Strahd mid pandemic, and Lunchbreak Heroes was a huge boon to our game. Thanks for everything!
I also made the switch to virtual tabletops. My preferred tool is Owlbear Rodeo. It’s so streamlined and elegant, specifically by cutting "features" that inevitably bog the platform and UI down... If WorldAnvil can offer a similar user experience, I would totally make the jump.
Your channel is forever attatched to my memories of running Curse of Strahd. Thanks for all the videos!!
This channel was super helpful running my Curse of Strahd campaign. The first campaign I've ever finished as a GM or player. Thanks so much!
Favorite DnD channel
Just finished my second Curse of Strahd campaign. I incorporated LBH ideas into Van Richtens Tower, Exethanter, the Brides, and a few days ago they completed the Binding of Vampyr at level 12 (While dealing with exhaustion as my next BBEG is giving them nightmares.) This was a lot more dynamic than my first campaign. Thanks LBH!
Your Strahd series really helped me enjoy DMing this module. Thanks to your videos i feel like I really grown as a DM.
I've been running a CoS game for little over a year now, and your videos have help so much in prepping and generating new idea. Although my players may have left the Village of Barovia a little worse for wear, they sure are enjoying themselves.
Big fan of both DM Andy and LBH! I totally fall in line with what he was talking about with a kind of hybrid presentation for my Curse of Strahd games. I run in-person games but I made a monitor box for digital battlemaps using Foundry VTT so we can have dynamic fog of war while exploring amazing maps by all sorts of talented artists.
Shout out to DM Andy, Pyram King, The Dungeon Madames, James RPG, and Beneos for their awesome battlemaps and scenery for my Curse of Strahd campaign
Love this channel. Curse of Strahd will NEVER be the same because of your incredible ideas/additions I 've added into my own games :)
I personally love mapping my own worlds. I’ve been subscribed to Inkarnate for awhile and use that sometimes too. Great video.
Love the advice- my curse of strahd game has went incredibly well. We had to quit playing for several months but it was so memorable that my players are still talking about it and want to get back into it. Scheduling games for working adults is the real challenge xD
Your strahd stuff was fantastic! Adding my own dark souls twists on it has made it my fav dnd setting!
I played on Roll20 for 2 years while we were in practically full lockdown, and I am beyond thankful to be back to in-person play, but I do miss the good looking maps in my sessions, Ive got to get a VTT screen set up at my table sometime
Best and most concise CoS advice on youtbe, made it way more enjoyable than orignally would have been for everybody on my table
Long time fan of Lunch Break Heroes! Curse of Strahd was the first campaign I DMd in 5e, and a lot of thanks goes to your channel for helping me tackle that huge sandbox.
Ever since ive learn your channel. I always get inspiration from your work, specially Curse of Strahd. Thank you so much sir!!!!
Maps are the best. I always got so excited as a kid if an adventure book had a good map. ❤
The most valuable resource for running Curse of Strahd by many ( insert applicable distance measurement that means far. )
Big fan of all the content you put out. Your video on doing different voices has transformed my story telling! Now I wanna give cartography a go and start building more detailed and story motivated maps! Keep up all the great work and know your advice and effort is appreciated.
Your content has provided me with so many valuable resources and input on my campaigns. Keep up the incredible work!
Love hearing from those who do these things for a sort of living and out of passion. Planning to run games as a pro dm this winter as my work is seasonal and a large portion of it is thanks to channels like yours that gave me the courage to try.
Even if theyre not strictly functional maps add a ton to my games, even just for simple stuff like immersion and player curiosity for whats around the next corner
I ran CoS for my friends right at the start of lockdown, and your guides really helped me to understand how to effectively modify existing adventures for my game. Almost three years later, I'm deep into creating my own campaign setting, and I still use some of the ideas from those videos! Thanks for the fantastic interview.
I love your pragmatic advices in every video! My CoS campaign was totally saved by you
Love your content! This channel alone helped me boost my CoS game to a whole new level.
