Some swamp battlemaps for 4e

[Hussar]

Been tootling around, making some battle maps, and I thought I would share. Not the prettiest things in the world, but, I went for function over form. There are up to 5 different terrains on each map - standard, thick mud (characters ending their turn in these squares are Slowed - save ends), water, slippery mud (Athletics Check DC 10 to cross, fail=movement ends in that square and the character falls prone), and heavy growth (straight up difficult terrain).

Hope you enjoy. Note, these are set to be used in a VTT, so, the quality is rather low - each image is about 250 k or so, which is about the max, IME, for a decent lag free map.

 

[AJCarrington]

Nice. Was wondering what/how you made them?

AJC

 

[Hussar]

A mixture of MapX and Gimp. The basic tile map is made in MapX using tiles that I made from various textures. Imported into Gimp and the borders for the water added. Top it off with a cloud layer that is grain merged over the map to give it the dark and light areas.

I used a tutorial found at Cartographers Guild and adapted it a bit for my needs.

Creating Map Tiles and Dungeon Mapping with Map X by Istarlome

 

[AJCarrington]

Thanks for the info - hadn't heard about MapX previously. Something new to add to the list and check out.

AJC

 

[Piratecat]

Those are great!