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Keithulhu Fhtammann 🔜 PAXU @themonstersknow.com · Sep 29

IT'S ALMOST HERE! Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for TTRPGs includes not only a treasury of ideas for creating your own homegrown abominations but also TWENTY original monsters, illustrated by @jencmars.bsky.social.

Preorder now at spyandowl.com/making... to get your copy on Oct. 7!

A hardbound copy of Making Enemies rests on a wooden dining table. On the cover, a huge, pearlescent arthropod bursts out of a subterranean crevice and drives one of its large barbed claws through a dwarf fighter's abdomen, while another dwarf cowers in fear. The book is surrounded by blue and red polyhedral dice.

A wickedly grinning jack-o-lantern, larger than a man, running around on spider legs. You can tell it's larger than a man, because it's grabbed one with a viny tendril and is stuffing him inside itself, having lifted its own lid with another tendril.

A carriage with darkened windows, speeding through a ghostly mist. Its headlamps are eyelike and glowering, and there's an incriminating bloodstain on the front of it, right where it might impact a person's head.

Some horrible, shapeless thing that looks sort of like a gargantuan nudibranch, plowing through everything in its path, including entire trees. It's such a juggernaut, it's even breaking the frame.

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · Sep 26

Hey Kieth, thanks. Hope you are well.

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · May 27

It never gets old seeing my maps in print, and here is my cartography for the spicy dystopian fiction, Silver Elite by Dani Francis (Del Rey publishing). I was approached to do a more modern looking map than the usual fantasy novel maps representing a post apocalyptic America #map #bookmap #novelmap

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · May 15

I dunno if any of you are wrestling fans, I'll be honest, I'm not, but Lucy, a friend of mine, talks on a wrestling podcast at it's deffo worth checking out if you are into wrestling. This episode with guest Kidd Bandit. youtube.com/post/Ugkxod8...

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · Mar 31

Looking fab

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · Mar 31

The finished, updated and extended land of Nicea. The new sections are to the far west and east. Seeing the ocean on both sides frames the continent and improves the map more than I would have guessed. #mapping #dndmap #dndcartography #cartography

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · Feb 21

It really is

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · Feb 20

Very cool indeed

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · Feb 19

A personal project of prototype board designs for a pirate themed board game concept I’ve got in my head that’s needs much refining. I’ve tried to create a vibrant representation of islands and varied navigational hazards on a hex map…. #cartography #map #boardgames

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · Feb 11

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · Feb 11

I’m drawing the line work for jungles, an excuse to add dinosaurs in the dense rainforest. It’s for dnd so the land needs to invite exploration. The jungle is criss crossed by rivers and mysterious ziggurats and gives way to a desert region with a few settlements. #mapping #cartography #rpg

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · Feb 10

I’m back once again to the magical land of Nicea. The client has been using the map in family games and now wants to extend the map to the east and west so it shows the whole continent which will look great. I love the spherical projection, I really want to draw a world map this way.

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · Feb 7

Not this time, but I have in the past

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · Feb 7

The map was a challenge, we needed to visualise this highly magical and fascinating world composed of a floating island sundered into two parts between a waterfall of souls. This is generally adult dark fantasy and I’m here for it. #fantasycartography #cartography

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · Feb 7

I’ve been quiet for a while on social media, but the cartography doesn’t stop, I’ve been super busy with some commissions like this one which is for The Island of Dreams: Dark Fantasy Peter Pan, an amazing sounding book by Jaye Viner, which is live on kickstarter jayeviner.com #maps #bookmap

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · Nov 15

Very cool. In my world the dragons have a different relationship to "tax"....

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · Nov 15

She is beautiful. She looks a lot like my Bobby, sadly no longer with us. He was a lovely cat too.

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · Sep 18

Thanks

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · Sep 18

Colour comes to the City of Arches cross section for Mike Shea’s (www.slyflourish.com) successful kickstarter. Pre orders still possible, if you missed out… Colouring is super fun and relaxing it’s always a nice bit of work to do and I really enjoyed colouring this one. #map #gamemaps #cartographer

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · Sep 17

I briefly revisited the land of Maeve, a world created by alloraleanne on Twitter for her fantasy books. I’m doing a fair few novel maps right now which is a dream, it’s such a privilege to illustrate the creative worlds of fantasy authors. #cartography #dragons #bookmap #map

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · Sep 6

Icky is absolutely the thinking.

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thanks, these were fun to draw, I have plans for more like this, but I've got a few client commissions to very through first.

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · Sep 6

I’ve gone to the max on use of lighting to set mood of different parts of the ship, without hiding parts of the map in darkness. Overall I’m pleased, I hope the players enjoy dealing with all sorts of trouble while exploring…#battlemaps #scifi #spacerpg #rpg #spacehorror #map #futurerpg #ttrpg

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · Sep 6

Final colour version of the wrecked command space ship for a space horror themed TTRPG. The humanoid cadaver themed shape is still pleasingly disconcerting, but it still looks plausible as part of a ship. #battlemaps #scifi #spacerpg #rpg #spacehorror #map #futurerpg #ttrpg

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Chloe The Cartographer @chloethecartog.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thanks, this one here is my dwarf fortress map….

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