I'm getting ready to run CoS, players just arrived to Barovia so of course I'm revisiting the videos and checking up the guides. But seeing you also make some content on battlemaps is super cool! I try to always make my digital maps since I find the process fun and this interview was lovely to hear more about other cartographers
Patreon member and UA-cam subscriber. I'm grateful for your CoS resources and enjoy the videos you post (as well as DM Andy's maps). Thank you both for all your work. 🧛♂
Your channel is amazing. I love all the additions to curse of Strahd and all of your other content is amazing!!
Always interesting to hear from the folks who do D&D cartography seriously. I've dabbled myself, but...my skills are underdeveloped, perhaps would be the diplomatic phrasing.
I love both of your work. You made my Ravenloft campaign come to life!
I'm going to give the map tools on worldanvil for my Avernus hexcrawl :D
I love your content, especially your COS videos really helpful when I wanna expand off what the books have and introduced more ideas. Great video, I’d love to get into map making too.
Always appreciate your perspective and content, man. Keep up the good work :)
love the vids. Im currently running CoS using your guides and me and my party are loving it.
A good map makes such a differences to how a game plays!
I'm a long time follower and Patreon contributor of LBH. I just love your content. I think you are great, man. You helped me a lot in my CoS campaign.
Not going to enter, others can use the switch more than I, but I want to say Thank You for the content. I appreciate it. Keep up the great work, and I wish you well.
Found the channel while looking for CoS help, and honestly just ended up loving the content.
Hey! I sub to LBH and DM Andy both on Patreon and have a World Anvil Grandmaster tier subscription. Enjoy all 3 of these immensely, the only thing I don't have? A NINTENDO SWITCH.
I'm about to start a CoS campaign. Definitely gonna use some of your ideas in it!
Hey! Thanks for helping me out on CoS campaign. You given me so much inspiration
Started DMing Curse of Strahd with your videos during the pandemic. Used much of your content. In the end, Strahd fell and Vampyr exploded onto the scene to turn it into an epic fight. Now, you just need to add AI to Ravenloft and all will be well. :)
I've really loved watching all of your lore, character, and adventure explanations with Strahd. Even though I don't run 5e much anymore, I'm happy to have become a patron of yours and received all of the amazing content you've created.
Going to run CoS soon. Your vids have been really helpful)
I’m curious what happened with Roll20 and why it’s no longer talked about in your household…
Your videos help so much!
Hey LBH Guy! (I think your name might be Steve) I'm really enjoying your channel. I'm currently running my players through Curse of Strahd and your videos along with the "Raising the Stakes" guide has been extremely helpful! I've changed the names of all the characters and places so my clever players won't be looking up this campaign online and getting clues of what's to come. Not that they would do that. Well, most of them wouldn't. So instead of "Curse of Strahd" it's "Blight of Azerrad" (pronounced Azz-er-Rod). Anyways, I could really use a new Nintendo Switch! Thanks for all the great content you provide!
I started playing in 2019 and by 2020 I moved to Roll20 + Discord to play and in worked most of the time. I still prefer playing in person, but I wish I could use digital map, maybe having a screen table so I can display it there.
Thank you for the advice!
Lunch Break Heroes and the Nintendo Switch, what more could I want? ;) I'm running Curse of Strahd at the moment, and I've been loving your videos on that subject.
Love your stuff. Thank you!
Love your content. Hoping to re-run CoS with you additions.
You guys are amazing. One question: What is your favorite Harney and Son tea?
Hot Cinnamon Sunset
I've used Roll20 + Maps from Inkarnate for a while now, but since we moved to in person sessions again I'm definetly going to build a "digital tabletop" using a 40" TV. Is Foundry still useful for that? I can't DM without my customized maps anymore.
great videos, long time user of WA
Interesting
Good vid.
Hearing DM Andy talk about how he tries to make his maps “tell a story” really annoyed me because of a pet peeve of mine.
I’m a DM who enjoys creating dynamic combat encounters where positioning really matters.
I feel that a good battle map should make combat more interesting by providing tactical options such as cover, chokepoints, elevations, and flanking paths - maybe even an environmental hazard or two…
I feel that too many map designers are focused only on making their map look pretty. There’s nothing wrong with that, but they’re not designing a battle map, they’re just making art.
Artsy maps are a nice visual aid, but most battles that occur on one could just as easily be done theater of the mind without losing much.