New Hope

As you sail round Hope Point, all you will see are cliffs covered with dense forest, a small fishing village along the coast below the cliffs, and a couple of rocky trails winding up the cliffs. ... Nothing much of interest going on here, may as well keep sailing on by..... 

If you do happen to land and make it up the cliff paths, you will find the hidden town of New Hope built on the terraces of an old open cut mine pit, or perhaps it was a quarry? All around the top of the pit, is a deep trench with a protective wall built in the middle of it - set low in the trench so that it does not show above the forest.
There is one walled entrance with a traders hall that visitors must pass through to enter the town.  And there is only 1 road out through the wilderness to connect them to other places.  

Since mining stopped, the inhabitants have been working hard to make their pit-town green and cosy, a secret haven hidden away from the world. Though recently, some have taken to delving beneath and even building down there in the darkness. 

As usual, I went overboard with variations.... 

And, just for fun, I also created a sea monster skeleton asset that can be placed over any water area on a map, and it looks like it is under water and partly covered by sand... there is one variation for Navigators & Explorers and a few more variations for Surveyors, including a couple of dry land versions
When it lived, it had many eyes, strange wing-shapes and a long flexible barbed tail. ... Now it is just bare bones on the sea floor, apparently resting in peace. .....  

I hope that this adds another interesting settlement to your growing worlds

Have fun!!

SPECIAL COLLABORATION WITH JAN LOOS

Jan Loos has been making monster tokens this month with an underground/caverns theme to go with New Hope...and they are looking great! The base variations of these will be released to Navigators, Explorers & Surveyors in the next few days.... keep an eye out :-) 

Downloads...

NOTE: there is a small and a large version of all Patreon supporter maps:
This is so that the large ones can have a reasonable quality, but there are still versions under 5mb for those with file upload size limits on Vtt sites...

Small: File size less than 5mb

• 4800 × 3300 pixels = 32x22 for Vtt use @ 150dpi
• Will print on an A3 sheet = 16x11 if printed @ 300dpi

Large: File size less than 10mb

• 9600 × 6600 pixels = 64x44 for Vtt use @ 150dpi
• Will print on an A1 poster sheet = 32x22 if printed @ 300dpi

Adventurers  Adventurers Map Archive page

• Framed poster version without logo .... With & without title/location/key labels
• Both the main map and the caverns map

Navigators  Navigators  Map Archive page

Adventurers rewards PLUS:

• Full colour summer -  Main + Caverns
• Print optimised greyscale -  Main + Caverns
• 1 sea monster skeleton asset _ transparent .png file to place over water areas

Explorers  Explorers Map Archive page

Adventurers & Navigators rewards PLUS:

• Night  -  Main + Caverns
• Winter - Main map only
• Autumn - Main map only

Surveyors  Surveyors Map Archive page

Adventurers, Navigators & Explorers rewards PLUS:

• Nebula -  Main + Caverns _ some water replaced with a nebula background 
• Autumn with rain and misty clouds - Main map only
• Fey storm rolling in from the east - Main map only
• Lava pit filling the lower 2 levels of the city - Main map only
• ASSETS: 6 variations on the sea monster skeleton asset at various levels of transparency and visibility _ transparent .png files
• 'rain' and 'clouds' .png overlay layers
• Just the empty frame: 2 stained versions and a clean version. 

Free public versions:

• The framed and labeled versions shown below :-)
• New Hope & the Caverns  

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