You bring up a good point. I'm not an expert on copyright laws but as I understand it would be considered transformative work and it's not my intention of claiming authorship of the original work. I believe it would be more of an intellectual property issue. In any case I should look into this further to avoid legal trouble.

Looking at the DMsGuild (a branch of DriveThruRPG in partnership with WotC) content guidelines it looks like selling maps is allowed, for example https://www.dmsguild.com/product/242842/Zhentil-Keep--Forgotten-Realms-Stock-Maps is very similar to the maps I have made. This only applies to Dungeons & Dragons content however. I suppose the best thing would be to contact them about the finer details.

Thanks, that is very insightful. 'Pay What You Will' sounds like a good idea actually, at least to start with. Ultimately the most important thing is to provide fellow gamers with nice maps for their games. Best of luck!

Thanks all for the feedback, as always it's very appreciated.

Haha yeah I can relate to that. Some of the maps I finished after the fact. Now that I've developed a workflow and 99% of the work already done I can convert FRIA maps fairly quickly. Also trying to stay as faithful to the original maps was a good choice in hindsight, I saved a lot of time keeping maps sparsely decorated with symbols.

Thanks. I wasn't aware the Thri-kreen map got corrupted by the update. Good to know next time I have install the program.

You're right about the other maps, afaik they weren't drawn for FRIA but it struck me as odd these maps weren't included whereas other maps from the same adventure modules/source books did make it into FRIA. I assume nobody got around to draw them before support for FRIA was dropped.

You're right, it's not worth getting into legal trouble for. DMsGuild seems like the best place for D&D maps but it's also very restrictive on what is allowed (only campaign settings supported by the current edition of the game etc.). My best bet is to focus on making more original maps then.

It's Dungeons of Schley but with customized sheet effects and additional bitmaps from DD3, Jon Roberts, and Ice Caverns.

Was it this map?

I don't know why the buildings look different. Here are the settings I used.

Feel free to check out my .fcw file if you want to see how I did it.

Double check your layers and sheets if you have 'text' hidden.

Also check your current font size, maybe the text is too small to see.

Ahh, after reading up a bit more on copyright laws I think you're right @ScottA, it would be a derivative work and not transformative. Perhaps the argument could be made that making maps for VTTs alters the meaning/purpose of the original work. If anyone happens to be knowledgeable on copyright laws and can give some insight on this that would be interesting.

No problem, glad to help out a fellow mapper.

I'd recommend watching tutorials on youtube, that's how I started. Aside from Profantasy's official channel I found Joe Sweeney's channel very helpful. There're a few other channels too.