Yet another work in progress - lol.

I've got a couple of weeks holiday from work, and so I'm playing around with different maps.

I mapped Castle Ravenloft ages ago to run the original I6 AD&D Module Ravenloft in 3rd edition D&D - with a few alterations for balance. I did those maps with DD2 and printed it in room / corridor sections to lay out as floorplans.

I've got the recent Curse of Strahd reboot of the Ravenloft adventure for 5e, but while most of the maps inside are new Mike Schley maps, the Castle Ravenloft maps are more colourful copies the original isometric maps, but are actually much harder to understand than in the original module (smaller print on glossier paper). 

So for fun I'm having a go at 2d copies of the Castle Ravenloft maps, mostly using the SS4 Mike Schley's Dungeons symbol set.

I'm also playing around with this map a lot to experiment with colour key (and later with those scary AHS and RGB effects.

This is the ground floor of the main building so far:



The staircases are placeholders - I've not decided how best to do them yet. The castle has lots of spiral stairs in several different styles.

There are a few holes in the walls, as I got carried away with colour key areas on the wall mask sheet. Oops!

The right hand edge of the map will be looking over a cliff, so I'm going to have a go a cliffs like Sue's Amazing Orde-on-the-Rock, to see if it's as hard as it looks!

Well it's been more than a day or two, and I'm still not finished, but I had chance to update this tonight -  every room now has content, so it's certainly usable to run the adventure now. I'll probably work on the others floors, starting with the attic map, before spending any more time on this one.

There's also the place that the unearthed old stairs lead down to...

The Misgivings - Basement (WIP - 90% done):

As usual, this is reduced to 75px, per 5ft - I'll upload the 100px, per 5ft version to my gallery. ?

Clicking the map will open the 100px per 5ft version from my imgur page (the latest version of which will always be in my gallery).

Many of the symbols used in this map are from either The Forgotten Adventures free mapping assets, or from Tom Cartos' Patreon page.

Yes, hopefully my mapping in this series will speed up, now that I'm satisfied with most of my sheet and symbol settings.

I'll need to be converting the maps at the same speed that the players get through the campaign! ?

The rock symbols are at 25% opacity, and they're placed above the plain blue background, but below the multiplied Jonathon Roberts water texture (which is at 60%).

Thanks Medio. ?

Okay, I'm nearly done now - I've spent ages copying sheets and sheet effects back to the main floor map, and made a few tweaks to each map. I should have the main floor finished tomorrow I think. Need to update the outside shadows on the hideout map as well.

The Old Fishery - Main Floor [WIP]

The Old Fishery - Hideout Underneath [WIP]

As usual, I've uploaded higher resolution copies to my gallery.

I've pretty much completed the hideout underneath the old fishery now. Here is the latest WIP.

I'll copy the tweaks back into the main level, finish that and then post completed Roof, Ground Floor and Hideout maps together.

Again, a higher resolution copy is posted in my gallery.

I'm trying to get some of my battlemaps finished this weekend, especially this one, as I've taken far too long doing it - mainly due to distractions and also tweaking the sheet settings and symbols to see what happens.

Here's this afternoon's update. ?