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Designing Village Crawl Maps

Map Crow

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We talk about the design process of a giant village map I am creating for the Zweihander Starter Kit! This map is designed for a Village Crawl style ttrpg, where player characters are going to be in the same village for most of the adventure!

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20 Comments

@cameronframent8976 4 years ago

My group was exploring a Cyclopes ruin and I did some on the fly stick figure sketches to emphasize the scale and I was surprised at how impressed my players were and how much the read into the doodles.

@ScrewDriverVideos 4 years ago

This is such an underrated channel. Really never found a channel that has so much useful content as well as beautiful maps to boot. Really made me want to explore art and isometric maps and they are definitely so much more interesting to work on AND play on! Thanks crow :) wishing you the best

@TheWoldInMyHead 3 years ago

Shout out to the massive pigs! I love those guys <3

@ByronicGamer 4 years ago

What a beautiful map! I love how evocative it is, as well as the advice you give on village mapping. Have pretty much no art skills, so what I end up doing is starting with literally a blank sheet; when the players go somewhere, that gets put on the map. The longer we play, the cooler the map ends up being.

@SpiritWolf1966 2 years ago

I enjoy all of Map Crow videos

@JPCoovert 4 years ago

YES YES YES!!! Well said and looks AMAZING!

@ultralurker7579 4 years ago

Your maps inspire me to make a village crawl and cram it full of artsy midevil houses!

@davidearley5681 3 years ago

Because of your great videos I’m going to make a map that actually represents my family tree! Thanks so much!

@JanHoos 2 years ago

What a piece of art!! Awesome work!

@UnVanced 3 years ago

I was playing Zweihander today and the DM pulled out a large print-out of the map, and I was wondering why it looked so familiar. Had to come back to find this video and leave a comment!

@amapolaprodigio4299 4 years ago

Amazing! I love all the little details, is good watching you make maps again

@davididiart5934 4 years ago

I've taken up isometric map-drawing because of these videos. So inspiring! Would love to see how you'd do a map for a big jungle sprawl.

@jabronijones90 4 years ago

I could watch you do these drawings all day

@paulh3892 3 years ago

This is so cool! Also, it’s so refreshing to see some traditional art!

@TronHammer 4 years ago

It is so soothing, watching you draw all these maps :D

@thenbdm 1 year ago

I'm about to start running my first game, and I'm seriously considering starting us out as a village crawl before moving into the globetrotting adventures if we want. Just to have some boundaries because I tend to run all over the place with ideas and bite off WAY more than I can chew. This just further convinced me (and tempted me to make a giant map. Like I said- way more than I can chew).

@Myzelfa 4 years ago

That's a beautiful piece. I don't have the patience to produce something like that, but I'm tempted now to go play Townscaper and make something kind of similar.