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POLL - Interior Illustration Themes

  • Taverns, Inns & Shops 127
  • Castles, Forts & Keeps 90
  • Other Buildings (Temples, Houses, Civic Structures etc) 144
  • Dungeons & Lairs 66
  • Other (Comment Below) 15
  • 2022-03-02
  • —2022-03-03
  • 442 votes
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Last month I released our first interior scene illustration - The Gilded Dragon Tavern, and the feedback has been extremely positive. I plan to make this a semi-regular reward and would like to know which types of maps you would like to see interior scenes for/which would be most useful for your games. Also let me know in the comments which specific maps you think would make for a great illustration.

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Comments

Darthsuki

I find myself as a DM often looking for these kinds of things whenever a scene is super RP heavy without much combat—admittedly that could really be ANY setting depending on the campaign and party, but I know for me and my circle of players it is usually stores, taverns and the like. Am excited to see more of these interior scenes in the future, they’re really useful and look awesome!

Resonance Gameworks

Personally it seems like there's an abundance of the generic fantasy tavern/castle/dungeon aesthetic so if it's a community decision I don't think that'd get my vote. Honestly I find myself more often than not in need of desert themed locales and otherworldly vistas that aren't just giving scale to an enormous monster in the distance. Also Steampunk/Arcanepunk illustrations are kinda hard to come by too but maybe too niche, I dunno.

Mike Em

I'm always looking for a good image of a shop, magic or otherwise

Erica Lea

I love this idea personally- If I don't want to create maps, I'd like these options for "splash screens" to use when my group enters these buildings.

Shane Wintch

Scenes are great when you have places where you're talking or roleplaying like shops and Inns. I also really like scenes when I'm setting up a location with the approach. It really helps to set the mood. :)

B S

Like, montages? This is the external side of the building?

Erica Lea

Yes- often for montages actually,

Sean Patrick Fannon

As always, looking for modern/supers-relatable stuff whenever you're in the mood to make it.

Anthony Hauck

Docks / warehouses / commercial waterfront

Brent Greenhalgh

How about a Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion? You could probably use any mansion map but this one exists in its own pocket dimension and is made solely by magic.

J K

Steampunk/factory would be great

Starbison

it'd be difficult, but a real dungeon-tier castle akin to castle ravenloft would be nice. Finding castle's/keeps with built in traps and or strange impractical landscapes is a difficult task

Asherett

I spend a lot of time collecting and browsing battlemaps, and I'll say one thing for sure: there's a huge amount of "wilderness" maps out there, and there are actually very very few high-quality, well-considered, well-designed dungeon maps. Shops, inns, temples, etc are "nice enough" in my book, but how often do you actually need to run a fight in a shop or a temple? They're better represented with interior "3D" shots or similar, if you need to "show" them at all. So my vote goes for dungeons, crypts, catacombs, caves and the like. I think Tom Cartos dungeons would be a game changer!

Nightgaun7

I desperately need anything vaguely Asian-themed for L5R - Iido Town is the reason I joined in the first place! Especially temples, manors, and houses.

Fengh

I like the montage of like temple ruins battlemap and the art of the same location direcly above, i´ve seen it somewhere...it was nice

Phergus

Interior shots that can be used as splash screens are very handy but also city scenes of alleys, markets and the like.